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THE BIPS DISPATCH Spring 2009

President's Corner

Did you know that you should be backing up your BIPS database nightly? Most organizations back network files up nightly, however, there are some that do not. Check with you local Information Technology Department to see when they do it. As a reminder, BIPS gives you the option to backup your data when and where you want! Don't let all of your hard work go to waste!!!

We would like to take this opportunity to officially wave good-bye to Winter and welcome SPRING!! We know you have been working hard and we are, too. Check out our new BIPS Done For You service and our new website layout. As always, we welcome your thoughts and/or ideas to make your life at work easier!

Warm wishes,
Susan DameGreene
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BIPS Done For You

BIPS is proud to announce our newest service in Planned Giving Administration! BIPS Done For You!

We do the work so you don't have to. Leave it to the planned giving professionals at BIPS to track, project and report all your Planned Gifts, both future and realized.

BIPS Done For You is exactly what it says it is, "Done for You"! That's right, all your Planned Giving administration is handled by one of our BIPS professionals. With BIPS Done For You, simplify the whole Planned Giving administration process, move the workload to us and free up time for your Non-Profit to dedicate to the business of development!

Call today and we'll demonstrate how cost efficient and valuable our new service "BIPS Done For You" can be for your Non-Profit.

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Introducing Holly Platt, Managing Director of BIPS Done For You

We are so excited to introduce Holly Platt as Managing Director of our new service,
BIPS Done For You. Holly has worked at BIPS for more than 3 years and has been in Finance and Accounting for 10+ years for companies including OneBeacon Insurance, Liberty Mutual and Baring Asset Management. Holly is a graduate of Providence College and holds a B.A. in English. Holly is currently enrolled in the Boston College Carroll School of Management MBA program. She is also a member of the Partnership for Philanthropic Planning.

Give BIPS a call today at 978-744-3180 or email Susan at susan@bipster.com to talk with her regarding our new "BIPS Done For You" program. Let us take care of your Planned Giving administration so you can concentrate on the important work of development!!

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SPOTLIGHT ON BEATRIZ REA

Written by Kevin Wright, Director of Marketing and Project Management

We sat down with Beatriz Rea, Planned Giving Director for the "Capuchin Franciscan Friars" this month to find out what BIPS does to make Beatriz's job a little easier at this well known and reputable Non-Profit.

Beatriz admits she "fell into" Planned Gift Administration quite by accident. It all began four years ago when Beatriz joined the Capuchin Franciscan Friars for a few months to cover the Director of Finance while in maternity leave. Beatriz ended up staying at the Capuchins with a different role, to reactivate a 8 years inactive Planned Giving program. Beatriz recalls (as I'm sure many of us can relate) boxes and boxes of files to sort through and bequests to keep track of. In short, the job was impossible for 1 person to administer.

It was then that a peer at another Non-Profit suggested Beatriz look into BIPS for her Planned Giving Administration. She called Susan at BIPS for a demonstration of our software and hasn't looked back since. Now, instead of room filled boxes and file cabinets she has access to everything at her fingertips on her laptop, mobile so the data goes where Beatriz goes. "It's truly amazing how much time your software saves me" Beatriz tells us. She has cut her work load nearly 40% by administering everything through BIPS. Now, instead of piles of reminder notes, hundreds of files and paperwork....BIPS does all the reminding and paperwork organizing for her. Her favorite features include tracking and forecasting features of the software and she even uses BIPS to help in Friars' prospecting.

BIPS also helps her keep in touch with attorneys and financial advisors so the Friars never miss a bequest they would otherwise have missed without the software. Beatriz admits "One person can now do the work of four", and that's what we like to hear from our happy clients that really take full advantage of everything our software has to offer.

We at BIPS want to thank Beatriz Rea of the Capuchin Franciscan Friars for taking time out of her busy schedule to sit down with us and give an honest assessment of how our software works for her and the Non-Profit she works for.

Beatriz has been a Planned Giving Director for four years, she was born in Madrid, Spain and currently resides in New Jersey just outside of New York City.

OTLIGHT ON BROTHER JAMES BROWN

BIPS Training 2009

July 16 & 17

Salem, MA

September 17 & 18
Salem, MA

BIPS Training 2010

January 7 & 8
Safety Harbor Spa
Near Tampa, FL

BIPS Rewards

Refer a colleague to us who signs up for BIPS Done For You and you and your colleague will get
$200 BIPS Bucks Certificate
and
$25 Amazon.com Gift Certificate!

Humor Corner
When I die, I want to die like my grandfather, who died peacefully in his sleep, not screaming like all the passengers in his car!

Death on Vacation

During their vacation and while they were visiting Jerusalem, George's mother-in-law died. With death certificates in hand, George went to the American Consulate Office to make arrangements to send the body back to the states for proper burial.

The Consul, after hearing of the death of the
mother-in-law told George that the sending of a body back to the states for burial is very, very expensive. It could cost as much as $5,000.

The Consul continues, "In most cases the person responsible for the remains normally decides to bury the body here. This would only cost $150.00."

George thinks for some time and answers, "I don't care how much it will cost to send the body back; that's what I want to do."

The Consul, after hearing this, says, "You must have loved your mother-in-law very much considering the difference in price."

"No, it's not that," says George.

"You see, I know of a case years ago of a person that was buried here in Jerusalem. On the third day he arose from the dead! I just can't take that chance.

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