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Little Green Light Overview

What is Little Green Light?

Little Green Light is a complete fundraising and donor management system designed to give nonprofits the confidence and ability to succeed. It can be customized to fit the needs of your nonprofit thanks to a wide array of software that can be integrated with the platform. Affordably priced, Little Green Light delivers power & flexibility to grow with the changing needs of nonprofits everywhere. Join our growing community of satisfied users.

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Product Description

Little Green Light is a cloud-based donor management software. It combines donor management, fundraising campaigns, and constituent record keeping into one interface. Features of Little Green Light include customizable categories, report building, and complex query running. Users can integrate Little Green Light with external programs including Constant Contact, MailChimp, and PayPal.


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Year Founded
2007
HQ Location
Seattle, WA
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5.0 out of 5
"LGL makes membership mangement easier!"
The user friendly platform and it's connection to other software platforms we use.
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4.5 out of 5
"Remarkably well appointed software with powerful tools for small development teams."
I am continuing to learn more and more about how much this software is capable of doing for us with long-range planning and deeply detailed donor a...
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"Excellent and user friendly CRM"
Very user friendly. Streamed lined so I can enter donations effecienly and accuratly. The cost compared to all the options you get with the softw...
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Emily K.
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What do you like best about Little Green Light?

I am continuing to learn more and more about how much this software is capable of doing for us with long-range planning and deeply detailed donor analysis. I like that they are no frills, and clearly working on improving their product year after year. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Little Green Light?

The lack of Live Chat support. Email responses are same-day, but it's really not enough for such a complex product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have a very small staff but a very large constituency, and LGL helps us manage almost everything about our contacts, from fundraising, to events, to newsletters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Little Green Light?

The user friendly platform and it's connection to other software platforms we use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Little Green Light?

There is a learning curve to get started, but once you figure out the process, it is smooth sailing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?

We only have 1 staff person and are moving the FTE to a parttime role. A lot of this will help automate things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Little Green Light?

Little Green Light is clean, easy to navigate, robust, flexible, and fulfills the needs of nonprofits who need economical fundraising software. One of my favorite features is the ability to filter/drill down on both constituents and fundraising details so easily by using the filter feature on the left side of the screen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Little Green Light?

LGL does not use householding in the sense that you have a different constituent screen for the household. However, it does a great job with its relationship features which covers most of the needs of householding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?

LGL is a true CRM. It keeps track of all touch points: contact management, tasks, interactions, event management, appeal letters, campaign management, ticketing, online donations, third-party API connections like direct mail/email blasts, online forms, Quickbooks, address verification/change of address, wealth engine/prospect research, Zapier, and many more. In addition, I love the campaigns/funds/appeals/events module because it rolls up all contributions into one easy view -- by appeal, by campaign, by fund, event so you always know how you're doing against goals. Each total links to the contributions themselves for easy verification. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Little Green Light?

Very user friendly. Streamed lined so I can enter donations effecienly and accuratly. The cost compared to all the options you get with the software is outstanding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Little Green Light?

I get a little hung up with not getting out of the reports exactly what I want on the first try. It usually takes me 3 times of working with the reports to get the results I need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?

Able to accurately track each and every donation and print out receipts letters thourgh Little Green Light each time you enter donations. That gives us less than 24 hour turn around on thanking the donor. Being able to keep so many aspects of a donors demographics in the data base to enhance our fundraising efforts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ginna W.
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What do you like best about Little Green Light?

Little Green Light is extremely intuitive and easy to use if you have any CRM experience.

If there is anything you aren't sure about, you simply click on help and search their knowledge base, watch their helpful videos, or write a query to their support team who gets back to you in no time at all with exactly the answer you need.

That it is seamless with MailChimp (and other similar services)

That it is seamless with Stripe (and other payment services) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Little Green Light?

If there were to be anything I might dislike, it would only be that it is not integrated with a wealth database to evaluate donor potential (something Raiser's Edge does but for a few magnitudes greater cost) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?

I was first introduced to LGL by a national fundraiser when I worked at a small, non-profit liberal arts and sciences college, and we were initiating a capital campaign. The college had originally started with Blackbaud's Raiser's Edge, but it was too expensive and too cumbersome for a brand-new educational institution. So to cut costs, we went to LGL.

