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The Raiser's Edge To succeed in fulfilling your mission, there are hundreds of things you need to do. You have to build lifelong relationships with donors; demonstrate increased accountability; diversify your fundraising methods; stand out from the competition; raise more money; and decrease costs.
Luckily, those are just the type of things The Raiser’s Edge can help you accomplish.
Every nonprofit is different. Because we know that one solution does not fit all, we have developed a number of optional modules to meet your organization’s unique requirements.
Here are some specific things The Raiser’s Edge is good at:
Relationship Cultivation
- See a complete view of your relationships by recording every contact you have with prospects and donors
- Access extensive biographical and demographic information such as employment history, educational background, interests, and affiliations
- Store relevant documents, such as Microsoft® Word or Microsoft® Excel files, scanned photographs and newspaper articles, and even websites, right on the constituent record
- Ensure each touch is helping the cultivation process by easily monitoring staff and donor interaction
- Identify what works in major donor cultivation, including solicitor assignments, actions, and marketing messages
- Communicate Easily and quickly with donors by synchronizing your database with existing tools, such as Microsoft® Outlook and Microsoft® Word
Contact Management
- Record every interaction you have with prospects and donors and track activity involved while soliciting your prospects from the initial contact through cultivation
- Perform mail merges in Microsoft® Word with a single click and save letters as attachments to constituent records, so you don't have to keep printed copies
- Link scheduled activities in The Raiser's Edge to your Microsoft® Outlook calendar to ensure staff members don’t miss important prospect meetings or phone calls
- Email constituents directly from their records, and quickly email groups of constituents
- Track all the important occasions in your constituents’ lives
- Develop action tracks to standardize successful processes and let you easily push them out to your entire organization
- Create personalized acknowledgement or appeal letters so easily a volunteer can manage them
- Print mailing labels, envelopes, pledge reminders, gift receipts, acknowledgements, membership cards, and renewal notices
Diversifying Fundraising Methods
- Give donors the option of electronic, hassle-free giving on- and offline
- Implement a recurring giving program
- Plan special events and auctions
- Send personalized emails with links to online giving, event and volunteer registrations, membership opportunities, and searchable directories, using RE:NetSolutions
- Track results of every type of giving easily and efficiently and tie any type of gift to its giver
- Track and access a complete view of planned gifts using RE:PlannedGiftTracker — eliminating the need to track planned gifts in multiple systems or with difficult work-arounds
- Manage prospective planned and major givers from identification to cultivation and solicitation using RE:Search
Communication about Organizational Effectiveness
- Share information easily with major stakeholders by publishing reports and profiles directly to your website or Intranet
- Use The Raiser's Edge Dashboard to get an instant analysis on the performance of your campaigns, appeals, funds, events, proposals, membership drives, and more
- Support your decision-making with timely and meaningful information from hundreds of standard reports including campaign progress reports, comparative reports, appeals and solicitor performance reports, and up-to-the-minute cash and pledge reports
- Retrieve data from any field within The Raiser's Edge using the powerful, yet easy-to-use query tool and report writer, Crystal Reports™
- Capture and track relevant information on donors and prospects, from employment history and educational background, to relationships and affiliations
Operational Management
- Get access to your data from anywhere and a team of experts to support you each step of the way with Blackbaud OnDemand hosting applications
- Access all areas of the system that you need to use daily from one central starting point — The Raiser’s Edge Home page
- Determine the performance of your important actions instantly using centrally located dashboards
- Reduce mailing costs and processing time by using the optional postal discount facility
- Synchronize your database with existing tools, such as Microsoft® Word and Microsoft® Outlook to easily communicate with supporters and co-workers
Automating Processes
- Set up recurring queues for regular actions such as thank you letters, receipts, and reports
- Automate repetitive tasks and organize actions to manage standard processes and ensure timely follow-up
- Export and import the data you need in all standard formats
Data Security
- Eliminate time-consuming tasks and errors with automated duplicate checks
- Control which users access what data to ensure data integrity
- Protect donor information by maintaining flexible user roles that preserve confidentiality
- Select from the most powerful and dependable database providers: SQL Server® or Oracle®
- Believe in your data by enforcing consistency using business rules to set guidelines for how data is entered, updated, and used
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