New Ministry Information Library Will Strengthen Charity’s Fundraising Ability, Reduce Its Administrative Costs
Burlington, MA – September 3, 2008
- Compassion International, a leading Christian child development ministry, announced today that it has selected the Kalido® Dynamic Information Warehouse™ and the Kalido Business Information Modeler™, key components of the Kalido Information Engine™, to power its new Ministry Information Library (MIL), an enterprise information management project.
- Kalido was selected over a traditional-style custom-built data warehouse because of Kalido’s ability to quickly deliver answers to business questions. Kalido’s data warehouse automation, iterative approach and business-model-driven software were key to its selection.
- Led by Kalido partner Project Performance Corporation (PPC), the MIL project will strengthen Compassion’s fundraising ability by reducing its administration costs, enabling it to raise more funds and devote a greater percentage of those funds to helping the world’s children.
- As a charitable foundation that delivers more than $250M to its child development program and to sponsor/donor ministries worldwide, Compassion faces many of the same issues as highly regulated, geographically distributed enterprises, including a difficulty in obtaining true intelligence about its global operations.
- Not only will Kalido help Compassion organize their information assets for consistent reporting, but Compassion’s business users will also be able to use Kalido’s uniquely flexible business modeling approach to quickly define new requirements and respond rapidly to them.
- The MIL project is a forward-thinking program designed to modernize Compassion’s information technology infrastructure and processes in order to continue to build on its legacy of helping children and families of need around the world. Key to this initiative is the centralization of the organization’s information assets, which will:
- Allow the organization to better manage its 20-25 percent average annual growth rate,
- Improve the quality and consistency of its contributor data,
- Gain a 360-degree view on all of the organization’s contributors, and
- Secure more meaningful and timely business intelligence (BI).
- The MIL project will use data from numerous in-house applications developed for the organization’s four core competency areas:
- Child Development Sponsorship,
- Child Survival,
- Leadership Development, and
- Complementary Interventions.
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Jim Finwick, vice president of IT at Compassion International said:
- "All of our efforts at Compassion are focused on one thing -- helping release children from poverty. The MIL project will improve Compassion’s efficiency, thereby increasing the number of children we’ll be able to help. With the Kalido Information Engine delivering to us more accurate information on our contributors and our organization, we can use this intelligence to better execute on our mission.”
Bill Hewitt, president and CEO of Kalido, said:
- “Organizations of all types should be able to take advantage of better information. Compassion’s mission requires that they get the most out of every investment in order to help as many children as possible. With Kalido, they can more efficiently and effectively support their contributors, their employees and, most importantly, the people and causes they were founded to help. We’re honored that they’ve chosen us to help them with their mission.”
About Compassion International:
Compassion is one of the world's largest Christian child development organizations, working with more than 65 denominations and 4,500 indigenous church partners. It serves more than 1 million children in Africa, Asia, Central and South America and the Caribbean.
Since 1952, Compassion has touched the lives of more than 1.8 million children and has been recognized for its financial integrity with top ratings and recommendations by several of the nation's leading not-for-profit "watchdog" organizations.
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