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What is Bonterra Guided Fundraising?
Bonterra Guided Fundraising offers a nonprofit fundraising suite of applications, with donor management features like intelligent tracking of donor readiness and targeted messaging.
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We create our event pages, utilize the email blasts, add and manage all our donors, and create reports. It is …
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We want to grow and succeed with tech
Easy to Use Customer Management System
Rebuilding post-pandemic with help from Network for Good
Bonterra has improved our fundraising efforts 1000%
Foundation living in the past moves to more productive future.
Great Service!
Network for Good lives up to the promise of its name
Network for Good is GREAT for our nonprofit!
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What is Bonterra Guided Fundraising?
Bonterra Guided Fundraising offers a nonprofit fundraising suite of applications, with donor management features like intelligent tracking of donor readiness and targeted messaging.
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What is Bonterra Guided Fundraising?
Built for small and growing nonprofits, Guided Fundraising is designed to help the user become a better fundraiser. The solution combines donor management, communication tools, and online fundraising features, in one integrated software. Plus, onboarding, customer service, and data migration are included.
- Nonprofits who utilized Guided Fundraising video messages raised 32% more than those who didn't
- Guided Fundraising customers see an average donor retention of 49%
Feature highlights: guided approach | all-in-one software | virtual, hybrid, in-person events | auctions | fundraising coaches
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Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
Supported Languages | English |
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(1-25 of 65)This is the catalyst for growth we needed!
- Tracking giving
- Building relationships with donors
- Intuitive communications creation
- Would like clearer direction for how to handle opt outs from email
- Would like options to have people opt out of "types" of email rather than email in general
- Would love info on where and how to get grants
Great product features
- Ability to create an online campaign
- Email blasts to donors
- Tracking of progress with the dashboard
- Sometimes when creating an e-mail blast the bar that pops up with features is in the way of the content I am creating and it's hard to get it move out of the way.
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We create our event pages, utilize the email blasts, add and manage all our donors, and create reports. It is straightforward to make our emails and event pages.
Some of the problems we have encountered:
Some have to do with reporting; it is confusing. You can't create a tax letter with all the donations of the year in a simple way. Whenever you have to delete a ticket holder and make a donor, it creates a lot of confusion and problems. The font size and format are not very user-friendly whenever we create a page.
- General creation of event pages
- General creation of blast emails
- Adding and editing donors
- Reporting
- Event page - fonts and fields
- Groups and filters
Less suited for more prominent non-profits.
- Year End Closing guidelines
- Event Fundraising options and guidelines
- Reports on every aspect of your data
- Easy to use email blasts
- Faster response for questions
- On line raffle function
- A cheaper auction function for small nonprofits
For small nonprofits, the cost is prohibited. The function is great but any nonprofit with less than $75-100K cannot afford this system
We want to grow and succeed with tech
- I can talk to my current donors monthly, or weekly. The software makes it possible.
- I can upload pictures that tell the stories
- I can ask techs questions and they reponse
- I would like to send emails to lapse donors, and the present system slows me down
Easy to Use Customer Management System
- Easy to customize email/newsletter formats
- Financial donor data is helpful
- The ability to send a thank you to a donor directly from the "giving" acknowledgment is fantastic.
- It would be nice to receive the donations in the same month that they are made. At the present time, you have to wait until the 15th of the following month.
- The peer to peer fundraising options are a little clunky
- Using Donate Now function to receive disbursement information is clunky
Rebuilding post-pandemic with help from Network for Good
- Customer/donor management
- Training is too drawn out
- More information on the details of transferring existing contact information
- Customer service is slow and poorly done.
Bonterra has improved our fundraising efforts 1000%
- It helps to manage all donors
- We are able to acknowledge all donors
- We are able to keep track of all money being raised
- Be more communicative to users outside of just letting us know about donations recieved
- Provide more detailed workshops on specific services
- Provide an email summary of monthly activity, including donations, acknowledgements, etcetera.
