Built for Purpose  |  DeKalb Central School Alumni Foundation

It's time for structure that scales your mission.

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 Director
24K+ Nonprofits trust Bloomerang
58% Avg donor retention rate
47%+ More raised on average
94% Customer renewal rate
12%+ More supporters annually
Why it matters

Three reasons this decision changes everything.

Why Change

What got you here won't get you to $300K.

Google 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.
Why Now

You've hired an ED. Now give her the tools to succeed.

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 wait
Why Bloomerang

It doesn't just store your donors. It tells you what to do next.

Bloomerang 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.
The problem

Your tools are holding your mission hostage.

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.

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Fragmented donor data

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 Docs
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Donor drop-off at checkout

PayPal'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.

PayPal
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Zero email infrastructure

No 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 outreach
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No event management system

The 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 Sheets
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Manual QuickBooks reconciliation

Donation data must be manually entered into QuickBooks, creating double-entry work and opportunities for error every time a gift comes in.

QuickBooks Online
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No retention visibility

"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 system
Your return on investment

What Bloomerang means for DeKalb Central, in dollars.

Adjust 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.

ROI Calculator

Drag the sliders to match your numbers. Results update in real time.

Annual fundraising revenue $196,000

Your current total annual fundraising revenue

Online donation revenue $15,000

Donations received via online channels

Recurring donation base $5,000

Annual recurring or sustainer giving

Golf outing / auction revenue $50,000

Revenue from your annual golf outing or auction events

Peer-to-peer campaign goal $10,000

Target for your first alumni peer-to-peer campaign (revenue counted as raised, not a lift %)

Admin hours saved per week 8 hrs

Time freed by automation (data entry, receipts, reports)

Monthly tool costs replaced $50/mo

Estimated monthly cost of tools Bloomerang replaces (PayPal fees, Perfect Golf, etc.)


$21,834 Fundraising revenue lift (11.14%)
$2,100 Online revenue lift (14%)
$1,100 Recurring lift (22%)
$7,500 Auction/event lift (15%)
$10,000 P2P campaign revenue
$9,736 Operational savings
Projected first-year return
$52,270
9.0x
ROI on investment
Full adoption potential
The top 20% of Bloomerang customers raise 103% more in annual revenue. Shown here at a conservative 50% to illustrate what full platform adoption could mean for DeKalb Central.
Conservative (50%) potential
$98,000
ceiling at 103%: $201,880

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.

Peer-to-peer fundraising

Your biggest untapped asset? Your alumni network.

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.

The numbers behind the strategy

One campaign. Hundreds of new donors. Thousands of dollars.

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.

300 Avg new donors from a single P2P campaign
$6K+ Revenue at just $20/donor, already more than your platform cost
Alumni who could become lifetime supporters once cultivated
Average gift per P2P donor $30

Most alumni give $20 to $50 when asked by someone they know

Estimated P2P revenue from 300 donors
$9,000
300 donors x $30 avg gift
Every P2P donor flows directly into Bloomerang CRM and enters a journey automation to become a long-term supporter. Your alumni base grows automatically.
The cost of doing nothing

Every month without a system is a month of missed growth.

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.

$21K+

Fundraising left on the table

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.

300

New donors not found

Without peer-to-peer campaigns, your alumni base stays invisible. Every year without P2P is a year those connections never get made.

8+ hrs

Weekly admin time not recovered

Manual data entry, PayPal reconciliation, year-end letters. Elizabeth is burning hours every week that should be spent in the community building relationships.

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Donor retention rate unknown

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.

Features matched to your needs

Every tool maps directly to a pain point.

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.

Bloomerang CRM

360-degree constituent profiles

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

Bloomerang Fundraising

Donation forms with express payments

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

Bloomerang Fundraising

Event registration + sponsorship management

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

Bloomerang Fundraising

Peer-to-peer fundraising

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

Bloomerang CRM

Journey automations

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

Bloomerang CRM

DonorSearch wealth screening

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

Bloomerang CRM

QuickBooks Online integration

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

Bloomerang CRM

Automated tax receipts + year-end statements

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

Bloomerang CRM

Donor retention dashboard

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

Bloomerang CRM

Conversational reporting

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

Penny by Bloomerang

Penny, your intelligent fundraising partner

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

Bloomerang Fundraising

In-kind donation + auction management

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

Organizations like yours

You're not the first to make this leap. Here's what's possible.

These Bloomerang customers share your mission, your challenges, or your goals. Their results are a preview of what's ahead for DeKalb Central.

Fish and Loaves

Faith-based ยท Food access ยท CRM migration

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.

Our Place NH

Human services ยท Donor retention
58%

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.

Lauren McCluskey Foundation

Peer-to-peer ยท Alumni outreach
3x

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.

City of Good

Community impact ยท Volunteers
10x

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.

Getting from here to there

You can be live before the school year starts.

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.

Phase 01

Sign + kick off

Contract signed, payment processed, and your Smart Start onboarding session scheduled. Your historical donor data from Google Sheets is submitted for migration.

Week 1 to 2
Phase 02

Data migration

Your 340 constituent records, including prior giving history, are migrated and cleaned. Smart Start Basic covers your full contact and gift history.

Week 2 to 4
Phase 03

Setup + training

Donation forms built. QuickBooks integration configured. Email templates created. Daily group training and live webinars for Elizabeth, Ashley, Amber, and board members joining.

Week 3 to 5
Phase 04

Go live

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.

August 2026
Your investment

Everything DeKalb Central needs to reach $250K and grow.

This is the exact proposal Grace prepared for DeKalb Central School Alumni Foundation. Every line item mirrors the formal quote.

Everything DeKalb Central needs to reach $250K and grow.
CRM, up to 1,000 records, unlimited users
Built-in email marketing tool
DonorSearch ProspectView wealth screening, find hidden major gift prospects in your existing database
Unlimited Journey Automations, automated cultivation sequences for every donor tier
Penny AI fundraising partner, tells you who to call, how much to ask, and what to say
Donation Forms with PayPal Giving, Venmo, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and gift assist
Event Registration pages, golf outing sponsorships, gala ticketing, and supporter capture
Peer-to-Peer Fundraising
Auction Fundraising
Text-to-Donate
Mobile app with unlimited video acknowledgements
Nightly address updates and deceased status alerts via TrueGivers
Unlimited chat, email, and telephone support
Unlimited access to live and on-demand webinars via Bloomerang Learning
Daily group training sessions + Philanthropy Institute Course
Smart Start Basic Data Conversion, dedicated Conversion Project Manager, 5-week guided migration
Giving Platform Pro $11,757.00
Bundle Discount (57%) -$6,758.00
Total Recurring Fees $4,999.00
One-Time Fees
Smart Start Basic Data Conversion $800.00
Total One-Time Fees $800.00
Total First Year Investment
$5,799
per year  |  due at signing

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.

Your board meeting is coming up. Let's get you ready.

You've seen the platform. You've seen the ROI. Now it's time to bring the vision to your board. This pricing is valid for 30 days from May 28, 2026, and your ideal go-live window before back-to-school depends on signing soon to allow time for migration and training.

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