Greater Good Charities (GGC) has a noble, sweeping mission across four broad fronts: People, pets, conservation, and disasters.

Their nationwide focus on pets includes providing food, supplies, and shelter renovation, along with notable support for medical, transport, and training needs.

Globally, GGC assists vulnerable populations with food, education, and survival basics, while using habitat protection and community education to safeguard endangered plant and wildlife species.

Lastly, they work with communities worldwide to help prepare people and pets for impending natural disasters and provide on-the-ground assistance to those who are already survivors.

With multi-mission programs involving numerous countries and a variety of donor access points, it’s vital that GGC’s messaging be relevant, timely, and correctly targeted.

However, GGC was severely hampered by systems that didn’t talk to each other, primarily Raiser’s Edge (their constituent relationship management system, or CRM) and Zaius, their marketing automation platform.

There was simply no way for Zaius to use Raiser’s Edge donor data to trigger effective automated workflows to segmented audiences.

Numerous other platforms were unintegrated as well, all of which contributed to a lack of clarity regarding donor journeys and marketing campaign effectiveness.

Greater Good posed the following questions to us:

• How can we provide relevant and timely content to our donors and other supporters based on their cause interest (people, pets, planet, or disasters)?
• How can we better understand a donor’s journey, from their first interaction with GGC to when they actually make a donation?
• We have multiple partners that fundraise for us, such as “I Heart Dogs.” How can we know which donors come to us directly vs. which came through a particular partner?
• How can we track data from all of our non-partner donation sources?