Foundation living in the past moves to more productive future.
- collate information
- quick analysis of donor information
- fundraising platform
- quick customer service
- ways to contact donors if they do not have an email address
- importing contacts be cumbersome if not formatted right
- N/A
Network for Good is GREAT for our nonprofit!
- creating mass emails, texts, newsletters
- keeping track of donor status, donations
- creating ticketed fundraisers
- More webinars on using NFG effectively
If You Want Good, Go With Network For Good
- Donor Management Tracking
- Filters for lists
- Contact Info
- Notes Section
- Email Marketing Campaign Layout SImplified
- Work profiles on contacts
Network for Good for Non-Profits
- Donation Tracking
- Mass Email campaigns
- Direct Mail campaigns
- Thank you Letters.
- Fundraising Campaigns
- Being able to print out email campaign. letter.
With Network for Good, you can track group communication & see the statistics, for example, of emails delivered, opened or deleted. You can resend an email to only those who didn’t open it the first time.
It makes it much easier to communicate with our donors with options to text, email, text a video, find an address for a letter. It’s all in one place. Mahalo NUI to Network for Good & our Coach John Gilchrist!
- Fundraising coaching
- Options to communicate w/donors
- Tracking giving & communication for individual donors
- Connecting household members
We didn’t need a huge system, but something that could track over a thousand donors/volunteers with room for more & also is user-friendly.
It would have been amazing to have this product from day one of our organization!
No Need to Invent the Wheel!
- Campaign totals
- Tracks donors
- Reporting
- Communication with donors
- I know there are areas in Network for Good we don't use at our Non-profit and there may be areas that can improve, but the resources we utilize are easy enough to follow.
Everything you need in one place - Network For Good!
- NFG eliminates the need for other systems to handle monthly emails or newsletters.
- Designations feature works perfectly for our needs.
- Donors' ability to create passwords and log in to manage their credit card information or review donations is appreciated.
- Monthly donations are supported.
- User-friendly forms and the ability to include videos.
- Excellent communication and support.
- For the default footer in acknowledgments, the phone number is not included and we are unable to add the phone number.
- In My Tasks, the order of tasks changes every time I delete a task. It would be helpful if they stayed in the order I entered them so I could find the task I am looking for easier.
- When I view a sent email, there is an option to resend it, BUT I cannot edit the email before I resend.
- It is great to be able to schedule email blasts to a group of people. But I would like to be able to send an acknowledgment to a first time donor and then schedule a "new donor welcome email" to go out to this individual donor at a later date.
Grow Your Small Nonprofit
- Tracks and classifies donor participation
- Provides communication templates
- Responds quickly to requests for assistance
- Networks with other nonprofits
- Provides multiple services in one site
- Serves as a donor platform- acknowledges receipt of donations
- Serves as a repository of important 990 information re; donor appeals. Etc.
- Provides mechanism for immediate feedback to and from attendees at events
- Sometimes the site feels too busy on the administrator - there is a lot to track. Requires serious attention from the site administrator
- It would be helpful to interface all contacts even from other programs with our network for Good Platform automatically.
- I would make direct deposit the automatic default for receipt of funds
Great comprehensive event planning site - bringing a suite of online support services and pre/post event follow-ups. We used it most recently for out annual program gala and age now in the process of using it to weave the gala seamlessly into our ongoing project and program avyibotird.
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- Timely Communication
- Helpful Customer Service
- Friendly Staff
- Adding more functions to use besides for fundraising
- Creating email blasts from scratch
This user rates Network For Good 10/10!
- Top-notch customer service! The Network For Good team is responsive, genuinely courteous, and knowledgeable about the product.
- Communication options are available for all donor preferences, from good old-fashioned direct mail to email, text, and video. And all are easy to use!
- Creating forms for surveys and other data capturing is very easy, as is construction of reports on donors and donations for management use.
- Love the format options and drag-and-drop functionality -- including embedding videos -- for newsletters and email engagements.
