We just started using Rasiers Edge and it is the top of the line 
development program. That being said, it is also an expensive program.

One program I had experience using in the past was Paradigm 
(http://www.sagenonprofit.com/products/fundraising/paradigm/). I haven't 
worked with it in over two years, but it was a very capable program in 
it own right. I seem to remember our development director commenting 
that it was second only to Rasiers Edge in quality, but significantly 
less in price. Again, this was two years and another museum ago.

Paul Fritz
Technology and Museum Services
Pamplin Historical Park

Katherine McLeister wrote:
> Dayna:
> We are a small museum, archive and historical society who uses Past 
> Perfect 3.5. This version also includes a membership and donation 
> module. I don't know anything about Raiser's Edge, but Past Perfect 
> has been just fine for entering and tracking our Annual Fund donations 
> and membership dues. It allows you to pick the donor name from the 
> names already entered in Past Perfect and then links the donation to 
> that record. This save the time of retyping the contact info and will 
> allow you to see at a glance when/how much that person has donated. 
> You can print Thank You letters from the donation record. You can also 
> print time frame and/or fund specific reports.
> I believe if you contact Past Perfect they may send you a trail 
> version software on CD-ROM (or maybe download from the website). This 
> would give you a good idea what the module looks like and how it 
> works. Then you can decide if it meets your needs.
> Kathy McLeister
> Theatre Historical Society of America
> 152 N York St, 2nd Fl
> Elmhurst, IL 60126
> www.historictheatres.org <http://www.historictheatres.org/>
>
>
> */Dayna Aldridge <[log in to unmask]>/* wrote:
>
>     I work at a small museum which currently uses an old version of
>     PastPerfect
>     for our collections database. We also use a program called
>     GiftMaker Pro
>     from Campaign Associates for tracking donation, mailing lists,
>     memberships,
>     etc. The company that produces GiftMaker has recently been bought
>     out by
>     another company called Blackbaud, and will soon be forced to start
>     using
>     Blackbaud’s software Raiser’s Edge. The conversion to this new
>     fundraising
>     software will be several thousand dollars, which is very
>     significant for a
>     museum of our size. It has recently come to my attention that Past
>     Perfect
>     v4.0 has fundraising and membership features included. While I
>     doubt that
>     the development modules in Past Perfect will be as intricate as
>     those in
>     GiftMaker, I am hoping that they may be adequate for a small
>     institution
>     such as mine. I am looking for feedback from anyone who has used
>     these
>     features in PastPerfect, and especially anyone who has used both
>     PastPerfect 4 and GiftMaker. Thank you for your assistance.
>
>     Dayna Aldridge,
>     Membership Coordinator
>     USS Constellation Museum
>
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