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

[Brad Oaks]

Jeremy Portzer wrote:

>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.
>  
>
The nonprofit I work most with uses a product called 'ebase' 
(http://www.ebase.org/) and has been quite happy with it.  It's source 
is released under a BSD license and in nearly free at $50/yr for some 
additional goodies; it's free to use the main module.  It is available 
for only Windows and Mac though.  I really wish they'd port it to 
Linux.  I haven't tried it under Crossover.

It is based on the FileMaker database.  You don't need to buy FileMaker 
to use ebase, but if you have FileMaker, then you can modify the ebase 
application quite a bit.

Good luck,
--bradoaks