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Cracking the Code on Data Governance
Supercharging Revenue and Relationships Through Dynamic Data Governance

Data Governance: a broad, boring-sounding term that can cover just about anything — legal compliance, security checklists, data audit trails. But in reality, data governance is about having a data strategy that improves how you engage with your donors.

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Nonprofit Data Transformation

Nonprofits often struggle on their journey to become data-driven. Here are the common reasons why — and a better, more tailored way forward. Membership nonprofits have always faced unique challenges…

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Using Data to Overcome the Digital Divide
Using Data to Overcome the Digital Divide

The digital divide — the gulf between communities with ready access to modern information and communications technologies, and those without — impacts millions of Americans spanning generations, demographics, and geographies. Civis's solution to bridging the digital divide is the DEIC — a suite of modeled and curated data to help understand the issue through the lenses of: affordability, accessibility, and adoption.

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Public Data Isn’t Enough to Bridge the Digital Divide

The digital divide — the schism separating citizens with efficient access to modern information and communications technologies from those without — continues to disrupt the lives of millions of Americans…

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How Our Civis Platform Data Workbench Evolved in 2022 — and What’s Ahead for 2023
How Our Civis Platform Data Workbench Evolved in 2022 — and What’s Ahead for 2023

Civis Analytics never stops working to improve Civis Platform, our flagship all-in-one data warehouse and analytics engine. With 2022 winding down and 2023 on the horizon, what better time to…

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Drive better audience insights in 2023 using Civis Platform

Whether you’re a veteran Platform user or just interested to learn more about some of our more advanced Platform tips and tricks, be sure to tune in! Unlock more value from your data through new Civis Platform updates — we’ve been hard at work implementing feature improvements, strengthening integrations, and rolling out new products in Civis Platform.

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Civis Platform Helps LCV Scale and Accelerate Their Fundraising Program with Clean, Accurate Data

Data warehousing with Civis Platform increased revenue by 390 percentage points over a five-year period. Linking person-level data using Identity Resolution to more effectively segment donors. Eliminated sync issues and…

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How Civis Platform Transformed PMI’s Data to Boost the Fight Against Malaria

THE PROBLEM Photo by Moses Senesie, MOHS, March 2021 The U.S.President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), a U.S. government initiative created to dramatically reduce malaria deaths and illnesses across sub-Saharan Africa, set…

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Filling in the Data Gaps of At-Home COVID-19 Testing

Publicly-available data on COVID-19 case counts and positivity rates might not be as accurate with the prevalence and use of at-home test kits. Civis's own Ryan Jewell went to find out if a data gap exists and how to fill it with survey data.

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Fully Utilize Data to Give IIJA Funding Applications a Boost

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) allocates billions of dollars for state and local governments as they strive to close the digital divide. Though each state is promised at least $100 million, additional money will be distributed based on a complicated series of calculations and other information that applicants submit. Including all possible helpful data can give agencies a boost as they seek to unlock IIJA funding.

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What Political Campaigns Can Learn From Commercial Marketing Success

Whether promoting people (political candidates, for example), places (travel destinations), or things (consumer packaged goods), digital marketers of all stripes face many of the same fundamental challenges, like attribution issues…

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Finding Your Next Supporter: How to Use Your Data to Grow Your Base

Like every nonprofit, you need to grow and diversify your base of support to ensure you’re able to continue your mission-driven work, both now and in the future. This is easier said than done, but the organizations that get it right in 2022 — by utilizing a thoughtful blend of data science and technology, and asking the right questions — will reap the rewards.

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How a Global Federated Nonprofit Streamlined Data Reporting to Track Its KPIs

Automated and standardized reporting across international offices. Built out BigQuery integration for customized Platform use. Improved internal coordination between 23 isolated data teams. THE PROBLEM For decades an international federated…

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How For Our Future Uses Civis Platform’s Query Tool to Define and Refine Voter Outreach Success

The Challenge For Our Future Action Fund organizes and mobilizes voters the old-fashioned way: through grassroots, one-on-one engagement.   The nonprofit builds progressive power through voter engagement and community organizing to…

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How nonprofits can elevate market segmentation strategies with data science

Market segments are crucial to any data-driven campaign effort: whether it’s direct marketing, fundraising, relationship building, or a product launch, segmentation ensures that the right messages get to the right individuals, and in just the right way. Many nonprofits already understand the importance of segmentation. But what they often don’t realize is there are cutting-edge approaches available that significantly upgrade their existing segmentation strategies.

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How data infrastructure investment transforms member-driven organizations

While data is an increasingly vital tool for member-driven organizations, too many of these groups are stymied by CRM systems that fail to deliver the features and functionality required to…

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How Civis Platform Centralized NRDC’s Data and Galvanized Supporter Insights

The Challenge The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a national membership-driven organization dedicated to fighting climate change was struggling to connect with its millions of supporters — and data silos…

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Data-driven Best Practices for Nonprofit Donor Management

Building a cohesive strategy for donor management isn’t easy but it doesn’t have to be painful either. Success really comes down to two things:  Knowing who you’re talking to Knowing how…

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