Nonprofit of the Month: Daystar for Medically Fragile Infants August 10, 2010

Each month our intern Anthony Fucito highlights one of our GiftWorks customers as nonprofit of the month. If you'd like to be featured, please let Anthony know by emailing info@missionresearch.com.

Office manager Nancy Heath and her diligent colleagues are busy! Their organization, Daystar for Medically Fragile Infants, is wrapping up its biggest fundraiser, the Daystar Derby Party. Few people are available to input information for 400 guests and acknowledge the $140,000 in donations that the event yielded. Fortunately, GiftWorks has been making this seemingly difficult task run much smoother.

Amid the hectic everyday life of a nonprofit organization, Nancy was still able to talk to me about Daystar, our August Nonprofit of the Month.

GiftWorks is a critical tool
for a very special day care center

Daystar takes care of infants and children, age 6 months to 3 years, who cannot go to regular day care centers for various medical reasons. Because Daystar is the only licensed, nursing-supervised, medical day care for this age group in the state of New York, it is faced with a space problem and can host only 10 infants at a time. With saving, fundraising, and perseverance, its supporters hope to be able to double Daystar's capacity and initiate services to older age groups as well.

Daystar has been using GiftWorks to facilitate this effort:

We finally have a system that not only keeps track of our day-to-day donations, but also allows us to keep an abundance of information about our individual donors. It allows us the ability to compare the results of our fundraising efforts year to year. We can group individuals and categorize organizations, donors, and donations in a myriad of ways. I love SmartLists and Reports! We also have a tremendous number of honorary and memorial donations that can be simplified for acknowledgements. Speaking engagements can be kept track of, as well as the results from these engagements. We work with many medical professional organizations and, again, they can be separated out."

While Nancy and all of her peers down at Daystar continue to push forward toward expanding their facilities, they are in constant need of support from both local and global communities. To find out more, go to www.daystarhome.net.