history

donor.com may be a new name, but we have a long history in fundraising software...

timeline

1963 - World Vision’s first computer system went live, programmed by Hayne Baucom.

1975 - Hayne Baucom forms Donor Automation (DA), installing the first DASCO system at Mission Aviation Fellowship, and growing DA client base over the next 25 years

1999 - DonorWare LLC founded, offering the DASCO software from DA in an ASP/Service Bureau model

2001 - DonorWare LLC acquires Donor Automation, with the two staff teams fully merging. (Hayne Baucom retires, but remains a company partner and consultant)

2003 – DonorWare LLC systems manage 10,000,000 constituent/donor accounts for 36 organizations raising $400,000,000 for Kingdom work.

2004 - DonorWare LLC unveils DASCO 3 (the third major release in 30 years) and announces plans for the DonorWare Foundation.

2006 - DonorWare LLC changes ownership from a partnership to the DonorWare Foundation, a 501(c)3 charity.

2008 - DonorWare LLC rebrands to donor.com

2015 - donor.com is bought by Metro International Church

interview

Hayne Baucom left his career as a nuclear engineer in the early 60's to work as a mail clerk for a charity. Watch this video to learn how his choice laid the foundation for what is now donor.com.

Our History

donor.com's systems have been looking after the details of enterprise-level fundraising and constituent management for non-profit organizations for over 30 years.

donor.com's core module, DASCO (in its 21st release), has been built on the enhancements and requests of real organizations, and provides decades of hard-earned business knowledge about how fundraising data needs to be handled.

DASCO designer Hayne Baucom helped implement the original fund-raising database for World Vision in 1962, meaning DASCO business logic encompasses over 40 years of real-world experience. donor.com’s software was performing CRM, one-to-one relationship marketing, and network economy communications long before those concepts became modern day buzz phrases.

Hayne founded Donor Automation in 1975 and designed the entire line of original Donor Automation products which donor.com now uses as part of its core systems. Prior to starting Donor Automation, which was acquired by DonorWare LLC in 2001, Hayne had a varied background as a nuclear engineer and as an IBM project coordinator. Hayne wrote the very first fundraising database for World Vision in the early 1960s, back when a 4K memory unit was the size of a refrigerator.

Hayne also assisted Campus Crusade in the 1970’s with their first systems, while growing the Donor Automation client base over the next 25 years. Hayne has served on the Christian Management Association Board of Directors, and received the 1994 Robert O. Fraley Award from the Evangelical Development Ministry for a lifetime of innovative development service to Christian development officers. Hayne has been a respected figure in the Christian fundraising community for over four decades.

Since 1975, billions of dollars in donations have passed through the DASCO system.

DonorWare LLC began doing business as donor.com in 2008.

In 2015, Metro International Church Foundation purchased donor.com to continue the software and the mission of donor.com to be the fundraising software choice of many Kingdom focused organizations making an impact in the world. donor.com Inc is now a Tennessee registered corporation.