Managing your data for the benefit of your organization is not a destination but a journey. It’s a journey that ultimately matters to your organization’s bottom line and success in making data informed decisions within today’s competitive fundraising environment.

In this interactive workshop, we’ll cover basic data governance concepts and models. These concepts and models will be leveraged to develop a roadmap for tackling some of the challenges that you and your fellow attendees are facing in starting up or maturing your data governance program.

Amid rapid growth in data complexity and technology advancement, many organizations still struggle to manage, understand, and measurably improve their legacy and evolving data ecosystems. In this hands-on data lab, you will learn how to build flexible data enrichment models, reusable tools and repeatable processes to 1) establish a constituent data integrity index/baseline 2) explore, visualize and measure constituent data integrity 3) identify and prioritize opportunities to improve your overall data quality in systematic and sustainable ways towards insights, equity and efficiency.

"Join us for an interactive and guided panel discussion on automating the collection of marketing data, processing this data (ingest, deduplication, matching), and analyzing the data collected (visualize, report, insight delivery). In this session, plan to have open, casual dialogue with the panelists and your DRIVE peers on innovative strategies that streamline the automation of marketing communications such as event data, survey feedback, web analytics, social media, or email interactions. Whether you are just starting with your first survey, or you are looking to find solutions to better marketing automation, you will walk away from this session with useful perspectives on automation and practical applications of data collection."