Quality Employer Append Services for Colleges and Universities
Boost your corporate giving revenue with employer insights through our parent company, Double the Donation.
What are employer appends?
Employer appends are a specific data appending service in which organizations seek employment information for their supporters. In most cases, this means locating an employer name and job role for each constituent.
Appending this information allows a college or university to develop comprehensive alumni profiles that allow advancement professionals to tap into corporate giving opportunities and segmentation projects.
NPO Info uses Double the Donation’s proprietary screening and identification methods to locate employment information for your alumni.
Why invest in employer appending?
Even though more than 18 million individuals work for companies with matching gift programs, $4-7 billion in potential matching gift revenue goes unclaimed every year, according to corporate giving research.
That’s because 78% of match-eligible donors don’t know that their employer will match their donations!
NPO Info employer appends, managed through Double the Donation, can close this gap. You provide a few key data points about your alumni, and in as many cases as possible, we provide the name of their employer and their position at the company.
Let NPO Info and Double the Donation empower your university to claim the matching gift revenue your alumni are missing out on with our employer appends!
Are employer appends right for your university?
Any organization can benefit from employer appends. However, the higher education institutions that will see the highest append rates and the most accurate results are those that maintain a high standard of alumni data hygiene.
To determine if your college or university can expect a high level of accuracy from an employer append, ask the following questions:
- Do you have up-to-date email addresses for constituents?
- Do you have up-to-date mailing addresses?
- Do you have current phone numbers for your supporters?
- Can you provide graduation years?
If you answered yes to all or some of these questions, Double the Donation and NPO Info can likely return a higher accuracy rate in your employer append results!
How can employer appends benefit your university?
NPO Info’s data appending services will empower you to pinpoint various corporate giving opportunities your team might be overlooking by filling in employment gaps in your database. Our trusted experts have direct access to a database that allows us to append this information, helping you verify and update employment data quickly.
Here are some of the benefits you can expect from creating comprehensive constituent profiles, complete with the most recent employer data for your alumni:
Matching Gifts
Connect your alumni with the corporate matching gift programs they’re eligible for, and take advantage of the extra revenue from those programs.
Sponsorships
When reaching out based on data from an employer append, point to your existing connection through your alumni donors. Companies will be more willing to sponsor your next event!
Corporate Fundraisers
Companies that are already connected to you through your alumni are more likely to partner with you for full-scale corporate fundraisers and other types of partnerships.
Volunteer Grants
Appending employer data can help you find companies that will donate on behalf of their employees who volunteer with your school.
How do employer appends work?
If you’re looking to strengthen alumni profiles by filling in their missing employment data, the process is incredibly simple with our employer appending services.
Simply provide us with any identifying information you have for your alumni, such as their names or contact information. Then, we search our database, match them to their employment data, and conduct checks to verify that we’ve identified the right individual and their most recent employer.
As soon as we return your results, you can follow up on any corporate giving opportunities, whether you’re searching for sponsors, growing your matching gift revenue, or pursuing volunteer grants.
Inputs
What You Provide to Us
- Unique ID number
- First name
- Last name
- Maiden name (if applicable)
- Mailing address (home, business, or both)
- City
- State
- Zip code
- Email address(es)
- Phone number(s)
- College or university
- Graduation year
- Major / degree
Many colleges and universities do not have all of this information on hand for all constituents, but providing as much information as possible helps with our employer identification and accuracy ratings!
Outputs
What We Send Back to You
- Found flag*
- Employer name
- Job title (when possible)
- Accuracy rating**
- Analysis/scoring key sheet***
*This flag indicates whether we believe we found the supporter and have identified where the supporter works in our employer append.
**The accuracy rating is a percentage demonstrating how confident we are that we correctly identified the right person and his or her employer based on the information your organization provided to us.
***The analysis/scoring key sheet is a small chart provided alongside the completed employer append that offers accuracy score descriptions and criteria. When applicable, we may include aggregate statistics based on patterns or trends we see in our results.
Employer Append FAQs
What percent of my alumni should I expect to receive employer information for?
Usually, NPO Info is able to identify employment data for around 25-45% of your supporters. Your results will depend greatly on the amount and quality of information about your constituents that you’re able to provide to our team! As always, information provided directly by the individual is the most accurate data you can receive. But for larger scale projects, employer appends can increase liklihood of success for segmented outreach or other related projects.
How does NPO Info calculate its accuracy score for each record?
As part of your employer append results, you’ll also receive an accuracy rating. This accuracy rating is our way of conveying our confidence in each result. A higher accuracy rating is better than a lower one.
There are many factors that can influence an accuracy rating, including how unique the supporter’s information is, how much data was provided for the alumnus, and even the frequency of updates to the data sources we used to identify the individual’s employer.
What types of universities receive the most comprehensive employer append results?
Typically, universities with comprehensive data are well-positioned for employer appends. That might mean having accurate contact information, their approximate geographic location, and the graduation year.
The more information you can provide, the more Double the Donation can use in the match, verification, and cleanup process. Historically, educational institutions usually fall into these categories since they naturally gather in-depth data on their alumni constituents. If you’re not sure if employer appends are right for your school, reach out to discuss it with us!
What should I do with my employer append results?
This is a great question to discuss with Double the Donation team members! You can also take a look at NPO Info’s blog for ideas. At a minimum, we recommend you update your CRM and amplify any corporate giving opportunities by sending out relevant marketing materials to the right individuals.
Trust NPO Info and Double the Donation with your employer appends
Accurate
We guarantee a high degree of accuracy in our employer append results, ensuring your fundraising initiatives are built on data you can trust.
Focused
We take the time to understand your goals to ensure the services you receive from us help you actually get your mission off the ground!
Thorough
The NPOInfo team leaves no stone unturned. We’ll make sure that your organization can take advantage of every opportunity to learn more about your donors.
