Sage Nonprofit Solutions

In February 2009, Heather Burton, then marketing manager for Sage Software Nonprofit Solutions, explained how weathering an economic storm lies in nonprofits’ ability to find new funding sources in her article, "Diversify, Diversify, Diversify."

Sage North America announced the results of its Sage Nonprofit Insights, Q4 2011, survey of U.S. and Canadian nonprofit organizations, which focused on questions related to nonprofits’ e-mail marketing (“e-marketing”) goals and objectives and use of e-mail marketing tools.

According to the survey, the most significant e-mail marketing challenges for nonprofit organizations are growing and retaining contacts (38 percent of respondents), integrating e-mail with other systems (38 percent), and integrating e-mail with other tactics (38 percent).

Sage North America announced that University of the Sciences (USciences), a private health care and science university in Philadelphia that is distinguished as North America’s first pharmacy school, is using Sage Millennium to give it a dynamic approach to constituent relationship management (CRM). Sage Millennium provides USciences with more intimate connections with constituents through the use of relationship trees and a more comprehensive donor database, and real-time data for board of trustee meetings.

Sage North America announced that Version 11.0 of its Sage Fund Accounting nonprofit and government financial management software is now available. Product enhancements focused on improving the customer experience and included streamlining the upgrade process with the new Sage Auto Update console; implementing user-requested improvements within core modules; updating the workflow and user interface; improving reporting capabilities; and adding Sales Order functionality to the Accounts Receivable (A/R) module.

Sage North America announced the results of its recently conducted Sage Nonprofit Insights, Q3 2011, survey of U.S. and Canadian nonprofit organizations, which focused on questions related to their year-end fundraising efforts.

According to the survey, organizations are generally optimistic about the final quarter of 2011, with a third (33%) saying they expect to raise more funds than they did in last year's final quarter.

Sage North America announced it has entered into an exclusive referral relationship with Cambridge, Mass.-based ACCESS International to provide its Sage Rainbow customers with a migration path to ACCESS’ ENTERPRISE^®CRM software and services. Sage Rainbow is Sage’s fundraising management and development software for nonprofits, mostly United Way organizations. ACCESS is a leading software and service provider to United Way.

Sage North America announced that Habitat for Humanity Winnipeg recently used the friend-to-friend fundraising tools in Sage Fundraising Online to exceed its Cycle of Hope 2011 fundraising event goal by $60,000.

Habitat for Humanity Winnipeg is a local affiliate of an international, nonprofit-registered charity, committed to eliminating poverty housing and dedicated to making safe, decent, and affordable housing for purchase by low-income, working families.

How can you best spread awareness about your special event to as many potential supporters as possible when you have limited budget and resources? Leverage social media to get the word out quickly and efficiently throughout your nonprofit's network.

Sage North America introduced new payment processing security enhancements for large nonprofits using Sage Millennium, its highly customizable, Web-based constituent relationship management (CRM) software. Designed for diverse and complex fundraising programs, Sage Millennium version 7.9 includes a new, fully integrated Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliant application from Sage Payment Solutions, Sage’s payments division.

Sage North America announced Campaign for Equal Justice (CEJ) in Portland, Ore., has experienced a 276 percent increase in online giving using Sage Fundraising Online, Sage’s flexible fundraising and event registration connected service, with Sage Payment Services for donation processing from Sage Payment Solutions, Sage’s payments division.