View some of Convio's Common Ground Clients

Our nonprofit clients come in many different shapes, sizes and personalities, but have the common need to inspire and mobilize people to support their cause. They recognize that the Internet is a critical link to move their mission forward — it’s fast, effective and reaches more people that direct mail and traditional programs alone. Here are just a few of our Convio Common Ground™ clients and their stories.

Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami: Case Study

Convio Common Ground enables the team to manage multiple appeals and streamline the process to create new donation forms.
CCADM is now more agile and has obtained the ability to respond quickly and efficiently to their unique, extreme situations of natural disasters.

The Greenway Foundation: Case Study

Greenway Foundation consolidated 47 contact spreadsheets into a single system.
The group now has a single view of supporter data without duplicates, and any member of the organization’s four-person staff can add or view constituent records anytime, anywhere via the web.
The group now can customize and send targeted communications and track contact information so they can better tailor future communications to recipients based on interests and past activities.

TransForm: Case Study

"Convio Common Ground is an industry leader. The people at Convio really understand the nonprofit world and the technical world."

- Seth Goddard, Online Communications and Database Manager, TransForm

TransForm works to create world-class public transportation and walkable communities in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. The organization builds diverse coalitions, influences policy and develops innovative programs to improve the lives of all people and protect the environment.

Canadian Civil Liberties Association: Case Study

Used Common Ground's strong event management tools to hold a major fundraising gala annually
Now streamlining community events with online registration and ticketing
Saving time on direct mail segmentation, data entry and monthly donor service
Improved donor cultivation yielded $30,000 year-over-year increase in support from allied professionals group
Growing their email subscriber list and increasing the number of individuals from whom they receive support

CHOICES: Case Study

CHOICES has seen a significant impact on their daily operations, list growth, and the increase in awareness of child obesity
With all the time saved with Common Ground, the organization is now able to focus on what really matters to them - their mission

Meals On Wheels & More: Case Study

Able to build customized fields and page layouts giving donors the option to memorialize a single donation to multiple persons
Now can customize and send targeted communications and track contact information so they can better tailor future communications to recipients based on interests
Saved valuable time and money in the ability to input donations more efficiently

Side by Side Kids: Case Study

Common Ground featured a highly intuitive user experience which would mean minimal training requirements for the non-technical staff
As an internet based system, Common Ground did not have to be installed and managed in-house representing a large gain in efficiency for the organization
The organization now has the ability to offer self-serveice features to volunteers enabling them to update their information directly on the web and creating a large advantage for them

All Hands Volunteers

Consolidated all donor and volunteer data and built segmentation and personalization.
Creates multiple fundraising and email campaigns customized to segments of their housefile
Incorporates videos into its various campaigns.
Implements Quick Response (QR) codes that link to a Convio sign-up form, capturing the information and adding it directly into Common Ground
With the help of Common Ground grew their operating budget from $500,000 in 2009 to $2.7 million in 2011.

Humane Society of Williamson County

"With Common Ground, we can bring all of our constituent and communications information together to provide our donors, volunteers and other supporters with an integrated experience that allows them to have more personal control of the their impact on our mission. The continued development and expansion of Common Ground is helping us rapidly meet milestones in our ability to reach and inspire donors and engage in relationships with other supporters."
Ron Marullo, executive director for the Humane Society of Williamson County

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Convio Nonprofit Fundraising Software

Whether your nonprofit seeks a Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) solution, a donor database, donor management tools, online fundraising and online marketing capabilities, a platform on which to build community and promote social fundraising, Convio has your nonprofit software needs covered.

Convio Common Ground™ CRM is a donor management and fundraising solution that fits nonprofits of all sizes and budgets.

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Convio Common Ground™ CRM

Imagine your interactions with donors, volunteers, new contacts, and those who support your nonprofit mission — all captured in one place.

The Convio Common Ground CRM system was designed to help nonprofit professionals like you build stronger relationships with your supporters — all of your supporters, not just donors. It reaches further than traditional donor databases, making it possible for you to pull together constituent information from multiple tools, across all of your organization’s departments.

Common Ground is built on one of the leading CRM systems in the world — the open technology platform Force.com® from salesforce.com®. This allows Convio to leverage the services and functionality of a comprehensive, proven and continually improving CRM foundation and build a customizable, flexible system that’s tailor-made for nonprofits.

Because Common Ground is built on the on-demand Software as a Service (SaaS) model, you can access it from anywhere, anytime, via the Internet. There’s no software to install or maintain and no expensive hardware to purchase. It’s secure, easy-to-use and affordable, yet gives you powerful tools to help you manage and track donors and other supporters.

The bottom line: You can now manage all of your data in one place and get a complete view of your constituents and their activities with your organization — without the limitations and hassles of your traditional donor database or multiple spreadsheets.

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With Common Ground, your nonprofit can...

Effectively manage all of your data — not just donors

No longer will your organization’s valuable constituent data be dispersed across dozens of spreadsheets, custom databases and team-focused products. Common Ground allows you to realize the true power of constituent relationship management (CRM) and will deliver value to every staff person, volunteer, board member and executive.

Use modern technology

Convio + salesforce.com = unmatched innovation for nonprofits. By partnering with salesforce.com, Convio can focus on building features designed specifically for nonprofits while offering the strength and ongoing investment already being applied to the Sales force CRM product. The result is a constantly improving product, designed for nonprofits with an enterprise-scale underlying infrastructure.

Rest easy, knowing your data is secure

Your database is your most precious asset after your staff, and Common Ground allows your staff to focus on using the data versus maintaining it. That’s our job. Together with saleforce.com we provide bank-grade security ensuring your database is safe, and we perform automatic backups with available field-level auditing for additional tracking.