New York, NY, Sept. 16, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MicroEdge, LLC, the leading provider of solutions for the giving community worldwide, and KIMBIA, Inc., a leading provider of online fundraising and event management tools, today announced a joint partnership to provide online donor-driven, giving solutions to MicroEdge’s community foundation clients. Through this partnership, community foundations using MicroEdge’s FIMS foundation management system now have access to flexible, easy-to-use, donor and community engagement forms and tools to support online efforts to manage and grow their donor relationships. These tools are seamlessly integrated with the FIMS system, creating increased efficiency and easier management, while helping community foundations better position themselves as the leader for all forms of philanthropy.
The MicroEdge / KIMBIA solution is designed to increase the profile and awareness of community foundations with major donors, corporate partners, local nonprofits, and the community-at-large. Initial product solutions include community giving sites, cause fundraising tools optimized for social media and viral fundraising, match and donor challenge event solutions, employee giving campaigns, disaster relief sites, and online registration for events. KIMBIA’s patent-pending, embeddable widget technology is easy-to-use and allows community foundations and their donors to fundraise across the Web. Donations can be tracked to the referring site and data from KIMBIA is easily uploaded into FIMS for donation processing and reporting.
"Our community foundation clients need to effectively sustain and nurture their growth so they can readily address important issues in the community," says Preston McKenzie, CEO of MicroEdge. "As more and more donors are turning to the Internet to facilitate their giving, we are extremely pleased to partner with KIMBIA to help our clients leverage the Web with powerful tools that connect and extend their ability to raise awareness and grow their foundation."
MicroEdge FIMS is a fully integrated, enterprise technology solution that allows community foundations, faith-based organizations and education and scholarship foundations to perform grants management, financial management and donor relationship management with one centralized, comprehensive system. Nearly 85 percent of the total assets of the community foundation market are managed with FIMS, which enables foundations to dramatically reduce the time and effort involved with tracking and managing foundation information, managing pooled investments and preparing financial, donor and board reports. These time and efficiency savings are significant, adding up to six-figure savings every year for many organizations.
KIMBIA provides powerful, innovative online fundraising and event management tools to community foundations and other nonprofit organizations. Although relatively new to the community foundation market, KIMBIA already works with four of the sixteen largest community foundations in the U.S.
"We are tremendously excited to be engaging with industry leader, MicroEdge, in an ideal partnership that combines their established product position in the community foundation market, with KIMBIA’s leading-edge solutions for donor-driven, online fundraising and event management," says Daniel Gillett, CEO of KIMBIA. "At a time when community foundations are facing a changing environment that will see tremendous growth in e-Philanthropy over the next decade - growth that will drive the market from $15 billion to $185 billion by 2020, according to Giving USA - our joint solution will increase the awareness of community foundations in exciting new ways and continue to position them as the thought leader for all forms of philanthropy."
How to Learn More
To learn more about this partnership, please visit www.kimbia.com/cfsolutions or www.microedge.com/products/fims_online_fundraising.aspx. Visit MicroEdge and KIMBIA at the Council on Foundations’ Fall Conference for Community Foundations from September 19 - 21 in San Francisco, CA, or attend the MicroEdge Solutions Conference from October 16 - 19 in San Diego, CA, to hear more and see the solution in action.
About MicroEdge
Established in 1985, MicroEdge, LLC is the leading provider of software and services to the giving community worldwide. MicroEdge solutions deliver a powerful, integrated, and open framework for efficient and effective charitable giving. The company is committed to providing the best technology toolset for foundations, corporations, government agencies, donors, advisors and financial institutions. Together, these tools help organizations to work with one another to raise, invest, manage and award charitable currency. MicroEdge is headquartered in New York City with regional offices throughout the U.S. and supports thousands of clients worldwide. MicroEdge is part of the Vista Equity Partners portfolio of software and technology-enabled companies. To learn more about Vista Equity Partners, visit www.vistaequitypartners.com. To learn more about MicroEdge, please visit www.microedge.com.
About KIMBIA, Inc.
Based in Austin, Texas, KIMBIA provides the most powerful and flexible online fundraising and event management tools in the market, enabling organizations to more effectively use the Internet to increase giving, participation and advocacy. Other significant strategic partners of Kimbia include GuideStar (DonorEdge) and Sage, Inc. (Sage Fundraising Online). Today, KIMBIA is used by more than 1,100 customers, including a diverse collection of leading community foundations, nonprofit organizations, political candidates and event organizers. To learn more about KIMBIA, please visit www.kimbia.com.