A plan for the Foundation to grow beyond the board’s circle, reach the whole Laguna Beach community, and raise more for the people who protect it.
One business case for the Foundation, built around its own goal.
LBPCF’s giving has held near $140K, with about $84K from a single event. The rest depends on the board’s own network, and about 50 donors live in Excel that is re-keyed into QuickBooks by hand. That setup cannot carry LBPCF to the whole Laguna Beach community or to its goal of $500K a year.
More officers know the Foundation exists, and requests for help are growing. LBPCF wants to be live by the end of 2026 so Shop with a Cop, the spring lawn bowling event, and a fall event all run on one system from the start, not on PayPal, Squarespace, and the bank.
With Bloomerang, LBPCF can reach its goal of $500K a year without adding staff, because growth no longer depends on who the directors already know. Bloomerang shows LBPCF who to invite, thank, and ask to give monthly, so every team, event, and Shop with a Cop campaign adds donors who keep giving.
Gifts, events, and donor history are spread across tools that do not talk to each other.
About 50 donors are tracked in a spreadsheet, and transactions are uploaded to QuickBooks by hand, so there is no easy view of who gave and what they care about.
Online gifts go through PayPal and Squarespace, event payments go through the website and the bank, and a former board member’s login is still on the PayPal account.
Nearly every donor is someone a director already knows. Reaching Laguna Beach residents and business owners needs more than 13 volunteers making calls.
Adjust the sliders to match the Foundation’s numbers. Every figure updates as you move them.
These estimates are illustrative. Actual results vary by adoption, data quality, and fundraising strategy.
Both figures move with the sliders above.
Each tool maps to something the Foundation told us it wants to do.
Donors choose General, Scholarships, or Shop with a Cop, and every gift flows straight into the donor record. No more re-keying.
Lawn bowling teams and board members each get a page to share, so their own friends and neighbors give.
One place for team registration, sponsor and ticket packages, and a silent auction that guests can bid on at the event.
Send stories to the right group and set up automatic welcome and thank-you messages after a first gift or an event.
Find Laguna Beach residents and business owners who already give to causes like yours, get a daily list of who to thank and who to ask next, and see a research brief before a major ask.
Ask a question in plain language, like who to invite to an event or who to ask to give monthly, and get an answer from your own donor data.
Small teams that moved off spreadsheets and grew giving.
A young organization that began with spreadsheets and good intentions. Connecting its website forms to Bloomerang brought new contacts and gifts in automatically as it prepared for its first campaign.
Read the full story →A small team that moved off manual work. Automated workflows and event registration tools helped it earn $67,000 from one email campaign and track more than 300 marathon participants.
Read the full story →A small team with big goals ran its first peer-to-peer campaign around an annual race. It raised more than $20,000, nearly tripled the number of donors involved, and more than doubled race participation.
Read the full story →An annual fundraiser that began in a backyard grew into a large event. Bloomerang’s event and auction tools let it sell individual tickets and sponsorships and track attendance in one place.
Read the full story →Self-Import and onboarding happen side by side, so LBPCF can move on its own timeline and be live by the end of 2026.
Bloomerang provides the self-import templates.
LBPCF copies its Excel donor list into the templates: constituents, gifts, notes, interactions, and custom fields.
LBPCF imports the data using the free tool built into Bloomerang CRM, on its own schedule. If questions come up along the way, unlimited chat, email, and phone support is there to help.
The donor list is in the CRM and ready for the first appeal.
Talk through goals, priorities, and account setup alongside other new Bloomerang customers.
Complete assigned courses in Bloomerang Learning at your own pace.
Bring questions about the products LBPCF purchased and build on what you learned in training.
Daily group training, plus unlimited chat, email, and phone support.
Bloomerang’s all-inclusive CRM, fundraising, and support includes the following.
| Service | Description | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Intelligent Giving Platform Pro |
CRM Up to 1,000 records
Fundraising
Support and Training
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$21,757.00Bundle Discount: -$15,758.00 (72%)$5,999.00 |
| Full DonorSearch Prospecting Suite (optional) | Expand your donor base by pinpointing people you have not yet connected with, but who are eager to support causes like yours. | $2,000.00$1,250.00 |
| Total Recurring Fees | $7,249.00 | |
| One Time Fees | $0.00 | |
| Promotion | 3 months of free platform use with signed contract by November 20th, 2026 | Valued at $1,812.25 |
Bloomerang agreements start as a standard two-year contract, with the option to lock in your rate for a longer term if you choose. Pricing is valid through November 20th, 2026.
Any one of these scenarios covers the first year of LBPCF’s investment.
A $2,500 gift is a major gift for an organization of LBPCF’s size. Predictive donor intelligence scores every person in the database for major gift readiness, so LBPCF always knows who to reach out to next. If 3 donors give at that level this year, the investment pays for itself.
Once a donor lapses, the industry wins them back only about 4% of the time, so for every 25 who go quiet, LBPCF would keep maybe one. Predictive donor intelligence flags lapse risk while there is still time to act, so the team can reach out before donors go cold. If LBPCF retains just 25 at-risk donors who would have otherwise stopped giving, the investment pays for itself.
Monthly donors are the most valuable donors an organization has. Predictive donor intelligence spots which one-time donors already show the signals of a future sustainer, so LBPCF knows exactly who to ask. If 25 of them convert to $25/month, that covers the investment on its own, and monthly donors typically give 42% more over their lifetime than one-time donors.
Assumptions: Major gift thresholds scale with organization size. Average annual gift is $300 for organizations under 15K records. Monthly conversion is calculated on 12-month sustainer value. The industry lapse recapture rate after a lapse is about 4%. These are conservative floor scenarios, and any one covers the cost.