Built for Purpose | DeKalb Central School Alumni Foundation
You're building something real in DeKalb County. More classrooms funded, more grade levels served, more students who get what they need. Bloomerang gives you the tools to get there.
"I just want more structure. I think at the end of the day."
Elizabeth Laker, Executive DirectorGoogle Sheets and PayPal worked when the foundation was coasting. But you hired an ED, you have events to scale, alumni to mobilize, and a board that needs visibility. Staying put means Elizabeth keeps spending her limited hours on manual tasks instead of building the relationships that actually move the needle for students in DeKalb County.
Growth requires different tools.DeKalb Central just made its biggest investment in years: bringing Elizabeth on full time. She's already out in the community, building relationships, collecting contacts, and setting a vision. The system needs to catch up. Every month without a CRM is a month of donor data scattered across spreadsheets and momentum that doesn't compound.
$21K+ left on the table each year you waitBloomerang shows you who's engaged, who's going cold, and which businesses in DeKalb County are ready for a bigger ask. Elizabeth walks into every conversation prepared, not guessing. Automations keep donors warm between events. Penny surfaces the right names at the right time. The whole thing runs in the background so a part-time ED and a volunteer board can fundraise like a full team.
Structure that works for you, not the other way around.Every hour spent wrestling with Google Sheets and PayPal is an hour not spent getting the word out, building community relationships, or funding the next classroom. Here's what's in the way.
Constituent records are split across multiple spreadsheets with no single view of a supporter's full history. Collaboration across 15 board members is nearly impossible.
Google Sheets + Google DocsPayPal's multi-step process creates friction exactly when a donor is ready to give. No mobile-friendly options, no express payments, and revenue walks away.
PayPalNo email marketing tool means no automated thank-yous, no cultivation sequences, no year-end tax statements. Everything goes out manually or not at all.
Email + manual outreachThe golf outing, future gala, and 50/50 raffles are managed through Perfect Golf and spreadsheets. No unified ticketing, sponsorship tracking, or donor attribution.
Perfect Golf + Google SheetsDonation data must be manually entered into QuickBooks, creating double-entry work and opportunities for error every time a gift comes in.
QuickBooks Online"Gut feeling and a guide" is how the board currently gauges donor retention. Without data, it's impossible to identify lapsed donors, let alone recapture them.
No current systemAdjust the sliders below to reflect your current fundraising picture. The calculator projects your expected revenue lift, operational savings, and total first-year ROI based on benchmarks from 24,000+ Bloomerang organizations.
Drag the sliders to match your numbers. Results update in real time.
Projections based on Bloomerang platform benchmarks. Fundraising lift = 11.14% avg fundraising revenue growth. Online lift = 14% (smaller orgs). Recurring lift = 22%. Event/auction lift = 15% conservative. P2P = campaign goal as entered. Ops savings = (hours x 52 x $22/hr) + (monthly tools x 12). Full adoption = revenue x 50% + ops savings. Ceiling = revenue x 103% + ops savings. Investment denominator = $5,799 total first-year cost.
Elizabeth said it herself during the demo: "If I post on social media and my five closest best friends from high school donate, that's five more. Then they share it, and the rest of our class donates." That's peer-to-peer fundraising. And it's the fastest way to grow your supporter base.
On average, Bloomerang peer-to-peer campaigns bring in 300 new donors for a nonprofit. If those 300 donors give a conservative $20 each, that's $6,000. More than covering your full first-year investment. And those 300 people aren't just donors. They're the beginning of your alumni engine.
You're ready to hit $250K to $300K. But the tools you're using today were built for a foundation that wasn't ready to scale. Here's what continuing to wait costs you.
Bloomerang customers average 11.14% fundraising revenue growth in their first year. At your current fundraising revenue, that's more than $21,000 you're not raising every year you wait.
Without peer-to-peer campaigns, your alumni base stays invisible. Every year without P2P is a year those connections never get made.
Manual data entry, PayPal reconciliation, year-end letters. Elizabeth is burning hours every week that should be spent in the community building relationships.
Without a CRM, lapsed donors simply disappear. There's no system to identify them, no automation to re-engage them, and no way to improve what you can't see.
This isn't a generic platform demo. Every feature below came up in your conversations with Grace because Bloomerang was built to solve exactly what you're dealing with.
Every interaction, donation, event registration, email open, note, lives on a single timeline. Any board member can log in and see the full picture of a supporter at a glance.
