about our partnership 

Affinaquest and the Salesforce.com Foundation have established a partnership to bring a comprehensive and affordable CRM solution to nonprofits to support their fundraising and constituent management needs.

The Salesforce Foundation will provide 10 free nonprofit Enterprise Edition seats to any qualified 501(c)(3) organization.  Affinaquest is providing its comprehensive nonprofit CRM software for only $110 per month for ten seats.  Together, this partnership provides the most complete, easy to use, and affordable CRM fundraising solution available for nonprofits.

• Affinaquest
  

Affinaquest was founded by Jeff Shy, an respected fundraising professional with over 38 years of experience in bringing innovation to the non-profit and educational advancement community.  His career has been focused on developing and applying appropriate and approachable technologies for the advancement profession.

Jeff has experienced the information needs of the fundraising professional from every angle, by working as the Director of Development Services at the College of William and Mary, by founding his own business to create, market, install and support the use of dedicated software packages for fundraising at over 2,200 institutions, and by serving as a consultant to countless advancement professionals.

He has designed and directed the creation of fundraising systems on eight different database architectures over the past thirty years, in keeping with the evolving world of IT.  He has made sure that fundraisers could be on the leading edge of those changes, moving from mainframe to minicomputers, to personal computers running Windows, to Internet-centric applications.

He is uniquely qualified to lead the effort for the next exciting development in our industry - Software as a Service (SAAS) - by building a comprehensive CRM database system using the Salesforce platform.

 

• Salesforce.com Foundation, Inc.

Salesforce provides easy to use, web based CRM solutions to over 47,700 organizations all over the world.  These solutions support sales, service, marketing, and call center operations that streamline constituent relationship management and boost constituent satisfaction.

The Salesforce.com Foundation was created to apply the core strengths of salesforce.com to help organizations further their social mission, deepen their impact, and better the lives of those in need. The Foundation has offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Dublin, Singapore, and Tokyo.

This global vision is based on a unique 1/1/1 integrated philanthropy model:

1% Time: Empowering employees to devote time, experience, and passion to community engagement

1% Product: Donating and discounting salesforce.com solutions to nonprofit         organizations

1% Equity: Awarding grants to nonprofits with innovative projects that have the potential for replication

We call this the power of us.