Convio: Nonprofit technology that really moves people

Consider this: Is your technology moving you forward or just costing you money?

Your mission requires you to continually reach out to new and current supporters. You need them to get involved and feel passionate about helping your cause. You need to move people. Lots of people.
 
Yet, we at Convio have learned two key things about today's nonprofit: 

1. They're often distracted from their missions and fundraising by cumbersome technology and a lack of integrated constituent communications; and
2. They're often dealing with limitations, hassles and headaches of traditional and costly donor database systems whose main goal is just to store donor data versus putting data to work.

And that's when it hit us — it's all backward

Many nonprofits are sinking critically important dollars into their technology infrastructure or spending valuable time on maintenance of their current fundraising, marketing and donor database technologies and outdated communications methods. That has to change.

Yesterday, you didn't have many other options. But today, your investment can and should be in technology and marketing methods that work for your organization, not the other way around. Instead of spending time working on your technology, your technology should be working for you — supporting your organization and giving you more money, time and energy to spend toward your mission.

Convio's technology earns its keep

That's why we build our software and services around a simple but powerful philosophy: you need action and results, not just technology. And, we build this fundamental principle into all of our products and services.

At Convio, we:

• Provide marketing, fundraising, advocacy and donor database tools that help you take advantage of the inherent effectiveness and efficiency of the Internet to motivate your donors and other supporters.
• Created the first donor database/CRM system that helps you move beyond just storing data, to using data for raising money more effectively and advancing your mission.
• Opened our software to work with other open systems, so you can leverage social networking sites, online calendars, photo sharing, viral video, and more or build custom functions just for your organization's unique needs.
• Build all of our solutions on the Software as a Service (SaaS) model so you can use our software via the Internet — anytime, anyplace — with no expensive software to install or maintain.
• Gather an active community of leading strategy, services and technology firms serving the nonprofit sector that share ideas, foster innovation, and speed the adoption of best practices.

Fundamentally, we believe you have a right to demand technology that earns its keep by helping you track, connect with and most importantly move people.