[TriLUG] Non-profit donor-management/membership/fundraising software [slightly OT?]

[Jim Ray]

You might wanna look at Quickbooks for something here and now.  However,
I've seriously contemplated switching to custom Apache/PHP/MySQL to
integrate time keeping with payroll over the web and would love to get
involved in that type of project.

> >I'm involved in a non-profit that seriously needs to computerize its
> >tracking of annual memberships, donations, and embark on additional
> >fundraising. For example, it should be able to know whose yearly
> >memberships are expiring, and make it easy to print out reminder
> >letters.  An e-mail facility would be handy, too.
> >
> >I  have little experience in this area of software, and what we need
> >wouldn't be too complex, but we'd rather not reinvent the wheel.  Does
> >anyone have experience with this and any suggestions?  A google search
> >yields quite a few choices.
> >
> >Ideally it would be something that either runs on Linux, or is
> >web-based, so that I could use it easily, though the others who need it
> >would probably be using Windows.  I wouldn't be 100% objectionable to
> >something Windows-based that's known to work in Crossover office or
> >similar, however.
> >
> >--Jeremy
> 
> Jeremy,
> 	I've done this several times and am in the process of taking a few
> of these existing frameworks and merging them into a more generic
> functional
> "application."  In each case, these have been fairly simple Linux boxes
> with
> Apache/PHP/MySQL which present a web-based application interface so users
> don't have to buy or learn anything.
> 	In fact, this kind of work is the focus of a new organization I am
> founding called the Center for Non-Profit Computing
> (nonprofit-computing.org, freshly registered).  I spoke a little about it
> at
> last week's Red Hat meetup and a few people have already said they are
> interested in helping.
> 	I'd be glad to help you on something like this.
> 
> Matt