Transform your Education Nonprofit’s online fundraising game with actionable tips you can implement today! Join us on March 19th as James Goalder shares key insights and best practices from successful nonprofits. Learn how to make simple yet powerful changes to boost online donations, avoid common fundraising roadblocks, and confidently hit your fundraising goals.

Learning Objectives:

• Simple ways you can update your online fundraising process

• Common pitfalls to avoid when building your fundraising campaigns

• Insights from other nonprofits’ online giving experience and how that impacts donations

View this session’s slides here.

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Challenge

St. Ann Catholic School was looking for an affordable donor management system that could help them better track and engage with their alumni. “We were looking for a great way to track our alumni for the school. Once they graduate, they lose touch with us and we wanted to track their accomplishments and keep them connected to our school,” said Angela de Jong, Development Director at St. Ann Catholic School.

Solution

With Bloomerang, Angela and the team at St. Ann Catholic School had found a donor database that could grow with them and meet their budgetary restraints. “We like Bloomerang for the affordable non-profit rates and the ability to start small for a lower fee and then pay more as we grow.”

Overall Angela has been really happy that they were able to find an affordable nonprofit CRM solution to help them track and communicate with their different constituent groups. “It’s affordable and does everything we need to track donors and communicate with them effectively.”

Results

Since implementing Bloomerang and ditching Excel, St. Ann Catholic School has seen improvements with several fundraising pain points through data consolidation. “Bloomerang allows us to track donors in one place. No more cumbersome excel sheets.” They have also benefited from improvements in the quality of their constituent communications. “We are hearing positives from our community thanks to better communication.”

In addition, Bloomerang has fit nicely into St. Ann Catholic School’s donor retention and gift development processes. “This database helps us keep up with our alumni and send them news from us. Now we can invite them to events and track their donations. It will help us in the future as the database fills up and hopefully it will result in more donations.”

It’s amazing what a comprehensive, but still easy-to-use, donor database can do for the growth of an organization such as St. Ann Catholic School.

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Challenge

Lutheran High Northeast was looking for an affordable and intuitive donor database as an alternative to eTapestry. They wanted a functional system with good reporting and communication features at no extra cost. “We were working with eTapesty and wanted to find a database that was easy to use AND a partner that would work with us on price” said Fred Aufdembrink, Director of Development at Lutheran High Northeast. With the timing and opportunity for better functionality, Fred was ready to make the switch.

Solution

Fred was originally drawn to Bloomerang’s ease of use, functionality, and “the layout of the system. With only one in the business office and a one person development shop, we needed to find a database that was easy to use.” Bloomerang fit that bill.

Fred has since come to appreciate how easily Bloomerang fits into and improves their existing gift development processes. “First, gift processing is a breeze! I can easily record donations, print letters and get them out quickly. Second, Bloomerang allows me many options for my work from first time donors to reaching out to those who haven’t given a gift in a while!”

Results

Since implementing Bloomerang, Lutheran High Northeast has alleviated several fundraising pain points around tracking their donor retention, segmenting and communicating with various constituent groups, and being more relationship focused. “Bloomerang allows me to treat EACH donor separately! Having family connections within the database is extremely valuable.” Bloomerang’s features and donor segmentation capabilities will also grow with the team at Lutheran High Northeast and make their constituent communications more efficient and effective — saving them time. “Bloomerang allows me to focus on specific donors, i.e., first time donors, Financial Aid donors, multi year donors, etc.”

Not only have they seen an increase in productivity and efficiency in their development process, but Fred and the team at Lutheran High Northeast have also benefited from more visibility into their donor retention metrics and insights from built-in features to improve their percentage. “I believe Bloomerang has helped us (me) increase donor retention percentages.”

All in all, it’s amazing what an insightful, intuitive, and fundraising-focused database can do for the growth of an organization such as Lutheran High Northeast. “You will love Bloomerang! Easy to learn and easy to use.”

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Challenge

NUACS did not have a donor database and needed a way to efficiently track their alumni and donors. They were previously using Excel and a separate program to email their constituents.

Solution

When Bloomerang was implemented NUACS saw an immediate impact.

“We use Bloomerang as our alumni database. We originate all of our mass mailings, labels, thank you notes, and receipts in Bloomerang. We also use it to track all of our donations from alumni and friends. In addition, we generate email blasts out of Bloomerang as well as reports for our Board of Directors,” said Sara Rieland, Director of Development and Alumni Relations.

Results

“We believe we are reaching more alumni through email blasts sent via Bloomerang. It is especially nice that you can see, by the donor, all correspondence sent to them.”

“We have greatly increased our productivity in that we can easily email blast any communication via Bloomerang. In addition, we can easily generate reporting to assist in our mailing (we can use filters to identify a certain mailing group, then send that Excel report to our print to directly print labels. This has saved us a lot of time!)”

“Bloomerang makes donation tracking very easy. It also makes all mailing functions fast and efficient. Their support is also top-notch! No waiting on hold for someone to help you, your questions are answered instantly!”

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