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According to BCT Executive Director Toby Schine, before they moved to a database, they were managing everything using spreadsheets: events, class registration, and donor relations. Altogether, there were over 80 spreadsheets. “It was pretty chaotic,” he says. “We were entering and re-entering addresses for contacts again and again, and there was no way to get their data to talk to each other.”