What is Grace?The Grace Donation Manager handles the tracking of donations and donors for a non-profit organization. As donations come in for particular funds, the donation is recorded along with the donor's information. Grace also handles the printing of receipts & reports and facilitates
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common administrative operations like bank deposits and exporting of data to an accounting package.
Grace is well-suited for both the individual fundraiser as well as small-to-medium-sized organizations, and runs on both Windows (XP/Vista/7) and Linux operating systems.
Grace is free software and is released under the GNU Public License (GPL), which means that the source code for Grace is freely available – and always will be – and therefore can be modified to meet your organization's needs.
Project featuresCreate a deposit and enter donations into that deposit. Multiple line items (recipients) possible for each donation. Streamlined data entry and finalizing of a deposit. Create multiple funds to receive donations. Print receipts for donors. Print reports for fund owners (or output to PDF). Export to external accounting system. Notify fund owners of donations by email. Multiple, concurrent users with extensive logging. Copy deposits for easy re-entry of repeated sets of donations. Rapid, extensive search for deposits, donations, and donors. Runs on Microsoft Windows XP / Vista / 7, 32-bit and 64-bit editions. Note: See Installing for important details for Windows 7 users. Runs on Linux, 32-bit and 64-bit (tested on Ubuntu.) GPL-licensed open source software for infinite flexibility to meet your needs. See ScreenShots. NewsFebruary 12, 2010: Grace 0.5.2 releasedThis update fixes two significant bugs:
When fixing a donation and changing the date of the new donation, the negating donation was given the wrong date. Some reports listed donations in reverse order from what was expected.
It is recommended that all Grace users update to this release.
Follow the install/upgrade instructions in the user manual.
August 25, 2009: Grace 0.5.1 releasedAnother day, another bugfix! =) This version fixes critical bugs for Derby ("Standard installation") users.
Follow the install/upgrade instructions in the user manual.
August 22, 2009: Grace 0.5.0 releasedSee NewAndNoteworthyIn05. Also, see the Installing page if you began using Grace v0.2.x.
Changes include:
Overhauled Grace UI on both Windows & Linux. Improved icon support. Added Fix Wizard. Added "Deposit -> Open Recent" menu. Added ability to view donation and line item details in sealed deposits. Added a "Show active only" filter to the Manage Funds dialog. Added ability to save default "seal" preferences. Added ability to delete funds (which have no associated donations.) Added functionality to meet needs for 501(c)(3) accrual accounting methodology. All reports now use the deposit's posted date (rather than sealed date) to determine date ranges to report on. The "View Recent Giving" button in donor search dialogs now returns only the past two years' giving rather than all giving ("View Giving History"). More small improvements and bug fixes.
Check out the downloads section.
January 3, 2009: Grace 0.4.0 releasedChanges include:
Grace is now called "Grace Donation Manager". This is to better align with people's expectations while searching for this type of software. Grace now comes packaged as a Windows Installer (and uninstaller). No more crazy command-line stuff! 32- and 64-bit versions of Grace are now packaged together. Grace no longer requires a Java JDK to be installed from distributions. A JRE will suffice. Grace has a new logo and icons! Grace has a new user manual! Added non-tax-deductible option for line items (for honorariums, etc.) Added Credit Card donation type. Added and improved reports. Various bug fixes.
Check out the downloads section.
August 21, 2008: Grace 0.3.1 releasedChanges include:
64-bit editions are now available for Windows and Linux. Improved dual-monitor support. A number of bug-fixes that affect Linux distributions.
August 4, 2008: Changes...Grace has recently undergone an number of changes:
A new host: Google Code (formerly SourceForge) A new repository: SVN (formerly CVS) A new release: 0.3.0 (formerly 0.2.2) [Less]