Blackbaud invites the user to manage and improve your funding and giving process with Blackbaud FIMS, a single, customizable foundation management software solution.
It is based on the former MicroEdge FIMS product.
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Bright Funds
Score 8.8 out of 10
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Bright Funds, headquartered in Oakland, helps companies of all sizes multiply their impact through their eponymous corporate social responsibility platform. For nearly a decade, Bright Funds has been connecting people to purpose with their employee giving, volunteering and grants management solution.
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Blackbaud FIMS
Bright Funds
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Blackbaud FIMS
Bright Funds
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
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The standard cost for Bright Funds is just $2 per employee month on a monthly or annual subscription.
It is a very robust system and with the various modules you can accomplish much of what is needed for traditional transaction US-based grantmaking. If you have more complicated grantmaking, deal with foreign currencies or want to have tighter alignment of finance and budget numbers, GIFTS may not meet your needs. Additionally, some of their core projects have limited accessibility in terms of various mobile devices or access from outside the organization's network.
If any organisation is looking for a good platform for the corporate social responsibility I think bright fund is one of the good Platform for this. Organizations can trust on this as they are in to all types of work where India needs to get improved like they are helping the children's for education and giving opportunity to learn and Excel in their career also they are making it possible with the Government of States to empower the women's in the rural part they are helping a people in the health care sectors and also rescuing the children's from child labours prostitutions human trafficking etc
No kid is hungry policy is also very good to acknowledge.
Providing a clean and hygienic water in the rural part also supporting The Peoples in response to covid 19 and also
In other way that impacting the lives of humans and children's in country
While GIFTS Classic is the most barren interfaces of all MicroEdge products, there are some simple capabilities I wish GIFTS could still perform such as better email integration from outlook to a GIFTS request, more efficient requirement reminders, and a wider use of Microsoft Office and other external product integration (GuideStar).
It's disappointing that you have to purchase an additional "Customizer Module" or "Budget Module" in order to access basic functions of a GMS. This seems like a basic system function that MicroEdge takes advantage of, unfortunately.
The online application module (IGAM) is still quite antiquated and you have to be knowledgeable of basic HTML in order to really customize your organization's online application. More flexibility and design functions would be greatly appreciated with the online application function, especially since this is a public document and represents your organization.
I typically receive a response to an inquiry within an hour or two, if not sooner. Most tech support people are knowledgeable about our problems, and if not, they will escalate to the proper person.
It is really a matter of priority. I can see situations where GIFTS Classic is a very strong option! Once an organization determines its priorities then it should definitely consider GIFTS to see how well it compares with mission critical functionality.
According to me Bright Funds is the most approved software for the social responsibility services to the world. Because it is one in all platform for the employees donations and volunteering. Again it costs low and transparent pricing which gives the best trustworthiness
Reporting was difficult on GIFTS - often we had to place data into Excel by hand since we could not create simple customized reports. This increased time spent on tasks GIFTS was supposed to streamline.
GIFTS did not alert us to duplicated organization records, so often it was difficult to reflect an organization's full grant history to our Board of Directors, leading to employees spending time searching through paper records to make sure all information was properly reported.
GIFTS created duplicate contact records, meaning it was difficult to find out which contact was related to which organization and cluttered our data. This caused decreased processing and response time to "new" contacts who turned out to be previous contacts or contacts whose information was tied to previous organizations. Even when contact information was updated for a new organization, sometimes the program would revert to the first organization contact information, several times leading to checks cashed to incorrect organizations---the very worst consequence of using GIFTS to our organization. Thankfully, the money was recovered upon the few times that error occurred, but it led to me and other employees reading through out 800+ checks before issue to make sure the correct organization was in fact being rewarded.
