Convio

Convio is a software suite geared towards nonprofit organizations for their unique needs.

Convio

Convio offers an integrated software suite that helps nonprofits achieve success online. We understand the evolving needs of your organization and provide flexible solutions to help you use the Internet to reach, motivate and retain constituents. We also help you extend our platform to integrate with donor databases and Web 2.0 applications.

eCRM solutions

Choose Convio applications for specific functions in your organization, or combine them for a complete, integrated approach to engaging your constituents online. Our software suite includes applications for fundraising, advocacy, event fundraising, ecommerce, tribute/memorial sites and more. Whether you're sending email newsletters or posting an urgent fundraising appeal on your site, our Web content management and email marketing solutions can power your organization's entire online presence.

Data capabilities

All Convio products share a single online marketing database, Constituent360™. As constituents interact online with your organization by registering, making donations, clicking email links and more, Constituent360 collects information to give you a complete view of your supporters and their interests.

And, since integrating your online data with your offline database is essential for timely, accurate information for use across your organization, our Data Management services provide the framework for exchanging data with today's most popular donor databases.

Open platform

Convio is leading the way with our Convio Open initiative, providing nonprofits new ways to engage constituents. Whether it's integrating popular social media sites such as Facebook® or MySpace®, creating custom applications, or connecting your online and offline systems, we help you take advantage of emerging online trends to enhance constituent relationships and reach new market systems.

Convio solutions are offered through an on-demand, or Software as a Service (SaaS), delivery model. That means we manage the technology, so you can concentrate on fulfilling your mission rather than maintaining applications and servers. You simply access and use the software through any Web browser from anywhere, via one easy-to-use interface.

Software Solutions

There is a wealth of software resources for the nonprofit world.

PIDI - Public Interest Data, Inc.

Quoted directly from their website:

Public Interest Data Incorporated. That's our name. That's our mission.

Let's face it: The world is overrun with data. Credit cards, bank accounts, mailing lists, dot-coms everywhere. Direct mail is targeted to sell you everything — well, not everything, really, because they know something about you. They know what you want, what you like, what you care about. How do they know? Data. It’s the circulation system for the body of modern human society. Data is information and information is power. Power to sell, sure, but in the right hands, the power to change things for the better.

Public Interest Data Incorporated. We incorporate data into the service of the public good. We empower committed people to help make the world better. We do the heavy lifting of making your data work, so you can help lift your organization to new heights in fulfilling its mission.

Web sites like this always have a section for "frequently asked questions" — and we have one too — but to really understand PIDI, you have to start with an infrequently asked question: Why?

Michael MacLeod and Del Clark started PIDI in 1987 because they realized that data management was the weakest link in most nonprofit organizations. With Michael's background as a direct mail consultant for many nonprofit groups, he could see that most organizations — despite deep commitments to worthy causes — were struggling to make the most of their most valuable asset: their donor lists.

For nonprofits, choices were few. Huge, expensive, inflexible data warehouses could store their lists on mainframes. Or the database management functions could be brought in-house, along with a truckload of equipment, a team of programmers and a host of headaches. Or maybe just try to get by with generic "one size fits all" software packages and do the job on a shoestring. A digital dinosaur, a job security program for techno-wizards or a system held together with duct tape; not an appealing set of options for the women and men of the nonprofit sector dedicated to changing the world.

Well things are better now, thanks to a revolution in information technology and thanks also to some revolutionary ideas: That nonprofit causes deserve a responsive data management solution for a responsible cost. That you can work on the cutting edge without bleeding. That your data is the one absolutely irreplaceable asset for building deeper relationships with your community of donors. That your best solution for data management might just be a company that doesn't help people sell shoes or fast food or delivering magazines, but which lives and breathes every single day in the non-profit world.

We are Public Interest Data Incorporated. We get it.

Foundation Information Management System

Foundation Information Management System

The Foundation Information Management System (FIMS) is a suite of integrated modules united in a single, relational database. The modules work together to support five major task areas: Communications, Fund raising/Development, Grants Management, Fund Management, and Financial Management. FIMS is exceptionally flexible, serving more than 300 philanthropic institutions in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, and England, including community, private, college, religious and national foundations, and advised gift funds.

"The feature that stands out the most about FIMS is the integration.
All of the modules talk to each other."

--Leta Doganes -- Berks County Community Foundation

Tessitura:Arts Enterprise Software

Integrate customer information across the entire range of your organization from box office through back office. Tessitura Arts Enterprise Software provides a comprehensive suite of ticketing, marketing, development and fundraising tools to share information, increase productivity, and provide unparalleled leverage for customer relationship management. A rapidly growing number of premier arts organizations rely on Tessitura to perform as powerfully offstage as they do on, season after season.

Designed for and by performing arts users, Tessitura is licensed by Impresario, L.L.C., a subsidiary of the The Metropolitan Opera, to arts organizations and is supported by the Tessitura Network, Inc., a nonprofit corporation.