Proposal For Mozilla Foundation Donor Data: Difference between revisions

 
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'''Summary''':  Mozilla Foundation amasses data about our donors, the causes they give to and how the donations match up against our fundraising and engagement targets. We need an effective framework for communicating progress against these targets.  
'''Summary''':  Mozilla Foundation amasses data about our donors, the causes they give to and how the donations match up against our fundraising and engagement targets. We need an effective framework for communicating progress against these targets.  


In 2-3 months, the team aims to use CiviCRM, an open source relationship management tool for the nonprofit, advocacy and NGO sectors. MoFo would use the online fundraising and donor management component which tracks and manages contributions to the organization.
In two-three months, the team aims to use CiviCRM, an open source relationship management tool for nonprofits; it helps track online fundraising and features a donor management component to track and manage contributions to the organization.


The Foundation may also benefit from a system implemented by the MoFo metrics team. The following is a proposal for an alternative method to track and gauge donor data by using the data retrieval API to query and thread information from the PayPal system by authenticating and retrieving account totals. This may be helpful for doing a comparison of the two methods of data collecting to see what CiviCRM finds and what is mined through Metrics' data since both use information from the PayPal feed/access.  
In addition, the Foundation could benefit from a system implemented by the MoCo Metrics team. The following is a proposal for an additional method to track and gauge donor data; this would work by using the data retrieval API to query and thread information from the PayPal system by authenticating and retrieving account totals. It may be helpful for doing a comparison of the two data collection methods (CiviCRM and Metrics' data) since both would use information from the PayPal feed.  


'''Current Challenge of Process for Fundraising Data Pulling:'''
'''Current Challenge of Process for Fundraising Data Pulling:'''
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