AI-Powered Data Searches and Analysis
Using the Databank’s powerful data search and analysis capabilities, you will discover new ways to grow your stakeholders’ support.
Our proprietary AI Assistant, dBot, will help you access data faster and more efficiently. Using dBot will help you better understand and present valuable information when you need it for your stakeholders.
Integrated Multi-Channel Communication
The Databank’s proprietary communication platform, PowerMail, gives you all the tools you need to create, send, and report on simple to complex communications with your stakeholders.
Emails, SMS texts, blog posts, direct mail, phonings, and more can all be done through the Databank’s integrated tools. And dBot, your AI assistant, can help you draft effective copy and graphics for all of your communications.
Advanced Activity Tracking
Interactions between you and your stakeholders are tracked in each contact’s record, giving you a complete history of their support over time. This helps you understand past behaviors to help predict future actions.
Reports
Your Databank comes loaded with dozens of pre-built reports, and the ability to generate your own reports as needed. In addition, dBot can produce charts and graphs based on query responses. If those don’t meet your needs, our support staff can build custom reports to meet your needs.
Data Input and Export
- Self Service Upload Tool
Upload personal information data into your Databank or into a temporary database for list-building activities. - Full-Service Upload
Electronic files and handling instructions can be uploaded through the database, to be processed by thedatabank. Free estimates are provided and client permission to complete the upload is always obtained. - Batch Entry Tool
Enter multiple new records on one page. Control who can enter data, confirm, and post to your Databank. - Automatic Address Verification
Address Verification keeps your data standardized and conforms to postal code preferences. - Duplicate Management
Identify and merge duplicate records on demand. When using bundle data entry, potential duplicates can be identified prior to posting. - Exporting Data
All data can be downloaded. Search results can be exported in a variety of formats, including mailing labels, text files, CSV, and formats compatible with mail merge.
Databank Fundraising
This is what the Databank was first developed to do.
Since it was first deployed in November 1998, Databank Fundraising has been used to raise funds for thousands of organizations across the US. Databank Fundraising includes all of the tools most organizations need to manage individual donations online and offline. A few of the standard fundraising functions are:
- Robust Fundraising Campaign Structure
This allows you to automatically assign donations to specific campaigns and funds. - Online Transaction (Donation) Forms
Easily create secure, online, mobile-friendly, transaction forms for collecting credit card or ACH payments. - Pledges and Recurring Transactions
- Soft Credits
- Dozens of Builtin Reports
- Automated Email Acknowledgements and Receipts
- Mail-merge for Direct Mail Letters
In addition to individual donor fundraising, the following functions can be configured as needed.
- Grant Management
Tools for managing grant applications and grant reporting. - Volunteer Management
Tools for signing up and managing volunteers. - Advanced Relationship
Tools for creating various types of relationships between records in the database. - Coalitions
This gives the system the ability to partition the database based on affiliations to various organizations within a coalition.
For example: a statewide organization can have a master statewide database and each local affiliate can have access to just their members with the statewide list. Each local affiliate can use the system to manage its fundraising activities and communications with its members. - Member ManagementThis system can also be used to manage paid memberships.
Databank Advocacy
In 1999, thedatabank built one of the first online advocacy systems in the country for a coalition of 45 environmental organizations in Minnesota.
Advocacy clients use the system to help affect public policy by providing their supporters with easy ways to send messages to their elected representatives or other designated targets.
In 2013, the Databank began a partnership with the SoftEdge (https://thesoftedge.com/products-services/advocacy-software ) to integrate their state-of-the-art advocacy system providing Databank clients with the best advocacy tools in the market.
Some Databank functions were created for doing advocacy including:
- Automated address geocoding – including latitude and longitude.
- Automated appending of political districts – from federal down to local county and city levels.
- Automated appending of various census block data.
Form Builder
The Databank’s secure online forms allow the Client to collect information directly from their constituents. Data collected from these forms flow automatically into your Databank for all-in-one data management. BCC emails alert you of form activity. Website integration and address standardization included. The included Form Builder Tool allows the Client to create and edit forms as needed.
Meetings and Events
Publish meetings and events to your website, where visitors can search by date, event type, zip code, and more. Participants sign up online and are automatically added to your Databank. Manage private and public events, access event rosters, email the participants, record volunteer hours, and track participation history for each member within your Databank.
Data Services
thedatabank offers a variety of data services that can be used to clean up various aspects of member information. Data Services are offered at an additional charge, and free estimates are provided prior to completing an order. Below are a few of these available services.
- National Change of Address (NCOA) – Checks your constituents’ existing address against the US Postal Service database of all change-of-address requests in the preceding 48 months. Updated fields include new address, change of address date, and deliverability code.
- Email Append & Verification – Appends consumer email address to matched records as sends a permission request, opt-out email to all matched email addresses. You receive back all matched, verified, non-opt-out email addresses. Typical match rates are 20-30%.
- Reverse Email Append – Appends consumer mailing address to all matched records. You receive back all matched, verified mailing addresses. Typical match rates are 20-30%.
