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1. Ludo Longin
Direct Social Communications
Analytics in Fundraising
How knowing donors
helps in growing donors
Geert Verstraeten
Python Predictions
2. = communication agency
°1985
1 activity:
fundraising for humanitarian organisations
Team:
12 enthousiastic people
Direct Social Communications nv
3. Health Food
Belgium Belgian Assocation for Burn Injuries
Belgian Cystic Fibrosis Assocation
Kom op Tegen Kanker (Cancer Assoc.)
Food Banks
Restaurants of the Heart
World Mercy Ships
Chain of Hope
Damien Foundation
Medics Without Vacation
4. Children Animals
Belgium Collective Research and Expression
Youth Village
Pelicano Foundation
World If Child Help Veterinarians Without Borders
5. Handicap People
Belgium Blind Care Light & Love Flemish Autism Association
World Handicap International
Sensorial Handicap Cooperation
Pilots Without Borders
Mamas for Africa
The Voice of the Lebanese Women
Friends of Sister Emmanuelle
6. ± 400 fundraising campaigns using dm
> 8,000,000 letters to private individuals
> 1,500,000 inserts in newspapers
> 600,000 donations per year
> 24,000,000 euros
11. Collecting-Box
Activity: pancakes, theatre, car wash,…
Gala-Evening and Diner
Many ways to raise money
for your organisation
12. Collecting-Box
Activity: pancakes, theatre, car wash,…
Gala-Evening and Diner
Art Auction
Many ways to raise money
for your organisation
13. Collecting-Box
Activity: pancakes, theatre, car wash,…
Gala-Evening and Diner
Art Auction
Face to face street fundraising
Many ways to raise money
for your organisation
14. Collecting-Box
Activity: pancakes, theatre, car wash,…
Gala-Evening and Diner
Art Auction
Face to face street fundraising
Telemarketing
Many ways to raise money
for your organisation
18. Mobile giving
Many ways to raise money
for your organisation
Most effective campaign:
American Red Cross – Haïti crisis
3 million unique donors sent an
sms for the earthquake in Haïti.
32 million dollars
19. Internet for fundraising?
◦ On line giving
◦ E-mail
◦ Social Networksites
Many ways to raise money
for your organisation
27. Housemailing:
- Posted on 20th april 2012
- 19.328 pieces sent
4.881 donations received = 25,25 %
Average donation = 30,90 euros
Belgian Cystic Fibrosis Assocation
29. Response rate in Acquisition campaigns:
◦ 2 %
◦ 2,5 %
◦ 3 %
◦ 4 or More %
Normal results of dm-campaigns
30. From test to roll-out
Test variation 1
Test variation 2
Test variation 3
Test Roll-out + New
tests
Roll-out (Test
variation 2)
Test variation 4
Test variation 5
Evaluation
31. Who ?
Target group
&
addresses
How / Means ?
Channels
What /Ask?
Content
How ?
Concept &
Creation
When ?
Timing &
frequency
Gadget ?
Incentive
Test
variables
32. # sent
units
# gifts
Total
Gifts €
Mean gift € %
Gift €/
sent unit
Cost €/
sent unit
Income €/
sent unit
8000 152 6438 42,36 1,90% 0,80 1,01 -0,21
8000 230 9501 41,31 2,88% 1,19 1,08 +0,11
Roll-out of 50.000 sent units:
5.500 euros profit in stead of 10.500 euros loss
33. Recruitment campaigns
Where do we get our donors from?
D.S.C.
± 220,000
addresses
CONSUDATA
+ criteria
6 million
addresses
Other
databases
39. Core business: Predictive Analytics
Since 2006
SAS Partner since 2006
References:
Python Predictions
40. Roadmap to Cloning
1
Define interesting donors
= donors ‘to be cloned’
2
Calculate Targets
= historic conversion rate per area
3
Calculate Predictors
= objective socio-demographic criteria per area
4
Predict future conversion
= Select & combine best predictors
5
Validate predictions
= Compare predicted vs real response, and profile
41. Project Approach
Define which donors are used ‘to be cloned’
OPTION 1: Previous Blind Care Light & Love donors
OPTION 2: Previous DSC donors
BUT: only active donors selected =
at least minimal gift during last 2 years
1
42. Project Approach
2
Per geographical area we know:
# of donors
# of households
Historic conversion (# donors/ # households)
= ‘the target’
43. Project Approach
3
We calculate socio-demographical information,
containing:
• Residents (age, education, activity,…)
• Housing (inhabitants, comfort,…)
• Neighbourhood (facilities, transport,…)
Around 700 variables known for each of the
20.000 geographical areas in Belgium
44. Project Approach
4
We predict historic conversion:
Number of
Households
Age 55-
60y
270 10%
100 30%
65 70%
…
Cloning
Model
Predicted
Conversion
0.01%
0.02%
0.15%
…
Area
Number
Historic
Conversion
1 0%
2 0.05%
3 0.20%
… …
2 3 4
45. 0%
1%
2%
3%
4%
5%
6%
7%
8%
9%
0-4 5-9 10-14 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-64 65-69 70-74 75-79 80-84 86-89 90-94 >95
Age category
Profile: Example
Households we
would not target
Households we
would target
5
46. Profile: Example
8%
26%
0 1 2 or more
Number of bathrooms
9%
21%
N/A < 35 m2 35 till
54 m2
55 till
84 m2
85 till
104 m2
105 till
124 m2
> 125
m2
House surface
Households we
would not target
Households we
would target
5
51. 1.98%
2.29%
2.71%
Age > 55y Cloning
Top 100.000
Cloning
Top 10.000
Response Percentage
21.6 €
25.5 €
28.6 €
Age > 55y Cloning
Top 100.000
Cloning
Top 10.000
Average Donation Amount
improvement of 37% in
response rate
improvement of 32% in
donation amount
Real-life Prospection Campaign
52. 0.43 €
0.58 €
0.78 €
Age > 55y Cloning
Top 100.000
Cloning
Top 10.000
Break
(revenue per letter sent)
improvement of 82% in
revenue per letter sent
Current and
Future Usage
Real-life Prospection Campaign
53. QUESTIONS?
Or later?
Ludo Longin
ludo.longin@dsc.be
Tel +32 2 280 00 74
Direct Social Communications
www.dsc.be
Geert Verstraeten
geert.verstraeten@pythonpredictions.com
Tel +32 2 762 69 00
Python Predictions
www.pythonpredictions.com