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Hosted Applications for Non-profit Organization
November 14, 2005 |
Many non-profit organizations do not have the IT expertise and resources to develop & maintain their ‘business applications’ that are central to their operations. A Salesforce.com or Micrsoft ‘Live’ would be a perfect way to go for them.
Here are some of the features a small to medium sized non-profit would require:
- Web hosting - every organization needs to have a web front
- Accounting - general ledger
- Accounts - Sister non-profit organizations, partners etc.
- Contact management - donors, volunteers, sponsors (personal, corporate), receipients
- Project management - funding projects
- Fund management - donations (cash v.s. non-cash),
- Campaign management - track and manage fund-raising campaigns
- Marketing function - newsletter, etc.
- Analytics - reporting
- Offline, Mobile - sync
And how big of an impact this offering will have? According to Johns Hopkins Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project, The nonprofit sector is a major economic force in the world.
In the 26 countries for which we have assembled data, nonprofit organizations as of the mid-1990s accounted for: (1) $1.2 trillion in expenditures;
(2) 31 million full-time equivalent workers, or 6.8 percent of the nonagricultural workforce
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