Automated pledge and campaign management tools for non profit organizations simplify the job

Pledge Tracking

Pledges are vital to capital campaign success. The biggest challenge with pledges is keeping track of who pledged what and on what type of payment schedule, and then following up accordingly. When receiving more than a few pledges, the details can quickly become unmanageable without the proper tools. Money and donors can be lost forever when details fall through the cracks. Fortunately, FundRaiser Software has just the tools necessary to follow-up in a professional, timely manner with donors and prevent critical information from slipping through the cracks.

Our Pledge Tracking Features can help with:

• Mapping Out Pledges
• Thank You letters
• Reminder Letters
• Overdue Pledges
• Projection Reports
• Pledge Cards
• Online Donations

Campaign Management

Campaign Management in FundRaiser Professional helps you to streamline and improve your campaign development and execution. Whether your campaigns are the occasional appeal letter or complex events with multiple sub-events you will find what you need to organize the process in FundRaiser Professional.

FundRaiser Professional with integrated Campaign Management can help you to –

• Reduce Stress by helping you get more organized
• Reduce Costs by avoiding false starts, reinventing the wheel, and last minute emergencies due to overlooked details
• Save Time by keeping easy-to-understand records of campaigns all in one place, and also connected to your donor database
• Determine your Most Effective Campaigns, Events, and Appeal Letters by easily comparing response rates and ROI (Return On Investment).
• Know Who to Invite this year based on the history from past years
• React to Change Faster by having comparison reports at your fingertips at all times
• Collaborate with Others through shared access to campaign history and progress
• Build on Past Success with extensive analytical reports

Features of Campaign Management

FundRaiser’s Campaign Management...

has been designed to help you face today’s tough challenges. It helps you to reduce costs and work with fewer resources while at the same time freeing you to move more efficiently, generate more donations, and increase donor loyalty. In addition, it provides specific comparative data on your campaigns, with the objective of measuring and comparing ROI, appealing to more qualified donors, and increasing donor loyalty, all while reducing costs.

What You can do with Campaign Management… 

Send:

• Invitations and Announcements by email and/or by printed letter or label
• Thank You Letters to donors by email and/or print
• Event Updates to staff and event volunteers

Track:

• Participation: who was invited and who responded
• Donations: who donated and how much
• Tickets: both paid and complimentary tickets
• RSVP’s and Reservations: who to expect at your event
• Attendance: who actually did attend
• Sponsorships: tracks sponsorships at different contribution levels, and the names of people who have been sponsored
• Sub-Events: each event can be divided into sub-events
• Response rates for each event and sub-event
• Comparative ROI's (return on investment)

Event Giving Lifespan

Donors may respond to your campaign immediately or over a period of time. FundRaiser’s Event Giving Lifespan solves the problem of data entry operators forgetting to record a donation as a response to an event. During the setup of an event in FundRaiser, you simply designate the period of time during which you expect to receive donations (perhaps 30 days before an event to 30 days after). Then when a donation is received from one of the participants during the specified time period, FundRaiser will automatically offer to assign the donation to that event.

Reports:

• Summary reports include gift and pledge totals, response rates, ROI, % of goal raised, average per response, and more on both the Campaign and the Event level.
• Sponsorship Summary and Detail reports show packages purchased, gift and pledge totals, plus sponsorships, tickets, attendance, RSVP, and Reservations.
• Participant Summary and Detail Reports show who gave to which events and the various ways in which they may have participated.
• FundRaiser’s wide range of Standard Reports can also be used to report on event-related participation and donations.

Queries

FundRaiser’s amazingly simple "Groupings" capability enables you to select donors and participants based on current and past invitations, announcements, responses, and giving history concerning single or multiple events and campaigns. Use this list to send invitations and announcements for upcoming events or as prospecting lists for your sponsorship solicitors.

What Events it is used for…

FundRaiser’s Campaign Management is designed to be easy to use for simple events, and full-featured enough to handle complex campaigns.

It helps you determine the effectiveness of your basic fundraising activities:

• Appeal letters
• Newsletters
• Phonathons and Sharathons

As well as help you organize and track the many activities usually found in more complex special events:

• Golf tournaments
• Auctions
• Banquets

Who is this for…

The FundRaiser Professional program itself was designed with the simplicity needed to meet the needs of small and mid-size nonprofit organizations, and still have the power to accommodate the sophisticated requirements of large organizations. Available in single and multi-user editions, it's built-in security features let you manage user privileges and control access.

