Adobe Creative Cloud offers the best tools to express yourself, whether you are a non-profit or a for-profit organization. You can save a ton of cash and get instant access to the latest versions of Adobe’s popular creative tools.
Adobe Creative Cloud has become the standard for professional multimedia design. Our special pricing makes it easy for nonprofit organizations to use the latest versions of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and other software needed by your organization. For one low monthly price, you get access to subscription-based software, new features as soon as they are available and automatic upgrades.
Adobe nonprofit pricing discounts and programs
Nonprofit eligibility
Adobe offers nonprofit pricing discounts in our VIP (Value Incentive Plan) and TLP (Transactional Licensing Program) programs globally. See if your organization is eligible for Adobe nonprofit prices.
Eligible Organizations
A nonprofit and non-governmental organization in the United States must be a qualified 501(c)(3) public charity as recognized by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Outside the United States organizations must be qualified or registered as a public charity under the relevant local country’s laws (and where applicable hold a tax exempt certificate), or if no such local laws exist, then organizations must be the equivalent of a U.S. public charity. Eligible organizations must also operate on a not-for-profit basis and have a mission to benefit the local community that could include, but is not limited to:
- Providing relief to the poor
- Advancing education
- Improving social and community welfare
- Preserving culture
- Preserving or restoring the environment
- Promoting human rights
Ineligible Organizations
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the following types of qualified or registered nonprofit customers are ineligible for nonprofit pricing at Adobe:
- Organizations that have not obtained recognized charitable status in their respective country;
- Private foundations;
- Hospitals, clinics, or facilities providing direct medical care (except FQHCs in the US);
- Health management systems, HMOs, PPOs, or other healthcare organizations; Government funded research laboratories;
- Government organizations or agencies, including international governmental organizations and United Nations Entities;
- Schools, colleges, and universities;
- Political or lobbyist organizations;
- Labor or fraternal organizations;
- Commerce and trade associations; and
- Individuals
Nondiscrimination Policy
Organizations that engage in discrimination in hiring, compensation, access to training or services, termination, promotion, and/or retirement based on race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, political affiliation, union membership, or veteran status other than as allowed by law are not eligible to participate in this program.
Appropriate identification
An organization must be able to prove its tax-exempt status with current tax documents from its country of residence.
CRM for Nonprofits
Nonprofits use a CRM as a central database to manage their contacts, donors, and other supporters. A nonprofit CRM is a type of donor management software that helps organizations understand and maximize their relationships with donors.
What Is A CRM For Nonprofits?
A Nonprofit CRM is a platform that helps organizations understand and maximize their relationships with their donors. Also known as a “Constituent Relationship Management” system, the software is synonymous with a nonprofit database or a donor management system that organizes donor data, identifies donor trends, and makes recommendations to increase the likelihood of receiving future donations.
In the for-profit world, a CRM refers to a “Customer Relationship Management” system. It is used in the same way as a nonprofit CRM, but to manage customer relationships instead of donor relationships. Some CRMs can serve both nonprofits and for-profits, but a dedicated system for your org type is always best.
Though there are some alternatives to using a CRM, it’s widely considered to be the best way for organizations to bring together all their data.
How Do Nonprofits Use A CRM?
Nonprofits use a CRM to manage their contacts, donors, and other supporters. It’s a central location for their data that can be used to help understand and maximize relationships with donors. Not only can you track the donations that come in, but you can also get information about the donors themselves. A nonprofit CRM compiles all of this in one place: a single platform that streamlines vital information.
What’s The Value Of Investing In A Nonprofit CRM?
Organizations without a CRM can suffer from an “aggravation factor” when it comes to their donor data; that means it’s difficult to find the information they need when they need it. The right CRM can help nonprofits reduce the aggravation factor, saving time and resources. All of that energy can then be invested more in an organization’s mission.
Here are some of the ways that a nonprofit CRM has helped nonprofits reduce frustration and focus more on their mission:
Task automation
Laura is a donor relations professional who uses her nonprofit CRM to functionally gain an extra work day at Oasis For Orphans. By using her nonprofit CRM, she was able to save 8 hours every week with task automation.
What would normally take her eight hours only takes a fraction of the time because she’s using a CRM with automated reporting, donor groups, and an integration with her email marketing platform. Now she can create a personalized donor experience and spend those extra eight hours on more pressing concerns.
Easy-to-access donor information
No one knows more about the aggravation factor than Jennifer, the Communications Director at a nonprofit that supports a New Jersey charter school. It’s a small organization that’s making world-class education accessible for children from unprivileged backgrounds. With only one full-time staff member, Jennifer couldn’t afford to not have a CRM. By moving to an intuitive nonprofit CRM, Jennifer says the aggravation factor was reduced “by 100%.”
“It makes my job so much easier, and I can spend my energy on doing the things I want to do for the students that we serve,” says Jennifer.
With her CRM, Jennifer says she’s able to find the information she needs in two clicks because it’s accessible and in one place.
Contact records and task reminders
Increasing your donor base is a good thing, right? Well it is if you’re able to keep up with all these donors as they grow. And did we mention the supporters you have that haven’t donated yet? Those relationships are important to manage too.
A good CRM has features that make relationship management easier and ensure your stress levels don’t rise with every new contact. For example, contact profiles give you a detailed record of every interaction you have. You can see when your donors last gave and how much they gave. You can also see what emails you’ve sent them and what you talked about on your last phone call or in-person meeting. You can even set reminders to set up a thank you phone call with your major donors so no one falls through the cracks.
