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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Bonterra EveryAction

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ABonterra EveryAction enables nonprofits to increase efficiency, optimize supporter and prospect interactions, and raise more money by providing expansive fundraising, digital, and organizing tools on a unified CRM.N/A

    Kindsight iWave

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AiWave offers their nonprofit fundraising intelligence platform, for performing prospect research online with VeriGift, the company's donor and donation database.N/A
    Pricing
    Bonterra EveryActionKindsight iWave
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Bonterra EveryActionKindsight iWave
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Bonterra EveryActionKindsight iWave
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    Bonterra
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    Kindsight
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
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    92%
    Would buy again
    11 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
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    92%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    86%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    79%
    Implementation went as expected
    75 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Bonterra EveryActionKindsight iWave
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    Agentforce 360 for Nonprofits
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    DonorPerfect
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    Score7.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Ellucian CRM Advance
    Score5 out of 10
    Blackbaud NetCommunity (discontinued)
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    User Ratings
    Bonterra EveryActionKindsight iWave
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (162 ratings)
    7.8
    (19 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    1.1
    (5 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    3.5
    (6 ratings)
    7.3
    (6 ratings)
    Availability
    8.7
    (154 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    8.5
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    1.9
    (8 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.1
    (151 ratings)
    -
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    Configurability
    5.7
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Ease of integration
    8.9
    (2 ratings)
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    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
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    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
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    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    Bonterra EveryActionKindsight iWave
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Bonterra
    Bonterra EveryAction is a good CRM to use if your company has institutional fundraisers, grants, and individual fundraising, as it is suited to manage the processes that go along with all of those. I've heard that SalesForce has more functionality than Bonterra EveryAction, but I think that Bonterra EveryAction has plenty to learn and is extremely useful.
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    Kindsight
    iWave is well suite for gathering a better idea of who you should focus on for major giving efforts. While it gives you a lot of good information, some of that information feels not very important and therefore, clogs up the data you actually need. iWave should not be used for something like direct mail list making. iWave seems to really be focused on the major donor aspect and it is not a tool to be used to help with regular annual giving
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    Pros
    Bonterra
    • One stop shop for creating newsletters, sending them out to mailing lists, and tracking analytics (including donations).
    • Grants management (we are able to track funds received, reports due, and all points of contact associated with a given donor organization).
    • Contact records (the new contact record feature makes it easy to find past donation history, demographic information, survey responses, communication preferences, etc. for a given contact. We are also able to import information from our donor prospect software into the contact record so everything is in one place).
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    Kindsight
    • The 360search allows you to do a comprehensive search across the multiple data sources at the same time.
    • You can stay organized during your research with the user-friendly and customizable Profiles and Labels.
    • The PROscreen ranking system allows you to get a quick snapshot of the alignment of a particular donor with your mission in an easy to read format that can be exported for another colleague with little extra explanation needed.
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    Cons
    Bonterra
    • Although Targeted Emails features is nice, I faced a lot of challenges with the formatting and editing text as a new user.
    • With forms, it would be great to have options to create as signing-up (categories are editable instead of set)
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    Kindsight
    • It's honestly tough to say what needs to be improved on a platform that I am a big fan of. The only time I am ever frustrated has more to do with the fact that some individuals are very adept at masking their charitable activities from public databases, and given that iWave can only show you what is publicly documented information I wouldn't consider that a liability of the product... rather it's a challenge of the field.
    • Some areas of improvement could include more online filtering and searching of Foundation grant histories. My current workaround is to download the entire grant history as a CSV (another good feature of iWave), and use Excel to sort and filter my results.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Bonterra
    We will never us EA, nor recommend them to another org, simply based on their failed promises to deliver training, on-boarding and then charging our account during our free 3 month period, then after cancelling the contract their legal department tried to force us to sign a cancellation agreement that barred us from writing reviews, making comments, etc!
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    Kindsight
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Bonterra
    It's just so easy--there isn't a lot of techy lingo or graphics, so a regular person can log in and have a sense of what does what. There might be a few terms you need to learn, but everything is in common English so you can almost always find what you're looking for.
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    Kindsight
    It is easy to understand and user friendly. Even the upload format for screenings is simple. You are able to alter scoring levels and layers to tailor to your organization's hierarchy. The new color scheme for Kindsight is a bit harder to see but there is workarounds by using an extension within your web browser for that
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    Reliability and Availability
    Bonterra
    The only issue I have had with availability is when I don't have my work phone with me, which prevents me from providing a multi-factor authentication code to access the portal. Other than that, I have not had an issue with availability or outages.
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    Kindsight
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Bonterra
    Will not go higher than 8 because of how often I end up locked out
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    Kindsight
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Bonterra
    I feel like product support and training should go hand in hand. Having to pay $5k to learn how to use a database is absolutely ridiculous and should be offered with the cost of your database, as it is with every other database I've ever used in the last 10 years of my career. With that being said, once I took the training, I found that the support was much more available. Having training and support behind a paywall is bad business in my opinion
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    Kindsight
    iWave customer support is more responsive than most software platforms I currently use. My requests are always handled promptly, and support is incredibly responsive, friendly, and patient. Plus, I can always get someone on the phone immediately if I need a problem resolved right then and there. In addition to the live and personal support, the iWave knowledge base is frequently update with new content, including video webinars that help you become a more powerful user of the software.
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    Online Training
    Bonterra
    They went through all the features and explained in easy-to-digest details what features the system had. They were also responsive to questions we had. We were able to check in with the support team after training and received prompt followups that helped supplement the training after we had real-world experience using the system.
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    Kindsight
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    Implementation Rating
    Bonterra
    It natively integrated with NGP Van extremely well. it also integrated very well with our zoom platform and our use of the Mobilize platform. The bulk upload feature allowed us to move large amounts of initial data into the platform easily. The removal of duplicates was also a fairly easy task.
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    Kindsight
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Bonterra
    Nation Builder—I would say this is a very pared-down version of VAN that requires extensions and outside software to do about 80% of what VAN can do natively. NB does have a better geocoding system that can geocode a location with just the address and does not require coordinates.
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    Kindsight
    iWave is affordable, offers current data, and is continually adding new data sources. They are the only product that offers international prospect information, which is helpful as our institution borders Canada. I was impressed when our sale representative went out of his way to teach me about how I could screen Canadian prospects in a way that helped us calculate an estimated real estate value for our prospects. We had no other way of getting this information as Canada does not provide the information publicly like tax assessor offices do in the United States.
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    Scalability
    Bonterra
    It just works whenever we need it. We'd grown our list and scaled up substantially since buying the product and have had no issues.
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    Kindsight
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Bonterra
    • Communicating with your audiences at a regular pace is a good thing, and Bonterra Development + Digital makes that easy enough to do. We see lower-than-normal open rates for our industry (per one study I read), but our overall reach is better than had we nothing. It's hard to give the credit for that to Bonterra Development + Digital.
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    Kindsight
    • We have consistently been able to increase our annual donations year over year since using iWave. There was an 11% increase just between our last fiscal year and the previous fiscal year.
    • Time spent on researching donors has decreased since all of the information needed is on one website rather than searching all over the internet for the information needed.
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    ScreenShots

