To succeed in fulfilling your mission, you must build a strong, diverse fundraising program to support your operations. You have to build lifelong relationships with donors, demonstrate accountability, maintain a fair level of transparency, stand out from the competition, raise more money, and decrease costs.

Raiser’s Edge provides a solid foundation for building your fundraising program. Through its reporting and segmentation capabilities, customizable fields, gift design and data management processes Raiser’s Edge will help you streamline your internal fundraising processes.

With clean data, defined training and good business practices, we can help you generate consistent, reliable mailing lists, letters, queries and reports with ease.

You’ve chosen Raiser’s Edge to manage your donor relationships and fundraising processes. Whether you need to train new staff members, take a refresher course, clean-up your data, manage fundraising initiatives or streamline your processes, Non-Profit Partners can help.

Quick Start and Staff Training

Remote or Onsite, New to Raiser’s Edge or need a Refresher, we can help you optimize your Raiser’s Edge Experience. A well-trained staff is the key to success…

• Learn the basics of The Raiser's Edge before you get too far! In addition to the basics of donor and gift entry, as well, as letter merge capabilities we can: 
  • Design Gift Architecture: Funds, Campaigns, Appeals,
  • Guide table design and other user-specific functionality ,
  • Build Queries & Reports to suit the needs of your organization,
  • Create monthly reconciliation processes and best practices, and
  • Ensure database integrity through regular data cleanup strategies.
• We can also provide best practices and written recommendations for your team on how best to use Raiser's Edge so as to maximize your investment.
• We will customize the training regimen and timeline to meet your needs.

With clean data, defined training and good business practices, we can help you generate consistent, reliable mailing lists, letters, queries and reports with ease.

Data Management & Clean Up

Well-organized, reliable data is the foundation of a well-defined and usable Raiser’s Edge database. Non-Profit Partners can help manage the data maintenance process by:

• Assessing the status of your current constituent database,
• Developing clean coding systems (constituent codes, attributes, table maintenance, campaigns, funds, appeals, etc.),
• Facilitating discussions with IT, Development, External Relations, Operations, Programs and senior executives to determine if Raiser’s Edge is meeting the needs and goals of the entire organization, and
• Assessing your internal resources and business practices - gift handling procedures, gift acceptance policies, donor acknowledgement procedures, special constituent management, etc.

With clean data, defined training and good business practices, we can help you generate consistent, reliable mailing lists, letters, queries and reports with ease.

Fundraising Initiatives and Data Segmentation

You have many current fundraising initiatives to support your mission. You are implementing new fundraising initiatives this fiscal year. You are interested in how to better support your initiatives through succinct and informative analytics. You need to identify a new pool of major donor prospects. Whatever the case, Non-Profit Partners can help you utilize Raiser’s Edge to segment donors, develop programming, evaluate initiatives, cultivate relationships, provide stewardship and enhance your overall development program. We can help you:

• Target appeals strategies to capture the attention of your intended audience,
• Maximize your database, and ultimately use the results of your appeals strategy to determine the success of the appeal, including all needed analytics,
• Develop a long-term mail strategy to identify constituents most likely to respond to specific messages (direct mail, newsletters, event invitations, etc.), and
• Capture critical constituent information to guide programming and target marketing.

Finally, with clean data, defined training and good business practices, we can help you generate consistent, reliable mailing lists, letters, queries and reports with ease.