Product Transforms Grant-Making Operations, improving efficiency & driving impact
Updated July 17, 2018

Product Transforms Grant-Making Operations, improving efficiency & driving impact

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Blackbaud Grantmaking (formerly GIFTS Online)

We use Blackbaud Grantmaking to manage our philanthropic giving and corporate sponsorship process. It is used directly by various departments at the company.

Pros

  • Improves Efficiency
  • Improves Data Integrity
  • Ease of use

Cons

  • Reporting can be a little clunky when you're building advanced or highly customized reports
  • Would like to be able to automate queries
  • Would like to have "branching" ability on applications
  • Reduced administration time on grantmaking
  • System paid for itself in first year staff savings during the first year of usage
  • Continue to generate positive ROI
Also looked at YourCause, Benevity, JK Group (Now part of CyberGrants), Good Done Great, CauseCast and probably a dozen others.
The software is well suited for any corporate or Foundation client. Offers high amount of scalability, flexibility and will dramatically improve efficiency especially if you're coming from a paper based model. Easy to use and understand basic operations.

Using Blackbaud Grantmaking (formerly GIFTS Online)

6 - 

Foundation

Corporate Social Responsibility

CRA

Marketing

1 - Understanding of technology. Systems thinker. Detail orientated and understanding of how to map and operationalize processes
  • Foundation Grant Making
  • Bank Sponsorship
  • CRA compliance with Service & Investment portions of examines
  • 360 reporting with AP
  • Sponsorship Event Fulfillment
  • Complex CRA Reporting
  • Business Development Reporting
  • Leverage API for accounts payable system
  • Leverage API to link with salesforce and others sales platforms
As long as there is continued development in the product allowing us to create efficiencies, streamline operations, deliver on our reporting requirements and the usability for internal and external partners remains strong we would have no reason to look elsewhere from a systems perspective. If costs changed substantially we'd have to look at different options to meet our cost savings objectives.

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