Sage Fundraising 50 (formerly Paradigm)

Designed for value-conscious nonprofits, Sage MIP Fundraising 50 (formerly Paradigm) is the affordable fundraising option that is easy to learn, understand, and use effectively. A complete set of core fundraising and development program tools — with no-per-module extra costs — to help you reach new ground in donor acquisition, fundraising results, and operational efficiency.

Easy to Load, Learn, and Use

An intuitive interface and built-in utilities minimize the learning curve, expedite repetitive daily tasks, and help you increase productivity:

• Simple to install and upgrade - keep consulting fees in check.
• Intuitive interface and navigation shortcuts provide quick access to a range of information about each contact or program area.
• Built-in system "Help" keeps new users learning fast.
• Recurring gift payments automatically recalled for fast processing.
• Quick Tool Set speeds a dozen different daily tasks including gift entry, e-mail list creation, printing, export to Excel, and more.

Donor Acquisition and Development

Sage Fundraising 50 promotes donor acquisition, cultivation, and retention through comprehensive profiles, moves management and tickler tools, and complete communication histories.

• Set up and track key communication opportunities to develop relationships.
• Access comprehensive demographic information for any individual, family, or organization.
• Review the relationships, affiliations, memberships, and history of each donor.
• Enhance profiles with PDFs of photos or scanned documents.
• Schedule and track solicitation activities for each targeted donor.
• Use the online fundraising vehicle of your choice to capture web donations.

Online Gift Processing

Sage Fundraising 50 gives you the flexibility to choose any online giving service or retain the one you use currently.

• Import donor and gift information to Sage Fundraising 50 in one easy process.
• Edit pre-built templates for PayPal, Network for Good, and others to better match your current processes.

Manage Events, Volunteers, Members

Sage Fundraising 50 integrates all primary development program modules for an integrated development system.

• Built-in Event Management software — Plan, organize, and manage all aspects of fundraising events. Maintain comprehensive attendee or participant information, track expenses, and measure the results.
• Built-in Volunteer Management software — Contact, coordinate, and manage volunteers. Build profiles to track preferred hours, availability, and key skills and interests to match volunteers with available jobs. Create schedules and track value of volunteered time.
• Built in Membership Management — Profile each member to track membership history, family and business relationships, member levels, renewal dates and more.
• Sage Fundraising 50 is an excellent option for organizations that need affordable volunteer management software or special event management software.

Streamlined Gift Processing

Save time and money by managing all your programs in a single system and streamline your daily processes:

• Manage the entire gift solicitation, entry and acknowledgement process more efficiently.
• Record and retain secure credit card information to automate recurring gifts.
• Reduce mailing costs through accuracy and increased ability to use strategic information.
• Integration with Microsoft Outlook synchs daily tasks, calendars, and communications.
• Integrates with most accounting system general ledgers to avoid duplication of data entry.
• Record split gifts and soft credits to acknowledge shared gifts properly.

Integrated Communications

A range of email, mail merge and other communications tools that work directly in the system.

• Target your e-mail lists to create personalized appeals, thank-you notes, and acknowledgements.
• Use timed-delayed batching tools to increase communication effectiveness and avoid spam filters that block your mass communications.
• Use the integration with Microsoft Outlook to display your email, calendar, and tasks lists directly from your fundraising system.
• Print personalized pledge reminders, Canadian and US gift receipts, acknowledgments, and more.
• Create customized call lists or highlight instructions to guide group or volunteer activities.

Flexible Built-in Reporting

Data is only helpful if can you find, extract, and present it effectively. Sage Fundraising 50 gives you the tools to communicate your results and demonstrate good stewardship.

• Built-in reporting that doesn't require a consultant to set up and use.
• For executives, major donors and boards: Produce campaign progress reports, performance analyses, campaign results, and many more standard and custom reports.
• For strategic targeting and analysis: Easily run queries to compare campaigns or years, examine levels of giving by demographics, pinpoint messaging targets, and more.

Customization for your Needs

Sage Fundraising 50 provides many levels of flexibility to tailor the system to reflect your preferences and needs

• Track online gifts.
• Set up customized user views with the fields you rely on most.
• Add fields and tables to easily get the reports you want.
• Customize reports and dashboards without expensive consulting or professional help.

Sage Fundraising 50 is an excellent option for nonprofits that need integrated and affordable volunteer management software and event management software.

Download a Sage Fundraising 50 specifications sheet

Donor Management
Develop and maintain profiles of your donors and contributors, track giving amounts and personal demographics, and target future requests.

Campaign Management Tools
Plan and manage simple appeals or simultaneous, multiple campaigns, target solicitations, and maximize the rate and level of your response. Access your campaign status online, and track and report on each activity’s cost-per-dollar-raised.

Gift and Pledge Tracking & Receipting
Track giving results with advanced gift and pledge management tools. Record and retain detailed information for all gift types and pledges.

Memberships Management
Profile each member and instantly access information regarding each constituent’s joining date, with whom they have relationships, and when they need to renew their membership. Track renewals, lapsed, and dropped members.

Fundraising Event Management
Plan, organize, and manage all aspects of fundraising events. Coordinate the event and activity planning, invitations and responses, registration and attendance, guest information, and seating.

Gift Matching
Identify possible matching gift opportunities and track relationships between employers and constituents to take advantage of all contributions.

Honor/Memory Notification (Tributes)
Track all gifts made in honor or memory of an individual. Use reporting capabilities that properly acknowledge the donor and honoree and notify the family members.

Contact Management
Maintain and track the status of your donor contacts including solicitations, invitations, and correspondence. Set reminders about upcoming proposal steps and deadlines.

Volunteer Management
Coordinate your volunteer work force using profiles to track preferred hours, availability, key skills, and interests to match volunteers to available jobs.

Communication Management
Create personalized thank-you notes and acknowledgements, merge constituent data into customized letters, send e-mails to reduce mailing costs, and print customized pledge reminders.

Reporting
Produce campaign and progress reports, performance analyses, and results. Run queries to compare campaigns or years, examine levels of giving by demographics, and identify messaging targets.

System Features
Manage your constituent database for efficient and accurate data mining. Integrate your accounting interface with Sage MIP Fund Accounting, import data with import/export tools, and use the duplicate check and merge/purge utility to check your data and merge duplicate records.

Sage Fundraising 50 Sample Reports

Campaign Overview
Comparison Report by Purpose
Analytic Report - Comparison by State/Province
Constituent Reports - Constituent Call List
Financial Summary - Campaign Gifts by Giving Level
Financial Reports - Honor/Memory Gifts

Sample reports are in Adobe Acrobat Reader format (.pdf). Click here to go to the Adobe Web site to install the free Acrobat Reader