A basic tenet of the YMCA's mission is to strengthen communities. Those communities of people come from all ages, backgrounds, and incomes to learn, grow and thrive. As a YMCA, to make an impact in over 10,000 neighborhoods across the country, you must...

• Nurture your donors through regular communications to ensure future revenue streams.
• Broaden your reach by marketing your health, education, sports and other programs to the greater community you serve.
• Manage your donations, fundraising efforts, volunteers and employees for maximum efficiency.
• Adopt the technology that will enable you to streamline your operations and cut waste where necessary.
• Look for flexible software licensing options that fit your IT budget.
• And much more!

Organizations like the YMCA are finding a greater need to effectively manage members, volunteers, donors and other audiences. Without regular communications to each audience, and without the information most relevant to their interest in the Y, a YMCA can suffer from decreased membership, low donation rates and poor community communication.

With Microsoft Dynamics CRM (customer relationship management), you can leverage the power of software to address the issues listed above. Not only is it an efficient and easy tool that integrates with the Microsoft Outlook you use every day, the special pricing for non-profits makes it more than affordable!

Collins Computing also created the Y-Suite product in collaboration with the YMCA to combine a series of Payroll enhancements that increase the effectiveness of Microsoft Dynamics GP in a single package. Designed specifically for the YMCA, the Y-Suite includes the following customizations:

• 403B Eligibility Report — produces a list of employees who qualify, or are about to qualify, for enrollment in the YMCA Retirement Fund.
• Payroll Code Matrix — decreases the manual labor required to enter payroll information by condensing and simplifying the data entry process.
• YERDI Payroll Interface — facilitates the calculation of participant contributions to the YMCA Retirement Fund and checks the contribution limits by automating the download of payroll information.
• Payroll Export — creates a journal entry and exports a text file after payroll has been processed for the Y-Vision program.
• Void Payroll Checks — creates "void checks" general ledger transactions and exports corresponding text file to be used by the Y-Vision program.
• Retirement (YERDI) Interface — automatically enrolls newly eligible employees into the YERDI retirement system, then continually updates the system with relevant payroll information.

If you question whether your YMCA is effectively addressing the challenges listed above, now is the time to put greater focus on serving and building your community and less on managing your data, your operations, your software, and your IT resources.

We invite you to find out more about our company, Microsoft Dynamics and our implementation services for enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM) and software for YMCAs. Then give us a call at (949) 457-0500, email info@collinscomputing.com or complete the Contact Us form. Discover how Collins Computing can help you realize your greatest business potential.