iWave

I use iWave to research prospective donors, board members and other key people to gather background information and their donation history mostly. When doing a donor rating and screening, we like to find out what other organizations the person has donated to as well as to fill in the blanks we have such as an address, work place, phone number, or email.

We use Iwave to screen our donor database and then to create profiles for a selection of those donors. We use it for both overall screening and deep-dive individual research. It helps us to prioritize our outreach and engagement in the Development Department.

iWave was used by or development team to help us figure out our best major donor contacts. The amount of information was useful for our major gift developer to establish a relationship with a donor we thought may be interested in long term major gifts. It also helped them prioritize and narrow down who they should be focusing on, along with giving them an idea of how much of an ask they should approach with when on visits or calls. The data was updated monthly and imported to our database for easy use by all of development to help monitor what stages of development each donor was in.

iWave is used to research potential donors for our organization. It is a great tool to get a snapshot of a prospects capacity, linkage, and interest. Plus the PRO Screen feature makes it easy to analyze contacts in your current database to see where there may be more potential and hidden gems.

Our team uses iWave for an in-depth look at our donors as well as for doing one-off individual profiles on donors and potential donors. It is used by our fundraising team and has been extremely helpful in identifying new prospects and narrowing our priorities. It has also enabled all members of our team to do their own individual research instead of relying on one person.

iWave is used by the fundraising department in a non-profit organization. It helps to research donors and look up constituent information. It provides better prospect research tools for the team.

iWave is used for prospect development. It is used in my department (me) only, but I use it to support departments across the organization.

We are a small nonprofit. 15 months ago when I started, we had no database of prospects or donors. I used iWave to build my prospect pool of over 2500 qualified leads.

I use iWave in the Development department of our performing arts nonprofit organization. For the past two years we have subscribed to the 2-user license (5,000 credits) package. The tool has been invaluable for us as we assess the capacity of our current donors, ticket buyers, and personal contacts we meet in various networking or special events settings. iWave allows us to easily collect publicly available information across multiple databases. We also use the platform for Institutional Development, as the "Foundations" section of the tool allows us to research a foundation's giving history, board composition, and staff structure. This can be invaluable information when approaching a new prospective funder.

Our Data Services and Development departments use iWave to research donor giving capacity. iWave is instrumental in determining who should be included as our target audience for mailings as well as what amount would be appropriate to ask for donations. It also helps us get to know our donors; who they are and what causes they are passionate about.

iWave is one of the tools utilized on a daily basis by the prospect management and research team at Norwich University. It is a valuable tool to find useful, actionable information about prospects and donors including real estate, philanthropic donations, business information, and more. I appreciate the volume of information available through iWave at a very reasonable cost. The evolving databases included in the product also keep it current and more valuable everyday.

The prospect research team uses iWave to proactively wealth screen alumni/parent/friend prospects for the University. We use it to find and confirm real estate, donations to other organizations, business information and other contact information. The 360 Search has been an invaluable resource for our team. We love iWave!

I am Director of Leadership Giving at the Roman Catholic Diocese, and utilize iWave to identify and solicit major donor prospects. While some nonprofit organizations have a full-time researcher (or more than one), we are a relatively small office (six FTE professionals) and I use iWave to determine which of our current constituents have the financial capacity and more important, the affinity for our mission and then solicit gifts for such purposes as Catholic Charities and our Seminarian Education Campaign. We also have two other users in the development department. This software addresses the need to develop profiles on donors and prospective donors.