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Areas Considered
• Overview
• Gift Processing
• Information Management
• Prospect Research
• Technology
• Compliance
• Evolution
• Questions and Answers
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Overarching Principles
• Institutional Focus, Mission Driven
• Customer Support
• Long-Range Perspective
• Accountability/Timeliness/Appropriateness
• Standards of Excellence and Innovation
• Partnerships
• Institutional Memory
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Gift Processing
• Mandate
• Accurate and timely recording of all gifts
• Accurate and timely acknowledgement of gifts
• Efficient process
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Gift Processing
• Guiding Principles
• Build a culture that encourages ongoing process analysis and is open to change
• Understand how the data is used in other areas of operations
• Aim for balance between efficiency vs. impersonalization
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Gift Processing
• Key Strategies
• Invest in staff training to develop technical, analytic and project management skills
• Take every possible advantage of technical advances and features of available software
• Build team environment: set goals and expectations for productivity; use rewards and recognition to motivate team members
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Gift Processing
• Top Lessons Learned
• Be proactively involved in the planning of new fundraising activities
• Understand impact of new systems on existing data flows and financial controls
• Communicate status of efforts to full organization
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Information Management
• Mandate
• Create repository of information meeting current and future business needs
• Engage business units in strategies and decisions
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Information Management
• Guiding Principles
• Create a “vision” for information flow around your organization's needs
• “Proactively” manage every data element and process
• Make data integrity a top priority
• Monitoring performance and establishing metrics requires information
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Information Management
• Key Strategies
• Centralize key processes for quality control and monitor outcomes as a routine matter of business
• Set business rules and apply them consistently
• Keep abreast of evolving technologies
• Improve access to and timeliness of data and insights
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Information Management
• Top Lessons Learned
• Any lapse in the quality of data entry will eventually cause some issue
• Data on its own it not valuable; reporting, analysis and consultation must go together
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Prospect Research
• Mandate
• To identify and qualify potential donors
• To inform strategy cultivation and solicitation strategy
• To track prospect/donor activities
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Prospect Research
• Guiding Principles
• Use your organization’s priorities and strategic plan to shape or adjust your work plan
• Develop the right research products for the need
• Make your knowledge base as broad as possible
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Prospect Research
• Key Strategies
• Know your data system; use it to enhance efficiency and productivity
• Select the research tools that will optimize your efforts
• Commit to training, training and more training
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Prospect Research
• Top Lessons Learned
• Having researchers partner with gift officers will maximize your results
• Research be both responsive (answering questions) and proactive (raising opportunities)
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Technology
• Mandate
• To facilitate fundraising efforts through technology (hardware, software, PDAs, etc.)
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Technology
• Guiding Principles
• Ensure appropriateness of technology to needs of organization
• Do only what optimizes efficiency and effectiveness
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Technology
• Key Strategies
• Maintain security and functionality of database
• Develop tools and applications to support prospect management and financial reporting
• Choose technology vendors that meet financial, security and compliance requirements
• Help staff “stay on the road”
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Technology
• Top Lessons Learned
• Pick the tools that are right for the organization
• Avoid the shiny objects – technology should make sense for your culture and business processes
• User support and training are necessities (with needs that change over time)!
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Compliance
• Mandate
• To ensure fundraising operates within the regulatory, legal and ethical boundaries set forth by professional groups, industry associations, as well as, government entities
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Compliance
• Guiding Principles
• Ensure compliance across regulatory areas of both current and proposed programs
• Serve in an impartial manner when adjudicating conflicts and compliance questions
• Enforce rules and guidelines consistently and impartially
• Maintain policies, procedures and roles sufficient to fulfill the function
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Compliance
• Key Strategies
• Set standards for maintaining confidentiality of donor and prospect information
• Establish guidelines of both practices, as well as, problem practices to educate staff
• Monitor changes in laws related to fundraising (HIPAA, CAN-SPAM, Pension Protection Act, etc…)
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Compliance
• Top Lessons Learned
• Develop consistent monitoring methods to ensure compliance reviews are happening continually
• Educate staff to make compliance a part of everyone jobs and awareness (not just one designee)
• Partner with third-parties (legal office, consultants) when grey areas emerge
• Previously
• Enter high volumes of data, mainly from direct mail
• Support campaigns and segments for direct mail
• Develop reports on outcomes, financial measures
• Provide reactive research based on fundraiser requests
• Deliver technology focused on stability and containing costs
• Currently
• Enter high volumes of data, from sources online and offline
• Support cross-channel campaigns with complex segmentation
• Develop metrics that predict revenue opportunities
• Provide proactive research identifying best / most likely donors
• Deliver technology that opens revenue opportunities
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Evolution
Questions???
Thank You!!!!!!
Christopher Maddocks
Director f Information Management and Technology
Children’s Hospital Trust