Little Green Light

Score9.2 out of 10

31 Reviews and Ratings

What is Little Green Light?

Little Green Light offers cloud-based donor management software for nonprofits, used to manage donors, track fundraising activities, generate reports, manage events, and create online donation forms. Plans include unlimited users with no contracts, and no set up or cancellation fees.

Categories & Use Cases

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Role-based user permissions
Permissions to perform actions or access or modify data are assigned to roles, which are then assigned to users, reducing complexity of administration
Category average: 7.9
Constituent engagement and marketing
Email, text, phone, print mailings, digital ads, and/or social media communications capabilities are available for constituent engagement and marketing.
Category average: 6.9
Reporting and data visualization
Track donor retention and acquisition, campaign success, and incoming donations recommendations for ask amounts, donors at risk of lapsing.
Category average: 6.9

Most Frequent Users

Top 3 industries using Little Green Light.

Based on HG Insights installation data

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#1 most frequent

Other Services (except Public Administration)

29.1%

949 installations of 3,261

#2 most frequent

Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation

10.6%

346 installations of 3,261

#3 most frequent

Health Care and Social Assistance

9.8%

318 installations of 3,261

Shannon Hill

Development Associate in Research & Development at North Coast Community Homes (11-50 employees)

Pros

Donor Management
Volunteer Management
Pledge Management
Relationship Tracking
Campaign Management
Integration with other platforms
Event Tracking

Cons

Pulling reports have posed to be a little difficult for me
Donor search criteria
When entering a payment currently you are not able to apply one payment to multiple pledges

Most Important Features

Relationship tracking
Dashboard layout
Pledge and Payment Tracking

Return on Investment

It has made my job a great deal easier
Time and Money saving program

Alternatives Considered

Salesforce CMS and DonorPerfect

Other Software Used

DonorPerfect, dotConnect for Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Verified User

Administrative Assistant in Customer Service (51-200 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to keep track of donations and relationships between our community. Its was good way to pull reports current and from previous years.

Pros

Manage donors
Send out tax forms
Effective report writing

Cons

Adding relationships between constituents could be explained how to do this a little easier.
The help desk could use some help. More clear explanation about how to pull specific reports.

Return on Investment

it has had a positive impact in the fact that i can approach donors and up the ask from the previous year.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

OneCause

Other Software Used

OneCause

Verified User

Consultant in Marketing (1-10 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Little Green Light for our CRM - we do not use it to its full capacity, and I would like to start. That is my goal for 2024. We use it for tracking our donors and donations. It offers great reporting, but we do not use it. We use it to pull tax letters and that is about it. I have been researching this year and plan to implement reporting to reengage lapsed donors.

Pros

Ease of entering donations
Ease of creating tax letters
Ease of templated thank you notes
Ability to have multiple types of thank you notes: Recurring, New Donor, In Honor Of.....

Cons

I think the pulling lists could be easier and exporting the results
I would love more webinars to learn extended features
Tax letters to provide a PDF - this was in the works and hopefully is ready for this year tax season.
Ability to attach a file to an email

Return on Investment

After the previous page I see we are missing several areas of opportunity with this product
We do not use many of the features due to concern for change
I love being able to see how many new donors we get

Alternatives Considered

OneCause, Givebutter and DonorPerfect

Other Software Used

Buffer, Mailchimp, Canva

Emily Westlake, MNPL View profile

Development and Community Partnership Manager in Research & Development at CHOOSE 180 (11-50 employees)

Pros

Donor touch tracking (calls, meetings, etc.)
Relationships and stewardship
Forms for event and other registrations
Financial reporting and gift tracking
Great support team! I was initially worried because they don't have a contact number, but they reply to support questions really quickly and are always helpful.

Cons

Tracking partners/spouses is a bit ambiguous, whether to track as two separate individuals or the same contact (both have their pros and cons).
Not strong in grant tracking/reporting
No app (yet!)

Return on Investment

It only works with Stripe, so we have to manually log recurring and on-time online gifts.
Easy to use and easy to train so I can trust that volunteers using the database will use it correctly.
Makes pulling fundraising reports seamless.

Alternatives Considered

Salesforce CMS

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), Apricot by Social Solutions, Asana

Bonnie Hammond

Executive Director at Save a Forgotten Equine (1-10 employees)

Pros

Saves time and steps when receiving, categorizing, and acknowledging donations.
It is a powerful relational database with the flexibility to view information in many different ways.

Cons

I wish the LGL Forms could send notices when a customer's recurring payment fails.
More integration with other programs would be wonderful.

Return on Investment

The better I know my donors, the more comfortable they are making gifts to my organization.
LGL lends us the professionalism that gives our donors confidence.

Alternatives Considered

Salesforce for Nonprofits

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365 Business, Adobe Acrobat DC, Adobe Illustrator CC, Adobe Photoshop

Neon CRM

DonorPerfect

Kindful (discontinued, now part of Bloomerang)

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