NGP VAN

What is NGP VAN?

NGP VAN is a technology provider for Democratic and progressive campaigns, nonprofits, unions, PACs and advocacy groups, offering fundraising and compliance, organizing and advocacy software. The vendor says it has more than two decades of experience serving this movement.

Key features of NGP VAN

• NGP: fundraising and compliance software with mobile friendly donation forms and jurisdiction specific reporting.
• Organizing: voter targeting, universe building, canvassing, phone banking and texting.
• Advocacy: petitions, pledges and online actions that connect supporters with decision makers.
• Member Organizing: member data, dues and participation tracking with email, phone and SMS outreach for unions.
• NGP VAN Payments: payment processing for donations.
• Other tools: SmartVAN, VoteBuilder, MiniVAN Manager, ActionKit and Targeted Email.

How NGP VAN works

Campaigns use NGP to raise and report money, and use the VAN tools to target voters from the voter file and organize volunteers through canvassing and calls. Advocacy actions sync to the supporter database so organizers can follow up.

Who uses NGP VAN?

NGP VAN serves Democratic and progressive campaigns, nonprofits, unions, PACs and advocacy groups. Access is oriented to that political community.

NGP VAN pricing

NGP VAN does not publish plan prices. The one price shown is a 3.25 percent processing fee for NGP donation processing; other pricing is by demo request.

NGP VAN integrations

The vendor describes VAN, MiniVAN, OpenVPB and Mobilize working together for organizing, and advocacy actions sync to the supporter database. A developer documentation site is linked.

NGP VAN alternatives

Salesforce Sales Cloud is a general CRM that organizations adapt to supporter data, but it lacks built-in voter file and compliance tools. HubSpot CRM is a general marketing and sales CRM. Qomon is a field campaigning platform, and PDI is a fundraising and association software vendor. NGP VAN is built specifically for political campaigns.