Everyone knows effective outreach, connection, and engagement are the three phases to any successful donor program. But how do you do it in a way that is consistently proactive, personal, and primed for ongoing responsiveness? In a busy school, the only way to do this is to be more organized and more efficient making sure that every step is known, no balls are dropped and all the dots are connected.
Connections is a comprehensive and powerful contact management tool that helps you reach interested donors and almuni quickly and directly ensuring you, your staff, donors, alumni and visitors are fully connected. It’s ideal for fundraising campaigns too.
- Record all inward or outward activity on the personal or family level. Record an unlimited number of records
- Manage denominational outreach programs and customize using your own terminology or the terminology of outreach programs such as Evangelism Explosion or FAITH
- Easily create single- or multiple-step follow-up plans
- Assign callers or visitation teams for clear accountability
- Track responses for follow-up
- Design your own Connection cards to make data collection during visits easier
- Design and print Visitation cards to fit the needs of any group. Store card designs for fast access as needed and use different cards for visits to members and prospects, such as evangelistic outreach, ministerial visit, or hospital visit. Print these cards at any time and in any combination
- Enhance stewardship programs, such as annual fund drives or special campaigns for buildings, endowments, and more
- Integrate data with ACS People™ to create a complete information file on each prospect, including when the record was entered and personal information
- Easily perform mass changes / updates across all contacts or within particular groups, for example mark "letter sent" for all visitors from a particular Sunday
- Generate lists of contacts by assigned callers, types, date range, or contact status
- Create a variety of standard reports that can be easily customized and saved with brief notes for future use
- Create pie charts, bar graphs, and line graphs by responses, callers, or types
- Print reports, labels and cards
- Easily export detailed or summary information, contact response analysis and prospect source analysis into Excel
- Promote your facility on the Web. Reach out to the community around you and start growing your numbers with an innovative Web site. Extend™ is an online content management solution for organizations that want to edit their Web sites quickly and easily.
- Secure your vital data. LiveStor® is a remote backup program designed to protect your most valuable data files by automatically transferring them over the Internet and storing them safely in our secure servers. Backup any type of file, schedule automatic backups, and monitor performance from anywhere via the Internet.
- Connect with parents and children online. Enable parents to monitor their child's progress, attendance, behavior, and dues over the Internet. Let children and parents easily communicate with staff and check on assignments and announcements while online. HeadMaster® Online helps you connect with your members using the highest Web security standards in the industry.
- Spread important messages quickly. Send automated telephone messages quickly and easily to people in your database with Phonetree®, a complete telephone messaging solution.
All ACS software solutions come with comprehensive support and training options, including:
- FREE 90-day enrollment into our Preferred Client Program, which provides you with unlimited telephone and email support, 24/7 access to the Online Knowledge Base, free software upgrades, plus much more
- Comprehensive, context-sensitive Help documents accessible with F1 Key
- Access to a variety of training formats, including regional training schools, self-paced online videos, a national convention, and customized training online or at your facility
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