Skip to Main Content
2023 Civis Summit: Data Community
Nonprofit and Civic Tech Leaders Convene in DC for Data-focused Community Summit

On Thursday, March 9, 2023 Civis Analytics headed to Washington D.C. to partner with the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) to host our first in-person event in more than three years!…

Blog Post
An illustration of a landscape made with plot charts and pie charts
Nonprofit Data Transformation

Nonprofits often struggle on their journey to become data-driven. Here are the common reasons why — and a better, more tailored way forward. Membership nonprofits have always faced unique challenges…

Blog Post
Using Data to Overcome the Digital Divide
Using Data to Overcome the Digital Divide

The digital divide — the gulf between communities with ready access to modern information and communications technologies, and those without — impacts millions of Americans spanning generations, demographics, and geographies. Civis's solution to bridging the digital divide is the DEIC — a suite of modeled and curated data to help understand the issue through the lenses of: affordability, accessibility, and adoption.

Video
An array of data visualizations
Establishing a Data-driven Decision Making Culture for Your Workplace

The foundation of a successful and efficient data-driven culture lies in the data itself — consolidating and cleaning it, making it securely available to all relevant stakeholders, and ensuring its insights are accurate, actionable, and readily accessible to the decision makers steering the organization’s future. Many continue to grapple with this digital transformation, however: in fact, only one in four organizations has established a truly data-driven environment.

eBook
How Our Civis Platform Data Workbench Evolved in 2022 — and What’s Ahead for 2023
How Our Civis Platform Data Workbench Evolved in 2022 — and What’s Ahead for 2023

Civis Analytics never stops working to improve Civis Platform, our flagship all-in-one data warehouse and analytics engine. With 2022 winding down and 2023 on the horizon, what better time to…

Blog Article
Drive better audience insights in 2023 using Civis Platform

Whether you’re a veteran Platform user or just interested to learn more about some of our more advanced Platform tips and tricks, be sure to tune in! Unlock more value from your data through new Civis Platform updates — we’ve been hard at work implementing feature improvements, strengthening integrations, and rolling out new products in Civis Platform.

Blog Post
illustration of a laptop
Extending Civis Workflows Using Parameters

Civis Platform workflows are extremely powerful ways to chain and execute jobs on a preset schedule, connecting related jobs and automating them as a single unit. This suite of jobs…

Blog Article
LCV logo on a photo of people gathered together for a march for climate justice
How Civis Platform Helped LCV Go from Two Internal Data Teams to Zero Data Sync Issues

Image provided by League of Conservation Voters THE CHALLENGE The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) drives environmental progress through political action, leveraging its national advocacy movement, 30 state affiliates, and…

Blog Post
illustration of a laptop and a phone with a lock and password
Data Security in the Digital Age

Every 39 seconds, a cyberattack is launched somewhere on the web… and your data systems could be the next target. Organizations of all kinds rely on Civis Analytics to serve as scientific and technological stewards of their data — to secure and protect the data entrusted to us. Download this guide to discover how we designed Civis Platform, our cloud-based data science workbench, expressly to safeguard data in compliance with industry-leading confidentiality, integrity, and availability standards

Research Report
icons of tools working on a dashboard user interface
How the Continuous Improvement Process Guided the Latest Civis Platform Updates

In my previous post, I discussed how Civis Analytics leverages continuous improvement (CI) to make a better product. This follow-up post addresses new and upcoming updates to our Civis Platform,…

Blog Article
Illustration of gears and arrows emerging out of a circle
How Civis Uses Continuous Improvement to Build a Better Data Platform

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms enable continuous, on-the-fly improvement without complex, lengthy installation and update processes. This means we can update Civis Platform in the background, usually without any outage or client…

Blog Post
Photo by Erin Schiavone, Abt Associates
How Civis Platform Transformed PMI’s Data to Boost the Fight Against Malaria

THE PROBLEM Photo by Moses Senesie, MOHS, March 2021 The U.S.President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), a U.S. government initiative created to dramatically reduce malaria deaths and illnesses across sub-Saharan Africa, set…

Blog Post
How to Automate Your Data Workflows With Civis Platform

More and more nonprofit organizations are investing in data infrastructure, and nearly all of them face the same looming question: should we build, or should we buy? Each option offers its own pros and cons, and determining which is right for you isn’t always easy.

Video
Fully Utilize Data to Give IIJA Funding Applications a Boost

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) allocates billions of dollars for state and local governments as they strive to close the digital divide. Though each state is promised at least $100 million, additional money will be distributed based on a complicated series of calculations and other information that applicants submit. Including all possible helpful data can give agencies a boost as they seek to unlock IIJA funding.

Video
Build vs. Buy

More and more nonprofit organizations are investing in data infrastructure, and nearly all of them face the same looming question: should we build, or should we buy? Each option offers its own pros and cons, and determining which is right for you isn’t always easy.

Video
Black woman in three phases of problem solving
How a Global Federated Nonprofit Streamlined Data Reporting to Track Its KPIs

THE PROBLEM An international federated nonprofit dedicated to saving the planet shifted its focus to saving time — time it was wasting on manual data collection and reporting processes.  For…

Case Study
Know Your Base: What Your Data Can Tell You About Your Supporters

For all the talk of automation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning in the data science world today, curious and motivated people are still the most important component of a successful team. But building a team full of these bright people is much easier said than done. In this on-demand session, we’ll take a look at the composition of a best-in-class data science team, and help you understand how to build out the function in your organization.

Video
For Our Future Action Fund logo superimposed over a person canvasing for petition signatures
How For Our Future Uses Civis Platform’s Query Tool to Define and Refine Voter Outreach Success

The Challenge For Our Future Action Fund organizes and mobilizes voters the old-fashioned way: through grassroots, one-on-one engagement.   The nonprofit builds progressive power through voter engagement and community organizing to…

Case Study

Our Method. Your Mission. Let’s Collaborate.

You have a unique audience to reach. Let’s make sure your message gets the engagement it deserves. That’s the heart of our method.

Talk To A Consultant Today