In November, the Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP) launched their annual Fundraising Effectiveness Survey. This survey asks charities to compare their 2004 and 2005 fundraising results. The results of the survey are intended to enable non-profits "to compare their growth-in-giving results across a variety of measures with the performance of similar organizations." Russ Burke has published an article about how this helps your organization.
FEP partnered with over one dozen software firms in assisting their clients with the survey. Here at Mission Research, Chris Walker, a Product Manager donated some time to building a GiftWorks add-in that would automatically gather and send the survey data for GiftWorks users. This is a great example of how GiftWorks can be extended to support additional functionality. And truly it's not very difficult to do given the proper documentation (which is only available internally right now).
I'm very curious how the FEP survey was exposed by the other partnering software makers. If any readers have used the software by the other partners, please let me know your experiences.