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    Convio Luminate (discontinued)

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AConvio Luminate was a nonprofit CRM option acquired by Blackbaud that is currently discontinued, and no longer available.N/A

    Foundant Grant Lifecycle Manager

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AWith Foundant GLM, users can create, launch and receive online applications and grant reports, manage online proposal reviews, and manage grants and information from a single, integrated solution from anywhere they have internet access.N/A
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Convio Luminate (discontinued)Foundant Grant Lifecycle Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    5.0
    (2 ratings)
    3.0
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    Support Rating
    1.0
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    User Testimonials
    Convio Luminate (discontinued)Foundant Grant Lifecycle Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    It does great with donor cultivation processes and the workflow feature is top-notch for automating processes. Where it does a less than stellar job is getting it to work more specifically for your organization. Often times building that kind of special feature costs a significant time and money investment and it is something that is hard to transfer when it's time to move to a new database.
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    Foundant Technologies
    From where I stand, GLM is well-suited for use by small-staffed charitable foundations who make more than thirty (30) grants a year and distribute more than $500,000 in funds to non-profits. The software is able to handle every step in the grant-making process from receipt of a request, to the evaluation and decision regarding the grant, to tracking the pay-out, and to closing the grant when the work or the year is completed.
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    Pros
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    • Luminate takes some of the legwork out of setting up NSPS for nonprofit use of salesforce.
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    Foundant Technologies
    • Foundant provides a streamlined grants management solution for reasonable cost.
    • The company listens to its users, collecting ideas and making improvements. Updates to the software are rolled out several times a year. When something cannot be changed right away, the company gives context and forecasts when the change might be possible.
    • While the software is easy to use, it also offers more advanced features (such as merge templates) that allow more customization for the advanced user.
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    Cons
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    • Big Investment
    • It's a sales program with a donation management overlay so it has some troubles around reporting.
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    Foundant Technologies
    • Need a smother process for third party responses. Currently individuals recommending more than one student for scholarships have many emails to deal with to find the correct link to upload the correct student's letter.
    • Questions that would filter which applications the applicant would apply for.
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    Support Rating
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    Support for the product is horrible; often support will have you bouncing between Blackbaud support and Salesforce support and it's very rare either are able to find simple solutions. Most of the time the solutions almost always cost money and hiring consultants which, for a smaller organization, means not being able to achieve proper solutions.
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    Foundant Technologies
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    Of the databases I have used, Luminate CRM is my least favorite. However, it is powerful and large enough to function adequately for a large nonprofit; I couldn't say the same for some of Blackbaud's smaller products. We definitely need the full Luminate Suite (Luminate Online, Team Raiser, etc.,) to make it work, though - and we're constantly disappointed by the clumsiness of the way all the pieces interact.
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    Foundant Technologies
    I have not used other online grantmaking products or evaluated others. I used to use MicroEdge Gifts, but not the online application version. It was a stand alone management system. This is hands-down better, easier to use and a more complete system
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    Return on Investment
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    • Uncertain; we have not collected data on this. Our Luminate package is quite expensive, though.
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    Foundant Technologies
    • Positive customer service--fairly easy to use for applicants.
    • Positive--easy to run reports you have already set up, so [it] saves time.
    • Negative--limited question types makes it harder to gather the data we want to track.
    • Negative--our budget is more complex than can be tracked in Foundant, so we have to use a separate program.
    • Negative--we have to track potential grantee conversations in a separate program.
    • Negative--getting data ready to display in a dashboard takes a lot of time to manipulate in Excel.
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