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THIS IS THE FILE DESCRIBE.DOC
ONE LINE DESCRIPTION
Menu driven database system designed for fund-raisers. 2 demos.
TWO LINE DESCRIPTION
Database system designed for fund-raisers. Includes 2 automated
demos and a tutorial. Powerful, flexible and easy to use.
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.
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.
KNOWLEDGE IN ACTION
P.O. Box 40226
Department D2
Pasadena, CA 91114-0226
(818)398-0513
Compuserve 71277,1063
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
Fund-Raiser's Assistant PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Page 1
INTRODUCTION
"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.
ABOUT "THE FUND-RAISER'S ASSISTANT"
"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.
CUSTOMER SERVICE AND PRODUCT SUPPORT
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.
SECURITY
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.
COPY PROTECTION
Are you kidding? No Way.
Fund-Raiser's Assistant PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Page 2
SUMMARY OF FEATURES
EASE OF USE:
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
To avoid the inevitable hard disk failure, "The Fund-Raiser's
Assistant" reminds you to backup your information every time
you finish using it.
CODES
Fund-Raiser's Assistant PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Page 3
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.
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.
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!
COMPLETENESS:
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.
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.
Fund-Raiser's Assistant PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Page 4
FLEXIBILITY:
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.
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.
AND MORE...
If you want to use the power of information to increase your
contributions, contact:
KNOWLEDGE IN ACTION
P.O. Box 40226
Department D2
Pasadena, CA 91114-0226
(818)398-0513
Compuserve 71277,1063
Fund-Raiser's Assistant PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Page 5