Focus On: Software: Are You Plugged In?

“If you’re using software that captures all the data at the time of processing the gift, then the data will still be there in a year or two when you want to analyze it,” Ahlquist says.

Donor management … plus
But donor-management software isn’t the only technology solution being offered to nonprofits by today’s information-technology industry. The San Francisco-based Groundspring.org is itself a nonprofit organization that provides technology services through the Internet and helps raise millions of dollars for other nonprofits. It’s an application service provider, similar to Yahoo and other Internet entities, except that its site and e-mail functions are tailored to help nonprofits.