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Little Green Light Software
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Small nonprofit organizations often have to sacrifice critical features necessary for donor management in order to work a new software solution into the budget. With Little Green Light, these nonprofits are given a robust, intuitive solution at a fraction of the cost of comparable systems.
Little Green Light helps improve every aspect of fundraising and development efforts by offering a comprehensive constituent relationship management database, event planning, activity tracking, mail merge and advanced queries, all available for a monthly fee and accessible from anywhere with an Internet connection.
It's ideal for nonprofits with an annual budget of less than $1 million that are managing upwards of 500 constituents. Originally developed for school fundraising, LGL can be flexed to meet the needs of a variety of nonprofit organizations: faith-based ministries, arts and cultural organizations, environmental associations and more.
What we really like about the system is the clean, simple workflows. Small nonprofits often depend on volunteers or part-time employees who don't have the time to devote to learning complex donor management systems. Little Green Light makes it easy to enter and retrieve donor information, add donations, record event attendance and create mail campaigns. It's advanced search capabilities are especially sophisticated.
Little Green Light seamlessly integrates with leading email marketing companies MailChimp and Wufoo for effective targeted campaigns and online forms. Initial data migration is also Included in the monthly subscription.
LGL gives small organizations a complete constituent relationship management solution to make the most of their staff, efforts and budget.
1 Review of Little Green Light
We are a small group with about 200 memberships and 475 entries in our database. When the group was smaller and before we invigorated the organization in 2009-2010 with new leadership, all membership information lived on spreadsheets. We knew that we needed a system that could grow with us and deliver the kind of information and reporting we needed. We evaluated other systems, but they were either far too expansive and/or too expensive for our meager budget.
With no offices or paid staff, a fundamental requirement for our donor/member management system is that it be browser-based and accessible to our volunteers from their PCs in any location. In addition, the system had to be easy to use, reliable and include features that we would utilize as we grew, developed an online presence and added people to our database.
Little Green Light seemed just right for us both in capabilities and price. Although it was fairly new at the time, we decided to adopt it because we believed LGL would grow as we did and it more than met our needs at the time.
The conversion process from spreadsheets to LGL was far easier than anticipated when we adopted LGL in 2010. Staff was very accommodating and helped us through the transition smoothly. We were up and running within a few days. The ability to administer the various functions, categories, tags for member/constituent data is very flexible and easy to grasp. LGL has continually enhanced the system with new features.
We have never looked back and remain enthusiastic that we made the correct choice. LGL continues to evolve and they listen to their customers for new feature development. In recent months they have launched tight integrations with WuFoo (online forms), MailChimp (email management), and PayPal (payment processing). All are useful services that offer a small non-profit like VIC easy and affordable integration with robust third party offerings. Those we have implemented work smoothly to reduce data entry and the inevitable mistakes of manual processing.
LGL service has been outstanding, better than I have encountered from any systems vendor, to small and intermediate sized users. Their online knowledge base and responsive voice and email support is well beyond my expectations.
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