Network for Good Software

Having all of our contacts in one place is amazing. Being able to keep records of contacts with donors. Unlimited email and text blasts. Email integration between google and the data base to have important conversations readily at hand. Donation pages, event and peer-to-peer will revolutionize our fundraising. Unlimited users is big enough to allow for lots of helpers. This is a wonderful tool to help our collaboration of non-profits work together more efficiently!

Pros

The comprehensiveness of the software and how wonderfully integrated it is...from donor information to email blasts. It is so easy to get started and to learn to use. And, their customer service rocks! Help is just a chat away...always quick and timely.

Pros

I love how user friendly it is and how all-encompassing the software is. I also love that I can get in touch with customer support easily and ask even the smallest questions about how to maximize my use of the software.

Cons

I wish that it could do email through MailChimp, rather than Constant Contact. MailChimp is a little more user friendly.

Easy ways to send and remember which thank you letters were sent, email thank you access, easy to determine donor retention

Pros

I like the ease of access- almost all the features are very simple and require no training. They also have great customer service

Cons

The only issue we've had is with some of the more advanced features, they take a bit of learning and training.

Network for Good has been very easy to use and the staff has done a great job when it came to answering questions and updating the software to fit our organizations needs.

Pros

Easy to use and easy to learn.

Cons

Missing certain features that are necessary for certain fundraisers.

Network for Good has helped our organization tremendously. The peer-to-peer support is a great asset. The software is easy and straightforward to us. Customer support is also outstanding! I recommend Network for Good to anyone looking to start or grow a non-profit organization. You won't regret it!

Pros

It is very user friendly. Anyone can use it!

Cons

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Advice to Others

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I was fed up with our previous donor management system. Its user interface was unintuitive. Writing reports was like a physics class. Zero value. I sat in on a demo for NFG and requested a private one. I was SOLD immediately with its beautiful simplicity. Bar none, NFG is the ONLY software system that has immediately helped us raise money. My customer service rep and fund raising expert are beyond helpful. If you're a non-profit looking for a better way to leverage your donor data, go to NFG. These people are the bomb.

Pros

Ease of use, value, customer service are all five-star.

Cons

There are none so far.

Advice to Others

If you're a non-profit, check out NFG.

The Donor Path experience has been very positive with our Fundraising Expert. We appreciate the easy-to-use donor management program and look forward to getting up to speed with it so that the amount of time put into it actually turns into an increase in donations.

Pros

Donor management, and Donor Path

Cons

The templates for everyday giving, events and peer to peer don't seem up as up to date as they might be.

Advice to Others

The templates for direct mail are cumbersome, to have to download each pdf and then print individually. But I know you are working on improving this.

The service and support to get the systems up and running was fantastic. All the folks at NFG were helpful and creative. within 6 months we had several successful fundraising campaigns. The donor management system is a big help to track and communicate with all my donors.

Pros

Ease of use and bang for the buck

Cons

Not all in one dashboard

Advice to Others

Get it and use it!

I am not the best tech person so things don't come "naturally" to me but they have been there every step of the way. Setting up our End of Year (and #GivingTuesday) email blasts and campaign page was fun! And having the task list generate itself to keep me on track is a huge help!

Pros

Great customer service!

Cons

Somethings I think it should do, it doesn't, however, they are always willing to listen to suggestions and give me a workaround.

Advice to Others

After YEARS of Excel, this is wonderful!

Our office has been using Network for Good for 5+ years, and we have loved it! The simplicity, easy reporting and moment-by-moment synopsis of incoming donations has been wonderful. Network for Good recently came out with a donor management system, and we are excited to see the growth in the company!

Pros

Easy reporting, monthly checks from donors, the low percentage rate taken out of donations, everything!

Cons

Nothing!

Advice to Others

If you are a nonprofit organization, seriously consider using this product for your online donations!

We started using Network for Good a little over a year ago for our online donations and some event management and so far have been very pleased with the outcome! So pleased in fact that we are considering investing in their newly developed donor management software. They are responsive and very easy to deal with. They have a wealth of information available to their subscribers via webinars and training materials. Their support team is really excellent.

Pros

Dealing with their personnel, from the sales call to the millionth call for support, they are always professional, courteous, remarkably helpful and very knowledgeable.

Cons

I wish there was a little more flexibility in their peer to peer fundraising pages, making it easier for the person setting up their own fundraising page. The templates can be restrictive.

Our little NGO was looking for a donor database + giving page/payment processing system that would be simpler than bigger industry options like eTapestry and Salesforce, and provide one integrated solution for these needs. Because Network for Good's donor database is new, the functionality is still not super robust, but it meets our needs and the team has been receptive and responsive to feedback and have already added features we've requested since we've been using it for the past several months. We are happy with what we've been able to do with the system to have better control of our donor data without overwhelming our staff with endless fields and options.

Pros

The simplicity and ease of use.

Cons

No documentation (i.e. user manual).

Advice to Others

We are really seeing the need to be able to filter at the household level, because most of our husband/wife donors give together...we link donations to one of the two and the other one will show up in filters as not having given even though they have.

Network For Good Donor Management was the perfect solution for our nonprofit company. It is extremely easy to use and get set up on. One of it's best features is it's ability to create filters for your donors. I can easily sort out donors based on donation amount, last donation date, what campaigns they contribute to, and so much more. This platform also makes it easy to follow up with donors. It can sync up to your email so you can easily track conversations with donors. We are very pleased with this platform!

We have been very impressed with the customer service support! Whenever we have had a question or problem, they have been very helpful!

