Fundraising Software for the School Development Office
Sustain: Software for School Fundraising Success
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Is your school looking for powerful, yet easy to use school fundraising software? Rediker Software offers Sustain development software as part of our School Office Suite®.
Developed by Sustain, LLC, Sustain is a leading school fundraising software designed to track donors, prospects, pledges, members, grants, gifts and solicitations for non-profit organizations. This fundraising software includes gift, pledge, grant, and membership processing, as well as a tickler system to aid with Moves Management. (Moves Management is a trademark of The Institute for Charitable Giving.) Sustain also offers end-to-end seamless integration with standard word processing software.
Since our Administrator's Plus® school administrative software integrates with software for the admissions office and Sustain for the development office, your school can benefit from a complete A-Z student information management solution!
Advanced functionality like tribute processing, complex reporting, import and export utilities, and robust customization options are also included. We also offer additional event management software which is fully integrated with Sustain.
Constituent Management
- Manage donors, prospects, solicitors, and tributes
- Track multiple contacts within households and corporations
- Track multiple addresses and family information
- Customize user-definable fields for storing donor details
- Enter date-stamped notes in a record's free-flowing notepad
- View giving history of any donor or group of donors
- Track relationships with other individuals and organizations
- E-mail individuals, groups, or the individuals and organizations identified by a query
Credit Card Processing
- Validate and process credit card transactions online
- Reduce costs and paperwork for handling credit card donations
Donor Cultivation
- Access contact and grant information directly from Planner
- Track method of contact (phone, visit, etc.)
- Define cultivation status and use complete contact history as a tool for cultivating donors, also known as Moves Management®
- Use free-flowing notepad for contact conversation notes to help with relationship building
- Print or email reports for contacts, solicitors, calendar, even complete notes history
- Assign solicitors to contacts
- Take advantage of the Outlook® Synchronization* with your Sustain planner
Donor Segmentation & RFA Analysis
- Set up donor segmentation codes to identify donors based on recency and frequency of giving and amounts given
- Use these codes for fine-tuning your targeted appeals
E-mail Integration
- Create HTML email templates for your newsletters, alerts to your constituents, etc.
- Embed donor data in email thank-yous, pledge reminders, and general correspondence
- Synchronize Outlook® emails and appointments*
Event Management
- Plan, manage, and report on special events
- Share one database and donation history with Sustain
Gifts
- Validate and process credit card transactions online
- Process and report soft credits and tax value
- Attach gifts to individuals (for separate giving histories) or to households and corporations (for combined histories)
- Allocate gifts to separate funds, campaigns, and appeals
- Splits gifts between different funds
- Associate gifts with solicitors
- Associate gifts with one or more tributes, memorial or honorary
- Gift Details can be stored in user-definable fields
- Enter gifts using batch processing
Grants
- Record and track proposal dates, guidelines, documents, and correspondence
- Use free-flowing notepad for each grant
- Grant deadlines appear as tasks on daily Planner
Import & Export
- Process online donations using built-in functionality in Sustain to reduce tedious manual entry
- Import and export mailing lists and spreadsheets
- Update addresses from mailing lists
- Import lists of donors, prospects, members, gifts, tributes, etc.
- Import information for custom tables you design
- Export directly to Excel or ASCII text files
- Export reports to PDF, Microsoft® Word, Excel, Lotus®, XML or your email application
Information-at-a-Glance
- View donor information instantly with built-in financial summaries
- Customize your own views on user-definable standard forms
- Run standard reports to see a comprehensive summary of a constituent's entire record including contact and giving history
- Consolidate frequently-used fields on a single screen for convenient viewing and editing
- Create folder alerts that pop up to remind users of crucial information about constituents
Mailings Made Easy
- Mail Merge Wizard moves you through step-by-step mailing process for letters, emails, and faxes
- Seamless interface with Microsoft Word and Corel WordPerfect helps you design letters, labels, thank-yous, reminders, and more
- Create and modify merge documents
- Add merge fields and barcodes easily to any document
- Avoid multiple mailings within families or organizations
- Expand mailings to reach team members or employees
- Generate and record mass mailings
- Reach donors at their seasonal addresses
Membership
- Integrate your membership data with your donor database
- Track and report on membership history
- Print thank yous, reminders, and membership cards easily
Planner
- Track commitments including grants, contacts, appointments, and tasks with our unique daily Planner
- Direct access to contact and grant records
- Display solicitation appointments, Moves Management® steps, staff coordination, notes, and more!
- Built-in pledge and grant reminders
- Move entries to different time slots and days, and transfer entries to other users
- Print report on all scheduled tasks in a timeframe
- Synchronize calendar with Microsoft Outlook
Pledges
- Attach pledges to all types of constituents: individuals, corporations, etc.
- Allocate pledges to separate funds, campaigns, and appeals
- Associate pledges with solicitors
- Pledges can be matched, and the match rate and match party are entered right in the original pledge
- Enter detailed pledge information in user-definable fields
- Flexible payment schedule (monthly, bi-monthly, semi-annually, annually, or user-defined exceptions)
- Write-off a pledge balance and record details about the write-off
- Generate solicitations, reminders, and thank you letters
- See automatic "Pledge Reminders Due" notice on your daily planner, click on that reminder and you're taken into Pledge Reminders processing
Query
- Query any field in your database, including your own custom tables
- Import and export query definitions
- Export query results to Microsoft® Excel or ASCII files
- Add formatting to your query using the Quick Report Wizard to create a report "on the fly"
- Associate your quick report with the query to format it the same each time you run that query
Reports & Report Writer
- Choose from hundreds of standard reports that let you set the parameters
- Built-in standard reports help you track the success of your appeals, campaigns, funds, solicitors, and events
Security
- Secure sensitive information by controlling view and edit rights at user and workgroup levels
- Prohibit users from editing gifts after posting
WealthEngine
- Interface directly with WealthEngine web site to research prospects.