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Rickie Cruz

Coven for nonprofits

You are running a 501(c)(3) — or working toward one — on a donation form, a spreadsheet, and the goodwill of two volunteers. Coven is one place for the money, the people, the programs and the board.

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No signup. Fictional data, rebuilt from scratch every night.

Governance is the part nobody else builds

Board roster and terms, meeting agendas, minutes, and resolutions recorded against the meeting that passed them. Donor CRMs stop at the donor and accounting software stops at the ledger. A small nonprofit's hardest month is the one where it has to prove what it decided and when.

What you get

A board meeting with its agenda, attendance and recorded resolutions.

Board & governance

Board roster with seats and terms, meeting agendas, minutes, and resolutions recorded against the meeting that passed them — the record your auditor, your state filing and your next board chair all ask for.

A month of donations, grants and reimbursements with restricted funds kept separate.

Donations, grants & reimbursements

Donations with acknowledgements, restricted and unrestricted funds, grant reporting periods, and volunteer reimbursements that go through an approval instead of a payment app. Moving money between your own accounts is never counted as spending.

A person's record with membership, giving history and event attendance.

Members, donors & participants

One record per person: membership status, giving history, waivers, the programs they joined and the events they attended. No second list to keep in sync.

A shift schedule with signups and logged volunteer hours.

Volunteers & shifts

Roles, shifts, signups and hours. Hours roll up into the totals grant applications ask for, without anyone rebuilding the spreadsheet in March.

A program with its sessions, leaders and attendance.

Programs & sessions

Programs, their sessions, who ran them and who showed up — the numbers your annual report needs, collected as the year happens rather than reconstructed after it.

A fundraiser with its signups, assigned volunteers, and cost against what it raised.

Fundraisers & community events

Ticketed or free signup, capacity, volunteers assigned, and what the event actually cost against what it raised.

A gear library showing what is checked out and to whom.

Gear & donated goods

What you own, what was donated, who has it and when it is due back. Gear libraries are where small organizations quietly lose the most money.

The public site and community calendar an organization publishes on its own domain.

Public site & community calendar

Your public website and the calendar your community actually reads, edited by your own team on your own domain — the same events, not a second copy of them.

Why not a donor CRM

A donor CRM is excellent at donors and blind to everything else — your gear, your volunteer hours, your board minutes, your public calendar. You end up with the CRM plus four other subscriptions and a spreadsheet holding them together.

Coven's bet is the opposite one: the combination is the product. No donor CRM does board governance and gear inventory, because neither is a big enough market on its own. For a thirty-person organization they are the same job.

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