You're running one of the most ambitious volunteer-driven education foundations in the Bay Area. Your platform should work as hard as you do.
DonorPerfect and Auctria don't talk to each other. Every gala, every campaign, every event ends with hours of manual reconciliation. That's time your volunteer team doesn't have, and accuracy your organization can't afford to lose.
Mid-August is your hard deadline. With your 20th anniversary campaign on the horizon, the cost of waiting is another year of manual work, another gala with two disconnected systems, and another school year starting behind.
Bloomerang was built from the ground up for organizations like yours: volunteer-run, event-heavy, donor-driven. Everything you need lives in one place. No exports. No reconciliation. No manual cleanup. Just your full donor picture, always up to date.
That's what it took to build the Blue Shirt campaign list. Not because the data wasn't there. Because the system couldn't surface it. With Bloomerang, that report takes seconds.
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Every time you need a targeted donor list, your team spends hours in spreadsheets instead of building relationships. That's time your mission can't afford.
Every auction item, bid, and attendee record has to be manually moved from Auctria into DonorPerfect after the event. That doubles your post-event workload every single year.
You need $800K. You raised $644K. Bloomerang gives you the donor insights and fundraising tools to close that gap without adding more volunteers or more manual work.
| MEF pain point | Bloomerang | DonorPerfect |
|---|---|---|
| Family / household giving not linked | ✓ Households can be linked so you see full family giving history in one place. No more cross-referencing separate records to get the full picture. | ✗ Requires manual relationship setup. Child-to-parent linking creates double-counting in reports. |
| Auction and CRM are two separate systems | ✓ Auction fundraising, event registration, live and silent auction, mobile bidding, and tabling all built into one platform. Everything flows to the donor record automatically. | ✗ Requires ReadySetAuction as a separate add-on. Data must be manually reconciled back to DonorPerfect post-event. |
| Reporting requires manual work or technical expertise | ✓ Conversational reporting via Penny. Ask a plain-language question, get a report. Save it, schedule it, export it. No SQL, no power user required. | ✗ Report builder is rigid and technical. Many users resort to manual queries or Excel exports for basic insights. |
| Duplicate records and dirty data | ✓ Continuous duplicate scanning by name, email, phone, and address. Merge with one click. Self-import tool for bulk uploads. Penny can assist with data cleanup prompts. | ✗ Duplicate management is manual and time-intensive. No automated flagging or merge workflow. |
| Corporate matching tracked manually | ✓ Double the Donation integration auto-logs employer matches and soft credits donors. No manual CSV import required. | ✗ No native automation. Each corporate match must be manually entered, including the employer record and soft credit linkage. |
| Donor insights require a power user | ✓ DonorSearch wealth screening included in CRM pricing. Penny surfaces who to contact, why, and what to say. Any volunteer can use it without training. | ✗ DonorSearch is a paid add-on. AI Fundraiser Bot helps write content but does not surface donor-specific action steps. |
| Tax receipts require manual follow-up | ✓ Automated tax receipts trigger immediately on any gift, from any channel: online, auction, event, text-to-donate, or in-person. | ✗ Tax receipts require manual triggering or custom automation setup. Not automatic across all channels. |
| Peer-to-peer and Read-a-Thon campaigns | ✓ Full P2P fundraising built in. Individual and team pages, custom goals, shareable links, and all donations auto-flow to the CRM. | ✗ Crowdfunding available on higher-tier plans only as an add-on. Not built into core platform. |
| QuickBooks integration | ✓ Direct two-way sync with QuickBooks Online. Configurable mapping rules. Funds hit your bank account within a couple of business days. | ~ QuickBooks integration available but on Plus/Pro plans only. Not included in Core pricing. |
| Ease of use for non-technical volunteers | ✓ Built for everyone on the team to use, not just admins. Rated highest user adoption on G2. | ✗ Consistently described by users as complex, clunky, and requiring technical expertise to get full value. |
| Pricing transparency | ✓ All-in pricing. No hidden fees. No price jumps after year one. DonorSearch, journey automations, and Penny included. | ✗ Loss-leader pricing. Real costs include add-ons, tier upgrades, address updater fees, and 25–50% renewal price increases. |
An education foundation that used DonorPerfect for 20 years before switching to Bloomerang. Their pain points mirror MEF's almost exactly: clunky data management, fragmented events and donor tools, and reporting that required too much manual effort.
An organization that runs a fundraising model similar to MEF's, with a major annual gala, auction, and growing peer-to-peer campaigns. Bloomerang unified their event, auction, and donor data into one place, eliminating post-event reconciliation entirely.
Gala data manually exported from Auctria and imported into DonorPerfect after every event
Household and family giving invisible without hours of manual cross-referencing
10+ hours to pull a targeted donor list for campaigns like Blue Shirt
Corporate matches entered one by one from a Benevity or YourCause CSV
No visibility into which donors are wealth-capacity prospects
Duplicate records multiply after every event because email addresses don't match
Every auction bid, event registration, and donation flows into the donor record automatically, in real time
Households linked in one place. Full family giving history visible on every constituent record with no cross-referencing required.
Penny builds any report in seconds from a plain-language question. No manual work, no SQL, no power user.
Double the Donation integration auto-logs matches and soft credits donors with no manual CSV import
DonorSearch ProspectView included. See wealth scores and giving history for every contact in your database.
Continuous duplicate scanning flags and merges records automatically across all event and donation sources
Dedicated Conversion PM assigned. Kickoff call with your team. Templates provided for data export from DonorPerfect.
You populate predefined Excel templates with constituents, transactions, and interactions. One review and revision round included.
Bloomerang loads your data, runs the import, and provides a full feedback cycle. Up to 20 custom fields, all transactions, all interactions.
Five weeks or less to go-live. Full support on launch day. Your team is trained and ready before the school year starts.
| Service | Description | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Annual subscription | ||
Giving Platform Pro |
Embrace continuous, compounding fundraising growth by integrating unlimited automation and powerful fundraising tools.
CRM
Up to 5,000 records
Unlimited users
Built-in email marketing tool
Nightly address updates and deceased status updates
Mobile app with unlimited Mobile Video Acknowledgements
DonorSearch ProspectView integration
Unlimited journey automations
Penny
Fundraising
Donation forms
Event registration pages
Peer-to-peer fundraising
Auction fundraising
Outbound texting
Text-to-donate
Support & Training
Unlimited chat, email, and telephone support
Unlimited access to live and on-demand webinars via Bloomerang Learning
Daily group training sessions
Philanthropy Institute Course
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$14,172.00
Bundle Discount: -$6,973.00 (49%)
$7,199.00
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| Recurring fees | ||
| Total Recurring Fees | $7,199.00 |
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| One-time fees & promotions | ||
Data Conversion |
Smart Start Basic Data Conversion |
$800.00 |
| Total One-Time Fees | $800.00 |
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| Total First Year Investment | $7,999.00 | |
Your school year starts in August. Migration takes up to five weeks. To be live, trained, and ready before your annual giving kickoff, the time to move is now. Pricing valid for 30 days from June 18, 2026.
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