Foundation Directory Online (FDO) vs Blackbaud Luminate Online

• Summarizing foundation information (contact info, funding priorities, geographic priorities, etc.) in a user-friendly format
• Recommending similar foundations based on certain criteria, this is helpful when looking for new funding opportunities
• Being able to search through organization's 990s using crtl + F

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• The donation forms are easy to set up to start collecting donations instantly.
• Getting an e-mail out the door is fairly straightforward.
• The TeamRaiser module is great for fundraising for big events with multiple registration levels and allowing participants to fundraise on your behalf.
• Constituent management is fairly easy.

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• As this platform grows, more data will be available and I'm looking forward to even further narrowed search results.

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• Email management is limited. Constituents are only able to have a primary email address and a secondary address which is only mailed to when using the CC function. Sending to the correct and preferred email address is difficult to discern and effective use in Luminate requires extensive data cleanup.
• Reports are not as user-friendly as in other programs. It has occurred multiple times where users are unsure how to get specific fields to pull in reports.
• TeamRaiser is a challenging addition to Luminate. Campaigns within it require extensive work and management.

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• We don't apply for many grants, however; we use look for resources to direct nonprofit when looking for additional funding outside of our funding process.

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• There's no denying that as a long term Convio client (now Luminate Online) that we have significantly grown our NPO with these tools. And our ROI is in the positive range.
• The negative impact has been the cost of related services we must engage to configure and maintain and deploy many areas of Luminate Online with a small staff. There is just too much "specialized," insider-work-around knowledge to make it a stand-alone product without large additional costs to use the product to it's full potential.
• This product used to set the trends and now it holds us back from being able to take advantage of the trends in many ways. An integrated system can become a limitation in this current social web environment. Staff coming in from outside the Luminate/Convio environment often complain about the system because they are used to the "ease-of-use" of many of today's offerings in the marketplace.

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