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Grow Where You Are Planted

I love weeds. That may seem very odd to hear from someone who enjoys gardening, but perhaps I am not a typical gardener. I must confess I’m terribly fickle when it comes to my garden. Each spring I succumb to the passion of lush, green spring and gaily plant far more than I can ever take care of. Inevitably the oppressive heat of summer squelches my enthusiasm and only those plants that survive the minimal tending I care to give them live to benefit from my renewed vigor with autumn’s chill.
Despite these serious flaws in my gardening technique, I’m never without green in my life. For intrepid weeds soften my failures. Perhaps my favorite is the wild morning glory. Its rich green leaves cover a vine as tough and tenacious as barbed wire. These tendrils coil from dry, barren ground and climb to the sun upon anything they can reach. Yet from this ruthless creeper spring delicate ivory blossoms that sing to the sun for only one day. It is truly heartening to see beauty spring from what seems to be nothing.

Nonprofit organizations often have the same issue with hardware and software. You spring out of what seems to be nothing, pulling resources from volunteers and donations from the community you serve. Purchasing up to date computers and hiring someone to set up and maintain them is frequently out of your reach, financially, although I’ve seen some pretty amazing things done with the bare minimum.

FundRaiser Online can help you climb to new heights. For relatively small monthly fee you get a top of the line server in a climate controlled data center with 24-hour security, a comprehensive backup plan, and access to your program from anywhere you can get on the internet. Instead of paying someone to set up a network and keep your program updated, our experienced Tech Support takes care of that. This lets you use more of your resources for growth!

Online fundraising software is becoming the norm in nonprofit organizations around the world, and not only because it lightens the IT load. Having your software hosted on our secure server also makes it very simple and secure to connect the Donor Portal for online donations; making it very simple for your donors to donate online, and for those donations to stream automatically into FundRaiser. Online donor management software also means that you can access your software from anywhere. With online fundraising software, your volunteers, Membership Coordinator, Development Director can all access the software from their respective environments. Online fundraising software is a good choice for organizations with limited budgets, organizations that don't have office space, and organizations with users from around the world.

If you would like to know more about how FundRaiser Online can help you or would like to try it out, call us at 800-880-3454

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