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Thanks for the response. I would still be interested to understand the CRM part more. I agree that it makes sense to have the front-end talk to their CRM, but

by dalerus 12y ago

Thanks for the response. I would still be interested to understand the CRM part more. I agree that it makes sense to have the front-end talk to their CRM, but is it a full fledge CRM? The fundraising page leads are not the only relationships NGOs need to track. We find it fairly easy to automate everything for leads to CRM via Zapier. And the NGO can scale and add in pieces as needed. Also, I find that finance/donor relations teams are usually in a different location/country than the comms teams. All with different budgets and money to spend on a system. It's a complicated mess. :) I guess I am curious, from your view, what is the target size of the NGO your system benefits? It looks like you are giving it away to anyone with less than 250k a year in donations, which is great, those small NGOs need a solution like this. But is it the $1-3 million a year? $3m+ a year? I'm not asking these questions to pick apart your offering. I am all for systems that help NGOs. If this is a fit for our clients, it would be a nice place to point them to.

Anisa_Mirza 12y ago
Above $1MM (our ave clients are generally around the $3-6MM rev range). And yup, it is a full CRM solution for nfps that focus on fundraising (not just contact management but also takes into account other relationship mapping such as org, institutions, unique grouping, leads etc). Additionally, the back-end includes newsletters, volunteer tracking and placement, skills mapping, fund allocation (this is a biggie apparently) customized tax-receitps, event/tickets/perks management, etc. We offer easy export integration for QuickBooks integration as well. Examples of our clients include United Way chapters, Big Brothers Big Sisters, SPCA's, etc
- Anisa_Mirza 12y ago
  ooh and re the bursary program - that's a brand new offering. Basically, we had many awesome orgs telling us they need/want to use our software but simply couldn't afford it. When we took a look at their sites, it killed us to see the crappy ad-hoc software they were subjected to and the manual tracking they were stuck implementing. We knew that if we were going to hold ourselves accountable to our mission of providing good software to all charities, we couldn't neglect the ones with a limited budget. So, the bursary program is our answer atm. Since launching it today, we've already had 8 signups. Excited to see how this program rolls out overtime!
- dalerus 12y ago
  Nice. It's an interesting product! Best of luck!
- dalerus 12y ago
  Actually one more thing, are there plans for affiliate or parter programs? We get asked to advise on this stuff all the time.
  - sethbannon 12y ago
    What's your agency? I'd love to chat.
    - dalerus 12y ago
      Sure, shoot me an email: jesse at glean.net
  - Anisa_Mirza 12y ago
    nothing formally in place yet but happy to chat more. Shoot me an email - anisa [at] giveffect dot com
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by dalerus 12y ago

Anisa_Mirza 12y ago

Above $1MM (our ave clients are generally around the $3-6MM rev range). And yup, it is a full CRM solution for nfps that focus on fundraising (not just contact management but also takes into account other relationship mapping such as org, institutions, unique grouping, leads etc). Additionally, the back-end includes newsletters, volunteer tracking and placement, skills mapping, fund allocation (this is a biggie apparently) customized tax-receitps, event/tickets/perks management, etc. We offer easy export integration for QuickBooks integration as well. Examples of our clients include United Way chapters, Big Brothers Big Sisters, SPCA's, etc

Anisa_Mirza 12y ago
ooh and re the bursary program - that's a brand new offering. Basically, we had many awesome orgs telling us they need/want to use our software but simply couldn't afford it. When we took a look at their sites, it killed us to see the crappy ad-hoc software they were subjected to and the manual tracking they were stuck implementing. We knew that if we were going to hold ourselves accountable to our mission of providing good software to all charities, we couldn't neglect the ones with a limited budget. So, the bursary program is our answer atm. Since launching it today, we've already had 8 signups. Excited to see how this program rolls out overtime!
dalerus 12y ago
Nice. It's an interesting product! Best of luck!
dalerus 12y ago
Actually one more thing, are there plans for affiliate or parter programs? We get asked to advise on this stuff all the time.
- sethbannon 12y ago
  What's your agency? I'd love to chat.
  - dalerus 12y ago
    Sure, shoot me an email: jesse at glean.net
- Anisa_Mirza 12y ago
  nothing formally in place yet but happy to chat more. Shoot me an email - anisa [at] giveffect dot com

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