Whether you manage campaigns as part of your job or you are part of a multi-person campaign management team, FundRaiser Professional’s Campaign Management will help you do your job better and faster.

Program Design – Ease of use, flexibility…

Because ease-of-use and a short learning curve are so important to our users, we tightly integrated Campaign Management throughout FundRaiser. If you are already familiar with the FundRaiser interface, Campaign Management will be easy to learn. If you’re new to FundRaiser we’ll get you up to speed fast with our highly acclaimed training.

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Solutions for Community-Supported Radio and TV

FundRaiser Software has been serving community-supported radio and TV stations since the 1980's with easy to use donor management software and friendly support!

Besides the normal fundraising functionality that we put in all three of our main FundRaiser donor management programs, you will be especially interested in the following special modules and programs:

• Premiums Module This module is ideal for those who give premiums in return for donations. It prints shipping labels, handles out-of-stock items, and includes several helpful reports. Does your staff dread the phone calls that inevitably come in after a phonathon? You know, the pledgers wondering when they will get their coffee mug or CD? Now, with FundRaiser's Premiums module, you can quickly look up the caller, either on-screen or on a report, to see when their premium was shipped. No more stalling or guessing.

  This module has a simple inventory program that keeps track of how many of each premium you have in-stock and how many have been promised to pledgers, so you can order more in time to fill all the requests. It will not print a shipping label if items are out-of-stock. It also won't print a label until you indicate that payment has been received. It can even handle the cases where the donor picks up their premium in person.

  Memberships Module This is an absolute must for all community-supported radio and TV stations who want to turn sporadic donors into consistent donors. It enables you to treat your donors as true members or subscribers, each with their own individual expiration/renewal date. It gives you the tools to build a great membership program based on benefits and clear cut-off dates, but with the flexibility to handle unusual situations.

• Printing membership renewal letters is a snap. You do so each month by telling FundRaiser to print for everyone with an expiration date a month or so (your choice) in the future. Or you can wait until after your phonathon to mail only to those who failed to renew during the campaign. You can even mail to all your subscribers, telling them of the upcoming phonathon and offering to cancel it if everyone gives early.

  Of course, printing newsletter labels is also simple. Just print for all active (non-expired) members.

  Wonder how effective your membership campaign has been the last 12 months? Run an analytical report which breaks down New, Renew, Rejoin, and Lapsed members into a wide variety of coded segments.

  Default membership renewal dates can be set to fit anyone's pattern, and even then you can overwrite the default date for a special case. You can require a specific membership dues amount or accept any amount over some minimum ($5, $30, or more).

  Free FundRaiser Phonathon Program This free program is used to display the current phonathon totals in big bold numbers on the screen to make it easy for the announcer to read from.

• Totals are shown for the entire period, today, yesterday, this hour and last hour. Additional sub-totals can be shown for two user-defined "groups", like New/Renewal or Day Partner/Monthly Giver/One-Time.

  This free program can be run on its own, or in conjunction with one of our FundRaiser programs.

Modules are available as options in FundRaiser Select, and are included as standard in FundRaiser Professional. Our entry level program, FundRaiser Basic, cannot take modules but is flexible enough to handle some of their more basic functions.

Remember, we offer a variety of programs and payment options to fit every budget, even those of brand new LPFM stations!

Free FundRaiser Phonathon Program

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This free program was written with the needs of community-supported radio and TV stations in mind.

FundRaiser Phonathon is used to display the current phonathon totals in big bold numbers on the screen to make it easy for the announcer to read from. Totals are shown for the entire period, today, yesterday, this hour and last hour. Additional sub-totals can be shown for two user-defined "groups", like New/Renewal or Day Partner/Monthly Giver/One-Time.

Telephone operators take down the details of the donations and pledges (name, address, credit card number, phone, etc, etc), either on paper or with one of our other FundRaiser programs.

If using paper, then the operators next enter the donation details into FundRaiser Phonathon. If using another FundRaiser program, then the details are automatically entered into the Phonathon program for them.

As the donations are entered, the program displays the phonathon totals and sub-totals in large bold numbers on the screen so that the on-air person can glance at the totals to announce how they are doing. S/he can also easily read details of the most recent donations, including any comments.

