GiftWorks

The perfect software if your needs are simple and your organization is on a tight budget. GiftWorks is fundraising software designed just for nonprofits so you can efficiently and effectively raise the ever-important funds needed to meet your mission. 2008 marks the introduction of the next generation with GiftWorks® 2008 Standard and GiftWorks® 2008 Premium.
OverviewBack to Top
GiftWorks has the features you need to get the results you want. You can use it to track donors and donations; build targeted lists of donors, supporters and prospects; send mailings; create reports; manage volunteers and more! In addition, GiftWorks makes it easy to import your current data and export data to a variety of formats. You can also update QuickBooks with GiftWorks donation information in a few steps. The GiftWorks interface is clear and easy to use. Setup and customization is straightforward, and day-to-day activities can be performed with minimal training, so staff and volunteers can quickly become productive.
GiftWorks saves your nonprofit both time and money. Save time by performing your key development tasks efficiently: create mailing lists in seconds, use the built-in mail merge to create personalized acknowledgements, enter donations once into GiftWorks and then post directly to QuickBooks. Save money by doing your work more effectively: use built-in reports to analyze the success of appeals and marketing efforts, match the right volunteers to your jobs and track their contributions, create targeted mailings that cost less and produce greater results. GiftWorks is affordable too, so you can spend less on technology and more on your mission.
With GiftWorks® 2008 Standard, we have taken the original GiftWorks and have enhanced it with more insightful reporting, more robust donor management, and expanded customization. GiftWorks® 2008 Premium includes all of this and offers even more customization and security options, plus bar coding and bulk mail compatibility.
Donor and Contact ManagementBack to Top
Track People, Households, and Organizations
GiftWorks donor management software optimistically refers to any contact as a donor—everyone you know is a potential donor. Track any organization and assign people to it, or organize people within households. Save money (and annoyance) when you send mail to donors—either to the household or individual donors within it.
Manage Your Contacts
Track best times to contact, best method of contact, multiple addresses and phone numbers, emails, and a long list of other important information.
Link Donors with Organizations or to Each Other
Track who your donors work with, who their colleagues are, and what relationships they have. See the interconnectedness of your donor base.
Create Lists with Ease
SmartLists allow you to build lists of your donors using complex criteria with ease. Segment your donors into highly targeted groups.
Create Tasks for Each Donor
Set reminders to call your donors, or take notes about contacts you've had with them. Tasks are stored in donor records as well as a calendar. Open tasks appear on your GiftWorks start page.
Get Started Today
Import your existing names and donations into GiftWorks using the easy built-in importer.
Comprehensive ReportingBack to Top
Gain Insight with GiftWorks Reports
GiftWorks fundraising software creates insightful fundraising reports with ease. Instantly gain insight into your donor and donation information with just a few clicks. Learn about trends in your donor participation, and help your board understand your fundraising revenue with targeted reports.
Run Charts, Graphs, and Lists
GiftWorks offers a range of built-in reports that can be displayed as bar charts, line charts, summary reports or lists. Adjust the columns, dates and grouping of columns through GiftWorks' easy customization.
Export Reports to Excel
While GiftWorks offers very good reports, it also enables you to export reports to Excel for further analysis. Customize the columns you'd like to export, then a single click lets you export them.
Create Beautiful Board Reports
Your board wants to know how you're doing. How many donors gave this year? How many pledges are overdue? How are your campaigns doing? Get insight into your donor information with just a few clicks.
Accounting and Database ManagementBack to Top
Track Donations, Pledges, and Pledge Payments
GiftWorks allows you to add as many donations and pledges as you need. Track donation histories of your donors and segment them into lists based on giving histories.
Create Campaigns and Funds
Assign donations to your campaigns. Create funds with ease and direct donations to them.
Update QuickBooks Automatically
No more double entry—GiftWorks integrates directly with Intuit QuickBooks (Mission Research is a Premier Partner of Intuit). If you use other accounting software, no worries, GiftWorks posts transactions to a file most accounting software can import.
Track Pledges
GiftWorks lets you to track pledges of money, services, goods and other assets. Track pledges over time, and get reports on overdue pledge payments.
Create Receipts and Thank You Letters
GiftWorks automatically creates donation and pledge receipts. You can also create thank-you letters. GiftWorks tracks every mailing!
Get Started Today
Import your existing names and donations into GiftWorks using the easy built-in importer.
