Thanks Don and Lou!
I will check out https://civicrm.org and would love to see the email produced by mail chimp. (they certainly have catchy ads!)
You could send it to treasurer@friendsofgreenfielddance.org.
Julie


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Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 13:33:38 -0400
From: Julie Bermant via Organizers <organizers@lists.sharedweight.net>
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Hi All,
I am looking for a simple, intuitive program to manage finances (membership money,) and to send emails. I use Quicken to track our general finances, but have been struggling to find a data base that will track membership and send out thank you letters. Being able to send out other letters to our membership would be a plus. I am presently using Exceed, but it is clumsy and takes a lot of work to get out the letters, and though it is supposed to be able to email them, that function doesn?t seem to work.

Any suggestions???
Thank you!
Julie
Treasurer Friends of Greenfield Dance

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Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 13:40:21 -0400
From: Don Veino via Organizers <organizers@lists.sharedweight.net>
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Have looked into this space a bit but not implemented anything so far. That
said, this looked interesting and is a free and open source product:
https://civicrm.org/ .

-Don

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Julie Bermant via Organizers <
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Hi All,
I am looking for a simple, intuitive program to manage finances
(membership money,) and to send emails. I use Quicken to track our general
finances, but have been struggling to find a data base that will track
membership and send out thank you letters. Being able to send out other
letters to our membership would be a plus. I am presently using Exceed, but
it is clumsy and takes a lot of work to get out the letters, and though it
is supposed to be able to email them, that function doesn?t seem to work.

Any suggestions???
Thank you!
Julie
Treasurer Friends of Greenfield Dance
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Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 14:26:40 -0400
From: Lou Echeandia via Organizers <organizers@lists.sharedweight.net>
To: Julie Bermant via Organizers <organizers@lists.sharedweight.net>
Subject: Re: [Organizers] Data Base resource question
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Hi, Julie,

Not so much for finances but for emailings and tracking and identification of membership status by date as well as absolute status, you might look into a website, Mailchimp.com. Their "Entrepreneur" entry level allows up to 2000 contacts and 12,000 mailings per month - free, and no credit card info is required.

It takes a little work but once you establish your method your mailings will be relatively simple.? The? mailings go out in bulk but to only the members in your contact list you specified.? The mailing can be scheduled but there is no automation in the free service.
I can send you an example of one of our recent mailings if you like.

Regards,
Lou Echeandia,
Treasurer,
Oakland County Traditional Dance Society,
Southeast Michigan

On Apr 24, 2015 1:33 PM, Julie Bermant via Organizers <organizers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

Hi All,
I am looking for a simple, intuitive program to manage finances (membership money,) and to send emails. I use Quicken to track our general finances, but have been struggling to find a data base that will track membership and send out thank you letters. Being able to send out other letters to our membership would be a plus. I am presently using Exceed, but it is clumsy and takes a lot of work to get out the letters, and though it is supposed to be able to email them, that function doesn?t seem to work.

Any suggestions???
Thank you!
Julie
Treasurer Friends of Greenfield Dance
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