Part 1: The Analytics Journey Throughout Your Campaign: Using SPSS
Part 1: Pre-Campaign Analytics for Data-Driven Planning
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This course is designed for a program manager and an analytics staff member to work through together. We review the concepts of using data to drive campaign planning and execution, and then provide separate videos on exercises for the analyst to use to analyze and model the data.
We cover those techniques that help you successfully start a data-driven campaign, from building the campaign table based on past donor behavior to determining how many gift officers you'll need.
Using workbooks and discussion, explore the campaign timeline through the eyes of modeling, visualizations, dashboarding, and assessment. You will be walked through specific exercises, using your own data in your shop, to assess your program and add tools and processes to create that best possible knowledge management for your campaign.
This course if effective for both multi-year and annual campaigns, as well as for campaigns for specific projects.
Prerequisites:
You must already be familiar with using the R package, preparing data, and running models such as linear and logistic regression. This is not a beginner's course: It is designed for data scientists to expand their skills and thoroughly support their organizations' campaign efforts.
Your Instructor
Marianne Pelletier has over 30 years of experience in fundraising, with the majority in prospect research and prospecting. She is one of the first adopters of donor modeling and data mining techniques, and is now a world-renown leader on this segment of the research profession. Her prospect research experience began when she was a research analyst for Harvard and Lesley Universities. She later served as a department director for Carnegie Mellon University and Cornell University.
Pelletier’s career also includes running an annual giving program with average increased revenues of 27% per year and providing software consulting through the Datatel Corporation, teaching clients both how to use their new software and assisting them with better analysis and more efficient processing. She occasionally serves as a best practices consultant through CampusWorks.
A recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the New England Development Research Association and a Woman of the Year designation by the National Association of Professional Women, Pelletier has served as a volunteer for both election campaigns and social service agencies. She has served on the boards of the New England Development Research Association, the Upstate New York chapter of Apra, and has served as secretary for the Apra International board. She currently serves as a trustee for Habitat for Humanity of Tompkins County and the Finger Lakes chapter of AFP.
Pelletier is a graduate of Rockford University, and earned her MBA at Southern New Hampshire University. Her recent workbook, Building Your Analytics Shop: A Workbook for Nonprofits, was a finalist for the Terry McAdam Award in 2016.