| Convio Customers Reach $1 Billion Raised Online in 2010 |
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| Friday, 15 October 2010 10:10 | |||
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Convio, Inc. (NASDAQ: CNVO) has announced that the more than 1,300 nonprofit organizations using Convio's integrated fundraising software have raised $1 billion online in 2010. The $1 billion in funds raised represents a 64 percent increase over the $607.7 million raised in the same period last year.
"We congratulate our clients for reaching this impressive milestone," said Gene Austin, chief executive officer for Convio. "Nonprofit organizations of all shapes and sizes have created extraordinary levels of social, cultural and political impact and are playing an increasingly important role in shaping our world. We are proud to know that they are using our software and services to set the standard for integrating online fundraising and marketing with traditional fundraising and communication's channels to better engage and communicate with donors, volunteers and other constituents." Innovative Software to Drive Results The company also provides Convio Common Ground. Designed to be simple and flexible, Common Ground is used by hundreds of organizations as their primary constituent relationship management (CRM) system, to build and manage relationships with donors, volunteers and other constituents across all channels, whether offline or online. Common Ground is built on the Force.com platform from salesforce.com. Common Ground provides nonprofit organizations with several major upgrades each year that deliver the latest innovation and product enhancements without the hassles, headaches and costs of traditional software upgrades and maintenance. Added Austin, "Our platforms provide nonprofits with best-in-class software to support their needs and our open architecture allows organizations to integrate with new and emerging technologies such as mobile applications and social networks to more easily reach and manage the many audiences and relationships today's nonprofits needs to fulfill their mission." Peer-to-Peer and Event Fundraising Play Key Role in $1B Milestone "With more relationships and means of communicating at their disposal than ever before, today's nonprofit needs software and a partner that helps them execute campaigns that integrate online, direct mail and other fundraising and marketing channels," explained Austin. "We are honored to partner with these amazing organizations to support the growth of the online channel as well as the integration of traditional direct mail and new emerging channels with innovative software and services that drive fundraising results." | |||
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About the Author: Kurt Martin is a Founder and Group Publisher of Progressive Media Group (PMG) and the Publisher of Nonprofit Technology News. During his 4 years as Publisher of The NonProfit Times, he grew the imprint from a single newspaper to a community of websites, online job boards, email newsletters and digital editions of the print editions. Prior to taking the role of Publisher he was the East Coast Sales Manager for Broad Daylight, Inc. a knowledgebase company. He also held management roles in advertising and ciruclation sales at American Banker/Bond Buyer (Thomson), Faulkner & Grey (Thomson) and SourceMedia (Investcorp.) Kurt graduated from Montclair State University with a B.A. in Political Science and Public Administration. |