Today at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Washington DC, Rem Hoffmann of Exponent Partners is unveiling a joint venture between our respective companies to deliver hosted web solutions integrated with Salesforce.com and specially configured for nonprofit organizations.
Key features include:
+ Hosted, On-Demand Content Management System
+ Membership Management
+ Pay Pal Integration for processing donations and memberships
+ Event Management
+ Recruitment
+ Email Marketing and Campaign Management
+ Published Performance and Outcomes
http://www.exponentpartners.org/ is a pre-built site template that demonstrates some of these features.
The "Published Performance and Outcomes" feature is a significant one, in my opinion.
Rem is an expert at helping NPOs define their goals, devise plans to achieve those goals, and measure the outcomes. I know from personal experience that I'm much more comfortable donating money to organizations that have some level of transparency when publishing their operational expenses or achievements.
But quantifying these measures and publishing them to a web site can be difficult, and the costs associated with implementing the technology to support this level of transparency can often exceed the actual benefits received.
That's why I'm really excited about this solution. It enables a free and open dialogue between donors, members, volunteers, employees, and board members using an affordable on-demand platform. The content management system dynamically displays information configured in Salesforce in real-time. Web content, such as press releases and events, is managed directly from Salesforce.
If you're in Washington DC for the NTEN conference, please do stop by the Salesforce booth and ask for Rem. He'd be happy to give you a hands on demonstration.
Online donations are integrated with Salesforce Pricebooks. Pre-define multiple donation levels or let donors enter their own. Integrated with PayPal, which supports both credit card and PayPal processing. Completed PayPal transactions result in Salesforce Opportunity records.
Support for recurring donations and membership subscriptions.
Define events in Salesforce for publication in the web site. Manage event attendees, email auto-responders and event alert reminders.
