ZDM - ZIP to Legislative District Matching

Makes Advocacy Efforts More Effective

The ZDM app for Salesforce keeps our data up-to-date with legislative districts. It makes reporting out to our legislators for advocacy purposes so easy! Couldn't be happier.

Reporting on our participants' electeds in NYC is a breeze.

We love it. We often need to report to elected officials how many of our participants live in their districts, and KnowWho makes it a breeze. The efficient (and friendly) tech support made my job as the admin so easy, and they have supported me through two installs (we relaunched in a second org this past January). My colleagues in the field have let me know that the thoroughness of the data, across the entire org, has been invaluable for their advocacy efforts. Couldn't be happier!

More Targeted Outreach, More Effective Advocacy

The data and tools provided by KnowWho are helpful to our organization engaging the field in federal advocacy. We recently started using Zip to District Matching which allows us to create more targeted campaigns and outreach, ultimately resulting in easier and more effective advocacy. For example, we can now send a call to action specifically to people in our database who have members of Congress on a certain committee when this committee is making decisions on items important to our work. Most of all, the support we receive from the KnowWho team is excellent. They are very quick to respond, provide hands-on support to issues we run into or requests we have, and do their best to work out a solution that fits our needs.

Huge time-saver

ZDM has saved us many, many hours of staff time. We organize in-person lobbying trips and we are easily able to run reports of state legislators, including their parties, office locations, and background information, for each of our advocates. Before we had this product, our staff spent hours looking up this type of information and copying and pasting it into a spreadsheet. Installation was seamless, and customer support is top-notch.

Match members to legislators easy!

Having this information at the tip of our fingertips and being able to pull reports on it is wonderful. Being a membership organization, this is must have info that really breathes life into our database.

Accurate matching from local to federal level

KnowWho's ZDM for Salesforce has been an integral part of our advocacy strategy for the past few years. We are a national chapter-based organization, and often run campaigns that target local, state, or Federal elected officials. ZDM makes it easy for us to connect our advocates with their elected officials, and feel confident that the data will be accurate. KnowWho is also incredibly responsive when I have a question, and has provided outstanding support!

Powers our online action center

KnowWho's ZDM service is critical to our online advocacy efforts, reliably pairing our advocates with their representatives at all levels of government. Top-notch, responsive service sets them apart from other services we have used in the past.

Comprehensive and always up-to-date

We use ZDM to connect locations to local representatives and I cannot stress enough what a time saver this is! With the push of button we have a salesforce report in our hand! This tool has saved staff hundreds of hours of manual work!

A powerful tool and great customer support

We use ZDM for state-level advocacy with elected officials. We use ZDM to help us plan for a big annual event where we match the families we serve with their legislators for in person meetings, and also to help us target email messages. KnowWho and ZDM are powerful tools that do take some energy and attention to set up well, but we've been really impressed with the customer support we've received to help us through all of that. KnowWho really cares about its customers and helping them do good work!

Saves So Much Time Identifying Supporters' Legislators

We are an anti-hunger advocacy organization, and of the three KnowWho apps we use (Action Center, CongressForce & ZDM for Salesforce), this is the one we are most keen on using more to hone in on key legislators & our supporters in their districts. ZDM stands for ZIP-District Matcher, and can be used to look up any individual Account or Contact’s representative, or in batches through filters that can be easily set up from pull-down menus based on any field on the record. We’re then able to use this to target emails to supporters in specific House Districts where before we would have to guess based on state, or spend staff time manually looking up supporters’ ZIP codes (most of our app usage focuses on the House but ZDM finds & ties supporters to their Senators too). I can put together reports of who we have in numerous Districts across the country in less time than it took me to pull together a single District previously, which saves a ton of time while making our advocacy efforts more efficient.