Check out www.google.com/grants where you will find an invitation from Google to apply for up to $10,000 per month in Google AdWords advertising. When a search is entered on Google based on the keyed words Sponsored Links appear running down the right-hand column. The internet user then clicks your ad and connects to your nonprofit. Now, constituents are finding you rather than you finding them.
How it works in a nutshell – think of your $10,000 AdWords grant money as “Monopoly Money” that you use to bid on (or purchase) key words. Most nonprofit recipients of the grant do not use more than $300.00 of the $10,000 award per month. Remember, this is FREE, there are no click thru fees and no real money exchanges between Google and the nonprofit. Google also provides valuable tracking information regarding your ad campaign on clicks, resulting donations, etc.
Should you receive a Google Grant please let us know the impact it has on your organizations outreach and bottom line.
Soft Trac, LLC is pleased to announce the addition of Jeron Comeau as Nonprofit Consultant. Jeron brings more than 15 years of professional experience within the nonprofit community in the areas of Fund Accounting, Development, Planned Giving, Grants Management, and Academic Administration. Jeron’s vast experience includes being an independent fund accounting implementation consultant, Customer Sales Manager and New England Account Executive for more than 10 years with Blackbaud, Inc., Director of Development, Membership, Volunteers and Special Events within the arts and social service communities in the greater Boston Area.
Recent community involvement includes membership in the Portside Rotary in Kennebunkport, ME, Director of Finance and Development on the Board of The Boy Singers of ME in Falmouth, ME and literacy volunteer for Kennebunkport Consolidated School. Jeron lives in Kennebunkport, ME with her husband and three children and enjoys her hobby farm that includes a llama. A talented visual artist and musician, Jeron performs for many area nonprofit benefits with her band, The Wicker Pigs.
With every company or organization, there is a foundation made up of people who are there to hold up the structure of their company’s mission. Here at Soft Trac, we are proud to say that our staff is that foundation. Each member of our staff brings great source of knowledge may it be with nonprofit accounting, fundraising, or even how to reach out to people like you.
To learn more about our staff please visit About Us: Our Staff page, here you will learn about each staff member’s education, certifications, and a bit of personal information.
To sum up our staff, we would like to share this quote with you “Desire is the key to motivation, but its determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal — a commitment to excellence — that will enable you to attain the success you seek.” – Mario Andretti
We seek success in helping nonprofits become more profitable.
Officially in June 2012 we’ll have written blogs for five years; yet we never really talked about who is Soft Trac and why we’re here for organizations like you.
At Soft Trac our mission is to make a positive difference in our community by focusing on the need of nonprofits, because we want your organization to do good, better. As a leading provider of knowledge in the nonprofit sector, we offer a verity of helpful services to help your organization do good, better. Also at Soft Trac our purpose is to help your organization operate more effectively with powerful tools such as: software, training and 24-hour support. It’s not just about doing good anymore – you have to do good better. And that means you have to make every dollar count and count every dollar.
In the next few weeks we’re going to have a series of blogs to show you the compassion it takes to grow a nonprofit to be more efficient, profitable, and transparent.
Soft Trac LLC, a Sage North America business partner specializing in the sales, implementation, and support of Sage Fund Accounting and Sage Fundraising 50, has been named to the Sage America President’s Circle for the 2011 business year. President’s Circle award winners are the top performing business partners for Sage products. Sage recognizes Soft Trac LLC and all President’s Circle winners for their outstanding contributions in 2011.
The Sage North America President’s Circle is awarded to the leading performers among Sage business partners representing a host of segment-leading brands, including Sage ERP Accpac, Sage ERP X3, Sage Timberline, Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200, Sage SalesLogix, Sage Fund Accounting, Sage Abra HRMS (human resource management system), Sage FAS Fixed Assets and others.
“We honor Soft Trac for their hard work and their focus on our mutual customers, which has earned them the Sage North America President’s Circle Award,” said Tom Miller, VP of Channel Management for Sage. “Congratulations to the entire team at Soft Trac for this accomplishment, and we wish them continued success in the coming years.”
President’s Circle award recipients for 2011 will receive further recognition from Sage at an exclusive executive retreat to be held in Nashville, Tennessee in August, in conjunction with the 2012 Sage Summit conference, where they will be celebrated among thousands of their peers and Sage customers attending the event.
Darla Hamlin, President, said “We are honored to receive this prestigious award for the second time. We are grateful that we have a strong and dedicated team of professionals whose attention on the needs of our nonprofit customers has made this award possible.”
Soft Trac, a consulting firm that specializes in providing software and services to nonprofits and governmental agencies, is seeking a self-directed, ambitious individual for the position of Nonprofit Software Consultant.
The Nonprofit Software Consultant will be responsible for providing implementation services, consultation, training and support for Sage Fund Accounting, Sage Fundraising 50 and other related software. The Nonprofit Software Consultant performs all aspects of a project, including but not limited to:
Conducting discovery and planning meetings
Providing quality training in a variety of settings including web, classroom and in person, often customized to meet the client’s needs.
