What We Do
Cooperstock Software develops technology to help the charitable sector. From its Canadian home base it produces software used throughout Canada, the U.S.A. and the rest of the world. Cooperstock Software * - the legal name of the business - owns and operates the Software4Nonprofits.com website. Its primary product is DONATION.
Who is Dan Cooperstock?
Cooperstock Software was founded by Dan Cooperstock, a software developer with an M.Sc. in Computer Science and over 25 of business experience.
Dan is also a Quaker, and has been both Treasurer and Clerk (chair) of his Quaker Meeting's Finance Committee, and Clerk of the Canada-wide Quaker organization's Finance Committee. Based both on this experience, and his experience writing and supporting DONATION since 1994, Dan has a solid understanding of the financial requirements of a small charitable organization.
For more information about Dan, including recommendations from DONATION users and former colleagues, check his LinkedIn profile:
A Brief History of DONATION
Donation is Cooperstock Software's main product.
- Dan Cooperstock wrote the original DOS version of DONATION in 1994 in response to difficulty finding software that met the needs of his Quaker Meeting.
- In 1998, Dan rewrote DONATION as a Windows program, and in 1999 began giving it away for free.
- Cooperstock Software launched another extensive rewrite of DONATION in 2007 to capitalize on newer technology, and to add many user-requested features, and changed the program to be commercial.
Online mentions and reviews of DONATION
Review in August 2007
Christian Computing Magazine.
Focus
on Nonprofit Software: Integration, Implementation and Intrinsic Value, an
article by Scott H. Cytron on
AccountingSoftware411.com
Charities Changed by Technology, a United Press International article by Andrew
Damstedt from August 16, 2005.
Other Products from Cooperstock Software
Cooperstock Software's other product, the
HTML MessageBox, was
developed for use in DONATION, but is now offered as a standalone product to the
developer community. It is a general-purpose tool for programmers to
replace standard Windows message boxes with more meaningful ones. Features include:
- Larger fonts
- Font styles such as boldface to emphasize the most important points
* We can only accept cheques payable to "Cooperstock
Software".
