GiftWorks 2008 is Here! March 19, 2008

On behalf of the entire Mission Research team, I am extremely proud to announce the arrival of GiftWorks 2008!

With GiftWorks 2008 we are taking GiftWorks to the next level. We have listened to the recommendations made by our thousands of customers, hundreds of consultant partners, and many, many nonprofit sector experts, and have used this feedback to create the next generation of GiftWorks.

Below you will find more details about GiftWorks 2008.  Our entire team continues to be motivated by our commitment to the nonprofit sector and are proud to provide an outstanding fundraising software solution that nonprofits of all sizes can both use and afford.

Please keep your feedback and interest coming!  We are always happy to hear from you.

-Mary Pat Donnellon

GiftWorks 2008 Standard was released on March 17, 2008 for new customers and will be available as an upgrade for existing customers on April 14, 2008.  In addition to all of the great features included in GiftWorks today, GiftWorks 2008 Standard includes:

• More useful and insightful built-in reports.  Enhancements include: More robust campaign and giving level reports; the ability to organize reports by fiscal year; and expanded customization opportunities.
• Internationalization:  Organizations can choose their desired date format, currency and address/phone formatting.
• Enhanced task management:  Nonprofit leaders can manage tasks assigned to team members; tasks can be sorted and organized to better manage critical development activities.
• Improved tools for mailings, including numerous options for customizing labels and envelopes, greater capacity and control for large mailings, and more donor and donation fields available for insertion into letter templates.
• Flexible and robust donor management that includes improved household management, expanded relationship tracking, donor pictures on records, and more.
• More powerful Smartlists:  Retrieve and analyze critical donor and donation data with more criteria options, including the ability to compare donor giving history totals in customizable time periods.
• Expanded customization opportunities throughout the software, including a multitude of pertinent and helpful reports and widgets users can display on GiftWorks screens.

GiftWorks 2008 Premium will be released in May, 2008 and will include everything in GiftWorks 2008 Standard as well as:

• Role-based security protection allowing nonprofits to define roles for users and the level of GiftWorks access permitted for each role.
• More than 50 custom fields that can be defined to as an organization requires, providing increased flexibility for grant management, prospect tracking, and more.
• Bar-coding and bulk mail requirement compatibility, providing nonprofits the opportunity to save on mailings costs.
• Seasonal address management.  Donor mailing addresses will be automatically updated based on user-defined data ranges.

   

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