    Bonterra EveryAction Screenshots

    Screenshot of Bonterra Que. Bonterra Que is a strategic consultant, powered by AI, built directly into EveryAction. Que helps users to raise more, simplify workflows, and save valuable staff time. It’s built right into the fundraising and engagement platform, so there are no APIs or exports required, and data stays secure. It doesn’t just advise, it acts, providing outputs based on fundraising best practices and your data, with clear logic behind every insight.Screenshot of a Contact Record. See the full story behind every supporter. EveryAction’s unified contact record gives your team a 360° view of donor and advocate history across email, mobile, giving, and engagement, providing the insight to engage more meaningfully at every stage.Screenshot of Email Campaigns. Create and launch targeted, data-driven email campaigns with ease. With built-in A/B testing, dynamic personalization, and AI-powered content suggestions, EveryAction helps you connect with the right supporters at the right time.Screenshot of Mobile Messaging. Reach supporters where they are. EveryAction’s mobile messaging tools let you send broadcast texts, automate reminders, and drive higher conversion with 98% open rates and seamless integration into your campaigns.Screenshot of Advocacy Forms. Drive impact with modern, high-performing advocacy forms. EveryAction achieves 99.6% message deliverability to legislators by prioritizing website comment forms, helping you mobilize the right supporters to take meaningful action.Screenshot of Donation Forms. Boost donor conversion with customizable, mobile-optimized donation forms. EveryAction’s forms include built-in AI to recommend ask amounts and recurring gift upgrades based on giving history, helping you increase revenue with less manual work.