Last night we rolled out a new version of little green light™ (LGL) with basic time tracking, so you can easily keep tabs on how much time your team spends on fundraising and donor management for budgeting and reporting purposes. One of our customers requested this feature, and we think it could be useful to everyone, so we built it. Here’s a quick look at how it can work.

Track time as you work

Click the clock icon to add hours to any activity (activities encompass any unit of work, including tasks, documents, notes, gifts, and goals) on the list.

Filter activities to get the list you want

Look at activities by any combination of date range, team member, list, type, constituent group, or constituent tags (key words). 

Export the results as a report

Export the full result set for any activity search into a spreadsheet to view hours, team member, and role information for each activity. 

Honorable mention

Other noteworthy features and updates in this release include: 

• Campaigns and funds list – view all of your campaigns and funds in one unified list, with financial progress information for each
• Better reminders – now all of your task reminders (anything due within the next 48 hours) are bundled in one e-mail sent to you once a day
• Dashboard calendar – overdue tasks and contact reports now stand out from the rest of the items on your calendar

We launched little green light™ (LGL) to a worldwide audience at NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in April.  NTC is the place for nonprofit leaders to engage with technology that can be critical to their success. Nearly 1400 people come together from across the country and around the world to connect with peers. As the NTC website puts it, “now, more than ever, nonprofits need to invest in technology to create efficiencies that increase our effectiveness.”

LGL attracted steady interest from a wide range of people who came by our booth and asked great questions. Some were development professionals, others were consultants to non-profits, and still others were searching for tech solutions to help their non-profits achieve the mission.

We gave away a box of T-shirts and collected a pile of business cards from folks who were interested in LGL and registered to win our green iPod Nano. By the end of the Science Fair, we had engaged dozens of people in serious conversation about LGL and how it can help them do donor management better.

An interesting pattern emerged in our conversations:

• People were really excited about the unique collaboration aspect of LGL.
• The project management/task management orientation in LGL made a big impact on people: they want to use their data effectively as both a management and reporting tool!
• The cost surprised people; they had assumed our subscription rate was a per-person fee, and they were impressed we can offer such a high-quality product at an affordable price.

Nick hangs the banner

Chris setting up the computer

Chris talks to an interested conference attendee

Nick presenting the iPod Nano to Dennis Chyba of adcieo