Providing consultative services to assist client with implementation best practices.
Providing ongoing technical support on the software.
Planning and executing data conversions and integrations.
Providing installation and upgrade assistance, as needed.
General Expectations:
The Nonprofit Software Consultant will work as part of a closely interconnected team to meet both customer and company goals. The Nonprofit Software Consultant is expected to be a valuable contributing member to Soft Trac’s team where sharing of knowledge, ideas, resources and best practices is a must.
Work Environment:
The Nonprofit Software Consultant may work from Soft Trac offices in Falmouth, ME, with work-from-home flexibility as approved by management.
Some travel is expected where projects require.
The position is an “at will” position, and is classified “exempt” from hourly work rules.
This is a full time position that may require more than a standard eight hour work day to meet customer commitments and internal billable targets.
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or equivalent with 3-5 year’s work experience (or 5-8 year’s work experience if no Bachelor’s degree)
Software implementation consulting experience
Experience with Sage Fund Accounting and/or Sage Fundraising software, or equivalent as either an end user or consultant/trainer
Nonprofit accounting knowledge or experience
Marketing and/or fundraising experience with a nonprofit.
SUBMIT resume and cover letter to executives@softtrac.com
Soft Trac LLC is pleased to announce the hiring of Karen O’Connor as Administrative Sales Assistant.
Karen received her Bachelor of Science in Nutrition from the University of New Hampshire and worked as a Dietetic Technician before relocating to the Boston Massachusetts area where she attended Suffolk University and received her MBA. She then spent time working in quality assurance software testing initially for Corning MetPath Clinical Laboratories and later at Filemark Corporation. Karen recently returned to the work force after taking time off to be home with her family.
Please join us in welcoming her to the Soft Trac team.
Soft Trac LLC is pleased to announce its membership in Sage Leadership Academy Alumni Association (SLAAA) for the current association year. SLAAA is an association for firms that sell and service ERP systems who have demonstrated that they are committed to maintaining the highest ethical standards and sustaining professional growth. Membership in the alumni association is extended to all firms that have graduated from the Sage Leadership Academy or Upstream Academy’s Blueprint for Excellence.
Soft Trac’s President, Darla Hamlin, will be attending SLAAA’s fall retreat in Estes Park, CO in October. The retreat features a one-day presentation on leadership by Eagles Flight, an innovative leader in the development and delivery of practical training programs for the global business community. The second day will be dedicated to the concept of the self-differentiated leader.
According to Darla, “Soft Trac’s team believes that continuing education and the exchanging of ideas is critical to serving our customers in the nonprofit and government sector. The time spent with Sage executives and other business partners is invaluable in helping us focus on ways in which we can continually improve customer relationships and empower our staff.”
Soft Trac has been serving nonprofits and governmental agencies for more than a decade and is recognized nationally for its leadership, client success, and revenue goal achievements. Please visit www.softtrac.com for more information.
Soft Trac, a consulting firm that specializes in providing software and services to nonprofits and governmental agencies, has an immediate opportunity for a Nonprofit Software Consultant. The Nonprofit Software Consultant will engage and cultivate relationships with our customers to implement fundraising and other nonprofit software, as well as provide other consulting or technical services.
The Nonprofit Software Consultant oversees all aspects of a project, including but not limited to, budget, resources, timeline and deliverables. Deliverables may include a configured software system, documentation, custom reports, data migrations, training, and/or customer-directed product enhancements that support the customer’s use of the software. The Nonprofit Software Consultant reports on project status to the customer and to his/her supervisor on a regular basis.
I wanted to share with you what I have learned about my new laptop and compatibility with Sage Fund Accounting. Earlier this year I got my new laptop, new MS Office, and new operating system. After playing around and getting used to the new interface, I found that I could not print in Sage Fund Accounting. It would close the application each time I tried. So I called Sage tech support and got the front line person and we tried all kinds of things. First we uninstalled my Cute pdf and Sage internal drivers. That didn’t work so we went to Change the User Account Control Settings to reduce to Never Apply (permissions stuff). That didn’t work either. We then set up a print driver call AMYUNI and applied it to our newly installed Sage Internal Printer driver. That was interesting but didn’t work.
Sage 2nd level support called me back and this is what worked: We went to Devices & Printers>Select MIP Internal Printer driver>Right click and chose Printer Properties. Go to Ports Tab, scroll down to AMYUNI and click on that port (if there is one) then click Apply.
I asked my new favorite 2nd level support person if there was a Sage KB article on this issue and he said ‘not yet.’
So the first tech person was really close to solving my mystery. He got me an AMYUNI print driver. But it was the 2nd tech person who knew that all we needed was to change the port on Sage Internal driver. Apparently, the new operating system doesn’t want to share the same port (i.e.: LPT1), so there was a conflict. Bet that happens a lot.
