Sometimes we get some really great mail that lifts our spirits. I just received this from Karen Read, a customer in Vancouver, WA who raises funds for the Council for the Homeless:
Thank you so much for producing such a wonderful software product! After extensive research of other database solutions large and small, we selected GiftWorks because it looked both powerful and easy to use. You exceeded our expectations tenfold. With the reporting and contact management capabilities GiftWorks has given our organization, we can strategize better and focus our fundraising where it can be most successful – with half the effort we were putting into our old database system. It’s easier for us, better for our donors, and ultimately more beneficial to the community we serve. This is software created by someone who understands what it takes to be successful in today’s fundraising environment.
Karen G. Read
Fund Development & Outreach Manager
Council for the Homeless
Thanks, Karen. If anyone gets the chance, check out the website of the Council for the Homeless. (As usual, you can comments below.) Sure makes our work feel meaningful!

Mary Pat Donnellon has been with Mission Research, the maker of GiftWorks, since its early days, working in every area of the company before becoming CEO in 2009. She now gets to do all the things she loves: leveraging great technology to help nonprofit organizations become better and stronger. Mission Research is a sustainable company; Mary Pat enjoys doing her part by walking or biking to work (most days!). She is also sustained by working with her talented colleagues at Mission Research and the company’s thousands of customers and partners.
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