David Lamb

Keeping Privacy Top of Mind Nov. 8, 2005 By Abny Santicola, FundRaising Success Beth Givens, founder and director of San Diego-based Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a nonprofit consumer information and advocacy organization, says nonprofits should be very privacy conscious. Some things nonprofits should have in place to ensure donor privacy include: Background checks. Any individuals in the organization who have access to personal and financial data should have background checks done on them. Training. "I think staff members should receive training in privacy and security protection, and they should also sign a confidentiality clause," Givens says. "Something in which they promise that they will safeguard

Privacy Policy Must-Haves Nov. 8, 2005 By Abny Santicola, FundRaising Success When it comes to privacy, the gathering of the data isn't the issue. It's what's done with the data that's controversial, says David Lamb, prospect research consultant for software and services provider Blackbaud Analytics. Lamb says the way for organizations to deal with this is to be upfront about what they are doing with donor information by creating a privacy policy. "There are a lot of organizations -- nonprofits -- with privacy policies on their Web sites that I think are terribly inadequate. If you just Google 'privacy policy' or 'donor privacy'

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