Prepared for ALS San Diego

ALS San Diego puts purpose in motion. Bloomerang helps it go further.

Your team runs a $500,000 Welcome Month and a growing gala on a stack that does not talk to itself. Here is what one connected platform, and an AI built on your own data, can do next.

5,500

Constituents in Blackbaud today

$500K

Raised each year in Welcome Month

$150K

Annual gala goal, hit this year

Where the work lives today

Five tools, doing the job of one

Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT, One Cause, QuickBooks Online, MailChimp, and Canva are all running today, none of them talking to each other.

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Blackbaud RE NXT

CRM

A new query every time, for basic reports

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QuickBooks Online

Accounting

Reconciled by hand against the auction platform

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One Cause

Auction & Events

Does not talk to Blackbaud or QuickBooks

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MailChimp

Segmentation is cumbersome to build

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Canva

Design

Bolted on because native templates fall short

Five disconnected tools
plus manual effort → One unified giving platform
records, giving, email, events

The ROI, in your terms

What one found major donor is worth

Move the sliders to ALS San Diego's reality. This models the giving lift Bloomerang customers see after converting, plus peer to peer growth, found major gifts, and the hours you get back.

Your inputs

Funds you raise in a year, all channels$100,000

Peer to peer raised in a year$10,000

Major gift prospects hidden in your list3

Admin hours saved per week5

What an hour of that time is worth$50

First year return on Bloomerang

0 to 1

New giving, major gift upside, and reclaimed time vs. the annual investment

Added giving

At the average 47% lift Bloomerang customers see after converting

Peer to peer lift

Same 47% lift applied to peer to peer

Major gift upside

At $5,000 per identified prospect

Time reclaimed

Hours saved times what your time is worth

Total first year impact

Illustrative. 47% giving lift is the average Bloomerang customers see. Major gift value locked at $5,000 per prospect for a like for like comparison.

The cost of doing nothing

A homegrown system has a ceiling you will hit fast

The real cost of standing still is not the tools you pay for. It is what slips through while your systems do not talk to each other, and it is quantifiable. The figures below track the calculator above.

Prospects you never surface

Without giving history and propensity in one place, the board contact who could give five figures looks like everyone else. Every $5,000 prospect you cannot see is one you never ask.

Missed major gifts per year

The lift you leave on the table

Bloomerang customers raise about 47% more after converting. Every year on the homegrown stack is a year that lift does not happen across your giving and peer to peer.

Uncaptured giving lift per year

Hours rebuilding instead of raising

Every hour spent tuning a CRM by hand is an hour not spent closing a sponsor or a grant. Your business development skill is the asset, not database admin.

Founder time lost per year

Standing still is not free. On your current inputs, doing nothing costs ALS San Diego about $0 in the first year alone.

Built for how ALS San Diego works

The pieces you asked for, in one place

Every capability below maps to something you raised on our call. This is not a feature dump. It is the shortlist that gets ALS San Diego to a yes.

Lead management

New people in, follow up scheduled

Add a contact in seconds, drop in your notes, and set the next touch, so finding new supporters and staying on them becomes a workflow instead of a memory test.

Follow up

Scheduled follow up you will not forget

Built in email marketing plus scheduled tasks and reminders on every record, so no relationship goes cold because a follow up lived only in someone's head.

Donor centric CRM

Every supporter, one record

Giving, emails, event attendance, and notes on a single timeline, so a relationship is never scattered across separate tools again.

QuickBooks Online

A native, direct integration

Gifts flow straight into QuickBooks Online. No exports, no double entry, no month end reconciliation guesswork.

Events

Events and sponsors, tracked

Capture sponsors, registrations, attendees, and gifts against real records, so every event grows the database instead of living in a separate tool.

Fundraising tools

Online giving that fits how you raise

Customizable, mobile ready donation pages with recurring and tribute options, so giving is simple for supporters and connected for you.

Penny, your AI fundraising partner

AI that reads your data, not a search box

Penny is trained on your database, not generic answers, so she works the way you would want a sharp analyst to work.

What Penny actually does

Real intelligence over your own data, not a glorified search that hands every nonprofit the same reply. That is the line Penny is built to clear.

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Surfaces hidden capacity. Scores everyone in your database for major gift propensity, so the founder who can give far more than they do today does not stay invisible.

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Drafts the ask. Point Penny at a prospect and have a tailored outreach letter ready to edit, not a blank page.

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Cleans the busywork. Tell her to fix every uncapitalized name in your imported records and she does it, so your first sends look professional.

Penny

AI fundraising partner

Who in our database has the capacity to give more than they are giving now?

I found several. Here is the strongest signal in your records right now.

Illustrative example

$5,000+

A current supporter giving at a fraction of likely capacity. Want a draft ask?

Yes, draft it.

Done. A tailored letter is ready for your review and edits.

How the options stack up

You have already met the alternatives

Here is how the common alternatives land against what ALS San Diego actually needs. Drop any column that is not relevant to this prospect.

