[Hidden-tech] nonprofit CRM

[Matt Lampiasi]

Hi

to clarify this a little as that's not entirely true,

SugarCRM has what i consider a beautiful product for small bus and 
nonprofits: paid commerical support for the free open source version. 
this yearly subscription is modestly priced and includes the word, 
outlook and thunderbird plugins (and support). I signed up for it a 
couple years ago and am pleased. You can host the open source version on 
a local ISP for $10 to $20 monthly or use the open source version on 
your own modest Linux server (and older P4 works very well). look at 
their website, lots of pricing and hosting options.  sugarcrm is growing 
like crazy and sometimes you have to shout to be heard from support, 
fortunately its not needed often.

the professional version of sugar does have features not in the open 
source version, though i dont know what they are offhand, i only ran 
into that once and I forget what it was.



Don Lesser wrote:
>
> I am working with a couple of clients using Sugar CRM. So far, no big 
> gotchas. The base model is free, the Professional, which has a module 
> that links to Outlook, costs. Sugar hosts it for a per-user license 
> and a monthly charge. We are also working with Atlas TC in Holyoke, 
> who also hosts the Professional for slightly less than Sugar. 
> www.sugarcrm.com <http://www.sugarcrm.com> and www.atlastc.com 
> <http://www.atlastc.com>.
>
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> *From*: "Doug Wheat" <wheat.doug at gmail.com>
> *Sent*: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 12:52 PM
> *To*: Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net
> *Subject*: [Hidden-tech] nonprofit CRM
>
> I volunteer with a small local land trust that would like to update 
> its membership database software to a CRM type application.  We have a 
> small membership, about 300 people.  I would like to move to an online 
> database so that several of our board members can access the 
> information.  In addition to tracking membership, renewals, and 
> individual donations we would like to continue to track volunteers for 
> projects and to be able to email members.  Of course we would like to 
> keep our costs low and have something that is simple to use.  After 
> scouting around the web I identified Wild apricot, salesforce.com 
> <http://salesforce.com/>, and etapestry as potential solutions 
> (although Wild apricot seems a bit expensive).  Does anyone have 
> experience with any of these applications for small nonprofits?  Any 
> other suggestions are appreciated as well.
>  
> Happy Thanksgiving.
>  
> Doug Wheat
> Florence, MA
>
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