Paradigm’s easy-to-use, intuitive “index card” interface organizes information about prospects and constituents so that any piece of information is just a
mouse-click away. This superior design minimizes your learning curve, expedites implementation and increases productivity. The system allows you to
selectively target individuals for your campaigns based on contribution histories, activities and other demographics. Paradigm empowers you to expand your base of support while increasing the giving level of existing donors.

Key Benefits of Paradigm

• Manage gifts and pledges to multiple campaigns

• Track proposals, events, memberships and volunteers

• Provide reports for all areas of development

• Consolidate and centralize mailing lists

• Use email to increase Web traffic for your organization
  and increase online giving

Paradigm Features

• Target Solicitations & Monitor Campaign Success
  Enhance your ability to selectively target your solicitations and maximize the rate and level of your response. Give your executive directors and development staff immediate online access to campaign status—without training them in Paradigm. The Campaign Overview screen presents up-to-the-minute accounting of solicitations, campaigns and funds within a file folder and index card interface, and automatically calculates the cost-per-dollar raised and the net income of a particular solicitation.
   

• Customize & Create Screens for Viewing Data
  Paradigm’s Custom View Utility allows you to create your own screens (File Folders). You can create an unlimited number of Folder Views and substitute your own folder views for the standard folders provided.
   

• Streamline Gift Processing
  Gift processing features such as Match Potential and Pledge Scheduling maximize efficiency and accuracy.
  By setting default values for elements common to transactions in a batch of gifts, you only have to enter unique values for any gift, such as the gift amount.
  Paradigm’s powerful reporting system allows you to:

  • Solicit donations

  • Verify the accuracy of gifts entered

  • Send acknowledgments to donors

  • Review financial goals

  • Compare performance to previous year or current goals

  • Analyze response to direct mail

  • Plan future campaigns, and more!

• Integrate Development With Other Programs
  Accomplish more with fewer resources! Paradigm integrates traditional fundraising with volunteer, membership, special events and proposal tracking capabilities.
  Many organizations depend on outreach strategies such as special events or volunteer recruitment to establish visibility within their community. Paradigm helps you manage these functions, maintaining a single, centralized database to manage fundraising, process memberships, track volunteer hours served and manage special events.
  Paradigm also provides reports such as volunteer recognition, event attendees, membership renewal letters and outstanding proposals.
   

• A Complete Fundraising Solution—No Extra Modules Required
  Paradigm integrates many capabilities including Event, Membership and Volunteer Management.
  Paradigm allows you to record Honor/Memorial gifts and provide notification to next of kin. Paradigm also comes complete with Quick Print, Quick Mail Merge, Quick Email features, Web site hypertext links, and constituent and gift import utilities. Moving information from Paradigm to other PC applications like word processing, spreadsheets and accounting is easy with standard custom export utilities.
   

• Fundraising Software for Windows
  Paradigm is available for single-user and multi-user environments. The number of user licenses you hold determines the exact number of users that can access Paradigm concurrently. The Paradigm database may be installed on a shared drive (Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP), on a Windows server (Windows NT 4.0+ or 2000) or on a Novell NetWare 3.1+ server with a Local Area Network (LAN).

Services

• Annual Support
  MIP offers flexible training and support options designed to help clients make the most of their software investment. Our product support personnel includes technical support experts who are Microsoft certified or have similar qualifications. A monthly newsletter and annual user conference are just a couple of the services we offer our clients to help them take full advantage of the software.
   

• Training
  We recommend the two-day Basic Training for all Paradigm users. These seminars are available in many locations and provide a basic introduction to Paradigm that enables attendees to perform typical daily activities with the Paradigm database. For organizations with three or more users, an onsite seminar may be the best solution. We also offer eLearning training in Paradigm. eLearning is live, instructor-led training that you access via the Web from your own office.

Technology

• Paradigm’s Client/Server Design
  Paradigm is a Client/Server application composed of Sybase’s Adaptive Server Anywhere 6.0 database engine and PowerBuilder front-end. The Adaptive Server Anywhere database engine provides superior performance, flexibility and minimal ongoing database management. Unlike other databases, Adaptive Server installs easily and requires almost no ongoing maintenance. In server environments, portions of the application and the database are loaded onto a server. Other components of Paradigm are installed on each individual workstation.

MIP’s Paradigm Pricing

• Paradigm includes fundraising software for donor and prospect tracking, gift and pledge processing, mail list management scheduling activities, data analysis and reporting. Paradigm also integrates event, membership and volunteer management—no separate modules are required.

Licenses Software

• 1 user $2,900

• 2 user $4,150

• 3 user $5,400

• 4 user $6,150

• 5 user $6,900

Included in the purchase of Paradigm:

• Event Management

• Membership Management

• Volunteer Management

• Honor/Memory and Notification

• Email and Mail Merge

• Import Utility (Basic, Address, Attribute, Gift Export Utility (ASCII/Excel to other applications)

System Requirements:

• Windows 95, 98, Millennium, NT, 2000 or XP with 32+ MB RAM (or as much RAM as recommended by Windows).

• Intel Pentium or AMD K6 class computer running at 133MHz or better. 

• Graphics Card and Monitor capable of 800 x 600 resolution with 256 colors or better.

• Hard Drive with available space of at least 30MB, plus 2MB of additional space for every 1,000 records in your database. 

• Keyboard, Mouse and CD drive.