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Look at CiviCRM (www.civicrm.org). Not sure how far the Danish translation is. CiviCRM has lots of users, was just on Italian TV (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-h4lFQv66Q) has a strong community. Integrated with Drupal it can do most of what you propose.
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Seems like the core issue is really just simple IT management. If all your information is in a client server model, then you need to have multiple layers of hardware and software redundancy -- something like Vontu really just makes good IT management practices easier to implement correctly. The other angle is to look at your systems and potentially
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Seems what you are really after is a soft credit. Most fundraising software allows you to record the "hard credit" to the person that wrote the check and "soft credits" to other people... a spouse for example. So in the database you have two different transaction types and a set of linked transactions. The second part of the question is house-holding
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One of the options you will not find in any of the referenced lists is CiviCRM (www.civicrm.org). If you or a volunteer have the technical skills to install and maintain a MYSQL based web application, it will meet each of the requirements that you laid out. CiviContribute allows you to set up an online donation page with a variety of payment processors
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CiviCRM (www.civicrm.org) does that out of the box with profiles and listings. An example of this functionality would be Kabissa . Talk to users and get their opinion in the forums: http://forum.civicrm.org/ CiviCRM is a web-based database, so to use it yourself you would need to know how to install a web application or have someone do it for you.
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I wrote up a revision to the Techsoup doc that includes CiviCRM. Download Revision Here
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The first thing that comes to my mind is Microsoft InfoPath or MS Access. Access is probably a little easier to just get up and running easily. I am assuming you want listeners to enter their own info. Create and data entry screen. Allow people to fill it out and click submit. When you get back to the station, export as a spreadsheet (csv) and import
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"The place to start is to diagram a data model for your business. " Don- You truly are royalty ;)
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tkim- How do you see the SFDC/Google combination solving specific nonprofit business problems like auction management and outcome tracking based on a single system of record for constituent data? Can you outline an implementation approach for solving cainsworth's problem? Wouldn't that require hiring consultants to do a lot of custom coding
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CiviCRM (www.civicrm.org) meets those requirements out of the box. The purchase books part would have to be done with donation premiums, though there recently was released an integration between the Drupal Ubercart ecommerce solution and CiviCRM. Open source LAMP application. Try it out at demo.civicrm.org Disclosure: I am part of the CiviCRM community