Donor Engagement, World Vision

Josh Birkholz has done outstanding work for the Major Donor Team with our Lead Generation project. From the start, he led with a highly professional RFP response, which they now have fully delivered all requirements on time and with high quality. He presented to over 25 colleagues across our cross-functional organization the results of the analysis and explained the analytical data in a way that was conversational, interesting and made sense to everyone in the room. He has been responsive in following up on questions we've had on the data and in all, we are extremely pleased that we selected Donor Cast and Josh Birkholz as our partners for this effort. While we've just began our efforts and are anxious to see the results, we believe the modeling will be a key differentiator in our efforts as we reach out to these donors.

Cheryl Jereczek
National Director, Regional Development

Josh Birkholz from Donor Cast built lead generation predictive models for World Vision’s major donor, middle donor and planned giving program. World Vision has benefited greatly in terms of organizational learning from our partnership with Josh and Donor Cast. Josh has generously shared his wealth of major donor fund raising knowledgeable with the World Vision Donor Engagement team, and is very willing to share his analytical methodology with my team. Josh is very gifted in explaining complex concept in such a way that everybody can understand. I was so impressed and decided to hire Josh to conduct a two-day training seminar of building predictive models for my team, and now we are on our way of building our own predictive models. Overall, World Vision is very pleased with the service we received from Josh and Donor Cast. We are now eagerly waiting to see the results of the models.

Lisa Pang
Senior Director, Donor Insight and Value Optimization
 

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