DEPARTMENTS & TEAMS / FUNDRAISING & PROSPECT RESEARCH
Every year, institutions leave millions of dollars on the table due to bad donor intelligence.
Teams that don't prioritize capturing accurate employment and career data, miss opportunities to identify high-capacity prospects, make the ask at the right time, or build meaningful prospect pools.
START STRONG
The foundation of fundraising
Identifying alumni who have advanced into leadership positions or experienced significant career growth is the key to fundraising.
This information along with changes to salary ranges, property values, and predicted giving capacity, helps teams to uncover new major gift prospects, improve portfolio management, and build a bulletproof pipeline.
GET the quick wins
Matching gifts
Matching gifts are one of the easiest wins in annual giving, yet an estimated $4 to $7 billion goes unclaimed every year because donors don't realize their employer offers a match.
Knowing who works for a matching-gift company before the ask goes out turns that into strategy, not luck. It's a natural lever for annual fund campaigns and can make a big impact of average gift size.
SOLVE THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE
Building a bulletproof pipeline.
It’s easy to default to historical donors when building a prospect list, because they’re the names already in the system. But prospect research exists to answer two questions well: (1) Who, among everyone connected to this institution, has both the capacity and the affinity to give, and (2) Who hasn’t been asked yet?
That question gets harder every year as data continues to change, because capacity itself changes with promotions, new companies, new industries, and second careers. A researcher working with data they can't fully trust isn’t just missing detail. They’re often researching the wrong list entirely.
LiveAlumni provides more data, better data, smarter engagement strategies and the opportunity to generate bigger gifts when compared to any other data service. And we go beyond the data, with access to a broader, always-current pool, with segmenting and exporting built into the platform and team of industry experts helping you build, refine and implement strategies that keep your pipeline strong and healthy.
Employment info was the weakest data point in our system. We didn't know who was working for whom. And it really hurt us in Prospecting & Matching Gifts... then we discovered LiveAlumni!
Daniel Wood
Director of Information Technology
University of Alabama System
“The information I get from LiveAlumni is simply always much more accurate than anything we’d find in our own database.”
- Michael Iris
Former AVP of Alumni Relations & Career Services, Berkeley College
Now VP of Advancement & Communications, Centenary University
We added 372,881 lines of employment for 132,457 people when LiveAlumni came on board.
Nancy Blattel
Data Management, University Development & Alumni Relations (retd.)
University of California Berkeley
"I wish all of my other vendors I work with had the same customer service as LiveAlumni, you are fantastic
Rick Houston
Senior Director of Advancement Services
Gordon College
"With LiveAlumni, we're able to connect with young alumni who may be missed within our data: knowing where they actually live and work now, has been a game-changer for event invites and CRM updates."
Ryan Buckley
Director of Development / AVP Customer Success
Florida Southern College
LiveAlumni has been a crucial part of our efforts to show prospective students different career paths at Queen Margaret University, by helping us identify & contact graduates with amazing stories to share.
Bety Tellez
Content & Campaigns Officer
Queen Margaret University
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