Sage Fundraising 50

Sage Fundraising 50 (formerly Paradigm) is an affordable fundraising software option that is easy to learn, understand, and use effectively. A complete set of core fundraising and development program tools — with no-per-module extra costs — helps you reach new ground in donor acquisition, fundraising results, and operational efficiency.

Easy to Load, Learn, and Use
An intuitive interface and built-in utilities minimize the learning curve, expedite repetitive daily tasks, and help you increase productivity.  Sage Fundraising 50 is the fundraising software that is simple to install and upgrade (which helps keep consulting fees in check!) Its intuitive interface and navigation shortcuts provide quick access to a range of information about each contact or program area.  The powerful build in help system assists new and experienced users in managing the various facets of the system.  In addition, the system has the ability to memorize recurring gift payments, so the menial task of entering payments is eliminated.  To speed up processing and manual entry, the Quick Tool Set includes a dozen different daily tasks including gift entry, e-mail list creation, printing, export to Excel, and more.

Donor Acquisition and Development
Sage Fundraising 50 promotes donor acquisition, cultivation, and retention through comprehensive profiles, moves management and tickler tools, and complete communication histories.  The system allows you to set up and track key communication opportunities to develop relationships, access comprehensive demographic information for any individual, family, or organization, and review the relationships, affiliations, memberships, and history of each donor.  In addition, you can enhance the donor profiles with PDFs of photos or scanned documents, schedule and track solicitation activities for each targeted donor, and use the online fundraising software vehicle of your choice to capture web donations.

Online Gift Processing
Sage Fundraising 50 gives you the flexibility to choose any online giving service or retain the one you use currently.  You can import donor and gift information to Sage Fundraising 50 in one easy process.  You are also given the option to use either pre-built templates or edit them for PayPal, Network for Good, and other donation sites to better match your current processes.

Manage Events, Volunteers, and Members
Sage Fundraising 50 incorporates all primary development program modules for an integrated development system.  The built-in Event Management software allows a user to plan, organize, and manage all aspects of fundraising events, including maintaining comprehensive attendee or participant information, tracking expenses, and measuring the results of the fundraising.  The built-in Volunteer Management software makes keeping volunteer information a snap.  You can contact, coordinate, and manage volunteers with the system. The system can build profiles to track preferred hours, availability, and key skills and interests to match volunteers with available jobs, along with creating schedules and tracking the value of volunteered time.  In line with the volunteer profile, you can utilize the built in Membership Management, which profiles each member to track membership history, family and business relationships, member levels, renewal dates and more.  

Streamlined Gift Processing
Save time and money by managing all your programs in a single system and streamline your daily processes. Manage the entire gift solicitation, entry and acknowledgement process more efficiently, record and retain secure credit card information to automate recurring gifts, reduce mailing costs through accuracy and increased ability to use strategic information, integrate with Microsoft Outlook syncs daily tasks, calendars, and communications.  In addition it integrates with most accounting system general ledgers to avoid duplication of data entry and can record split gifts and soft credits to acknowledge shared gifts properly.

Integrated Communications
To facilitate easier handling and communication, Sage Fundraising 50 has multiple tools and options to help you.  Create targeted e-mail lists to generate personalized appeals, thank-you notes, and acknowledgements.  Use timed-delayed batching tools to increase communication effectiveness and avoid spam filters that block your mass communications.  Utilize the integration with Microsoft Outlook to display your email, calendar, and tasks lists directly from your fundraising system.  Print personalized pledge reminders, Canadian and US gift receipts, acknowledgments, and more.  Craft customized call lists or highlight instructions to guide group or volunteer activities.

Flexible Built-in Reporting
Sage Fundraising 50 gives you the tools to communicate your results in an easy to interpret fashion.  The built-in reporting that doesn't require a consultant to set up and use – it’s easy to use and to get running.  For executives, major donors and boards: Produce campaign progress reports, performance analyses, campaign results, and many more standard and custom reports.  For strategic targeting and analysis: Easily run queries to compare campaigns or years, examine levels of giving by demographics, pinpoint messaging targets, and more.

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