Reports: Websites

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: Websites

  • The 2013 Field Guide to Software for Nonprofits
    April 2013
      How do you choose software for your nonprofit? With so many different types of software on the market, it’s difficult to even know what’s available, let alone what’s best for your organization’s particular needs. That’s why we created the Idealware Field Guide to Software for Nonprofits, a handy reference that covers all the different types of software that might be useful to you—and we just updated it for 2013.

  • What Every Nonprofit Should Know About Mobile: Lessons from Global Development Nonprofits
    October 2012
    Everybody is talking about mobile these days, and increasingly, people are spending much of their online time accessing the internet through mobile devices. What do small nonprofits need to know about mobile to make sure they're not missing out? To find out, we looked at what big global development organizations were doing successfully with mobile and translated that knowledge to a scale that small- to medium-sized organizations could replicate.

  • A Consumers Guide to Low Cost Nonprofit Content Management Systems
    October 2012
    We're proud to release our long-awaited Consumers Guide to Nonprofit Content Management Systems, in partnership with Beaconfire Consulting. It’s free to download—just register below.   Generally speaking, Content Management Systems (CMS) let you build a website that can be quickly and easily updated even by non-technical staff members.

  • Comparing Open Source CMSs: WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and Plone
    December 2010
    FULLY REVISED IN DECEMBER 2010!  We've taken our popular 2009 report comparing four free and open source systems -- WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and Plone -- that can help you to build and manage a website, and completely updated it to the newest versions of the systems. We provide both a feature summary and detailed reviews, as well as a directory of consultants. 

  • 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.  

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