In an era when so many excellent and affordable online services and tools are available, it is easy for your data to become scattered throughout many different platforms. Linseed provides a powerful user-friendly holistic general-purpose database for your community and the programs you offer - in such a way that you won't need to turn to other software for your daily tasks. Features & modules include: People • Households • Organizations • Family Relationships • Programs • Events • Memberships • Registration • Attendance • Images • Payments • Donations • Invoicing • Online Product Sales • Bank Deposits & Reconciliation • Credit Card Transactions • Notes & Tags • Email Templates • Surveys • Website integration • Brevo Integration • Online Forms • Farming Harvest & Distribution • Hiring, Contracting, Timesheets & Payroll • Shared Staff Calendar & Resource Scheduling

LIFETIME MULTI-GENERATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS with PEOPLE and FAMILIES: Linseed is designed to manage many ways that a person might be part of your community: from an interested newsletter recipient, a program applicant, a program participant, an alumni, an aspiring staff member, a contracted employee, a donor, a board member, or a parent of a future student.

UNDERSTANDING COMPLEX FAMILIES: Linseed easily accommodates the details of complex relationships between families, households, children, and adults. We model and communicate clearly between parents, step-parents, social workers, custodians, foster-parents, and children with multiple households

HASSLE-FREE CLIENT EXPERIENCE: Linseed data is highly secure and password protected, however through the use of secure links, your clients and participants can submit forms and update personal information without ever having to deal with creating user accounts, passwords, and two-factor authentication headaches.

SUPPORTING INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS: We believe that your staff should be as familiar as possible with your clients, customers, and program participants - and Linseed is carefully designed to facilitate knowing people rather than just aggregating data and information. Photographs add personal connection to client records. All incoming data from web forms is quickly and gracefully reviewed by humans before being added to the database.

POWERFUL COMMUNICATION TOOLS: Templated transactional emails (“registration welcome confirmations”, “thank you for your application”, “please complete these missing forms on your portal”, “here’s how to arrive for your program”) are quick and easy to personalize and send. SMS text messages are sent and received for short quick communications. Brevo integration makes it easy to send beautiful mass emailed newsletters and appeals.

FULL WEBSITE INTEGRATION: Create an upcoming future program or event in Linseed, and it will instantly appear on your website, complete with marketing photographs, dates, times, pricing, and registration options.

EXPORTING & REPORTING: Easily choose from dozens of reports designed for printing on paper - including mailing labels, checklists, and sophisticated analysis tools. Export data to CSV or Excel files.

MOBILE APP: Access Linseed from your mobile device to see upcoming calendar events, contact information, or emergency information for incident response.

APPROPRIATE ACCESS LEVELS: Program leaders can get limited access to Linseed in order to see information about their students and make pre-program or post-program notes - without accessing finances or confidential information.

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT: Linseed works hand-in-hand with accounting software like Quickbooks to manage tuition charges, product sales, invoicing, statements, and payments. Linseed integrates fully with STRIPE for seamless processing of credit card payments and donations.

FUNDRAISING: Receive and process donations directly into Linseed through your website. Manage complex fundraising appeals, annual grant-writing cycles, and sophisticated long-term fundraising campaigns engaging staff and board members in the soliciting and collection of pledges and major gifts.

SITES & INCIDENTS: For expedition programs, a GIS map allows staff to contribute notes about campsites and areas of interest. An incident database records notes about any safety, medical, or behavioral issues that affect the flow of a program.

DIETARY, MEDICAL & BEHAVIORAL NEEDS: Smoothly capture initial assessments of prospective students' special needs. Manage medications in the field with up--to-date prescription forms.

HIRING, CONTRACTING & PAYROLL: Hiring portal manages the recruitment and hiring process all the way through contracting, timesheets, and payroll.

AUTOMATED BACKUP: A complete backup of data in Excel spreadsheet format is delivered weekly to your administrator via email.

