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Oh I totally understand. Before I started Mission Research I volunteered fulltime for Witness.org. I built a lot of great stuff, I thought, anyway, but every little bug was catostrophic to them, even the quick fixes, so in my case I was part of the problem. Blackbaud costs tens of thousands. You can...

Right--I assume you're a dev, though, and I don't think you're counting or valuing your time and other costs related to custom development. There are a lot of reasons to do custom dev for a nonprofit, but there are a lot of reasons not to do it, too. It can be a very costly sinkhole. If you've spent...

I know--like 8%! I don't see the value add. Here's a really great study about online donations, just released:

http://www.idealware.org/donations/intro.php

GiftWorks is only $299, very easy to use and learn...

GiftWorks, btw, is in fact interoperable. It's a hybrid of desktop and web services, can host AJAX, is easy to code to, and will have a full SDK in early 2006. The presentation layer is open source, and there are other parts of the app we'll likely open up as well. Anyone can build an installer-less...