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Fundraising Campaigns

With Fundraising Campaigns in Sphere eMarketing you can further enhance your fundraising and marketing by tracking the performance activities including offline giving, donations, pledges and recurring gifts. The Fundraising Campaigns module also provides you with access to Blackbaud Matchfinder to discover which of your donor’s companies has a matching gift program enabling you to increase revenue. And enhanced version of the module gives you even more features and flexibility like memorial/tribute, online auctions, enhanced form-building capabilities, and the ability to quickly and easily send acknowledgements, thank you letters, and pledge reminders.

Campaign Management
Track the performance of marketing and fundraising activities.

Gift Entry
Track and record offline giving, including, donations, pledges and recurring gifts.

Giving History/Profile
Summary Giving data is automatically calculated for individuals and households so contacts can easily be targeted.

Matching Gifts
Blackbaud Matchfinder is integrated with Sphere to provide information to donors about the possibility that their company may match their contribution. Additional fees apply. For more information go to: http://www.blackbaud.com/services/des.aspx.

Contact Forms
Use a form-builder to create flexible web forms to capture constituent information.

Donation Forms
Use a form-builder to create flexible single or multiple step forms for collecting online donations. Forms come with full reporting.

Registration Forms
Use a form-builder to create flexible single or multiple forms for registrations. Forms can be used for volunteers, conferences, or other event types and can have standard and custom fields. Forms come with full reporting.

Memorials & Tributes
Give web tools that enable donors to contribute in memory of loved ones by sending eCards with customized memorial or tribute. Messages.

Online Auctions
Run online auctions with catalog management.

Acknowledgements/Thank you Letters/Pledge Reminders
Merge gift and constituent data into Microsoft Word for offline acknowledgements and pledge reminders.

Batch Gift Entry
Utilize an online spreadsheet to quickly enter multiple gifts directly into the eCRM.

The above list does not apply to all Sphere eMarketing product packages. For a more in-depth description, please refer to the Sphere Product Detail Sheet.