CharityEngine Blog

Dashing through year-end 🏃 Nonprofit hopes aglow 🌟 Prepping for that email send 📨 That makes your mission grow 💗 🎵🎵🎵🎵

As much as we hate to do this, it’s time for a little tough love: stop comparing the cost of competing CRMs when you’re shopping. You’re focused on the wrong number.

All you have left from Thanksgiving is pants that don’t fit as well as they used to, and the holidays are staring you in the face. If you haven’t hit your nonprofit’s fundraising goals, it’s too late, right? NO!

Does it ever seem like every nonprofit CRM is the same? Technology that manages donors and automates email doesn’t sound like rocket science, so what can really make one system better than another?

Grants are to nonprofits like water is to a fish: absolutely critical if you’re going to keep swimming. And no matter the size of your nonprofit, seeking grants can and should be a significant effort.

Well of course we’re thankful for turkey, because who isn’t? That’s kind of boring. We challenged our team members to dig deep and tell us something else they’re thankful for this Thanksgiving week.

Maybe your vendor is adding capabilities by acquiring competitors. Maybe the lack of support leaves you wanting to tear your hair out, or maybe the system has just gotten too hard to use. You know it’s time…time to switch to a new nonprofit CRM.

You know, we developers tend to keep our heads down developing things. But every now and then, I realize we’ve added some cool features to our nonprofit CRM, and I feel as though I should share them a little more widely.

It takes a lot of systems, working together, to run a nonprofit. You need robust and reliable email automation, donor management, and even payment processing to be synced and running smoothly to ensure a great experience for your donors—and to keep...