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Custom predictive modeling

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Summary

Fundraising requires precision. Whether you are scaling your development team or managing a rising postage budget, you cannot afford to solicit the wrong people.

Our Custom Predictive Modeling offering is tailored specifically to your data. We do the extraction and use the best techniques in machine learning to provide likelihood scores that minimize false positives, reducing costs and yielding more donations.

Features

  • Spouse-linking

  • Historical sampling

  • CRM/marketing activity and fundraising metrics

  • Dimensionality reduction

  • Ensemble learning

  • Experimental LLM and natural language processing

  • Scoring for major giving, annual giving, planned giving, and more

What to expect

  1. Initial consultation — We briefly meet to determine your scoring needs.

  2. Onboarding — You provide access to your systems.

  3. Discovery — We meet to tailor our models to your interests.

  4. Build — We extract data, perform feature engineering, and then train, test, and validate multiple models to find the best fit.

  5. Delivery — We score your constituents using the best-performing model, present our scores by tiers of likelihood, and can even build them into your CRM to be responsive to updated data.

Ready to optimize your fundraising?

Schedule a consultation to speak with an advancement data expert about your project. Let’s build models tailored to your institution.

Schedule a consultation

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Ready to optimize your fundraising?

Schedule a consultation to speak with an advancement data expert about your project. Let’s build models tailored to your institution.

Schedule a consultation

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A group of diverse people are gathered around a table, engaged in discussion and collaboration.
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A dense forest scene with tall trees, showcasing thick roots and a soft, muted light filtering through the branches.
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Ready to optimize your fundraising?

Schedule a consultation to speak with an advancement data expert about your project. Let’s build models tailored to your institution.

Schedule a consultation

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A group of diverse people are gathered around a table, engaged in discussion and collaboration.
A series of concrete stairs leading upwards, surrounded by green grass on either side.
A group of diverse people are gathered around a table, engaged in discussion and collaboration.
A series of concrete stairs leading upwards, surrounded by green grass on either side.
Laptop displaying data charts on a table in a bright room with natural light.
A dense forest scene with tall trees, showcasing thick roots and a soft, muted light filtering through the branches.
Laptop displaying data charts on a table in a bright room with natural light.
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