A lot of you have inquired about how we helped the American Society of Military Comptrollers with their awards program.  We’re happy to announce we’ve invested serious resources and are proudly releasing our Association Awards Management System.

This cloud based system eliminates the need for paper or even email based awards submissions.  With an intuitive form builder you can setup the most complex award category submission forms.  The system ensures both nominators and judges follow the rules.  

Take a look at our sister site, awardsCMS.org for more information — or give us a call!

Answer: imis is to membership groups as WordPress is to bloggers. imis software is designed to help associations and nonprofit organizations manage relationships amongst its members and facilitate administrative tasks such as donations, event registration and website updates all through one interfaces tied to a single membership database.

Q: What is an Example of imis Software at Work?

Answer: Here is one example of imis web devlopment at its best. Let’s say your Nonprofit is soliciting donations with an annual newsletter. This process has become costly between postage, recording donation amounts, and transferring funds into your account. Additionally, going the extra step to thank donors isn’t an option because of the current administrative workload. imis software design reduces costs in a number of ways. For starters, imis allows your organization to send an e-newsletter by instantly pulling all e-mail addresses from your imis membership database. As donors respond their donation amount is recorded in the database and funds are securely transferred to your bank. Because the database recorded the donation amounts, as well as who donated, a thank you e-mail can be sent without much additional work.

Q: What are Primary Features of imis Software?

Answer: imis offers a lot of options, and all of these features seamlessly integrate with a single membership database. At its core imis is most helpful with the following projects:

• Managing Events & Education Seminars Within Associations & Nonprofits.
• Creating a Content Management System for Websites that Integrates with a Membership Database.
• Collecting Donations & Measuring Marketing Campaigns to Members.

Q: How Should Our Association or Nonprofit Evaluate Using imis?

Answer: imis offers a lot of options for any membership organization, association or nonprofit. NonprofitCMS will begin by working with you to help discover the core business processes that imis can improve upon. From that point we analyze the modules offered by imis and build a system that meets your needs. Typically most organizations use imis to act as their primary membership database, and then integrate imis with the current website. A good imis web developer will understand how to integrate imis web design and functionality into your current website.

Q: What is Nonprofit CMS’s Experience with imis Software Development?

Answer: We are proud to have worked with many aspects of imis and deliver nonprofit imis web development in a timely fashion on behalf of clients. Here are two example of imis web development. PAICR is an organization devoted to helping educate financial services professionals on business development and marketing. PAICR utilized imis to help manage their seminar registration process, and sync imis with WordPress the website’s CMS. American Society of Military Comptrollers also desired to sync the imis membership database with WordPress to help manage donations, inquires from members, and event registration.

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NonprofitCMS.org. is a creative web design and development company working only with nonprofit organizations. NonprofitCMS is looking for a talented Web Design Project Manager to join the team on a full-time basis. The successful candidate will be a good communicator, well organized and assertive, with experience in Business and Project Management and an understanding of web design.

The salary will depend upon experience and skills and the position is available to start immediately.

Job Description

The Business Manager / Project Manager will have the following responsibilities:
• Meeting with clients for kickoff meetings and for scheduled deliverables.
• Agreeing functional specifications for websites with the clients by phone and email.
• Coordinating multiple teams of web and graphics designers
• Keeping clients informed of ongoing progress and informing developers of any changes to the development spec.
• Ensuring that projects stay within budget and are completed to deadline. In the event that a client requests additional work, negotiating increases in the costs and timescale of a project, or referring these decisions to a director.
• Website usability analysis.
• Responding promptly and professionally to client emails.
• Maintaining relationships with clients using client service / management tools (ZenDesk and Basecamp)

The Candidate

The successful candidate will:
• Is a recent graduate with stellar internship experience or someone who has at least 1 years’ experience in Project Management and/or Business Management.
• Be able to communicate clearly both verbally and in writing and have fluent English.
• Be assertive and able to negotiate ongoing arrangements with existing clients.
• Be enthusiastic about web design and the internet and have at least basic html and CSS web design skills.
• Have an appreciation for all aspects of website design, including graphic design, functionality, development and SEO.
• Be reliable and trustworthy and have a high standard of excellence.
• Be well organized and able to prioritize different demands.
• Follow instructions when asked to do so and be able to use their own initiative during client phone calls.
• Be able to negotiate with clients when their requirements change.
• Be able to accept feedback and develop from it.
• Ability to delegate and keep an overview of the work in progress.
• Knowledge of MS Office including Excel and Word.

Desirable skills

If a candidate with the ‘right’ personality and all the skills listed above applies, we will be delighted to offer them the Web Design Project Manager job. The following skills would be a bonus, so if you have them, please mention them when applying, but they are in no way essential.

• Experience in CMS Web Design
• Experience in Usability

How to Apply

To apply for the Project Manager vacancy, please email a CV and covering letter to contact@nonprofitcms.org with the title “Web Project Manager Position”.
In your covering letter, please mention:

• Your current/desired salary.
• A summary of your experience in a Managerial role.
• A summary of your experience in web design.

During the initial stages of the web development we looked at the various stakeholders that might be visiting the website. We found a few:

• Potential Donors

• Potential Volunteers

• Media

If you look at the website, http://www.habitatsiliconvalley.org/ , you’ll see these main audience members are given clear “call to actions” on the homepage. There is no confusion about what habitat would like a user to do when they arrive on the homepage.

Below is a “before” picture for the homepage.

Below is an “after” picture of the new homepage. Pretty cool, right??

1.  Website Design using Drupal: As a group of mountain bikers, MORE needed the ability to quickly find trails in their area.  NonprofitCMS developed a drupal “trail finder” where users can put in their desired location and find their nearest trail and even update the trail’s condition.  Below is a “before” picture of MORE’s website.

Below is the “after”

2.  Membership Management: CiviCRM was a no-brainer for MORE because of it’s ability to smoothly integrate with Drupal.  MORE used to be on aMember and the migration over to Civi was a pretty smooth process that opens the door to literally thousands of new features.

3.  Mobile Website: NonprofitCMS developed a mobile version of MORE’s website that is compatible with all of the modern smart phones (iPhone, android and blackberry).

1. Membership Management: NonprofitCMS used CiviCRM as the base system to manage the day to day needs of ATSA.  The challenge of this part of the project was migrating their ~5000 members and tens of thousands of general contacts from their old system to CiviCRM.  CiviCRM now manages membership signup, renewals, donations and internal reporting.

2. Annual Conference Registration and (Continuing Education) CE System: ATSA puts on an annual conference and had an old system to manage the registrations.  They needed a more robust system to manage the end to end requirements of their conference included bar code scanning of attendees and a CE system at the end of the conference (with printable certificates).  NonprofitCMS developed this system from scratch and plans to continue developing this great product for future years.

3. Website Redesign and CMS Integration (Drupal): This was the most straight forward and fun part of this project.  Drupal was chosen as the main CMS because of its ability to integrate smoothly with CiviCRM.  ATSA can now easily manage the content, pictures and library on their new site.  Below is the old ATSA website.

Below is the design and new information architecture that we put together.

Andean needed to be placed on a system that was easy to use which made WordPress an no brainer.  Below is the design that we put together for Andean:

Below is what the website looked “before”

Below is the after