As with other FundRaiser programs, FundRaiser Phonathon has been designed to be very easy to use so that your volunteers can be trained in 10 minutes to use the program.

The Setup section provides a way for you to totally redefine the two sub-total Groups, create your own list of Payment Modes (how the phonathon pledger will pay), and decide which data entry fields will be required, and which are optional. There is also a multi-user option that enables up to 5 workstations to synchronize their phonathon entries, so that all workstations automatically display current totals and all entries.

There is a simple report that prints the details and all the totals and sub-totals. The report can be run for any time period, and can be printed, or exported to MS-Excel, pdf, rtf, or a number of other formats.

A standard Windows Help file comes with the program to explain operation and multi-user setup.

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FundRaising for Performing Arts Organizations

Performing Arts non-profit groups are special to us. Making your fundraising easier is one of our priorities.

Are you a community theatre group with volunteers handling all your work, like Buck Creek Players? (Read their story.) Then you need an intuitive program that's easy to learn and that makes it easy to transfer responsibilities when volunteers change jobs.

Are you a professional theatre group like Peninsula Players (read their story), who needs the full power of a sophisticated donor management program, including the ability to automatically collect donor prospect information from ticket buyers?

Just over a year ago, the Irish Repertory Theatre moved over into FundRaiser Professional. Their impetus was another, bigger move: from renters to owners of their own facility (read their story).

Or maybe you're a hybrid organization that is trying new approaches. Regardless, FundRaiser is focused on your needs. Our software is:

• Intuitive. Users consistently praise us for our easy to learn and easy to use programs.
• Powerful, enabling you to do both simple and challenging fundraising jobs
• Affordable, costing significantly less then comparable programs and with three levels of programs from simple to sophisticated, allowing you to choose the level that's right for you.
• Supportive, with top quality and friendly technical support staff, special web training, developers who listen and implement your suggestions, an online users forum, and monthly newsletters.
• Theater-Friendly, with theater focused features like a special module that enables you to automatically collect donor information from box office software.

Intuitive
Users consistently praise us for our intuitive interface and the ease of learning the software. That's a special find for a program that allows you to do so much. We place a high value on staying that way, even as we add more features. We know that you may not be computer savvy, and that's OK with us. We do everything we can to make it easy for you.

Powerful
FundRaiser is a powerful donor management program that has been serving small and medium size non profits since 1988. During that time, our developers have consistently listened to users and made improvements and additions to the program to make it more flexible and responsive. A power feature developed specifically for performing arts groups who sell tickets is the Tickets module that enables you to convert your ticket buyer list into a donor prospect list.

FundRaiser can be used to make straight forward jobs even easier (like printing labels and sending out thank you notes) or to help you manage the complexities of a capital campaign. If you have special needs like pledge drives or handling premium gifts to reward donors, we have the features to help you manage that.

Affordable
We shine in the area of affordability. Our three software levels range in price from $149 to $1,150 to $3,500. At each level, you get much more than other comparably priced programs. Choose the power you need now at the price that fits your budget. If you need more in the future, it's easy to add optional modules or to upgrade to the next level. The cost of any previously purchased FundRaiser program is deductible from any upgrade. In addition, FundRaiser Select and Professional can be purchased through no-interest monthly payments

Supportive
Users say our technical support staff is excellent and we place a high priority on that. We strive at all times to have the friendliest and most expert tech staff around. When you call tech support, you talk to a real person, and can reach that same person again until your problem is resolved. With a program that's as full featured as FundRaiser you may want some help from time to time to figure out a specific job or unravel a problem.

In addition, our program developers listen to your suggestions. It was a user like you who suggested how much she would like for her box office software to be able to collect names and addresses of ticket buyers to add to her donor base.

You'll love the web-based and phone-based training programs run by our top technician. (He also happens to be a long-time performer.) These training programs can give you an overview of FundRaiser Select or Professional, or let you go into depth on specific topics. Would you like an overview now? You can arrange for a pre-sales Tour through one of our sales reps.

Theatre-Friendly
Theater groups are a priority for us. We want to be your fundraising program. You can count on us to listen to your needs and respond, whether it be for technical support or program development. As a user, if you ever have a suggestion, contact us, by phone or email. We will listen.

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