The web is an indispensable business tool that allows nonprofit
organizations to reach out to their communities. To be effective,
communication must be two-way and real-time. Andar e-Community Suite is
a group of modules that integrate the web live into the Andar database.
It enables one-on-one, personalized, two-way communication with
constituents. When using the Andar e-Community Suite, website visitors
can pledge online, search for volunteering opportunities, and
communicate with your organization through a single website.
e-Pledge
The Andar e-Community Suite’s e-Pledge
module can be used to collect unsolicited e-gifts
from your web visitors as well as collect gifts from targeted campaigns.
Also, e-Pledge supports local and national workplace campaigns.
Employees can login, pledge, and designate their gifts through a secure
and easy-to-use web page. Employee campaign coordinators can use
e-Pledge to manage employee participation, send e-mails, and order
campaign monitoring reports. Coordinators can also manage
company-specific volunteering opportunities through Andar e-Community
Suite’s e-Volunteer
module. Employees can search through these opportunities and apply for
what interests them.
Because e-Pledge
is managed by your organization, you can monitor the status of the online
giving campaign and obtain consolidated information from all
employee campaigns on one screen or report. All employee
online giving and volunteering information is live and centralized
in one single Andar database, thereby giving you a complete picture of
your constituents.
Affiliated Agencies
The Andar e-Community Suite’s e-Volunteer
module also allows you and your affiliated agencies to create and manage
volunteering opportunities and to mass e-mail volunteers through a
single website. Agencies can also use the web to apply for funding from
your organization through the web-enabled Allocations
& Outcomes module. Funding applications are linked to outcomes
measurement data that agencies and program administrators can enter
through the web. Your organization’s funds allocation department can
assess and use this information as a basis for funding recommendations.
For-Profit Organizations
Many for-profit companies
have employee privacy policies that prevent nonprofit organizations from
running workplace
online giving campaigns targeted at their employees. Some of these
for-profit companies have chosen to purchase and install Andar within
their own internal networks, which allows them to better control access
to information. Helix partners with nonprofit organizations to
administer the Andar Fundraising Software and to deliver a coordinated
message to prospective donors. The nonprofit organization is then given
access to the results of the campaign without compromising employee
privacy.
Integration
Integration
is the most mission-critical feature of the Andar e-Community Suite.
When information is entered by website visitors through any Andar
e-Community Suite module, it is immediately present in the Andar
Fundraising Software database--no re-keying or data transfer is
required. This saves nonprofit organizations time and money, and
eliminates countless errors. Because the different modules are also
integrated with each other, the website visitors view consistent-looking
web pages and a consistently branded message. Most importantly, Andar
e-Community Suite allows your organization to keep all of your data
secure within your own network--it is not transmitted to numerous third
party hosting facilities.
Customization
The Andar e-Community Suite is a
highly customizable website. Nonprofit organizations can taylor web page
“skins” specifically to their organization and/or affiliates. This is
most valuable when Andar is used to run e-Pledge workplace campaigns
where company employees view web pages co-branded with company-specific
information. e-Pledge also supports national workplace campaigns where
employees nationwide can access a single website that is customized with
content and messaging specific to the employee's local workplace and
community. Customizations can be targeted to a specific donor, group of
donors, company/location, campaign, nonprofit chapter, etc.
Security
Andar e-Community Suite is a highly secure
website system that is hosted by your organization. This means that you
keep complete control of your data--it never needs to leave your
organization.
When using Application Service Providers (ASPs), data needs to be moved
between your organization and the ASP's system. This can expose your
data as it travels through the Internet. Also, multiple copies of your
data could be left unprotected on numerous workstations used in the
transfer process. Because Andar is hosted by your organization, these
situations never occur.
Andar e-Community Suite has numerous security features that ensure your
data is kept secure:
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The Andar database is secured behind your firewall, thus protecting
your data from intruders, while the Andar e-Community Suite website is
accessible in a secured demilitarized zone (DMZ).
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The Andar database is further protected using two levels of SQL
Authentication and application-level security that limit exposures.
Users of Andar are even prevented from accessing the database through
other software such as MS Excel or MS Access unless specifically
authorized.
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Sensitive data such as donor bank account numbers (for EFT) and credit
card numbers are encrypted in the Andar database using
industry-standard 3DES encryption.
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The Andar e-Community Suite is developed using industry-standard
methodologies and follows the “Open Web Application Security Project”
(OWASP) guidelines (http://www.owasp.org
).
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The Andar e-Community Suite has been audited by many of our customers
as well as by Buchanan
Associates using white-box methodologies.
Andar e-Community Suite Vision
Andar e-Community
Suite is a rapidly growing product. Soon web visitors will be tracked
and analyzed as they visit your e-Community website. Their interests
will be calculated and made available to your Andar direct marketing
campaigns as well as being used to customize web page content to further
entice them to play a more significant role with your organization and
community. Affiliated agencies will be able to publish website content
that can be targeted to web visitors based on their interests and pages
visited.
All of these functions enable nonprofit organizations to better service
their communities and to better communicate with their constituents
through one powerful point of contact–-the World Wide Web.
Andar e-Community Suite Modules
Read more about our
Andar e-Community Suite modules by clicking the links below:
