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“AddressTools is the greatest gift for a database manager.”
Sarah Albright, Development Associate at Malala Fund
Scaling with a clean donor database means that Malala Fund can focus on advocating for girls’ education
Malala Fund is working for a world where all girls can learn and lead. Malala Fund advocates for resources and policy changes needed to give all girls a secondary education, investing in local education leaders and amplifying the voices of girls fighting for change.
As an international not-for-profit, Malala Fund receives donations from around the world in lots of different ways. This success has brought its own huge challenge around data quality. Address data is vital for Malala Fund to connect with these supporters and the address data coming into their system was incomplete, inaccurate and inconsistent.
A growing donor database brings its own challenges
Malala Fund has experienced significant growth in their supporter base in recent years. Their global presence means they receive donations from a huge number of sources including social media, online fundraising platforms, website, physical mail and correspondence with individual high-level donors.
“Data cleaning became a full-time job in itself!” Sarah Albright, Development Associate
Malala Fund relies on the information from these sources to help them reach out to their supporters but Malala Fund had no way to ensure that the imported addresses were clean. Each platform and funding source handed over address data differently, with different abbreviations and sometimes just missing data.
This forced Malala Fund to spend hours each week of their dedicated manual administrative time to clean up their donor address data and track down their donors to ensure that correspondence, fundraising campaigns and ‘thank yous’ would reach the people supporting them.
“As a young, growing organization, you don’t realise how important clean data is.” Kanika Mannan, Corporate and Foundation Relations Officer
Future proofing Malala Fund’s data with AddressTools
“A seamless onboarding process and super quick setup.” Sarah Albright, Development Associate at Malala Fund
To solve their challenges around address data, Malala Fund installed AddressTools from the AppExchange. They set up the solution’s validation and standardization rules on the state and country fields.
This means that all of the address data they collect from different sources is clean and consistent when imported into Salesforce.
Standardizing and validating state and country data for at least 153 countries, and that list is growing…
– Saving administrative time
Malala Fund has over 240,000 addresses in its system! On a weekly and even daily basis, Malala Fund saves hours previously spent on manually cleaning up their address data. The team can put their time to much better use, leaving AddressTools to take care of their addresses.
– Peace of mind
Longer term, Malala Fund has peace of mind that all their donor address data coming into Salesforce is valid and clean when it hits the org. As a growing organization, they have a solution in place that is scalable as their donor database grows.
– Clean reporting
Malala Fund can confidently run reporting, measuring and better optimize its fundraising efforts thanks to clean and standardized donor address data.
– Better targeted campaigns
Having clean donor address data empowers Malala Fund to create targeted and strategic campaigns to drive their fundraising, like their annual year end campaign.
Why Malala Fund recommends ProvenWorks
“AddressTools will continue to save us time as our donor database grows. People don’t realise the importance of clean data in a young organization. When you get it right early, it can save you so much time and money down the road. ProvenWorks have been great to work with from onboarding through to making sure we got set up and implemented.”
Sarah Albright, Development Associate
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