What you need	Bloomerang	Blackbaud RE NXT
Built for nonprofits, not adapted B2B	Yes	Yes, but complex and legacy
Ready without heavy setup	Days	Significant setup and configuration
Donor giving history in one record	Native	Yes, but query heavy to view
Built in email marketing	Included	Limited, most teams add MailChimp
QuickBooks Online integration	Native	No, manual reconciliation
Modern interface	Yes	Dated, by most accounts
AI trained on your data	Penny	None reported by users we've spoken with

The pattern we see

Early stage orgs stall on the follow up, not the mission

New nonprofits rarely lose momentum because the cause is weak. They lose it because the founder is the only one holding every relationship, and there is no system to catch the next touch. The organizations that scale are the ones that put that engine in place before the volume arrives, not after it overwhelms them.

Why it matters now

Set the foundation before the growth, not during it

The best moment to build clean is before the growth arrives. Every supporter you add now lands in a real record with real follow up, so when your fundraising accelerates, the system is already ready for it.

94%

of Bloomerang customers renew year over year

Before and after

The same founder, a very different week

Today

✗A new contact means a row in a spreadsheet, a mental note, and a follow up you hope you remember.

✗A gift lands in your payment tool, but nothing links it back to the person or prompts a thank you.

✗Event attendees sit apart from everyone else you know.

✗Someone is the integration layer, and it works only while the numbers stay small.

With Bloomerang

✓A new contact lands in one record with a scheduled next touch, no memory required.

✓A gift posts to the donor timeline and to QuickBooks Online, thank you ready to send.

✓Event guests, sponsors, and donors share one view, so relationships compound.

✓The system holds the follow up, so your time goes to the mission.

The investment, Giving Platform Pro

Simple pricing, built for where you are

One platform, sized to ALS San Diego today with room to grow. Here is everything included in the Giving Platform Pro bundle recommended for you.

Your path with Bloomerang

Discovery

Complete. We mapped your stack, your goals, and what gets you to a yes.

Demo

The full hour long walkthrough of the platform against your real needs.

Decision

On your timeline, brought to whoever signs off on the investment.

Recommended for ALS San Diego, Giving Platform Pro

Giving Platform Pro

Donor management, Bloomerang CRM

Up to 5,500 contacts with unlimited users, no per seat fees
Complete donor database with a constituent timeline on every record
Donor engagement scoring and generosity scoring
Wealth screening and giving capacity insight
Sustainability scorecard
Smart segmentation and saved, filtered lists
Customizable reporting and dashboards
Built in email marketing with templates
Letters, acknowledgements, and receipting
Recurring gifts, tribute gifts, and pledge management
Nightly address verification and deceased suppression
Native QuickBooks Online integration
Mobile app for iOS and Android
Data export any time, you always own your data

Fundraising, Bloomerang Fundraising Premium

Peer to peer campaigns with individual and team fundraising pages
Tribute and memorial giving pages
Auction and event ticketing, with a live fundraising thermometer
Inventory management for event merchandise and equipment
Outbound text messaging and unlimited journey automations
Unlimited online donation pages and forms, customizable and mobile optimized
Donor and fundraiser mobile apps

AI, onboarding, and support

Penny, your AI fundraising partner, generous introductory access
Guided onboarding
Support by phone, email, and 24/7 chat
Bloomerang Academy, weekly training, and knowledge base

$9,299

per year

Giving Platform Pro. Up to 5,500 contacts. Scales as ALS San Diego grows.

Pricing prepared for ALS San Diego. Final quote confirmed after the demo.

IGP, predictive donor intelligence

Does the upgrade pay for itself?

A forward look for when ALS San Diego is ready for the Intelligent Giving Platform. The slider is set to your record count. Any one of the three outcomes below covers the annual cost on its own, and most organizations reach all three.

PredictAI

Scores the supporters already in your database on behavior and likelihood, who is ready to give, who is about to lapse, and who is ready for a bigger ask. Includes Next Gift Likelihood, Recurring Giving Likelihood, and Recurring Donor Churn Risk.

ProspectAI

Prospect research and enrichment from public sources like IRS 990s, FEC filings, and news, with charitable giving history and an adverse findings scan. Every figure is cited and clickable back to its source.

Penny and AI Content Assistant

Help draft the outreach once your team decides to act. The intelligence is automated. A person reviews and approves everything that goes out.

Built natively into Bloomerang, with no separate login. It works on the supporters already in your database, so it pairs with prospecting tools like DonorSearch that bring in brand new names.

IGP Upgrade ROI Calculator

How many outcomes does it take to cover the cost? Usually fewer than you would think.

Constituent Records

MAJOR GIFTS

LAPSE SAVES

MONTHLY CONVERTS

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Scenario 1: Major Gift Identification

GIFT THRESHOLD

DONORS NEEDED

TOTAL REVENUE

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Scenario 2: Lapse Prevention

AVG ANNUAL GIFT