Nonprofit organizations that advocate on behalf of our furred and feathered friends are dearest to our hearts. We’re proud that numerous animal welfare charities nationwide have chosen Bloomerang’s donor database solution.
Below are just a few thoughts and success stories from organizations just like yours that provide a voice and resources to animals in need.
THH was getting the run around from their previous donor management providers.“We were using Common Ground by Convio, which was a platform UI for Salesforce. Convio got bought out by Blackbaud and Common Ground was discontinued,” said Ron Marullo, Executive Director at Texas Humane Heroes. “We didn’t like the offered products and Salesforce, though highly customizable, was just too complicated for our users. Most functions were just not being used and it ended up being more of a contact/address book than a true donor management system for our development team.”
THH switched to Bloomerang in early 2013 and immediately saw results.
“We use Bloomerang in three main ways. First, to keep track of our donors and the interactions with those donors. Second, we use the reporting tools to focus on retention efforts and build donor caseloads. Third, we use the API integration to offer online donations which get real-time data entry into Bloomerang platform. We are starting to use Bloomerang to track and manage our grants process.”
With Bloomerang, THH is able to get more team members involved. “Bloomerang is so simple to use that the learning curve is swift and immediate. Users can easily share donor information and store it within accounts. The dashboard is very important to see a quick daily snapshot of results. It is great for team members to see that daily when logging in to the platform and keep donor retention on their minds.”
Bloomerang has also helped transform their culture.
“Since switching to Bloomerang, our development team speaks about donor retention and incorporates tactics into our donor management process to try to improve the rate. At the very least, that was not part of our development team’s culture prior to switching to Bloomerang. I think it is just a matter of patience to see the results come to fruition, because the team is working on improving those relationships compared to a few years ago where donors just came and went.”
“It is a cost-effective, quality platform, that will keep things simple and allow more time for your team members to focus on your animal welfare mission.”
Southwest Wildlife Conservation Center (SWCC) rescues native wild animals that have lost their homes to development, or are found injured, orphaned, or abandoned. When possible, the animals in our care are rehabilitated and released — healthy and wild — back where they belong.
“As our old database grew, it became harder to recognize and merge duplicate entries as even a period in a different place created a new entry. Entering all the donor information manually was time consuming and therefore costly.”
“We send out weekly email updates to our donors, create reports for mailing appeals and newsletters, create and print letters and mailing labels for tax receipts, and file donations to allow us to see the effectiveness of certain appeals.
Bloomerang allowed us to at least have the online information entered automatically. We love the fact that it integrates well with our Firespring website.”
“Bloomerang saves us time, which transfers to more time spent working to save and take care of animals. And since time is also money, Bloomerang saves us money, too.
We found Bloomerang to be much easier to use overall than our former database. Having online donor information entered automatically was a huge savings in time. We have also found Bloomerang to simply be easier to use. For example, it is obvious when there is a duplicate entry, and very easy to merge them. The timeline makes it easy to see interactions with each donor, and to keep track of individual transactions and compare them to past years.”