Setting New Standards for United Ways

Easy-to-use and customizable, Rainbow provides United Ways with a complete fundraising management system. Developed with the assistance of a consortium of United Ways, Rainbow goes far beyond the capability of traditional campaign systems to provide true donor relationship management. Rainbow integrates all your workplace campaigns and contacts, including donors, companies, prospects, staff, volunteers, and community agencies, into one powerful database. The system puts the resources you draw on to raise, distribute and leverage funds for your communities at your fingertips.

Identify Strategic Donor Relationships

Build stronger donor relationships - use Rainbow to track membership in community organizations and corporate and nonprofit boards. Identify any type of relationship among key contacts, including family connections, business alliances, shared interest - even attendance at major fundraising events.

Analyze Campaigns for More Effective Planning and Management

The flexible Projects and Tasks module helps you plan and manage your United Way’s activities efficiently. Track the tasks related to the workplace campaign, including corporate calls, supplies delivery and recognition, or manage a direct mail campaign to reach individual donors. Use this same functionality to manage projects such as a Day of Caring event. Track and manage your donors and prospects throughout the solicitation cycle.

MIP FUNDRAISING RAINBOW
Stay up-to-date with donations and monitor campaign success.

• A complete fundraising management system designed specifically for
  United Ways.
• Analyze and manage campaigns to improve success and build strong constituent relationships.
• Easily manage every aspect of your special events.
• Track results, correspondence and follow-up for direct marketing
  campaigns to improve your results.
• Identify new fundraising opportunities and conduct thorough database research by leveraging user-friendly, flexible reporting and analysis tools and over 75 standard United Way reports.

Track Individual Donor Gifts in the Workplace

Track donations from workplace campaigns at the individual level, the company level or a combination of both. Individuals may move to a new workplace or have more than one employment relationship - follow their movements with sophisticated donor relationship management tools.

Manage Donor Choice Designations

Specify the range of choices in a given campaign such as the Community Fund, targeted fields of service, member agencies and other 501(c)3 organizations. Track donations made to programs and sub-programs within an agency. You can also track designations by company, workplace or individual, with options to determine payment policy and service charges down to the individual level.

Manage Special Events

Rainbow provides complete management for every aspect of your events, from setting up a calendar, identifying sponsors, grouping attendees by table or team, to tracking success down to the individual donor. The accounting interface for Special Events makes it easy to log attendee turnout and sponsor payments directly in your MIP Fund Accounting General Ledger.

Gain Control of Pledge Payments

Rainbow also gives you total financial control. You can group donations and pledge payments by batch, process through envelopes, and link to deposits. The system provides the flexibility to split payments across multiple pledges or years. With built-in safeguards, Rainbow ensures that you’ll record credit card and other electronic payments securely. You can even track pledges that sponsor an event back to the individual participant and/or link it to a workplace campaign.

Recognize Donors and Sponsors

Rainbow provides the tools to excel at the critical task of donor and sponsor recognition. The Awards Manager allows each United Way community to define its own awards and recognition levels - even within each workplace or specific campaign. When you enter a new pledge, the Awards Manager automatically identifies Leadership Givers and enables you to recognize them in the way that is most meaningful to them.

Coordinate Direct Marketing and Solicitation

With the most complete direct marketing tools available in a United Way software suite, Rainbow empowers you to define criteria to select lists, generate mail and e-mail appeals, track results from each solicitation package, and log all correspondence and follow-up. 

Data Entry, Transaction Batching and Financial Controls

Quick Entry features user-defined templates to automate and streamline pledge data entry, especially for workplace returns. Full financial controls are built in, with complete audit trail and security features.

Flexible Data Import and Export Capabilities

The flexible Data Import Utility enables you to import data directly into the system from external sources. With the ability to handle various types of source files, this utility allows you to add data (such as e-pledges) or update existing information with ease.

Over 75 United Way Reports and Built-In Data Mining for Complete Analysis

With over 75 standard reports, Rainbow provides United Ways with built-in reporting capability, reducing the need to design and format reports with third-party applications.

User-friendly selection tools and extremely flexible reporting make Rainbow a superb database research tool. Analyze data from all data fields - extract data for a selected group to run against standard reports, or create and run your own custom reports. This tool offers the flexibility to make the same query available to multiple users.

The Rainbow Job Scheduler empowers you to run processes and reports at
predetermined times and intervals, including generating time-consuming output after
hours. You can configure acknowledgements, reminders, tax receipts and post-dated payments to run upon completion of another job in queue, run specific jobs at specified intervals, and even send e-mail notifications of completed jobs.

Effectively Manage Endowments

Fully integrated with Rainbow, the Endowment Module provides planned giving and endowment departments the tools to administer, view and manage the details of complex endowment funds.

Instantly access endowment details from constituent views, endowment views and the endowment manager. Effectively manage complex planned giving and endowment activities. Track and manage all endowment actions effectively, recording each disbursement, fee, contribution and adjustment in detail.

About MIP Nonprofit Management Solutions

The MIP product line offers solutions to the unique accounting and fundraising challenges of nonprofits of all sizes. MIP Fund Accounting features FASB-compliant financial tracking and reporting. MIP Fundraising, which includes Paradigm, GT Pro, Millennium, and United Way-centered Rainbow, empowers nonprofits to expand their donor base and increase gifting levels while managing costs.

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