At 02:23 PM 8/17/2006, Dayna Aldridge wrote: >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. Blackbaud's RE is an excellent powerful program, but amounts to overkill for many smaller and mid-sized organizations which will use only 30% of RE's features. If what you really need is a bicycle, why get an SUV? I can't speak to whether your museum would be better served by PP4 than by converting to RE, but I did want to take advantage of this topic to pass along a list of free/less expensive packages that I verified as of May 2006 : Examples of lower-cost systems Donation Solutions http://www.donationsolution.com/DS/index.aspx Donor Access http://www.donoraccess.com/ Donor Perfect Online http://www.donorperfect.com/fundraisingsoftware/solutions.asp Easy Gift http://www.summit-ware.com/ Easy Ware http://www.easy-ware.com/ eTapestry (for smaller # of records) http://www.etapestry.com/ Exceed! Basic http://www.telosa.com/ Fundraiser Basic http://www.fundraisersoftware.com/ GiftWorks http://www.missionresearch.com/ LifeLine http://www.straightforwardsoftwareinc.com/ Membership Management System (MMS) http://www.linkedsoftware.com/ Freebies—use at own risk! Basic Funder http://www.jellyware.net/index.html The Compleat Angler http://www.schoolbench.com/ eBase http://www.ebase.org/ Metrix http://metrix.fcny.org/index.html Microsoft Access TEMPLATE http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/TC010185821033.aspx?Query=database&Scope=TC Salesforce.com (free for NPOs) http://www.salesforcefoundation.org/salesforce/non_profits.html Visible Results http://visibleresults.sourceforge.net/index-en.php ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).
