Reports: Managing Constituents

Our thoroughly-researched reports compare products and give recommendations to help you make smart software decisions. Idealware’s reports typically start with a high-level overview of the software landscape for a specific purpose, and then detail the benefits and drawbacks of specific software vendors for your organization’s needs. And don’t worry, our funding model (and integrity) ensures that our reports remain unbiased. 

Reports: Managing Constituents

  • Consumers Guide to Integrated Software for Community Foundations
    January 2012
     

  • A Consumers Guide to Grants Management Software
    October 2011
    Completely updated in 2011, the free 183-page Consumers Guide to Grants Management  looks at the features and processes used by 22 grants management systems to help private foundations accept and review applications and track grants throughout their life cycles. 

  • A Consumers Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems
    June 2011
    FULLY UPDATED IN 2011, including all-new reviews and new products!

  • Consumers Guide to Volunteer Management Systems
    May 2011
     Volunteer-based organizations have to keep track of a lot of data—for example, contact info, schedules, time sheets and job sites—and the right software can help, freeing time for managing volunteers. There are a number of products out there to help, but it’s surprisingly hard to find information about them.  This report is geared to remedy that!

  • The 2011 Field Guide to Software for Nonprofits
    March 2011
    What types of software should your nonprofit be using? It’s hard to even know what exists, let alone what is best for you. The fully updated and expanded 2011 Field Guide covers more than 20 new types of software, including entirely new sections on Collaboration and Back Office software. It’s 30 percent more information than the last version, for the same low price!

  • Do You Need a New Donor Management System? A Step-by-Step Decision Making Workbook
    March 2011
      Without an effective system to track donors and other constituents, you can spend too much time just trying to figure out who to contact and miss out on many fundraising opportunities. But switching to a new system can be time consuming and sometimes costly. So how do you know if you should switch, or stick with what you have?

  • Streamlining Online Grant Applications: A Review of Vendors
    April 2010
    Online grant application systems can be a timesaver for all involved—or they can cause grantseekers and grantmakers hours of unnecessary frustration.  Streamlining Online Grant Applications: A Review of Vendors evaluates seven different vendors against a set of essential and gold standard features for online applications and reporting, to help grantmakers identify the best systems to support their grantmaking.  

  • Getting Your Systems Talking: A Framework to Evaluate APIs and Data Exchange Features
    December 2007
    How can you assess the features that a software package offers to provide access to your data? In this report, Paul Hagen and Laura Quinn provide an evaluation framework that will help weigh the advantages and trade-offs of the data integration features across different applications.This Idealware report was written in partnership with NTEN, and with generous sponorship by Beaconfireand Jacobson Consulting Applications.

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