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Sharing mailing lists
Describe your challenge:
There are lots of times when non-profits want to work together to do common outreach, fundraising or advocacy campaigns on specific issues. But mailing lists are like gold, and it's really hard for organizations to share those names with other organizations. How can organizations get past that barrier?
Ideas and solutions:
It would be great if there were tools for double-blind sharing -- tools that would allow organizations to compile a joint mailing from separate mailing lists, without getting access to one another's lists.
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Double blind sharing
We are exploring with folks at the American Friends Service Committee whether the open source CiviCRM can be used to enable this type of double blind sharing among their chapters (who each use different local --non-CiviCRM-- databases).
We'd love to join up with others that face this same problem to put together an open source solution.