This is the first time I have ever used fundraising software, and I have been tremendously pleased with my experience with Network For Good. The customer service is outstanding! They are always available to provide technical assistance as well as fundraising tips and advice. The Donor Management System is easy to use and the giving pages are great. Suggestions for improvement would include a better event registration option, as well as the improvements to the email blast system; but one of the best things about Network For Good is that they take suggestions seriously and are constantly upgrading the system based on user feedback. Very happy so far with this service!

Network For Good (N4G) has been an excellent addition to our fundraising team - that team being me, me and only me. The product is very easy to use, intuitive and the support staff is willing to help whenever I need assistance.
The N4G support staff is very attentive to individual needs. No sooner had I made a recommendation regarding a certain functionality and several days later it appeared as a permanent update.
N4G also provides a host of webinar training products and materials. As a new user, I don't think I have scratched the surface regarding functionality and/or reporting capabilities but so far any option I have needed is there. Our board has also been very satisfied with reports to date.
As far as recommendations for future products, I would love to see additional templates for newsletters, eblasts, and peer to peer campaigns or configure the current offerings for flexibility.

Pros

Easy to use, very intuitive, helpful and knowledgeable support staff.

Cons

Templates are somewhat constraining.

Advice to Others

I have enjoyed my experience with Network for Good to date. Very reasonably priced, yet robust enough to give fundraisers a wealth of information at their fingertips.

From the first phone call to NFG I knew I was dealing with a very special organization with some very special people. I mattered; my organization's needs mattered; what I had to say mattered. And that has continued from that first call through every single call with every single person at NFG.

We're a small organization and so this had to be something we could manage in house and that made sense for us. We don't have the budget (or the inclination) to pay for expensive customizations that we ended up needing with other products. The NFG database is made for organizations that deal with donors. You can absolutely tell that the people who built this product know their customers and their customers' needs.

If I had to pick one word to describe my experience with NFG, I'd pick "responsive." When I email or call, I get an instant response. When I want to talk out a process I'm not tolerated - I'm welcomed! When I have a need that isn't yet part of the database, I know I'm taken seriously and that whatever I've identified is now part of NFG's plans for the future.

I needed a real partner with software that would do what I wanted it to do - with donors, not "customers" - and I got both with Network for Good!

Pros

It's a donor relationship manager. It's not a sales tool that we'd have to customize for dealing with donors. It's intuitive. It's easy to learn. It makes sense for the way we interact with our donors and supporters.

Cons

I haven't found a con except that, as an early adopter, all of the features aren't yet optimized - but everything I need to do my work now is already live and working!

Advice to Others

Try it - buy it! You won't be sorry! The folks at NFG make every other experience you ever had with a donor database fade into oblivion!

Our small nonprofit has benefited greatly by using Network For Good. It is the perfect fit for our growing charity. We started using it simply for receiving online donations, and now we use it for event management and donor database management. It has been a great experience since we began using NFG three years ago. We have just started using the Donor Database Management tool, and it has made this year's donor outreach extremely easy. Because of this new tool, we have a handle on our donor information in ways that we have not been to before. We have no complaints whatsoever about Network For Good.

Pros

NFG is very user-friendly (both on the donor and nonprofit ends). The few times that we had support issues or questions, they were answered immediately with total professionalism. Donation pages are extremely easy to set up, with clear instructions and tips along the way. The feedback from our donors has all been positive. The team at NFG is professional and efficient. We have enjoyed a very positive relationship.

Cons

Honestly, we can't think of anything negative. Any problem we have had has been remedied immediately and professionally.

Advice to Others

We cannot recommend it enough for new or small nonprofits that are not sure where to start. As we have grown, we have been able to include more and more features. The value for the money paid is excellent, and the platform is easy to use. We often refer to it as another "staff member" because it has allowed us to more efficiently and effectively our fundraising time and energy.

N4G has been superb to explain, coach, and be patient with someone who is technically challenged -- but the one with the time to do the admin stuff (incl donor management data entry) to do the work to cultivate donors and community interest as it should be nurtured. Customer service has continued be attentive, on target, and most helpful.

Pros

We shopped around for donor management (whatever the current label) software for some time. Key information is critical but we didn't want so much that we found ourselves entering data that we would not likely need. Ours will always be a community and surround program. I coach small nonprofits to build capacity. This N4G tool is a 'good tool for that toolbox.'

Cons

I'm struggling with the eNews templates. It may be a learning curve for me, but right now it's taking far more time to figure out what will work well than it should. The limitation of pixels for images makes selections especially challenging.

Advice to Others

If you're a smaller and/or just launching nonprofit, think carefully about the donor software that you need now, but one that has the capacity to grow as your organization does. Bells and whistles beyond what you truly need will likely frustrate you soon rather than later.

We migrated to Network for Good from a robust "industry standard" platform. Not only did we gain the cloud functionality and syncing between donor and campaign management, but we are also organically improving our data, simply through the lessons we are learning by using a state-of-the-art solution. We have had excellent customer support at every step of the way, from the initial sales calls to data preparation and migration to continuing support and beyond.

Pros

Even though there are things that require getting used to (which would be the case with any new platform), migrating to Network for Good has been a relatively seamless, painless, and enjoyable process, and the company is regularly making improvements to platform functionality based on client feedback. Network for Good's donor and campaign management systems already have excellent functionalities, are both very easy to use, and the interfaces are simple, big, bright, and pleasing to the eye.

Cons

Since the platform is created as a "one size fits all" package for all of Network for Good's clients, our organization has less control over relationship and reporting mechanisms. This would be an issue with any Software as a Service solution, and isn't a criticism of Network for Good or its software. In fact, Network for Good has been enthusiastic and nimble in working with us to implement adjustments that address our legacy donor management issues that resulted from migrating data from our previous platform.

Advice to Others

Any large data migration is going to have its hiccups and headaches, so working closely with the Network for Good team will minimize potential problems. They are very helpful.