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Overview of audience
Donors, or partners, are the people who pray for and pay for the missionaries on the field and the projects. The more connected they feel to the work, the more they support them. Donors are getting more computer-savvy, and would love to have an infrastructure similar to what you would find in online banking systems.
Donors would like to see the projects/missionaries they support, recent information from them (prayer-letters), information about the countries they are in (newspaper RSS feeds, etc), financial needs (with a "swipe your card" system that changes the level of finances needed immediately after they give a gift), the ability to pray for a prayer-request and write the missionary a note saying they prayed (and to be sent an update when the missionary makes a change to the prayer-request), to change their own contact information, to do simple account maintainance, and much more.
Other technological growth at this time
At this time, the main changes are to the security of the site, database tables added, Internet bandwidth, and simplification of the process. Keeping this level of information about donors means that you need to remain compliant with many laws in many countries.
Infrastructure
At this time, VPNs are no longer possible as they are too complex to manage for the thousands of donors. Almost every mission has reverted to SSL security. Usually, to ensure that appropriate security is used, something like OSSIM or an external security checking company is used.
Data
What causes a mission to move on to the next audience
The next audience, Board, is usually just because the board sees what is possible for the donors to do and request a few of their reports to be available on their donor pages.