About the Content Development Partnership

CDP is necessary to help solve the critical development issues all stations are confronting

Declining prospects   Erosion in the effectiveness of marketing channels   Lack of cohesive systems or best practices
   
Aggregate file size decline
over the last 8 years =
-20%
-1 million potential contributors
-$30/-$40M annually
  Continued decline in offline marketing tactics to raise prospects and revenue: pledge and DM.

Stagnation of online marketing channels
  No centralized
Best practices
Branding
Infrastructure
for now or the future.

Lack of efficiencies
The Contributor Development Partnership is a station-centric effort supported by the MMG and CPB

Participating Stations
National Marketing Reference Database of donors and revenue metrics Quarterly Reports: Analyze high yield activity and shared efficiencies based on data driven approach Actionable and timely data delivery to foster collaboration and reduce fundraising costs
Contributor Development Partnership Services
Reference database of participating stations will be used to analyze high yield opportunities.

Key high yield metrics will be reported on quarterly

Participating stations benefit from actionable, timely and collaborative delivery of results

  • Shared data on growth areas
  • Case Studies
  • Website
  • Station Working Groups
  • Conferences
Actionable, Timely and Collaborative
  • Tactics and Best Practices
  • e-Mail Collaboration
  • Efficiencies and Scale
  • Recognition of High Performers
  • Webinars
CDP will not only align to station goals, but also the goals of the Major Market Group, CPB and PBS

Stations: Participants and primary beneficiary
PBS goals:
  • Continue to support the health of the local stations and system
  • Develop an online prospecting and giving program to drive money and marketing data back to local stations
Actionable, Timely and Collaborative Major Market Group goals for 2012-2014:
  • Develop a reference merge/purge contributor file
  • Double the aggregate prospect file of primary public stations
  • Increase contributor file size
  • Increase contributors as a % of stations' monthly cumulative audience
CPB goals: Increase efficiency of investment in stations
CDP is station driven which means results will only be possible if stations provide data and collaborate in new ways

Early adopter station:
  • Annual fee will be waived
  • Be the first to shape and take advantage of analyses


Station advisory group:
  • Discuss priorities, opportunities, challenges
  • Assess practices, trends and diagnostic tools
  • Address scale issues and sustainability
  • Develop plan and goals to increase membership and net revenue




Michal Heiplik | michal_heiplik@wgbh.org | 617-300-3217
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