SmartLists and MailingsBack to Top
Build and Name Segmented Lists With SmartLists
GiftWorks fundraising software allows you to easily create valuable, highly targeted lists of your nonprofit's donors, supporters and prospects through SmartLists. You might know these as "queries," which is a rather technical way of talking about lists. Mission Research GiftWorks makes creating lists very easy, with no technical language and no training needed.
Send Letters, Labels and Envelopes to Any SmartList
Need to send a quick letter to your donors? It's easy—just pick a SmartList and click "send mail." Or add any SmartList to your own mailing lists, which are easy to create in the Mail Center. GiftWorks ships with some convenient built-in SmartLists to help you get started right away.
Creating labels and envelopes is simple—simply click "print labels" or "print envelopes" next to any SmartList, and select from a large database of labels, including the popular Avery 5160 labels. Format your labels with ease to make them look the way you want.
Send Mass Email to SmartLists-Fast!
You can send email to any donor or to any SmartList. Simply click on Send Mail and follow the instructions from there. GiftWorks records each mailing for each donor on the list.
Run Reports on Any SmartList
Once you create a SmartList of donors, GiftWorks allows you to run robust reports. You also can customize each report.
Export Any SmartList
Exporting any SmartList is as simple as point and click. Export to Excel or a variety of other formats. And don't forget about QuickBooks integration — it's real-time integration, saving you time and money!
Volunteer ManagementBack to Top
Reduce the Time You Spend on Volunteer Management
GiftWorks Volunteers, an optional but indispensable feature for GiftWorks fundraising software, helps you drastically improve your volunteer relationships. GiftWorks Volunteers gives you powerful contact management tools to maintain relationships with your volunteers, manage their job assignments, run reports, track their hours and more.
Stop Struggling. Start Managing.
If you are familiar with GiftWorks, you already know about the powerful tools available for your donor information. GiftWorks Volunteers lets you use those same tools to manage your volunteer information. If you are new to GiftWorks, see for yourself how SmartLists, Mailings, Reports, and other tools can help you to manage both your donor and volunteer information.
Volunteer Tracking Made Simple
GiftWorks Volunteers lets you easily:
- Manage volunteer relationships
- Screen volunteers
- Assign volunteer managers
- Track hours volunteered by date and by job
- Track volunteer availability
- Match volunteers to jobs based on skills and availability
- Report on and track job history
Coordinating Jobs Is Now Easy
GiftWorks Volunteers tracks extensive information for each volunteer job, including:
- Job description
- Project the job is associated with
- Status
- Job manager
- Hours volunteered by date and by volunteer
- Job needs, including number of volunteers, dates, days and hours
- Required skills
- Desired skills
- Assigned volunteers
Donation ManagementBack to Top
Track Donations, Pledges, and Pledge Payments
GiftWorks allows you to add as many donations and pledges as you need. Track donation histories of your donors and segment them into lists based on giving histories.
Create Campaigns and Funds
Assign donations to your campaigns. Create funds with ease and direct donations to them.
Update QuickBooks Automatically
No more double entry — GiftWorks integrates directly with Intuit QuickBooks (Mission Research is a Premier Partner of Intuit). If you use other accounting software, no worries, GiftWorks posts transactions to a file most accounting software can import.
Track Pledges
GiftWorks lets you to track pledges of money, services, goods and other assets. Track pledges over time, and get reports on overdue pledge payments.
Create Receipts and Thank You Letters
GiftWorks automatically creates donation and pledge receipts. You can also create thank-you letters. GiftWorks tracks every mailing!
Get Started Today<
Import your existing names and donations into GiftWorks using the easy built-in importer.
GiftWorks System RequirementsBack to Top
What You Need to Use GiftWorks
- PC with Pentium III 333 MHz processor (Pentium 4 1GHz recommended)
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 4, Windows XP Home Service Pack 2, Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Service Pack 2, Windows Vista Home, Windows Vista Business, or Windows Vista Ultimate operating system
IMPORTANT NOTE: Be sure your operating system has the latest updates from Microsoft by visiting http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com. It may take several passes through the Windows update process to retrieve all critical updates. Continue to run Windows update until no more updates are found. - Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or 7.0
- 256 MB of RAM (512 MB recommended)
- 50 MB of available hard-disk space
- CD-ROM drive (to install from CD)
To Use the Online Features
- Microsoft Outlook (not Outlook Express) to send email
Web access for automatic software updates and to send email