Actionable analytics and reporting
Your nonprofit has a lot of data. But without a CRM, where does it live? It’s likely it will be spread out in several different platforms—email data in your email service provider, fundraising data in your online fundraising platform, transaction data in your payment processor. But with a CRM, you’ll be able to keep all your valuable data in one location so you can gain actionable insights about your donors.
Your nonprofit CRM should be able to run reports like a LYBUNT report to help you see your lost donors or a first-time givers report so you can add them to a welcome email series. Plus, a nonprofit CRM can give you high-level insights on your organization, showing visuals like a donor pyramid or donor lifecycle. This makes it easy for you to see the health of your organization at a glance.
How Does A Nonprofit CRM Help With Fundraising?
A CRM for nonprofits is designed to help you manage all of your donor data in one place. It’s a great alternative for organizations who have outgrown spreadsheets or are looking to really understand and utilize their data to maximize their impact.
A nonprofit CRM is also capable of helping with fundraising by predicting which donors are the most likely to give larger amounts of money, showing if and how donors are connected to each other, and offering insight on what their giving habits are. For instance, with CRM tools, you can track when donors give and how often they give and predict when and how much they are likely to donate in the future.
CRM tools also improve efficiency by organizing donations by giving levels and managing all donations in one location, even if they are obtained across social networking platforms, email campaigns, and organization events.
What’s The Best Nonprofit CRM?
Because each nonprofit is unique, the best nonprofit CRM is the one that has the features, integrations, and support that meet your organization’s needs. We also recommend that you consider the results that you can expect from your CRM. How long will it take for your team to go live with the CRM? How long will it take to see a return on investment? To see data from verified nonprofit users, check out our ranking of the best nonprofit CRMs based on which providers give the best results.
Source: G2 Fall 2020 Nonprofit CRM Results Index
If you’re looking to invest in a nonprofit CRM, we recommend you talk with your team about what’s most important for your organization. To help move you in the right direction, we’ll provide some features and integrations to consider when making your list, plus some considerations when it comes to pricing, support, and training. We recommend using these considerations to compare nonprofit CRM software options.
Choosing a Type of Nonprofit Organization
Before forming a nonprofit organization, you should understand the types of structures available so that you can choose the one that will provide the most benefits to the type of organization you are planning.
Association, Trust, or Corporation
A nonprofit organization can organize itself in four ways – as an unincorporated association, a trust, a corporation, or limited liability company. However, the IRS only recognizes LLCs as a nonprofit 501(c)(3) if all its members are 501(c)(3) organizations. For most groups, a corporation offers the most advantages, but in certain situations, a trust or association may be the best fit.
Association
Any informal group of people who get together for a common purpose-such as a bridge club, Parent Teacher Association, or a ski club-can be considered an unincorporated association. Such a group has some legal rights, like the right to open a bank account. However, this structure has some legal liabilities. For example, if the members of a ski club are driving together and get into an accident because of the negligence of the member driving, it is possible that all members of the club could be liable to the person injured, whether or not that person is a club member. For this reason, groups that are involved in risky activities generally incorporate.
Small groups of friends who do things together usually do not have to worry, since their auto and homeowners’ insurance cover most possible risks. However, if the group expands beyond a small group of friends, starts generating income, or wishes to apply for grants or deductible donations, it should incorporate for the advantages listed under the corporation section.
Trust
A few types of nonprofit organizations are more often formed as trusts. For example, charitable gifts made in wills are often set up as charitable trusts. However, for most groups that have members this is not a good entity, since the trustees are not protected against liability. In fact, trustees may have a greater exposure to liability because they are held to a higher, fiduciary standard. This means that they must be extremely careful in their dealings or they can be personally liable for their mistakes.
Corporation
The corporation is the most common, and usually best, form for a nonprofit organization. Some of the benefits follow.
There is a small price to pay for these benefits: the organization must register with a state and must make periodic filings and disclosures. There are also filing fees, but these are usually small. If professionals are hired to prepare these documents, the cost may be high, but you can prepare the basic formation documents and exemption applications and eliminate that expense.
- Protection from Liability. The officers, directors, and members of a nonprofit corporation are protected, in most cases, from liability for the debts and obligations of the corporation. If the corporation incurs debts or if someone is injured by a member of the corporation, the others in the organization normally are not personally liable. There are exceptions to this, however. If the officers or members personally guarantee the debt or if they cause the injury, they are held liable.
- Eligibility for Grants. Many government and private programs can only make grants to organizations that are incorporated.
Procedural Rules. When an organization incorporates, it is then governed by state incorporation law. This law usually answers most of the issues that come up in such an organization, such as how many directors there must be, what is a valid quorum, and what are the rights of members. If the organization is unincorporated, it must make up its own procedures for all of these issues.
Conclusion
Adobe is pleased to offer Creative Cloud for Nonprofits at a discounted price. Creative Cloud includes Adobe CS6 Production Premium, and features like 3D camera projection that can help you tell stories in new and imaginative ways. Available exclusively for eligible 501(c)(3) organizations, including 501(c)(3) schools, governments, and nonprofits. Creative Cloud is the only all-in-one creative suite designed just for these types of small, medium, and nonprofit organizations.