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We have formed strategic partnerships with several key service providers in the nonprofit arena. It is our hope that these relationships will enable you to quickly find solutions to the challenges you are facing and enable you to efficiently and effectively expand the services and assistance you provide.

EASY FUNDRAISING IDEAS | SMARTRAISE | PLANNED GIVING COACH | ESTATE PLANNING LAW FIRMS | LOCALVOICE | ENTANGO | GROUPSTONE | PHILANTHROTEC | GURLEY DIRECT MARKETING SERVICES

 

James E. Connell and Associates is a consulting service dedicated to building endowments for America's nonprofit organizations using charitable estate and gift planning techniques. They maintain an active National Board of Advisors composed of attorneys, financial advisors, insurance agents, trust officers and fund raising professionals skilled in charitable gift development. The advisor network is available to clients to facilitate the cultivation, solicitation and development of charitable estate planning gifts.

Contact James E. Connell, 910-295-6800
www.connellandassoc.com

Easy Fundraising Ideas - www.easy-fundraising-ideas.com. Contact the sales department toll free at (866) 874-8383.

Easy Fundraising Ideas provides fundraising products and fundraising programs to schools, sports organizations, non profits, church organizations and all other groups needing to raise money. You will find simple fundraising ideas that work well for smaller groups and individuals and other programs designed to help large groups like elementary schools and sports leagues. Easy Fundraising Ideas offers the top products for candy fundraising, cookie dough sales, candle fundraisers, coffee fundraisers, discount cards, scratch off cards and much more.

SMARTRAISE Online Knowledge Base
Contact thru website - www.smartraise.com

SmartRaise is a free fundraising program that allows school groups, community organizations, and other charities to earn money when their supporters shop online.

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Planned Giving Coach - www.pgcoach.com. The contact is John Elbare, MBA, CFP. 888-396-8781 or jelbare@pgcoach.com.

There are number of providers of planned giving newsletters that also charge quite handsomely for their product. Not that they aren't good - it's just they are beyond the means of many charities. John Elbare has a very affordable and interesting alternative. John provides a personalized series of 40 articles that can be purchased separately or as a group and used in your newsletters to add a planned giving section. For more information, visit the PG Coach.

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Estate Planning Attorneys - www.estateplanninglawfirms.com - is an exclusive estate planning attorney directory online. They offer their unique service as an exclusive listing for law firms across the country and provide news articles from around the nation.

EstatePlanningLawFirms.com resource center includes a user-friendly interface, frequently asked questions, estate planning checklist, and estate planning law related books. They provide content that is important to any potential user searching for an estate planning attorney. They feature useful contact information for local bar associations and a 24-hour emergency assistance program.

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LocalVoice - www.LocalVoice.com. The contact at LocalVoice is CEO Robert Vandenberg at (877) 581-2450.

Establishing and maintaining close relationships with members is one of the most important aspects LocalVoice offers nonprofit organizations. Essentially creating an interactive online gathering place for members, the Member Relationship Management software platform allows organizations to take advantage of today's technology to attract, involve and retain members. The platform's three main components - Member Directory, Commerce Engine and E-mail Marketing - work together seamlessly to create a centralized, easy-to-use data repository. Organizations are able to personalize outreach efforts, build participation, and provide a more valuable service that ultimately creates meaningful, long-term connections with members.


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Entango - www.entango.com. The contact at Entango is Amma Hawks, Director of Business Development, at 415-778-6155.

Entango provides a complete outsourced solution that allows nonprofit organizations to conduct online outreach and fundraising to help increase revenue and decrease costs. Our services enable nonprofits to leverage their Websites into an effective means of communicating with their existing supporters as well as reaching out to millions of Internet users. Entango's services include customized e-mail outreach, secure online donation and membership processing, event registration, merchandising, and more. In addition, through partnerships with other companies that are also in tune with the nonprofit community, we are able to provide a wide range of related services, such as donor incentives, auctions, major donor prospect research, corporate matching services, etc. Among Entango's current clients are many large, innovative charities, educational institutions and membership-based organizations that have embraced an important new fundraising method.


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GroupStone - www.groupstone.com - Contact Rob Kusel at 888 840-3661 ext. 14.

Groupstone supports the Internet ambitions of nonprofit and member-supported organizations with a complete suite of online products that enable outbound email marketing, inbound email management, secure online transactions, event management, content management, and more. Used either individually or together as part of a comprehensive online strategy, our easy-to-use products help organizations make effective use of the Internet.

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PhilanthroTec - www.philanthrotec.com. PhilanthroTec Inc. is a software company, founded in 1983, that provides planned giving software and Internet solutions to the nonprofit and financial services sector. Our planned giving solutions help our clients create stronger relationships with their donor/clients by increasing their understanding of the planned giving process. Both Windows and Internet based calculations are extremely simple to operate, providing the gift planning professional with maximum results in minimum time.

PhilanthroTec’s mission is to increase planned gifts through the development, distribution and support of planned giving calculation solutions. In support of our mission, PhilanthroTec's products are very competitively priced, allowing even the smallest of organizations to enhance their planned giving efforts.

Gurley Direct Marketing
 

Gurley Direct Marketing - www.gurleydirect.com - is a full-service, intregrated direct response agency specializing in the planning, creation and production of successful direct marketing campaigns and programs for non-profit organizations.

Complete services include:

  • Program Development
  • Concept and Strategy
  • Copy and Design
  • List Rental
  • Mail Production
  • Analysis
  • Telemarketing
  • Voice Messaging
  • Internet Fund-Raising
  • Donor & Prospect Profiling
  • Acknowledgement Services

Our expertise is helping organizations grow by increasing donor market share and generating multiple annual gifts through membership/giving clubs, thereby creating a giving environment designed to encourage major and planned gifts

   
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