FOUNDATION INFORMATION SYSTEMS

From 1985 until 1999, FIS was an active software vendor while providing valuable technology consulting to many of its clients. Since 1999 when GRATIS was retired as a software product, FIS focused all of its business activity in consulting to community foundations. This new phase in FIS services was focused on consulting engagements, developing software user groups and maintaining dialogues with all of the major software and services vendors supporting community foundations... FiS has been actively assisting clients solve difficult business process issues and evaluate alternative software solutions... We have been actively engaged as an agent of change for community foundation starting in 1985 at Chicago Community Trust. FIS' GRATIS was created as an integrated software solution that included fund, grants, investment and allocation management. Chicago was the first community foundation client, where in 1986, we introduced our mutli-user network compatible GRATIS solution on PCs.

Also known as: FiS