Replaces fragmented Google Sheets with a single source of truth for all 340+ constituents
PayPal, Venmo, Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH, credit/debit, all in one place. Donors on mobile can give in seconds. Conversion rates improve up to 55%.
Eliminates the PayPal multi-step friction that's costing you completions
Custom event pages with tiered sponsorship packages, ticketing, and goal thermometers. Golf outing, gala, 50/50 raffles, all managed in one system, all funneled into the CRM.
Consolidates your golf outing, gala, and alumni events into one platform
Set up class competitions, alumni campaigns, and board challenges. Each fundraiser gets a personal page. Every donation flows into the CRM and builds your long-term supporter base.
Turns your alumni network into an active fundraising engine, starting with your first campaign
Automated communication sequences that cultivate donors without you lifting a finger. Turn P2P donors into recurring givers. Re-engage lapsed supporters automatically.
Keeps donors engaged even with a part-time ED and a volunteer board team
Baked-in access to public giving history and wealth data for every constituent. Instantly see who has the capacity and generosity to give more, perfect for your February gala asks.
Takes the guesswork out of identifying major gift prospects in your community
Set up mapping rules once and donations automatically sync to QuickBooks. No more double entry. No reconciliation headaches. Ashley's finance workflow gets dramatically simpler.
Eliminates manual QuickBooks data entry from Ashley's plate entirely
Every donation triggers an automatic thank-you with receipt. On January 1, the system generates year-end giving statements for all donors, sent in one click.
Replaces the fully manual receipt and year-end letter workflow, and saves postage
See your retention rate at a glance. Click into lapsed donors and build recapture campaigns. Bloomerang customers average 58% retention, 2 to 4% above industry average.
Replaces "gut feeling and a guide" with real data and a plan to improve it
Type what you want to see and the system builds the report. "Show me all businesses that attended the golf outing but haven't donated this year." No spreadsheet formulas required.
Replaces the five-column Google Sheet tracking system Elizabeth has been managing manually
Ask Penny which donors to invite to your February gala. Ask her to surface all in-kind golf outing donors. Ask her how to close a $50K gap before year-end. She analyzes your data and guides your strategy.
Gives Elizabeth an always-on fundraising strategist, even without a full-time development team
Log every in-kind gift from local businesses. Track raffle items, door prizes, and auction packages. Penny can pull who donated what so you always know what you have and who to thank.
Organizes your golf outing in-kind inventory and ensures no donor goes unacknowledged
These Bloomerang customers share your mission, your challenges, or your goals. Their results are a preview of what's ahead for DeKalb Central.
A faith-based organization tackling food insecurity and community need, similar mission profile to DeKalb Central's work supporting students and families. They migrated to Bloomerang and found a platform purpose-built for mission-driven work.
Why it fits: Education and community support mission, manual prior system, staff wearing multiple hats.
Donor retention rate, right at the Bloomerang average and a significant jump from where most organizations start. For a foundation building its donor base from scratch, that retention rate translates directly into compounding annual revenue growth.
Tripled their donor base through peer-to-peer fundraising. Like DeKalb Central, their growth opportunity lived in getting connected people to fundraise on their behalf, turning personal networks into organizational reach.
Revenue growth with 250 active volunteers coordinated through Bloomerang. For DeKalb Central, where the board and community volunteers are the engine of every event, having tools that keep everyone organized and engaged changes everything.
With your July golf outing coming up and a target go-live before back-to-school, timing is very achievable. Here's what the migration process looks like for an organization your size.
Contract signed, payment processed, and your Smart Start onboarding session scheduled. Your historical donor data from Google Sheets is submitted for migration.
Your 340 constituent records, including prior giving history, are migrated and cleaned. Smart Start Basic covers your full contact and gift history.
Donation forms built. QuickBooks integration configured. Email templates created. Daily group training and live webinars for Elizabeth, Ashley, Amber, and board members joining.
Platform is live before the school year. Your gala event page is built. Your first P2P alumni campaign is ready to launch. Journey automations running in the background.
This is the exact proposal Grace prepared for DeKalb Central School Alumni Foundation. Every line item mirrors the formal quote.
Pricing valid through June 27, 2026. Two-year agreement, renews annually with 45-day written cancellation notice. If your database exceeds 1,000 records, an overage charge of $13.75 per 250 records is invoiced monthly in arrears. At your current 340 records, you have significant room to grow.