Blackbaud invites the user to manage and improve your funding and giving process with Blackbaud FIMS, a single, customizable foundation management software solution.
It is based on the former MicroEdge FIMS product.
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Bright Funds
Score 8.9 out of 10
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Bright Funds, headquartered in Oakland, helps companies of all sizes multiply their impact through their eponymous corporate social responsibility platform. For nearly a decade, Bright Funds has been connecting people to purpose with their employee giving, volunteering and grants management solution.
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Pricing
Blackbaud FIMS
Bright Funds
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Pricing Offerings
Blackbaud FIMS
Bright Funds
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup Fee
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Additional Details
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The standard cost for Bright Funds is just $2 per employee month on a monthly or annual subscription.
I believe a company starting out with a whole new database may take advantage of MicroEdge GIFTS. However, GIFTS would not work well for an organization which is transferring their old data onto the platform. GIFTS does not update well as time passes and data would most likely be lost and/or corrupted. I have not worked with the newest GIFTS online, so I do not know if that process would be smooth or not, but from what my coworkers told me upon hire, it seems GIFTS was very difficult to customize online. When attempting to use GIFTS online, our organization was told that we'd have to pay an invoice of several thousand dollars to change three words in a paragraph on the online system. Lastly, and most importantly, we found MicroEdge's customer service to be nearly impossible to reach, rude, and never helpful when help was sought out. Organizations which would need help with the program should not expect to be serviced in a timely or helpful manner.
Bright Funds is the best software to me as the software helps to give philanthropy programme to the worlds. It helps the employees donations and easily done with transparent pricing process. It is simple software which is easily done by the customers. Sometimes customers support is taken longer time than necessary. But it gives the best social responsibility to the world
GIFTS Classics does a very good job of processing transactions. You can track workflow and enter/change important information along the lifecycle.
My favorite feature is the ability to select almost any field within the database and organize how it will be viewed, either within the system or when exported to Excel. You can relabel the column headers, sort, switch the order, stack fields, and capture all the information that will help in both processing and decision making.
I find the ability to create a wide range of templates that can then be generated and stored through the document manager tool to provide great efficiency and reduce opportunity for error.
I typically receive a response to an inquiry within an hour or two, if not sooner. Most tech support people are knowledgeable about our problems, and if not, they will escalate to the proper person.
It is really a matter of priority. I can see situations where GIFTS Classic is a very strong option! Once an organization determines its priorities then it should definitely consider GIFTS to see how well it compares with mission critical functionality.
Bright fund is one of the good Platform who are working in to all the sectors and their managers are very knowledgeable and they are making sure that the expenditures are utilizing in better ways and ensuring that each and evperson is getting benefited. They are different from other platforms in giving the clean financial audits
