Case Study: Food For The Poor achieves cost savings and increased donations with Information Builders

Food For The Poor Uses Analytics to Cut Costs, Boost Donations, and More

Food For The Poor, named by The Chronicle of Philanthropy as the largest international relief and development organization in the U.S., has delivered more than $11 billion in aid and built over 100,000 housing units since 1982. Faced with the need to increase staff productivity, reduce operating costs, and improve the success and targeting of fundraising and emergency appeals, the organization needed real-time visibility into finances, campaigns, and programs across multiple systems.

They implemented Information Builders’ WebFOCUS analytics suite — including BI Dashboards, ReportCaster, Visual Discovery, RStat, InfoApps, and Active Technology Dashboards — to provide self-service, real-time reporting without a costly data warehouse. The result: faster, more accurate insights across 11 departments, reduced operating costs, increased donations and campaign efficiency, reclaimed staff time (ReportCaster saved about seven days per month for donor relations), and improved emergency response capability (e.g., feeding ~20,000 people per day after the Port‑au‑Prince earthquake).

Food for the Poor

Vickie Torregrossa

IS Director