Prepared for Millbrae Education Foundation

Stop losing time.
Start raising more.

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.

$644K
Current annual fundraising
$800K
Your goal this year
20th
Anniversary year — biggest yet
Why Bloomerang

Three reasons this is the right move for MEF

Why change

Your current tools are costing you more than money

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.

Why now

You have a narrow window before the school year starts

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.

Why Bloomerang

Purpose-built for nonprofits. Not repurposed B2B software.

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.

The problem

What's slowing MEF down right now

  • 🔗
    DonorPerfect doesn't link family donations Spouses, households, and related donors are unconnected. You can't see the full family giving picture without manually cross-referencing records.
  • ⚙️
    Two platforms, zero integration Every gala ends with a full manual export from Auctria and a painful import into DonorPerfect. Duplicate records, mismatched emails, and hours of cleanup are the result.
  • 📊
    Reporting requires hours of manual work Pulling a list of $1,000+ donors for the Blue Shirt campaign took 10+ hours because DonorPerfect couldn't produce it automatically.
  • 🏃
    Complexity is driving volunteer burnout The same 10 people are doing this work because nobody else can commit to an undefined manual burden. Complexity creates turnover.
  • 💳
    Corporate matching is entirely manual Every Benevity and YourCause deposit requires manually downloading a CSV and updating each donor record one by one.

10 hours to pull one donor report.

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.

26,000+
Nonprofits trust Bloomerang — most switching from systems exactly like yours
94%
Customer renewal rate — because the platform actually works for volunteer teams
ROI Calculator

What Bloomerang could mean for MEF

Adjust the sliders based on your current numbers. These estimates use conservative benchmarks from Bloomerang customers.

Annual fundraising revenue $644,000
Fundraising lift (11.14% avg) $71,741
Online giving lift (8–14% avg) $51,520
Recurring donor growth (22% avg) $14,168
Staff / volunteer hours saved/wk 5 hrs
103%
Top 20% of Bloomerang customers raise 103% more. For MEF, that's up to $1.3M.

Your potential with Bloomerang

Fundraising lift $71,741
Online giving lift $51,520
Recurring donor growth $14,168
Ops time savings (annual) $5,720
Platform investment -$7,999
Conservative ROI $169,650
Conservative estimate (50% growth scenario). Top 20% of customers raise 103% more. Based on Bloomerang customer benchmarks. Individual results vary.
Cost of doing nothing

Staying put isn't free. Here's what it costs MEF.

10+

Hours lost per campaign to manual reporting

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.

2x

The work it takes to run your gala on two systems

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.

$156K

The gap between where you are and where you want to be

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.

Feature comparison

Bloomerang vs. DonorPerfect: what actually matters to MEF

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.
Customer stories

Organizations just like MEF. Results that speak for themselves.

Lindbergh Schools Foundation

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.

455%
Monthly recurring donors
43%
Donor retention rate
14%
YoY total asset increase
Read their story →
Friendship Bridge

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.

1 platform
Replacing 3 separate tools
Read their story →
Before and after

What changes when MEF moves to Bloomerang

Today with DonorPerfect + Auctria

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

With Bloomerang

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

01
Kickoff

Dedicated Conversion PM assigned. Kickoff call with your team. Templates provided for data export from DonorPerfect.

02
Data prep

You populate predefined Excel templates with constituents, transactions, and interactions. One review and revision round included.

03
Migration

Bloomerang loads your data, runs the import, and provides a full feedback cycle. Up to 20 custom fields, all transactions, all interactions.

04
Go-live

Five weeks or less to go-live. Full support on launch day. Your team is trained and ready before the school year starts.

Your investment

Pricing overview for Millbrae Education Foundation

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
$14,172.00
Bundle Discount: -$6,973.00 (49%)
$7,199.00
Recurring fees
Total Recurring Fees
$7,199.00
One-time fees & promotions
Data Conversion
Smart Start Basic Data Conversion
$800.00
Total One-Time Fees
$800.00
Total First Year Investment $7,999.00

Mid-August is closer than it looks.

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.

Let's get started