# Little Green Light Reviews **Vendor:** Little Green Light **Category:** [Nonprofit CRM Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/nonprofit-crm) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 63 ## About 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. ## Little Green Light Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of Little Green Light, benefiting from its seamless integration with other software. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **seamless integrations** of Little Green Light, enhancing convenience with other software tools. (1 reviews) - Users love the **intuitive design** of Little Green Light, making connections with other software seamless and easy. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users note a **learning curve** to start with Little Green Light, but find it becomes easy once mastered. (1 reviews) ## Little Green Light Reviews ### 1. Powerful Search and Reporting, but the UI Feels Clunky on Mobile **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eli N. | Program Director, Non-Profit Organization Management, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2026 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** Very powerful search and reporting functions **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** It has an old fashioned feel, a Clunky UI, and it's not built for phones at all **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tracking donor details and very specific information about each donation ### 2. Remarkably well appointed software with powerful tools for small development teams. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Emily K. | Director of Development & Communications, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 12, 2024 **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. **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. **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. ### 3. LGL makes membership mangement easier! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 12, 2024 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** The user friendly platform and it's connection to other software platforms we use. **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. **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. ### 4. LGL is a great CRM option for small to medium nonprofits **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amy C. | Owner/Principal, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 19, 2023 **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. **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. **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. ### 5. Excellent and user friendly CRM **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 11, 2023 **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. **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. **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. ### 6. best CRM for the money, especially for young non-profits **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ginna W. | Partner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 13, 2022 **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) **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) **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 ### 7. LGL is the best **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Fund-Raising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 07, 2022 **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. **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. **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? ### 8. Intuitive to use and great customer service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Helen A. | Operations Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2022 **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. **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 **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 ### 9. User-friendly, great customer service, easy-to-access web-based CRM **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Elise H. | Development & Communications Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2022 **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. **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. **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. ### 10. Best affordable fundraising database for small non-profits **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mary H. | Harwood Consulting, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2020 **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! **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! **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. ### 11. Easy to use! Favorite donor management software! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Flora P. | Development Coordinator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 11, 2022 **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! **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. **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. ### 12. Great value **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Barbara H. | Director of Advancement, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** Little Green Light is like the swiss army knife of CRMs for any nonprofit on a budget. It's been an excellent CRM tool to record, track, communicate, and report donor activities. **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** I don't think the moves management tool is that easy to use. There's something about the vertical rather than horizontal view that is not intuitive. **Recommendations to others considering Little Green Light:** If you are okay with chat support instead of phone support, then you should be okay with LGL. At first, it's a little discouraging that you can't talk to someone. Many times, it is easier to explain something in a conversation than it is over text. However, the LGL support team stick with the back and forth until we have understanding including step-by-step instructions. I appreciate the special help I've received in designing a particular report in a particular way. It can sometimes be a rubrics cube and I appreciate their guidance on these questions. **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** Right now it's all about correcting data that was transferred from Blackbaud by a previous admin. Correcting the history is painstaking and tedious. ### 13. Little Green Light is a gem! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** Little Green Light is an invaluable resource for nonprofits, especially small nonprofits. It's designed for nonprofits and its customer service is tops! **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** It's hard to think of something to dislike about LGL. One item on my wish list is having custom domain names in the Form module. **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** After trying to shoehorn CRMs designed for the for-profit sector, it's refreshing to have fundraising and steward menus out of the box. ### 14. Small but mighty CRM for developing nonprofits **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hadley A. | Development Assistant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** I like the flexibility of the query tool. **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** I dislike the simplicity. You cannot create custom widgets to compare different funds, etc. **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** Little Green Light helped us to keep track of donor giving and was simple for our users to navigate. ### 15. Little green light all the way! **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Darby M. | PSA Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** Little Green Light is a user-friendly platform that can benefit and work smarter for nonprofits - specifically in the animal field. The platform makes collecting donations, donor information, and donor communication a breeze. **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** Little Green Light can be a little ridged in their public-facing pages. But with a little coding knowledge, and connection to other platforms, you can work through that issue! Otherwise, the company has great support and training to help out. **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** Little Green Light fills the job of capturing donor information, donations, and proving a database of information for all donors. It allows for the donor team to easily find and locate donor information with ease. ### 16. Loving our Experience with LGL! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amy J. | Development Coordinator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 24, 2022 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** Easy and user friendly. Tons of features. Everything we need to effectively track donations and send emails. **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** Nothing I can think of. Everything works well to our needs. **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are tracking our donors and segmenting groups better to tailor campaigns. ### 17. Love This System **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bill T. | Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** Simple, straightforward to use. Does everything I need **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** Nothing at all to dislike about Little Green Light. **Recommendations to others considering Little Green Light:** Take a look. Try the demo. Then decide **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** With LGL I have accurate information for my database of donors and interested people. Linked to Mail Chip it is easy to send communications. ### 18. Recommend using LGL for a nonprofit's CRM system **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2021 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** The price is great for what you get in LGL. It's relatively easy to use, and it's customizable to what your organization needs as well. **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** I wish there were more app integrations, like Stripe, into the system. It would also be great to auto-populate gifts rather than to enter manually. **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** I appreciate having a CRM be flexible to our organization's needs rather than to adjust to the CRM. ### 19. Donor management for nonprofit **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Philanthropy | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** Learning LGL is easy and the customer service is very supportive. It's great for teams as there are levels of user authorizations, from only viewing to full editor to admin. **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** Sometimes the reports can be cumbersome but after running a few you get a hang of it. There are many fields you can include which is nice but can be overwhelming **Recommendations to others considering Little Green Light:** There are many donor management options and we explored many. The ease of use and customer service made LGL our obvious choice and performs all the tasks we need of it. **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use LGL for donor management and grant tracking. ### 20. Great product for anyone on a budget **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 04, 2022 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** It is intuitive, user-friendly for non-techy types, and affordable. **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** We haven't found any downsides. It does everything we need. **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** LGL makes it easy to track and analyze donations. ### 21. Excellent high value CRM for small non-profits, especially schools **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Timothy K. | Advancement Office **Reviewed Date:** June 11, 2021 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** Very effective especially for private schools. Killer customer service, ease of use and flexible menus. Pricing is lowest industry standard, value very high. **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** Nothing so far, satisfies our needs as a small private school **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solves tracking donors with extensive infomation menus, tracking donations, acknowledgments, reports, etc. ### 22. Extremely useful for small orgs **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Performing Arts | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** It's a great fundraising CRM if you aren't also dealing with ticket sales; it's simple, effective, and much less clunky than Salesforce or Patronmanager. **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** Its integration with Stripe doesn't work as well as for PayPal, and the fees can be prohibitive for automating. **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** LGL is valuable for streamlining donor relationships and tracking past giving. ### 23. A lot of donor management tools in a small package **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** Little Green Light is easy to use and to set up. It is an excellent value for the money as well. **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** I have not come across any downsides as of yet **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** We get many online donations, and now that I've started using their forms for donations, all I have to do is accept them. It is now a huge time saver, especially with new donors. ### 24. Easy To Use **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** Little Green Light is fairly easy to use. The home screen is laid out nicely and makes navigating easy. It is easy to keep up with financial records as well as keep a list of contacts. I also really like the Forms feature which allows you to create forms that guests can submit for tickets or raffles. **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** It doesn't seem to be compatible with Microsoft Word which I find odd and annoying. **Recommendations to others considering Little Green Light:** It is a very good service to use for small non-profits. I believe that it makes donor management much easier for organizations and it is fairly easy to learn and use. **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** I work for a non profit museum so we are able to easily keep up with donations and keep an updated list of donors. It also allows us to sell tickets to our fundraising events and raffles directly through the site which is very convenient. **Official Response from Andrew Leddy:** > Sorry you weren’t able to find information about how we’re integrated with Microsoft Word. In LGL you can upload letter templates created in Microsoft Word, so you can take full advantage of the formatting options in Word while also using the many merge fields available in our mail merge feature. The merged letters are then available as a Word download. Here’s a link to our help article on this topic: https://help.littlegreenlight.com/article/133-microsoft-word-letters ### 25. Little Green Light continues to improve **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2020 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** It's great for smaller non-profits if you are you looking to track certain data. For example- with donors you can track their history and pull their info up very easily. **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** It is still improving and growing, so currently it doesn't offer support for mobile growing. But they are always working so I wouldn't be surprised if this feature is added. **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps us manage donations and has also helped us track who and when statistics for those that are recurring. ### 26. Nonprofit CRM **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tracy J. | Owner, Accounting, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 02, 2016 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** When working for a nonprofit you need a solution that is very user friendly for staff and volunteers. This program covers all of this. The donation bulk entry makes campaign entry quick and easy. I also like that I can see specifically when my letters have been sent. Our auditor has been very happy to see that we can tie out between LGL and QBO. **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** I wish there was integration direct from Quickbooks Online. Other than this, I think the system fulfills all of our needs. If there had to be one thing we were wishing was there, that would be a mobile app and the ability to process our credit cards directly into LGL. Nicer emails for thank you letters would be great too but I have a feeling there is that option but we haven't looked into it enough with our Mail Chimp integration. **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy reporting on donors, seamless solution for sending tax letters, fundraising made simple! **Official Response from Hunter Williams:** > Thanks for this review Tracy. One update to share is that Little Green Light launched an integration with QuickBooks Online in 2019, and it's now one of our most popular integrations! ### 27. Others do not like but I love **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** J N. | Regional Assistant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** While our company is phasing out LGL, I love it. I love the ease of searching by either their ID number or their name. Very simple to pull who donated to a specific campaign or who attended a fundraiser. **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** The only issue when searching by name is you cannot misspell it or it does not come up. I am a fairly new user so I have not found anything I dislike as of yet **Recommendations to others considering Little Green Light:** Our company is migrating to salesforce... not sure why but must have some amount of limitations **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use LGL to track our donations. ### 28. Low cost donor management database **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** This database is the easiest on our budget, and Little Green Light offers ample support to get started with the website! It's also really amazing to have volunteering data in the same database- we will definitely get more use out of that feature this year. **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** It is a bit overwhelming to get started-- you definitely need to explore the database and watch/read some tutorials to get an idea of what you're getting yourself into! **Recommendations to others considering Little Green Light:** Prepare to spend a good chunk of time inputting all of your existing data and figuring out the features of this website! It's worth the time it takes on the front end. **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're finally getting all of our donors into one system where we can easily review their previous gifts and communicate with them effectively. It also has ways to track volunteer hours, which we plan to utilize this year! ### 29. Great simple solution for small nonprofits **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** Little Green Little is small, but mighty. It allows us to cost-effectively organize our donors and members. **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** We would like individual logins at some point and customer service is only available online & email-no phone support . **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can organize and better use our data to communicate with donors and clients ### 30. Great for small non-profits **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2019 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** Ease of use is incredible and search for donors is great **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** The more constituents the more expensive it becomes **Recommendations to others considering Little Green Light:** Wonderful product for a reasonable cost to a small non profit **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** Donor and alumni data collection in one successful program ### 31. Easy to use donor software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civic & Social Organization | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 12, 2019 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** Little Green Light is great due to its simplicity! **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** LGL’s forms and acknowledgments take some getting used to **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pulling reports with selected data simplifies our work dramatically. ### 32. Best fit CRM for small nonprofits **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Loree L. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 09, 2018 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** I appreciate how well LGL provides all critical functions of a CRM at an incredibly affordable price - this provides an especially important resource for smaller nonprofits who don't have big budgets for enterprise-level systems. LGL support is also unparalleled - questions are always answered within 24 hours, and often much faster. Their assistance is always personal and clear. These are also really important functions for smaller nonprofits who have limited staff members and time and need personal, quick help to continue moving forward. **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** I really don't have many things I dislike about this product. Perhaps that it does not do the household function as many other more complex CRMs do. **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** This product is incredibly helpful solving fundraising problems for nonprofits, allowing them to track all donor and potential donor relationships as well as specific fundraising efforts such as campaigns, appeals, and events. ### 33. Basic Fundraising CRM **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Religious Institutions | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** The interface is easy to navigate, has good integration features with MailChimp and Wufoo **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** It's difficult to manage families and search for parents based on their children's criteria; it is also difficult to do advanced analytics on data **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are tracking our fundraising goals, managing relationships, and using it as our main database for all constituent data ### 34. Great CRM for a Nonprofit Organization **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2018 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** Little Green Light has all the features for a nonprofit to use. The fields were made to be used for a nonprofit organization. It also allows some customization. **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** During initial setup with the upload and import of an existing file may not fit the fields of the Little Green Light fields. **Recommendations to others considering Little Green Light:** Highly recommended. **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** The organizing, updating, and tracking of donor information. Keeping track of donor support with each fundraiser and campaigns. ### 35. Fits our needs perfectly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Legal Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2018 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** What I like about Little Green Light is how it seems like it was designed just for my org. As a small but growing nonprofit, we use Little Green Light to track donors and accept donations but plan to use it for some of its other features as we expand. **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** There are so many features that I found myself using google searches for quick and easy instructions on how to accomplish a task rather than trial and error. **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** I really liked the ability to build a donation form within Little Green Light then copy and paste code into our Square Space website. The form was SUPER customize-able and we're able to accept secure donations. The charge for processing donations is less than or comparable to any other platform. ### 36. Great organizational tool for a nonprofit. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 26, 2018 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** I like the organizational structure. When you have a large number of donors from a wide variety of avenues, it can be hard to keep them organized and still searchable. I also like the integration with MailChimp. **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** It's not immediately intuitive. Learning curve could be minimized with better tutorials. Would like to see a little more ability to track and report data. **Recommendations to others considering Little Green Light:** Learn the ins and outs to get the most out of it! **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** We've solved the issue or organizing donors. This allows us to target certain groups easier. We've realized that this will help with targeting repeat donors specifically. ### 37. A great value in a fundraising CRM **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2018 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** This is a inexpensive system for non-profits with smaller budgets. It packs a lot of features for the cost, , including a really nice import module. **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** The interface could use an update. More dashboards would be nice. **Recommendations to others considering Little Green Light:** Think about revenue coding when setting up as the nomenclature is different from other, more commonly known, systems. **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** It interfaces with MailChimp, which our previous CRM did not. From a marketing standpoint, we've realized some gains. ### 38. Little Green Light Makes Donor Tracking Easy **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civic & Social Organization | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2017 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** I like how many features Little Green Light offers to keep track of donors and donations. Especially for more complicated donations (donations made through Employee matching programs, donations made through Donor-Advised Funds), LGL makes it super easy to tie multiple constituents to one gift. **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** I wish that certain tags–especially those that appear under the constituent category–were more customizable. Wish that you could edit out things like the school district section to make constituent categories more useful for your org's specific needs. **Recommendations to others considering Little Green Light:** Definitely go through some of the guides published by LGL before creating tags, groups, etc. so that you know how all of the different categorization settings work and how to best use the categories to suit your organization's needs. **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use LGL to keep track of donations to our organization. It's been super helpful in allowing us to track gifts and donors, and to quickly pull reports based on certain tags and categories. ### 39. Very good **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Maria B. | Operations Manager, Non-Profit Organization Management, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2017 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** I love this software since it helps use keep track of our donors profiles, donations and other database related topics. Its very easy to navigate and very user friendly. Its reliable most of the time and doesnt time out quickly **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** Sometimes it saturates and starts running slow. I have to log out and then back in. Doesn’t happen that often though **Recommendations to others considering Little Green Light:** This is a great software to track donations in particular **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** We track our donation. Basically this is our database for major donors, track money and more. ### 40. Simple, effective, and affordable - LGL is ideal for our organization **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civic & Social Organization | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2017 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** LGL simplifies the process of donor management. Its search function is far more user-friendly than the query features on other CRM systems I have used, and the automatic categorization of top donors, active donors, etc. makes it even easier to get a quick picture of how the fundraising year is going. **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** We recently switched to LGL from a more "robust" CRM system, and while LGL is even more user-friendly and has just as many functions, its layout is not as visually appealing. That's the only downside I can see thus far. **Recommendations to others considering Little Green Light:** There are a ton of training videos available to acquaint yourself with what LGL can do before actually signing up. Additionally, they offer an extendable free trial period so that you can play around with it before committing. **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** LGL helps us to easily access donor information for purposes of record-keeping and tailored donor outreach. It also helps us to analyze the success of our fundraising efforts and adjust as needed. ### 41. Little Green Light does it all **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2017 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** It's easy to integrate everything you need (from donation related fundraising, to volunteer info, to appeals sent via Mail Chimp). Overall, fairly intuitive to use when getting started, and you can learn more advanced features as you go. **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** I'd love for there to be more interactive help tools and videos for the more advanced features. **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's really easy to keep information on pledges, events, appeals, fundraisers, you name it. It tracks constituents, including donors and volunteers, and makes it easy to keep track of who has donated recently, which level they've donated at, etc. ### 42. Little Green Light **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 26, 2017 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** The system is easy to use once you get the hang of it. Great to run reports out of. I like the feature of being able to use and view the amount of gifts by the fund- comparing and contrasting that is very helpful. **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** It doe not fact and constituent check that easily. Often leading you to do additional work. Additionally you have to set up different searches or queries on your own. They don't come ready to go- and so it is a bit more of putting items together on your own. **Recommendations to others considering Little Green Light:** Be able to do your research through many different donor- databases. It is a great system, but another one might serve you better. **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows us to better analyze our donor and database. We can track different funds, appeals, projects, goals, pledges all withing the constituent. The benefits are that it is simple and affordable. Another benefit is that it is easy to explain to coworkers or even donors when you are working through various donations. ### 43. Helpful and affordable resource **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2017 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** The ability to do mailings and to track donor giving **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** no online support options or calling support **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** organizing our donor database ### 44. Great for not for profits **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2018 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** Ease of use and price is great for small businesses. **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** I haven't found anything that I dislike yet. **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** Donor database made simple ### 45. Best donor database I've used **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Environmental Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 09, 2017 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** LGL is super easy to use, even for people who aren't very comfortable with new technologies. The interface is easy, reporting functions are powerful, and all the little features like contact reports really help us keep track of donor information. **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** If you didn't set it up at your office, then interpreting how somebody before you decided to do things can be tough. **Recommendations to others considering Little Green Light:** I've also used eTapestry elsewhere, and I tried to manage donors in an Excel spreadsheet at one point. :/ LGL is the best value for your money, and it is very reliable with great support. **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fundraising, communications, donor information management, security, donations processing, web forms ### 46. Love what I've seen so far! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 05, 2017 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** I'm just getting started with LGL, but I love that it covers a ton of basisc for nonprofit CRM and is extremely affordable! I like that it will let me track giving by several different things - campaign, funds, etc. And I love the added feature of tracking volunteer data in the same place. I'm really looking forward to diving in and seeing more of what it has to offer! **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** It's not a beautiful interface, but my core tasks completed. **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** My client was working on primarily spreadsheet-based systems and LGL has helped bring it all in one place for a go-to resource. ### 47. Efficient and user friendly **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Laura G. | Arts Education Coordinator, Performing Arts, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2017 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** I appreciate how easy it is to input and manage donors. You can also mark connections between individuals and they're businesses. The whole interface is very organized. **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** Mailings take a lot of steps, and sometimes starting over is easier than backing up. **Recommendations to others considering Little Green Light:** Great first database program. It doesn't have the name recognition of Raiser's Edge but has all the features I need. **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our donor database is more organized, which allows better donor development. ### 48. Little Green Light - Simple to use and very effective **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2016 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** I like the ease of using LGL. I am new to fundraising and LGL has allowed me to learn how to input, track and reply to donors in an easy manner. The ease of the using the produce has assisted me in being able to spend more time with my donors and less on the technology behind everything. The ease of creating a printing reports is a huge time saver and when my boss needs information or a report, it does not take a lot of time to create and generate the report allowing us to make quick decisions. The company also offers weekly training sessions and will answer questions and train you at any time. The Dashboard makes it easy for me to see where we are compared to my goal and how that compares to previous years. Their customer service is outstanding. **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** I wish there was an easier way to import email addresses. **Recommendations to others considering Little Green Light:** I highly recommend Little Green Light if you are interested in cleaning up, growing and enhancing your database of donors. It is also highly reliable to assist in your communication plan with your donors. **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** When I first arrived at my job, we needed to clean up our database, expand our database and increase donor participation. LGL has allowed us to do all of that and do it well. ### 49. Good Basic Management **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2017 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** Easy to use and set up, easy to import spreadsheets right into LGL **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** Although it is easy to use, the interface is not very appealing **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** We did not have a tracking system before LGL. This has been very helpful in running donation reports and keeping track of donors and prospects and campaigns. ### 50. LGL review from nonprofit employee **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Claire T. | Philanthropy Freelancer, Design, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2016 **What do you like best about Little Green Light?** I like that LGL is easy to use and makes it easy to document my constituents and their donations. The ability to create campaigns, designate funds, appeals, and events to each campaign helps my organization track our progress towards our overall fundraising goals. I can accurately and efficiently track the giving trends of our donors for effective relationship building. **What do you dislike about Little Green Light?** I have struggled with the pledge installment features in LGL. I record a pledge and have it scheduled in installments; but, when I go to record an installment payment/gift, the original scheduled installment remains/doesn't register the gift payment. This makes it easy to make pledge recording errors and/or duplication. I had to do major record clean up when I took over the database and I don't trust the installment method for future payments. **Recommendations to others considering Little Green Light:** Make sure you establish your recording plans/goals/campaigns/ standards early so you can be consistent throughout the year. **What problems is Little Green Light solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our organization has only had a fundraising team for about one year and LGL has been key in the development of our department. We can use LGL's data to see who of our constituents/prospects are involved in our organization, volunteering, donating, etc. We can track their journey from prospect to active and even top donor. We use LGL to designate Major gift prospects to development team officers. We can track how much money we are gaining in what campaign. I can show relationships among donors. One benefit we have realized in the tracking of total donors. from 2014 we lost 54% of our donors, retained 56% and acquired 54% new donors. My boss is then able to present to our board proof that our efforts are working (190 new donors!), work that wouldn't be happening without our department. 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