When I transitioned over to a nascent Literary Festival that had no CRM and was being sold hard by Blackbaud, I convinced them to save money and start their CRM efforts with LGL so they could raise money, take donations, sell tickets to both fundraisers and Festival events all in one place, with virtually no overhead and great support.

It has been the best solution and donations have grown almost 75% in two years.

The non-profit Festival has been able to coordinate all its MailChimp blasts and incoming donations so is growing strong, with a barebones staff and minimal cost thanks to LGL Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Little Green Light?

LGL is so user-friendly and intuitive, works equally well on a Mac and PC and the amount of free support is the best. It's the right size tool for both nonprofits I work at. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Little Green Light?

I honestly can't think of one. I inherited it from my predecessor in one job and liked it so much that I recommended it for my second job. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?

As a one-woman development office, I appreciate the time it saves me, how easily the information I need is always at my fingertips and the price/ROI. My previous software was too big and clunky - I guess it worked for much larger institutions with many decades of fundraising history and 1000s of donors. But if you don't have that and don't need that, why pay for it? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Helen A.
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What do you like best about Little Green Light?

I find LGL very intuitive to use, and when I can't figure something out, their customer support is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Little Green Light?

Just occasionally there's some surprising omissions, like the lack of ability to use event fields in acknowledgment letters Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?

It allows almost all our donor interactions to be managed/recorded in one system, and also integrates with other platforms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Elise H.
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Development & Communications Manager
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What do you like best about Little Green Light?

Intuitive, lots of features to help with bulk changes. Quick customer service response (usually less than 24hrs). Easy forms integration, lots of customization options. Being web-based, I can double-check donor records on the go to be prepared at meetings or networking opportunities. Love that this is a volunteer management system as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Little Green Light?

Wish I could "turn off" some fields I don't use to make queries easier. The mailchimp integration isn't very user-friendly and it seems like nobody on the LGL side (or the Mailchimp side) really understands how it works. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?

LGL is the most important tool my fundraising team has. We not only track donors, in-kind donors, sponsors, and funders, but we also track youth & adult program alumni, volunteers, and community partnerships. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mary H.
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What do you like best about Little Green Light?

Little Green Light is a cloud-based fundraising database solution that provides a great deal of flexibility and muscle for the price. It's got just about everything most small non-profits need to track their donors, campaigns, and even grants. The online tutorials are easy to find and easy to use. Best of all, if you get stuck you can always send a question via email and get a very prompt response - usually within hours. I highly recommend it for my clients and have set it up for four organizations so far. Everyone loves it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Little Green Light?

About the only thing I don't like is probably because I have yet to spend the time to master it. That's the events module. I should spend more time on that one!

Also, LGL doesn't have the kind of ticket selling capabilities that some organizations need. You can "sell" raffle tickets, for instance, but I have yet to see it set up for much point of sale work. I believe that could be accomplished as well, as long as you're not a performing arts organization seeking to link to a much larger ticketing agency! Then again, those places aren't selling many tickets these days! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?

Volunteers can use LGL to track their prospects and contacts. One board chair likes it better than the software he uses to track contacts for his job! It's easy to set up a task, assign it to a person, and then report out on it with a contact report. This system also works well with tracking foundation and other grant deadlines and also setting tasks for submitting final reports. It's a great system to keep people on task as the system will also send reminders so you know what you're supposed to work on in a given week.

The tributes section also works very well in tracking memorial and honor gifts. In the old version, you had to set up a constituent for the person memorialized, which doesn't exactly make sense as they are, most likely, no longer with us!

The mailing system works well for selecting a group to mail to and allows you to cull the list of individual records. It automatically deletes the deceased and bad addresses, giving you a more streamlined approach to mailings. If you aren't printing the letters yourself, you can download the mailing list once it's all set and send it to a mail house in excel or csv format. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Flora P.
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Development Coordinator
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What do you like best about Little Green Light?

LGL has been super easy to learn. We had to transfer all of our data over from another donor management database and it was a breeze. We didn't lose any info in the process. Also pulling reports is very simple which I appreciate. The customizable dashboard is also very nice! Overall my experience with LGL was been fantastic. Highly recommend! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Little Green Light?

I haven't been able to figure out how to customize the end of year tax acknowledgment language and also I wish we could send the tax acknowledgments to everyone through email even if they have a home address on file. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?

Having everything organized in one platform as opposed to in a million different places has been a game-changer. From the calendar feature to all donor info. Very easy to access everything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.