Bloomerang understands the unique fundraising challenges of k-12 schools. There’s no reason for technology to get in the way of funding the next generation’s education. That’s why numerous public school foundations and private k-12 schools nationwide have chosen Bloomerang’s donor database solution.
Below are just a few thoughts and success stories from k-12 schools just like yours.
In partnership with families, Walden School provides an educational environment — both academic and social — that fosters a lifelong enthusiasm for learning and challenges individual students to reach their full potential so they may flourish in a diverse and changing world.
Walden School was looking for easy-to-use donor management software that could replace Raiser’s Edge. They needed a solution that was more robust for cultivating and stewarding their donors. “My school has been using the base package of Raiser’s Edge for about 15 years. We needed something that produced more accurate reports and provided us better donor cultivation and stewardship opportunities,” said Ely Heard, Assistant Director of Development at Walden School.
After being impressed with a Bloomerang demo at a previous organization, Ely was excited to actually have buying decision this time around. She has come to appreciate how easy Bloomerang is to use, the integrations available, and how easy it now is to steward their donors. “I appreciate the ease of use, the focus on donor stewardship and the collaboration with TrueGivers and DonorSearch.”
Ely and her team were happy to turn their eyes to Bloomerang as a donor database solution that could improve their donor and constituent experience while also saving them time and money. “So far, switching to Bloomerang has been one of the best decisions I’ve made in my time at my school. Not only are we saving money each year, our constituents are getting a better experience from our school.”
Since implementing Bloomerang, Walden School has alleviated several fundraising pain points in regards to reporting and stewardship tracking. “I have found customizing reports to be so much easier in Bloomerang. We also found Wealth research to be much easier and stewardship tracking to be more accessible.”
The team at Walden School has also seen improvements with their gift development processes, which has directly impacted the quality of their constituent communications. “Before Bloomerang we were lucky to send out donation acknowledgement letters in a timely manner. Now we’re able to easily send birthday letters to all constituents, my head of school is easily completing tasks I send her, and I can create giving by class reports.”
In that same vein, the ability to easily add personal touches, segment their donors, and have peace of mind that their donor data is correct and continually updated has increased their development team’s productivity and the results of their communication efforts. “I am able to track exactly how many interactions I’m having with our constituents on a day-to-day basis. I’m getting up-to-date address changes on a nightly basis and my constituent’s birthdays are accessible. I’m able to assign tasks to my head of school and director of development to keep them in the loop of constituents’ life changes and large gifts.”
All in all, it’s amazing what an easy-to-use, donor-focused database can do for the growth of an organization such as Walden School. “I love Bloomerang!”
New Ulm Area Catholic Schools in New Ulm, MN consists of St. Anthony Elementary, with grades PreK-6, Cathedral High School, with grades 7-12, Cathedral of the Holy Trinity Church and the Holy Trinity Convent. They currently serve approximately 500 students on campus.
“We use Bloomerang as our alumni database. We originate all of our mass mailings, labels, thank you notes and receipts in Bloomerang. We also use it to track all of our donations from alumni and friends. In addition, we generate email blasts out of Bloomerang as well as reports for our Board of Directors,” said Sara Rieland, Director of Development and Alumni Relations.
“We believe we are reaching more alumni through email blasts sent via Bloomerang. It is especially nice that you can see, by donor, all correspondence sent to them.”“We have greatly increased our productivity in that we can easily email blast any communication via Bloomerang. In addition, we can easily generate reporting to assist in our mailing (we can use filters to identify a certain mailing group, then send that Excel report to our print to directly print labels. This has saved us a lot of time!)”
“Bloomerang makes donation tracking very easy. It also makes all mailing functions fast and efficient. Their support is also top notch! No waiting on hold for someone to help you, you questions is answered instantly!”
Success Story: Lawrence Township School Foundation
“We love to use the communication tools within Bloomerang, specifically the Ahern Audit, not only in our thank you letters but our e-newsletters and even our mission statement. An executive director is juggling many balls throughout the day, and we never have enough time in the day. So to be able to go into the system and have it be so user friendly is very welcoming.
Cori Korn, Executive Director – Lawrence Township School Foundation