For faith-based organizations
Software for faith-based organizations in the Philippines
For the development side of the work, not the congregation side. Diocesan social action centres, the philanthropic and development offices of religious congregations, faith-based NGOs, and the development offices of mission schools — organizations that run programmes, projects, and advocacies, and operate as nonprofits.
Dasig gives that work one system: fundraising, a unified CRM, volunteers, members, credentials, and reporting. Free to start, built in the Philippines.
What Dasig is not
Dasig is not church management software. There is no worship service planning, no congregation attendance tracking, and no child check-in. If those are what you need, a dedicated congregation tool will serve you better and we would rather say so now.
It is also not a student information system. For a mission school it serves the development office — scholarship fundraising, benefactors, alumni, volunteers, formation certificates — and sits alongside whatever runs your enrolment, class lists, and grades.
Your portfolio, structured the way you already describe it
A development office rarely has one campaign. It has focus areas with initiatives under them, projects under those, and specific appeals under those. Most nonprofit tools flatten all of that into a list of fundraisers.
Dasig nests it four levels deep, and totals roll up:
The focus area and initiative pages show donations, volunteers, and how many campaigns sit beneath them, so you can answer “how is Livelihood doing this year” without adding up spreadsheets. Containers do not take donations themselves; the fundraisers underneath do.
One caveat worth knowing: campaigns are attributed to locations and focus areas, not to a parish or branch. If you need per-unit reporting, set each unit up as its own organization and link them to a parent (below).
Dioceses, congregations, and networks
If your institution has several organizations under it — a social action centre, a school’s development office, a separate foundation — each can run its own work and be linked to a parent organization. That creates a reporting relationship, and network totals roll up to the parent. Each organization keeps its own team, roles, and contact records; nobody sees another’s donor list.
What you get, without adding modules
Nothing here is faith-specific. It is the same platform every organization on Dasig uses — which is the point. Your work is nonprofit work, and it does not need a separate product.
Programmes, projects, and advocacies
Four levels: focus area → initiative → project → fundraiser. Structure a whole portfolio the way you already describe it, and see donations, volunteers, and campaign counts roll up to any level.
Fundraising and benefactor giving
Accept donations via GCash, Maya, cards, and bank transfer in pesos, paid out to your own Philippine account. Record offline and in-kind gifts by hand so the full picture sits in one place.
One record for every person
Benefactors, volunteers, members, and partners share one contact record instead of three spreadsheets. Import your existing lists by CSV; new donations and sign-ups add themselves.
Formation and training credentials
Issue certificates in bulk for formation programmes, seminars, and volunteer training. Each carries a verification code and a public page, with a verified-issuer badge once your organization is verified.
Reporting you can hand over
Build a report from a template or from scratch — financial, volunteer, and engagement metrics, campaign performance, expense breakdowns — and export to CSV or Excel.
Transparency by default
Your public profile shows your campaigns, funds raised, and per-campaign expenses. Supporters and funders can verify the record themselves rather than asking for it.
Volunteers and benefactors are participants, not rows
In most nonprofit software the people you work with are records you maintain. In Dasig they hold their own accounts. Someone who gives to your scholarship appeal, serves at a relief operation, or completes a formation programme builds their own participation record — and that record enriches the organization they built it with.
That matters most for the work that reaches past your own community. Volunteers who are not your members still arrive with a profile, their hours can be verified, and the people who showed up once are reachable the next time.
Disaster response, when it comes
Faith-based networks are often first on the ground. Relief campaigns can be linked to an incident so related responses across different organizations appear together on one public page, with needs, drop-off points, and volunteer assembly areas mapped. Incidents themselves are opened by the Dasig team during an actual event, so reach out and we will set one up.
What it costs
₱0 per month to start. The platform is funded by a 2.5% Civic Sustainability Contribution on donations received rather than a subscription, so there is no licence to justify to a finance committee before you have collected anything. Full pricing.
Common questions
- Is Dasig church management software?
- No. Dasig does not do worship service planning, congregation attendance, or child check-in, and it is not trying to. It is nonprofit software for the development and outreach side of a faith-based institution — the programmes, projects, and advocacies a social action centre or development office runs, along with the fundraising, donor records, volunteers, and reporting behind them.
- What kind of faith-based organizations use Dasig?
- Diocesan social action centres, the philanthropic or development offices of religious congregations, faith-based NGOs, and the development offices of mission schools. What they have in common is that they operate as nonprofits: they run programmes, raise funds, coordinate volunteers, and report to benefactors and to a mother institution.
- Can we organize our programmes and projects, not just fundraisers?
- Yes. Work nests four levels deep: a focus area contains initiatives, an initiative contains projects, and a project contains fundraisers. A social action centre can put Livelihood, Education, and Disaster Response at the top, with the initiatives and projects under each, and see totals roll up to whichever level it needs. Containers do not collect donations directly — the fundraisers under them do.
- Can a diocese or congregation see across its member organizations?
- Yes, if each is set up as its own organization and linked to a parent. In organization settings you can name a parent organization, which creates a reporting relationship and rolls network totals up to the parent. Note that this works at the organization level; individual campaigns are not tagged by parish or branch.
- Does Dasig work for a mission school?
- For the school's development office, yes — scholarship fundraising, benefactor and alumni records, volunteer coordination, certificates for training and formation programmes, and reporting. It is not a student information system. There is no enrolment, no class lists, and no grades, so it sits alongside whatever you use to run academics rather than replacing it.
- Can we report to our benefactors and mother institution?
- You can build reports from a template or from scratch, choosing the metrics, tables, and period you need, and export them as CSV or Excel. Separately, your public organization profile shows your campaigns, total funds raised, and a per-campaign expense breakdown, so supporters can check the record themselves without waiting for a report.
- Do we need to be SEC-registered?
- Not to start. You can create an organization and begin working immediately. Submitting your registration and identity documents earns a verified badge on your public profile and on any certificates you issue, which matters when you are asking people outside your own community to give.
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