Efficiently Updating Address List for Non-Profit Organization: Any Suggestions?

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The discussion revolves around updating a list of approximately 11,000 addresses for a non-profit organization, which includes entries that are between 3 to 40 years old. The data is currently in an Excel spreadsheet format, originally derived from index cards, and has been partially updated using the National Change of Address service, which only tracks changes for the last four years. The main goal is to refresh the addresses and potentially verify the living status of individuals, as the organization aims to contact them for an anniversary event. Participants are seeking recommendations for affordable websites or services that can facilitate mass updates of this data, avoiding manual searches through platforms like Whitepages.
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So my summer job consists of me updating a list of addresses. There are about 11,000 entries from 3 to 40 years old. It's for a non-profit organization, so it kind of has to be cheap. Anyone know where I can go or what I can do? Oh, and I have birthdays too. Does anyone have any ideas?
Note: this is a completely legit organization. The people on this list willingly gave us their names and addresses.
 
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Is the data in a database already or do you have 11,000 paper entries? What needs to be updated and why? I could write the sql if you need it, just need more info.
 
The data is on an Excel spreadsheet (which was created in 2002 from 11,000 index cards) and run through the National Change of Address. They only record the changes of address for the past 4 years. What I need to update are the addresses and possibly (but I hope I won't have to) whether or not the person is still alive. I was wondering if anyone knew of any websites/services that can do this en mass. I don't want to scan them all through whitepages.com. The reason: we want to get in touch with them for our organization's anniversary.
 

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