Non-profit organizations are always struggling to raise funds, so when faced with needing to purchase a solid management software solution, it can be difficult. To properly manage constituents, donations, clients, sponsors and more, you need a good platform, but a good platform usually costs a pretty penny.
Although you often need to spend money to make money, not all non-profits have the money to spend in the first place, making it impossible to get started with good non-profit management software.
Thankfully, there’s an awesome open source non-profit management solution called, Delightful Labor.
Delightful Labor
Delightful Labor is:
… a web-based open-source non-profit management program. It will help your organization manage its constituents, donations, clients, sponsors, fund-raising campaigns, and more.
There are no licensing fees associated with Delightful Labor, and no artificial limits placed on the number of users, donors, clients, or gifts you record.
We wish you success as you engage in the delightful labor of fulfilling your mission!
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Features include:
- Open-source: you are welcome to modify the program to fit your specific needs
- CRM (customer relationship management) to help you track the constituents, supporters, and businesses with whom your organization interacts
- Donation management, including
- Accounts and campaigns
- Multi-currency support
- Honorariums and memorials
- Gift Acknowledgement utilities
- Soft-cash relationships
- In-kind donations
- Personalization features – you can create tables with a variety of field types and attach them to people, businesses, sponsors, clients, etc.
- Documents and Images – you can upload documents and images for clients, sponsors, people and businesses, volunteers, etc.
- Client management – keep track of your current and past clients, manage their status, keep track of their relationships to their sponsors
- Sponsorship program management
- Supports multiple sponsorship programs
- Sponsorship payment management
- Multi-currency support
- Features to facilitate communications between sponsors and clients
- Volunteer and event management, including shift assignments and timekeeping
- A variety of reports and exports
- Support for both US and European date formats
- Importing feature for people, business, donation, and sponsorship payment records
To get the most out of Delightful Labor, you may need to get some help, especially if you want to modify the program to fit specific needs. Although it’s a web-based application, running on PHP and using MySQL, it can also run directly on one machine or on a LAN, using a localhost solution like WAMP or XXAMP.
Is this a perfect solution? No, but it’s full of potential and, in the right hands, can be modified to fit your organization really well.
Learn more, download and see how you can support this delightful project, Delightful Labor.
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