Blackbaud, Inc. has announced that the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed) and the Veterans Medical Research Foundation (VMRF) will use the company’s financial management solution to streamline their complex operations. These are just two recent additions to a growing number of medical research organizations including the Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, the MUSC Foundation for Research Development, and the Georgia State University Research Foundation that use Blackbaud solutions. Read more...

Serenic Corporation, a publisher of financial management and business operations software for nonprofit organizations and government agencies, has announced that it has released Version 5.0 of Serenic Navigator.

Navigator, powered by Microsoft Dynamics NAV, is Serenic’s flagship product. It combines robust core financial functionality and a full suite of integrated industry-specific ERP applications, such as the new Serenic AwardVision, with sophisticated Microsoft technology. Read more...

ReadySetAuction launched JumpStart web site where non-profit organizations can reserve, without obligation, travel and adventure packages to auction off during their online and live/silent charity auction events. Read more...

Given the phenomenal successes of non-profits online such as cancer.org, aspca.org and aclu.org, few can argue the impact and import of tapping the Web to move any given cause ahead, both in terms of brand viability and fundraising. Even with these pay-offs from online activities, there are even more resources to be profited from. These include CRM (Customer Resource Management) for improving donor relationships and follow-throughs, and BPM (Business Process Management) for service management to prevent embarrassments in delivery such as those that beset the Red Cross in the Hurricane Katrina aftermath. Unfortunately, too few non-profits know these tools exist, where to find them, and more importantly how to rake money in from the web… Read more...