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- ONE LINE DESCRIPTION
- Menu driven database system designed for fund-raisers. 2 demos.
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- TWO LINE DESCRIPTION
- Database system designed for fund-raisers. Includes 2 automated
- demos and a tutorial. Powerful, flexible and easy to use.
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- FOUR LINE DESCRIPTION
- Database system designed for fund-raisers. Includes 2 automated
- demos, a tutorial and an 80 page manual on disk. Powerful,
- flexible and easy to use. A good upgrade for people using
- cryptic or home-brew systems. 386 or better recommended.
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- TEN LINE DESCRIPTION
- "The Fund-Raiser's Assistant" is a vertical market database
- system for IBM compatibles designed specifically for fund-
- raisers. It includes 2 automated demos, a tutorial and an 80
- page manual on disk. Its emphasis on ease of use will be of
- most interest to people using home-brew systems written in
- dBase, Foxbase or Paradox or who have become frustrated with the
- cryptic nature of their high powered system. However, it has
- been used by very sophisticated fund-raisers who used it for its
- power. It's written and compiled in Clipper 5.0 and the files
- are dBase 3 compatible. 386 or better recommended.
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- KNOWLEDGE IN ACTION
- P.O. Box 40226
- Department D2
- Pasadena, CA 91114-0226
- (818)398-0513
- Compuserve 71277,1063
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- The readme.doc file explains that the following description of
- features and benefits is available by typing "features" after
- installing The Fund-Raiser's Assistant
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- Fund-Raiser's Assistant PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Page 1
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- INTRODUCTION
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- "The Fund-Raiser's Assistant" is a computer program for IBM-
- compatible computers that makes it easy to record and access
- financial, demographic and proprietary information.
- Contributions are entered along with the campaign "activity"
- which raised the money. The fund-raiser can see how much money
- was raised by each activity and who gave how much. Groups of
- people can be selected and targeted using a wide variety of
- criteria. Individual contribution histories are easily looked
- up and displayed on the screen. Targeted mailings can be
- prepared and management reports are available.
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- ABOUT "THE FUND-RAISER'S ASSISTANT"
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- "The Fund-Raiser's Assistant" has been helping fund-raisers
- cultivate donors and increase contributions since 1986.
- Although "The Fund-Raiser's Assistant" started out as a package
- for political fund-raising, non political fund-raisers and other
- campaign workers started using it because of it's easy to use
- structure and powerful list management, selection and reporting
- capabilities. Many of them have made useful suggestions which
- have been incorporated into this latest version and we are very
- grateful to them.
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- CUSTOMER SERVICE AND PRODUCT SUPPORT
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- If the manual does not answer your questions, you may call the
- offices of KNOWLEDGE IN ACTION during weekdays at (818)398-0513
- between 9am and 5pm Pacific Standard Time. We pledge to do our
- very best to serve our customers! If we are not available,
- please leave a message.
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- SECURITY
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- An optional password can be created or changed once the program
- is entered. This provides a small amount of protection against
- unfriendly users, although if security is a serious concern even
- stronger precautions should be taken.
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- COPY PROTECTION
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- Are you kidding? No Way.
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- SUMMARY OF FEATURES
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- EASE OF USE:
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- "The Fund-Raiser's Assistant" is completely menu-driven. There
- are no complicated commands to master. It is designed for fast
- and error-free data entry with a minimum of training.
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- There are two user levels, Regular and Advanced. The regular
- user has most of the power with fewer choices. The advanced
- user needs more understanding but has greater control and
- flexibility.
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- Many important features are available whenever you need them. If
- a person, activity, or adjective isn't already in the computer
- when you're recording contributions, you can add it on the spot.
- You don't have to stop working, enter a separate routine, add
- the information, and restart.
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- It's usually not even necessary to enter the entire code or
- name. "The Fund-Raiser's Assistant" will show you everything
- that matches what you've typed and let you choose.
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- Default values save you time. "The Fund-Raiser's Assistant"
- guesses your likely choice and prompts you with it. If the
- default is correct, just press enter. If it's wrong, type in
- the correct value. For instance, salutations and mailing names
- are kept separately from the first, last and spouse names.
- There are separate ones for home and work. This makes it easy
- to make sure everyone is addressed exactly as you wish. "The
- Fund-Raiser's Assistant" automatically constructs a salutation
- and mailing address. Most of the time, they're correct and
- you're saved the trouble of typing them. If any part of them is
- wrong, you just type the correction.
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- Sometimes, you may not know if a couple was recorded under the
- man or the woman's name. For some computer programs, this is a
- problem. However, The Fund-Raiser's Assistant can find a married
- couple whether you refer to them under the husband or the wife's
- name.
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- "The Fund-Raiser's Assistant" automatically capitalizes the
- first letter of most names. When you type a code for it to use,
- you don't have to worry about capitalizing or not capitalizing
- the letters.
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- To avoid the inevitable hard disk failure, "The Fund-Raiser's
- Assistant" reminds you to backup your information every time
- you finish using it.
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- CODES
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- There's nothing more insidious than misspelled codes. When you
- look for all the people who attended a certain activity, are
- interested in a certain issue, or have a certain occupation, you
- won't find the misspellings. "The Fund-Raiser's Assistant"
- solves this problem because it maintains dictionaries of codes,
- which you create, and compares what you enter to what's in its
- dictionary. If what you type isn't in the dictionary, it
- immediately alerts you; you can then add it, retype it if you
- made a spelling error or browse through the dictionary to find a
- different code.
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- This makes it fast and easy for you to enter information and to
- recall it. A printed list of the codes can be produced for your
- use while inputting the data, thus facilitating the use of
- multiple data entry personnel if necessary.
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- Instead of being restricted to one or two letter codes which you
- can never remember the meaning of, "The Fund-Raiser's Assistant"
- gives you ten letters plus a 40 letter description!
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- COMPLETENESS:
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- Knowledge is power and "The Fund-Raiser's Assistant" lets you
- know a lot about your supporters. It automatically keeps track
- of the activities they've attended and the amounts they've
- given. You also have an easy-to-use system of "adjectives"
- which lets you record characteristics such as which groups
- people belong to, the kind of work they have volunteered to do,
- or the issues they're interested in.
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- Information is easy to access and available in a variety of
- formats. You can display on the screen or print call lists,
- directories, contribution histories, envelopes, and mailing
- labels in any order you specify. You can prepare mail-merge
- letters with your word processor. Reports tell you who came to
- each activity and how much they gave. You can call up a
- person's contribution history on the screen or print it out.
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- FLEXIBILITY:
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- You can record contributions from multiple activities in any
- order and "The Fund-Raiser's Assistant" will sort them. For
- each activity, it prints an itemized summary and prepares a
- mail-merge database so you can send activity-specific thank-you
- notes for each contribution as you record it.
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- You can target groups in a variety of ways, including where
- people live, the activities they've attended, the amounts
- they've contributed, their occupations and the adjectives you've
- used to describe them. English-like prompts make it easy to
- combine criteria so, for example, you could find all the lawyers
- or actors who live in a certain city and have given between $500
- and $1,000.
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- If you want to use the power of information to increase your
- contributions, contact:
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- KNOWLEDGE IN ACTION
- P.O. Box 40226
- Department D2
- Pasadena, CA 91114-0226
- (818)398-0513
- Compuserve 71277,1063
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