Baird Straughan, March 2021 At WaterGrass we aspire NOT to work in data security. Our client organizations are relatively small, unlikely to attract persistent hackers. For financial transactions, we use the secure connections of much bigger players – Salesforce, Click and Pledge, iATS. We advise clients to keep credit card numbers and other sensitive information […]
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Great news! It’s been 12 years since we founded WaterGrass, and along the way we’ve gathered some 200 organization/years of anonymized data on donor and volunteer behavior. There’s surely a lot to learn in it, but we’ve been too busy developing new features to really dig as we’d like to. Now Dr. Phani Kidampi of […]
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Every organization needs one – that person who keeps the data straight, ferrets out duplicate records, nags you to update the addresses you’ve kept in your rolodex and Excel spreadsheets – you know who I’m talking about … the Data Maven! At WaterGrass we’ve worked with lots of them. Picky picky picky. But so vital […]
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Great news! One of WaterGrass’ goals has been to analyze our anonymized, aggregate data in order to learn about trends and best practices for individual fundraising. From our analysis we’ve learned things like: Organizations with formal membership programs raise more per donor than organizations which don’t. The median donor gives to WaterGrass a little less […]
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Billion Oyster Project uses WaterGrass to manage thousands of volunteers restoring New York Harbor’s oyster beds.
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