BellesBoard vs CivicCA

BellesBoard is a board management portal for nonprofits and mission-driven organizations. It supports one-time and recurring meeting scheduling, shared calendars, attendance tracking, and meeting materials. Board documents can be stored centrally, with custom view permissions for meetings and documents. A project management module lets users assign and track tasks; the platform also includes minutes management, board voting, and committee management. Enhanced and Enterprise plans add curated donor lists from Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT and an AI-powered fundraising assistant that prepares personalized donor messages for board members. Other integrations include SignNow for e-signatures and membership systems such as Jonas Club Software. BellesBoard describes its security controls as including multi-factor authentication and access controls. It is available on the web, iPhone, and Android. A 30-day trial includes mobile access and unlimited users, with no credit card required. Onboarding is included in all packages and takes approximately two to three weeks after requested information is received. Monthly plans start at $200.00 USD for Essential, which is for 501(c)(3)s with up to $5 million in revenue; Enhanced is $400 a month and Enterprise is $600 a month.

CivicCA is board and meeting management software for government agencies, covering agenda preparation, live meeting operations, minutes, public portals, and open-meeting compliance. Its agenda builder supports drag-and-drop sections and items, automatic numbering, packet creation, autosave, and keyboard shortcuts. A clerk-controlled console manages agenda navigation, votes, motions, public speakers, and meeting records; members can vote from tablets. The service also supports session links for remote voting and conflict declarations, along with public speaker registration and eComment.

CivicCA can draft minutes from transcripts with speaker attribution and recorded votes for clerk review. Other AI functions listed include summaries, plain-language rewriting, conversational Q&A, and transcription with speaker diarization. The maker says relevant data goes to Anthropic for text analysis and AssemblyAI for transcription, and is not used to train AI models. It says the software checks 51 state and local open-meeting frameworks when an agenda is published. Integrations include Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Laserfiche, YouTube, SentraCheck, and Municode. The product is available on web, iOS, and Android. A 14-day trial is listed; plan prices are presented at purchase or quoted through sales.