Connection Café: Innovator Spotlight: All Hands Volunteers

	Innovator Spotlight: All Hands Volunteers
	Posted by Lacey Kruger at Nov 17, 2011 11:40 AM CST Categories: Data Integration, Nonprofit Trends, NPtech

All Hands Volunteers Logo Congrats again to All Hands Volunteers who recently received an Innovator Award for the Best CRM Visionary/Use of Common Ground. The organization is a volunteer-staffed nonprofit that’s dedicated to timely disaster response and relief assistance. Historically, like many nonprofits, All Hands Volunteers had siloed data, with volunteer data and donor data housed in three different systems. This made it extremely difficult to personalize and tailor communications to each individual. As the organization grew, the need for consolidation and proper segmenting became more imperative… enter Common Ground.

Since consolidating their data into Convio Common Ground, All Hands Volunteers has developed more effective communications. They’ve created multiple fundraising and email campaigns that are personalized for specific segments of their housefile. These personal communications have paid off too, allowing All Hands Volunteers to build, maintain, and strengthen relationships with their constituents. Common Ground has played an important part in growing the organization’s operating budget from $500,000 in 2009 to $2.7 million in 2011.

In addition to their great success with Common Ground, All Hands Volunteers has also adopted Common Ground Social which is an integrated social fundraising solution. Common Ground Social allows All Hands Volunteers constituents to create and share personalized fundraising pages through different social networks (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn). Fundraising activities are then seamlessly captured into the consolidated Common Ground database for All Hands Volunteers, allowing for even deeper segmentation.

Hats off to you, All Hands Volunteers, for leading the way with targeted communications and social integration.