CRM
The Nonprofit Data Ecosystem: How Does Your Data Flow?
Flickr Photo by HappysmurfdayOver the past couple of years, we've released reports on Donor Management Software, Content Management Systems, and CRMs. As we prepped to conduct the 2009 Constituent Relationship Management Survey and Report, we started to think more deeply about how to define a CRM, how to categorize the increasing number of software systems on the market, and what would be the best way for NTEN to bring an objective, useful report to the nonprofit sector to help you make better-informed software decisions.
After some good conversations with NTEN Members and consultants who have their heads in these systems, we began thinking about the links -- or the missing ones -- between the different systems nonprofits use to track any number of tasks on a daily basis.
Hot off the Presses! A Consumer's Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems
That's
right: We can run a major conference AND release a major report! We're
THAT good! Thanks to our fab partners, Idealware, we're releasing the Consumer's Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems.
The Consumers Guide provides you the unbiased comparative information you need to narrow down your choices in a fundraising system. The information is divided into two reports—the actual Consumers Guide, which provides summaries and recommendations across all 33 of the systems we reviewed, and the Detailed Reviews, which provide the detailed evaluations of twelve specific systems.
This Idealware report was written in partnership with NTEN, and with generous sponorship by NPower.
Michelle Murrain, 
Choosing a CRM can be frustrating and overwhelming. With so many choices and so little time to research all the options, many of us rely heavily on the recommendations of our peers to cut through the noise and provide some insight. 
