Delightful Labor Open Source Non-Profit Management

Welcome

Welcome to Delightful Labor!

Delightful Labor is a web-based open-source non-profit management program. It will help your organization manage its constituents, donations, clients, sponsors, fund-raising campaigns, and more.

There are no licensing fees associated with Delightful Labor, and no artificial limits placed on the number of users, donors, clients, or gifts you record.

We wish you success as you engage in the delightful labor of fulfilling your mission!

Videos:

• Introduction
• Installation and basic configuration

Features

Delightful Labor offers many features to help you manage your non-profit, including:

• Open-source: you are welcome to modify the program to fit your specific needs
• CRM (customer relationship management) to help you track the constituents, supporters, and businesses with whom your organization interacts
• Donation management, including
  • Accounts and campaigns
  • Multi-currency support
  • Honorariums and memorials
  • Gift Acknowledgment utilities
  • Soft-cash relationships
  • In-kind donations
• Personalization features - you can create tables with a variety of field types and attach them to people, businesses, sponsors, clients, etc.
• Documents and Images - you can upload documents and images for clients, sponsors, people and businesses, volunteers, etc.
• Client management - keep track of your current and past clients, manage their status, keep track of their relationships to their sponsors
• Client programs - define the programs and services you offer clients, and track the clients' participation and attendance in these programs
• Sponsorship program management
  • Supports multiple sponsorship programs
  • Sponsorship payment management
  • Multi-currency support
  • Features to facilitate communications between sponsors and clients
• Volunteer and event management, including shift assignments and timekeeping
• A variety of reports and exports
• Support for both US and European date formats
• Importing feature for people, business, donation, and sponsorship payment records

License

 This software and documentation are copyright © 2012 - 2017 by Database Austin.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

This software is provided under the GPL. Please see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt for details.

Go Freedonia!

In this user's guide, we will be using a fictitious US-based non-profit called the Go Freedonia! foundation.

Our non-profit operates children's home in the mythical country of Freedonia, and wishes to improve these children's lives both materially and emotionally. To accomplish these goals, Go Freedonia! has set up several sponsorship programs. Through monthly sponsorship payments, Go Freedonia! is able to provide food, shelter, health care, and education to these children. By connecting sponsors to these children, Go Freedonia! is able to provide emotional support to the children through periodic cards and letters, and gives the sponsors an opportunity to practice unselfish concern and benevolence for these children. 

Go Freedonia! will also provide a living diary for the children by saving their pictures, school records, and health information, and will manage sponsors' images and letters to the children.

Go Freedonia! will be using Delightful Labor to help manage their client's data and their sponsorship program. To achieve this, Go Freedonia! will:

• • download and install Delightful Labor (more info here)

  • define the client vocabularies (more info here)

  • define the client status categories, and then status entries within each category (more info here)

  • set up sponsorship programs (more info here)

  • add client locations and indicate which sponsorship programs are available at the various locations

Go Freedonia! will also manage their constituents, donations, honorariums, memorials, fundraising campaigns, and business contacts through Delightful Labor.

Freedonia is the fictional setting for the Marx Brothers' movie Duck Soup.