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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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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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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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How to Automate Your Data Workflows With Civis Platform

More and more nonprofit organizations are investing in data infrastructure, and nearly all of them face the same looming question: should we build, or should we buy? Each option offers its own pros and cons, and determining which is right for you isn’t always easy.

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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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Build vs. Buy

More and more nonprofit organizations are investing in data infrastructure, and nearly all of them face the same looming question: should we build, or should we buy? Each option offers its own pros and cons, and determining which is right for you isn’t always easy.

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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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Know Your Base: What Your Data Can Tell You About Your Supporters

For all the talk of automation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning in the data science world today, curious and motivated people are still the most important component of a successful team. But building a team full of these bright people is much easier said than done. In this on-demand session, we’ll take a look at the composition of a best-in-class data science team, and help you understand how to build out the function in your organization.

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Discover Your Community’s Path to Overcoming the Digital Divide

For all the talk of automation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning in the data science world today, curious and motivated people are still the most important component of a successful team. But building a team full of these bright people is much easier said than done. In this on-demand session, we’ll take a look at the composition of a best-in-class data science team, and help you understand how to build out the function in your organization.

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The Forest, The Trees, and the Guiding Star: How a CRM Helps — and Doesn’t Help — Your Nonprofit’s Data Journey

Implementing a constituent relationship management (CRM) tool, or migrating to a new platform, is one of the most important steps a data-driven nonprofit can take. The CRM is a mission-critical piece of technology, and for many nonprofits, it’s the cornerstone of their engagement tech stack. But is your CRM alone enough to turn your data into analytical insights? Developing a true 360-degree view of your supporters and executing analytics-powered campaigns often requires an array of technology and expertise that goes far beyond the CRM. When nonprofits rely on this tool to be all things to all people, it can lead to frustrated users, technical debt, and an incomplete picture of your donors and supporters.

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Understanding Donors with a 360-Degree View: Data Unification and Identity Resolution

On average, the organizations we work with are pulling person-level data from eight unique databases. Given that most of these databases can’t communicate with one another, this decentralized landscape makes it incredibly difficult to develop a comprehensive understanding of your supporters. The solution to this problem? Identity resolution. In this on-demand session, we’ll cover how identity resolution — a technical process for tearing down data silos and developing a 360-degree view of your supporters — can help you understand your audience in a way never before possible.

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Mid-Level Donors: Using Data Science and Civis Platform to Upgrade Donors

There’s one immutable fact in fundraising: it’s easier to get an existing donor to give again than it is to convince a new donor to give for the first time. But how do you convince those existing donors to give more than they ever have, or with more regularity? In this on-demand session, the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) Deputy Director of Data and Analytics, Summer Putnam, will walk you through how the organization utilized Civis Platform to identify and upgrade donors to a higher tier of giving.

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Building a Data Science Team: Putting the Right Pieces Together

For all the talk of automation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning in the data science world today, curious and motivated people are still the most important component of a successful team. But building a team full of these bright people is much easier said than done. In this on-demand session, we’ll take a look at the composition of a best-in-class data science team, and help you understand how to build out the function in your organization.

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The Modern Analytics Stack: An Overview of the Software Powering Modern Nonprofit Teams

The modern nonprofit analytics tech stack is like a high-performance engine — when all of its components are working together, it’s a fine-tuned machine. But if even one part is out of rhythm, things can fall apart fast. In this on-demand session, we’ll walk through the modern analytics stack from top to bottom and show you how to create a toolkit that will enable your team to get the most out of your data.

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