Community foundations face greater challenges today than ever before.

The economic downturn has left foundation assets at their lowest levels in decades. Foundation staffs continue to search for new and compelling ways to engage donors, develop relationships, and maintain contribution flows to their charitable funds.

The challenge is that today’s donors expect greater levels of engagement experience interacting with their grantees and measuring impact, engaging their heirs with their philanthropic activities, conduct discussions with their family members, they expect top level online access to account information and full transparency.

The DonorFirst™ platform is designed to provide both efficient and scalable operational and grants management functionality, as well as an advanced, online, donor account platform. This leading-edge solution delivers expanded communication and collaboration capabilities which leverage the latest social web features.

Until the introduction of the DonorFirst platform, there was virtually no way for donors to feel engaged with their charitable initiatives; no way to receive timely receipt of grant acknowledgements; and no way to receive immediate feedback on the impact of grants. Community foundations have had limited means to support communication, collaboration and engagement between the donors, their families, grantees, and foundation staff.

DonorFirst responds to the desire of community foundations to evolve beyond the historic model, and leverage technology to differentiate their foundation and better compete with commercial DAF programs. Crown Philanthropic Solutions the creator of the DonorFirst platform partners with our clients to support this strategic and critical decision to adopt the path for progress and upgrade their current systems.

Here is how DonorFirst interfaces with your current information systems: