Let's say your organization is running one desktop database program to manage its constituents, one to organize your finances and fundraising, and maybe a cloud-based one to track your email marketing. Caspio Bridge, now available through TechSoup, can be used to create, customize, and host all the databases you need all in one place.

With this cloud-based tool, you can build searchable online databases and tailor them to your organization's needs. Though not a nonprofit, the San Francisco Chronicle's online recipe database is a great example of Caspio Bridge in action. Check out Caspio's website for more examples of how Caspio Bridge can be adapted to your needs. One of our favorites, the "Eat Humane" guide from the World Society for the Protection of Animals, uses Caspio to power a searchable database of grocery stores and restaurants that stock and serve humanely-raised chicken, pork, beef, and lamb.

Caspio Bridge gives you:

• Access to cloud-based tools, to create both databases and interfaces to them ' such as web forms and reports ' all without having to do actual programming.
• Helpful wizards to guide you through database creation, either from scratch or from existing files.
• DataPages, which are database-connected web applications such as search forms, whose look and feel you can customize through built-in style sheets.
• An extensive library of support videos and online help documents to walk you through Caspio Bridge's features.
• The option to integrate Caspio Bridge into your existing web pages, or to have Caspio host your databases itself, freeing up your servers.
• One year of access to Caspio for one person to author up to 5 DataPages, and any number of people to use them.

While its guides and wizards simplify the database creation process, and no actual programming knowledge is required, we'd like to mention that Caspio Bridge is best suited to organizations with IT groups, or with staff and volunteers who are comfortable with website development.

Caspio Bridge is a GreenTech product. Since Caspio hosts your databases, it can help free your organization from needing to maintain its own servers, leading to reduced energy consumption. 

Learn more about Caspio Bridge and how it could help your organization.