Business Name (DBA): Aqubanc, LLC
Business Address:         540 Hawthorne Road, Buffalo Grove, Illinois 60089
Business Phone:           800-350-4720      
Email Address:            Cheque21@aqubanc.com
Website:                    http://www.aqubanc.com
Contact:                     James Cowen

Categories of service:

Gift Entry & Donation Processing / Caging
Administration/Management
Consultants

Description of services:

Aqubanc® provides turn-key systems for gift entry, donation processing as well as evaluating gift processing operations. Aqubanc works with nonprofits to streamline work flow and business rules, reduce expenses and operating costs as it relates to gift processing. Improvements are accomplished while respecting the client’s Development Department’s need to solicit gifts creatively using a wide variety of reply/response mechanisms.

Since Aqubanc's founding in 2003, the focus shifted exclusively to non-profits and charitable organizations because their Gift Processing operations tended to be overshadowed and underserved. Careful crafting of Gift Processing along with fundraising "tweaks" enables nonprofits to better Steward Your Resources™.

Aqubanc's Cheque 21® System brings together imaging and data capture technologies which posts donor and gift data directly into fundraising software including Blackbaud's Raiser's Edge, Kintera, PledgeMaker, MPower MPX, DonorOne, Denari, Exceed!, DonorPerfect, and other fundraising and accounting software. Checks are deposited electronically using Check 21 or ACH to further reduce costs.

Aqubanc's AKuClick™ built for Kintera's web-based portal is available for Blackbaud Net Community for imaging and data capture using page-based scanning technology.

Gift Processing - Aqubanc reviews how gifts / donations are processed manually, by a lockbox or caging service or with existing automation to further improve and/or replace processes and business rules.

Operations Consulting - Operations improvement to compliment fundraising efforts includes work with fundraising printers/agencies such as Barton-Cotton, DataProse, Douglas Shaw, Enex, Grizzard, Masterworks and Russ Reid.

Background on you and/or your business:

James Cowen, Aqubanc's founder, has over 25 years working with a wide variety of nonprofit and commercial organizations in North America and Europe. Jim began his career in bank operations and consulting, so he understands how to best process, deposit and post transactions. He has worked with major hardware providers as well as key fundraising software providers to best optimize each user's Gift Processing and operating needs.

Testimonials and/or references:

"After reviewing our gift processing systems, Aqubanc recommended an entire process from beginning to end that decreased the amount of data entry by 70%. By going directly to Cheque 21 depositing, we've eliminated the need for multiple tapes, check copying, creating deposits or trips to the bank. My only regret has been that I didn't do this five years ago." - Sandra Smith, Executive Director, Love A Child, Riverview FL is a Raiser's Edge user.

"We scan all our Reply Devices and checks...within the Aqubanc system. Our Aqubanc system relieves us of over 95% of our data entry work, allowing us to more thoroughly concentrate on the quality control aspects of our Gift Receipting. We will need less staffing to accomplish Gift Receipting...[and] be able to handle the daily flow of donations in a timelier fashion, even in the heaviest of "busy seasons". We are positioned to deal with workload growth without incurring significant additional operating costs." - John G. Bang, CPA, Director of Accounting and Finance, Seattle's Union Gospel Mission is an MPower user.

"Before initiating Aqubanc's Cheque 21 System, we anticipated always hiring a large number of temporaries to get us through the months of processing the Fall acquisition and cultivation donations. Even with these temporaries turnaround times would still be weeks - not days. Now processing donations during our busiest times essentially requires the equivalent of only one person for the entire process from opening the envelopes through working the scanner. All with a 48 - 72 hour turnaround during the busy Fall peak season." - Rev. Tom Laymon, President / CEO, Sunday Breakfast Mission in Wilmington DE is a PledgeMaker user.

Names of and/or links to your books, articles or blogs:

AKuClick™ - http://www.AKuClick.com
Diecasm - http://www.Diecasm.com - helps nonprofits receive funds through the buyer's purchase of replica models and books

Service area by country, state or zip code:

US and Canada