Bloomerang understands the unique fundraising challenges of private 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 parochial schools, Montessori schools, classic schools and others nationwide have chosen Bloomerang’s donor database solution.
Below are just a few thoughts and success stories from organizations just like yours.
The mission of Saint Ann Catholic School is to facilitate strong academic development, and to nurture a lifelong commitment to Christ and the teachings of the Catholic Church in a way that promotes the spiritual and educational growth of each student, so that all students become responsible, productive and faith-filled citizens.
St. Ann Catholic School was looking for an affordable donor management system that could help them better track and engage with their alumni. “We were looking for a great way to track our alumni for the school. Once they graduate, they lose touch with us and we wanted to track their accomplishments and keep them connected to our school,” said Angela de Jong, Development Director at St. Ann Catholic School.
With Bloomerang, Angela and the team at St. Ann Catholic School had found a donor database that could grow with them and meet their budgetary restraints. “We like Bloomerang for the affordable non-profit rates and the ability to start small for a lower fee and then pay more as we grow.”
Overall Angela has been really happy that they were able to find an affordable nonprofit CRM solution to help them track and communicate with their different constituent groups. “It’s affordable and does everything we need to track donors and communicate with them effectively.”
Since implementing Bloomerang and ditching Excel, St. Ann Catholic School has seen improvements with several fundraising pain points through data consolidation. “Bloomerang allows us to track donors in one place. No more cumbersome excel sheets.” They have also benefited from improvements in the quality of their constituent communications. “We are hearing positives from our community thanks to better communication.”
In addition, Bloomerang has fit nicely into St. Ann Catholic School’s donor retention and gift development processes. “This database helps us keep up with our alumni and send them news from us. Now we can invite them to events and track their donations. It will help us in the future as the database fills up and hopefully it will result in more donations.”
It’s amazing what a comprehensive, but still easy-to-use, donor database can do for the growth of an organization such as St. Ann Catholic School.
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!”
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