Category Archives: Progress

One Million Dollars

We just passed the one million mark! That means that over $1,000,000 in donations has been recorded or processed through Donor Tools. 
Congratulations to everyone who has been using Donor Tools to streamline their donation and donor management!

Search Engine Issues Resolved

First of all, I want to apologize to those of you who have had trouble searching your donor database today and yesterday. There was a bug in the search engine that was causing some donors not to come up in the search results, even though they could be found by browsing. 
Here’s what happened, if you [...]

Guest Access: Improved Donor Tools Feature

Guests are a special kind of user.
Donors’ privacy is very important, even within your organization. Lets say that you have a volunteer who needs to be able to update donor records, but they shouldn’t be able to see donation details - who gave what.
No problem. Just make that user a guest. Guests can edit donors, [...]

Donor Tools is Live!

And… We’re Live!
Donor Tools officially celebrated our grand opening last week at the Austin Greenlights Crossroads Conference (check out the video, you’ll see us a few seconds in)! So many interesting people came by our booth to check us out and wish us luck! This is a really awesome business to be in – the [...]

Greenlights Crossroads Conference

Thanks to everyone who stopped by the Donor Tools booth last week at the Greenlights Crossroads Conference! 
I’m so enthusiastic about Donor Tools as a product. We’re off to a great start with some powerful features for small and medium-sized non-profits. Not only that, I’ve just been blown away by the wonderful people and organizations that [...]

At the Greenlights Crossroads Conference

I’m here at the Austin Greenlights for NonProfit Success 7th Annual Crossroads Conference. I’m having fun meeting some really interesting non-profit organizations, and even shmoozing with our competitors! If you happen to be here, look us up! 

New: Online Donations

We just rolled out a new feature that we’re really proud of: Online Donations! Now your donors can donate to your organization easily using Donor Tools’ new Online Donations feature!
The great thing about online donations is that funds are transferred immediately via PayPal, and the donation shows up instantly in your Donor Tools account. 
As an [...]

The Donor Tools Family

In anticipation of our upcoming grand opening, which we’ll celebrate at the 2008 Greenlights Crossroads Conference for Nonprofit Excellence, we got t-shirts for my whole family. Here’s my wife, Bethany, sporting the Donor Tools colors, and our two daughters, Emma (2 years) and Selah (1 year) lending their cuteness. How could you resist those faces! 
I [...]

OneVerse.org

OneVerse.org: Translating the Bible, one verse at a time
Neat idea, and beautiful design too. 

Get the T-Shirt

We’re celebrating our grand opening on September 25 at the 2008 Crossroads Conference for Nonprofit Excellence at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, TX, hosted by Greenlights for Nonprofit Success. If you happen to be at the conference, please come by and see us! I’m working on getting some tee-shirts and other swag (Stuff We All Get) to give away.
The [...]