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I am searching for a database that we can use for our small school. We have about 200 families involved at our school with about 250 students.  While we will grow some, we won't ever be huge.  Eventually, we will also work with a foundation that hopefully will have more than 250 members - perhaps up to 500+ donors.

At this point, we have three main revenue sources -
1) An auction/event for which we sell tickets and then, items. We will want to keep track of who could (and then does) give us items, who buys them and all the money involved with that.  We'd also like to send out thank you's and other solicitations from this list.
2) Two different solicitations to give money - one for parents to make a donation and an annual fund.  All the expected info we'd like to track like amount, person, date, address etc.  We'd also like to track pledges here.
3) Grants - with reporting dates to keep track of, amount, donor's info etc.

Mostly, I would be administering this - setting it up too I suppose - but there would be occasions when 2-4 others would need to get information from the system and perhaps enter info under my supervision.

Given this cursory information, would CiviCRM work for us? We currently run our website using Joomla, so that interface would work well.  Any ideas would be very helpful.   I have also received a quote for a custom build of a database, but if this would work, it would be wonderful.

thanks