- Would love to be able to modify my dashboard to graph and chart the campaigns and designations I want to see. I don't understand the algorithms behind what is served up for display. For instance, would like to be able to separate members from donors on the dashboard.
- Would like to see the donation refund process an online process.
- When cloning a form, such as for a survey, would like to be able to change a question or field without having it affect prior forms.
We definitely traded up!
- We imported the last six years of data and were able to reach out to people who hadn't been contacted in that amount of time (thank you, "Lapsed Donor" indication), reviving the relationship and receiving new donations.
- It's so easy to dash off a quick personalized thank you to event participants when they buy through a NFG link -- we don't generally send individual thanks to people who purchase tickets since they don't always purchase through us, so it's nice to be able to do that easily when they do.
- I'm a visual person so I appreciate the graphs and charts--they are gratifying!
- I wish there was a field where I could enter a main contact person for an organization without that person having to already be an individual contact-- some of these organizations change responsible parties all the time
- It would be nice to be able to merge campaigns. I had created one and entered some donations manually. Then I imported a bunch more and named it the same, assuming they would go into the existing campaign. But they did not, and I ended up with two campaigns of the same name, had to move them all manually and then delete the one I had emptied.
- I'm not crazy about in-kind donations values being lumped into funds raised, since we don't actually realize the dollar value on many of those.
Makes time for fun fundraising!
- Organized database with good details and prompts for complete files
- Tabulates reports of donors daily and over time
- Makes the organization more transparent to all stakeholders
- Helps with lapsed donors
- Reminds staff of fundraising deadlines
- Individual contact listing being required before the company or business causes some business to be dropped if the individual leaves the business
- when you have a donor who donated both as a business and as an individual sometimes one or the other does not come up in the listing when you search for an amount for the year
- FaceBook donations being identified by at least who did the fundraiser, not the donors. I do a birthday fundraiser every year for Caring Carroll and there is no indication that it came from me. The money comes in but we do not know where it came from who held the fundraiser.
- The fact that the FaceBook donations go into our Network for Good database before we even have the money is confusing.
It is user friendly. With the prompts throughout the entry, even a volunteer can do the data entry.
- You can create donor surveys to use
- Tracking through clicks, conversion rates, location and many other ways to track donors
- You can connect your campaign to google ads
- Showing users how to download things from the database
- Allowing mailing labels to be created from the database
However, if you all ready have a strategic fundraising database this might not be the ideal software for you.
Great Donor management system for small Non-profits
- NFG offers At-a-glance donor snapshots
- easy reporting with NFG
- ease of email eblasts
- ease of multi-channel marketing
- We'd like to add grantors into the system but exclude them where appropriate
- do not like that ticket holders and sponsors are not treated as donors
- Lapsed donors usually is accurate but double entry or donors creates confusion
Specialized software that saves soooo much time!!
- Offer templates for fundraising emails
- Keeping donor history
- Tracking over all donations
- Tracking the effectiveness of different fundraising campaigns
- Customer service
- The only thing that I can think of is the price. For a small rural non-profit, the expense so far, outweighs the income.
- They downloaded my contacts into their system with a variety of categories at no extra charge
- The templates and fundraising ideas
- The ability to set up a variety of campaigns that I can run in various places; email, social media, live events
- The analytics. I think they have thought of everything in this category!
- Improved Customer communication
- Fund Raising Campaigns and Graphs
- Data Entry tasks are valuable, especially at volunteer level
- We now have a newsletter that we don't have to mail out.
- Improved graphics for board meetings and committees
- Importing and Exporting documents could be easier
- Allow us to upload a newsletter to send out to customers via email
From Blackbaud etapestry to Network for Good
- User friendliness / common sense
- Provides answers to common questions well
- Makes it very easy to run specific reports
- Data importing
- Timed entry feature for events
- Data cleanup resources
- Allowing emails to be used on multiple accounts (business & individual)
- Importing templates from other systems (Constant Contact)
- Scan business cards to be uploaded