	Linseed is fully integrated with Brevo: An AI-powered customer platform for all your marketing and sales needs. Eail marketing, SMS, WhatsApp, and beyond: drive business growth and lasting loyalty. Brevo’s mission is to build the most approachable customer platform to deliver sustainable growth to all businesses and non-profit organizations by fostering more human and personalized connections. We consider sustainability not merely a choice but a responsibility, and we actively engage in initiatives that reflect our dedication. We proudly hold the Bronze EcoVadis and the B Corp Certification.
	For image hosting, Linseed uses Cloudinary, a cloud-based media management platform founded in 2012, that helps developers and businesses upload, transform, optimize, and deliver images and video at scale. Its API-driven approach lets teams apply on-the-fly transformations, AI-powered optimization, and adaptive delivery so visual content automatically renders fast and looks great across any device, browser, or bandwidth. Trusted by over 3 million developers and 11,000+ brands including Sony and Dropbox, Cloudinary has become foundational infrastructure for companies managing large-scale visual content and digital asset workflows.
	Linseed is hosted by Heroku Salesforce, a cloud application platform used by organizations of all sizes to deploy and operate applications throughout the world. Our platform allows organizations to focus on application development and business strategy while Heroku focuses on infrastructure management, scaling, and security. Heroku applies security best practices and manages platform security so customers can focus on their business. Our platform is designed to protect customers from threats by applying security controls at every layer from physical to application, isolating customer applications and data, and with its ability to rapidly deploy security updates without customer interaction or service interruption. click here to learn more...
	Linseed relies on Postmark. a cloud-based transactional email service built for developers, specializing in the delivery of app-triggered messages like password resets, order confirmations, and welcome emails rather than bulk marketing newsletters. Since being acquired by ActiveCampaign in 2022, Postmark now gives businesses a single platform for both transactional and marketing email, backed by ActiveCampaign's broader customer experience automation suite.
	Linseed uses Smarty (formerly SmartyStreets), a location data intelligence company specializing in address verification, standardization, autocomplete, and geocoding for businesses worldwide. Its APIs validate and correct addresses in real time — supporting workflows across the US and 250+ countries and territories — helping companies reduce returned mail, prevent shipping and billing errors, and keep customer data clean at the point of entry.
	We process credit card transactions using Stripe, a global financial infrastructure platform that lets businesses of every size accept payments, manage subscription billing, and move money across 135+ currencies and payment methods via developer-friendly APIs. Trusted by millions of companies including many of the world's largest enterprises, Stripe processed roughly $1.9 trillion in payment volume in 2025, cementing its position as foundational plumbing for online commerce.
	For text message communication with your community, Linseed uses Twilio, a cloud communications platform that lets developers embed voice, SMS, video, chat, and authentication capabilities directly into their applications via simple, robust APIs. Founded in 2008 and now serving over 2 million developers worldwide, Twilio has effectively virtualized global telecom infrastructure, letting companies of any size add rich, scalable communication features without managing the underlying hardware.

The costs of developing and operating Linseed are shared by multiple non-profit organizations on a sliding-scale basis based on each organization's annual operating budget. There are currently fourteen different organizations participating.

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INITIAL DATA CONVERSION:		If your data is scattered across mutiple spreadsheets and applications) it may take some significant effort to consolidate it into Linseed during your initial installation. We offer 4 hours of free technical support for consulting and data conversion, after which we will bill you for any additional time needed.
ADDITIONAL TRAINING & TECH SUPPORT:		Onboarding many new staff? Expanding into new program initiatives? Launching a new fundraising campaign? It will be worth your while to get training and tech support in how to best use Linseed.
CUSTOM FEATURE DEVELOPMENT:		We will attempt to accommodate you if you have special needs that are unique to your organization, however you will find that most of what you are looking for already exists within the current platform!
COST:		Our current rate for additional data coversion, tech support, and custom feature development is $65.00 per hour.
CREDIT CARD FEES:	via STRIPE	If you wish to process revenue and donations from credit cards directly within Linseed via the Stripe Platform, you will pay transaction fees to Stripe. Credit card fees typically average around (3.50%) (+ 30 cents) per transaction.

Linseed membership is currently by invitation only. If someone has recommended Linseed to you, please ask them for a reference.