Apps for Good: Affinaquest Fundraising on Salesforce
We began to build a product called Affinaquest, focusing on the four foundational areas of Donor Management: Campaign Management, Prospect Tracking, Constituent Data, and Gift Processing.
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We began to build a product called Affinaquest, focusing on the four foundational areas of Donor Management: Campaign Management, Prospect Tracking, Constituent Data, and Gift Processing.
If you are reading this, you are probably responsible for your non-profit’s fundraising event management. We do not have to tell you what an undertaking it is nor the pressure riding on its success. If you could facilitate the process, save time and energy; you’d be curious right? Hopefully, these simple steps will get you on the path.
Cirrus Insight seamlessly integrates with Gmail, where constituent communication happens, and brings in contextual information from Salesforce, where vital constituent information is stored.
If you find that Excel cannot support your mission anymore, Salesforce can probably meet your organization’s needs. It can easily scale up or down depending on your needs and business processes. We work with variety type so of nonprofit organizations from very small (all volunteer based) to multi-million dollar international organization (such as Connell University and United Way).
Cloud2You makes it easy for users to upload via Salesforce, their own creative print materials and supports many standard business physical print formats such as Letters, Greeting Cards, Postcards and Brochures.
AppExtremes is the company behind the Conga suite of solutions: Conga Composer, Conga Mail Merge, Conga Courier, Conga Conductor, and Conga Workflow. Our flagship product, Conga Composer, is the most popular document generation app on the Salesforce AppExchange and has consistently been in the AppExchange Top Ten since Conga Composer launched in 2007. Conga Composer makes it easy to retrieve your data from salesforce.com and merge that data into sophisticated documents, whether Word, Excel, PowerPoint or PDF. You can then print it, store it locally or in Salesforce, or send it via email. Conga Composer will also log activities, create follow up tasks and even update fields.
As an application, Salesforce has a lot of breadth and depth to it. There are some areas, though, where enhancements make Salesforce even more easy to use, and Apsona for Salesforce endeavors to fill those gaps. Apsona is a browser-based application that creates a layer on top of Salesforce, and adds many features that make Salesforce more usable. Here are some examples of situations which are handled more easily with Apsona for Salesforce.
IDEX is a San Francisco based non-profit organization that promotes sustainable solutions to poverty by providing long-term grants and access to resources to locally run organizations in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Like many NPO’s, IDEX leverages technology to help their small staff promote their message and engage their supporters. And, of course, they must do all this while also keeping costs down and maximizing their return. Using the combined power of Salesforce CRM and VerticalResponse for AppExchange, IDEX is able to maintain a successful email marketing program that contributes to a large increase in their online fundraising efforts and supporter engagement. Even better, IDEX is able to take advantage of VerticalResponse’s non-profit program, enabling them to send up to 10,000 emails per month absolutely free (a monthly savings of $120).
This blog post kicks off a series of posts called “Apps for Good” where awesome AppExchange providers like Click and Pledge, Cirrus Insight, Vertical Response, Affinaquest, and AppExtremes (the Conga Composer guys) will guest post about their applications and how nonprofit and educational organizations can use them to collect online donations, integrate with Google Apps, or send mass emails.
The social web is changing the way we live and work. Social networks are making dramatic changes to not only how people communicate and engage with each other, but also with companies, foundations, and other organizations. Facebook and Google+ are slowly replacing the corporate website. Twitter, SMS, and blogs are supplanting email as the go-to marketing channels. The Social Enterprise is a new way to elevate communication both with your constituents (donors, volunteers, students, clients and partners) and within your organization.
