"Given the things that are affecting us as an organization, it makes a huge difference knowing that whoever we're talking to [at GiveSmart] has nonprofit experience ... especially when you talk about donor experience and retention ... People on the GiveSmart team understand. It's people who know the technology piece AND the industry piece. They can help you find a solution that works best for you and your goals."
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Donations
Peer-to-Peer
$1 Million+
Raised with GiveSmart
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Award-Winning Fundraising and Donor Management Platform
10+
NEW Recurring Giving Donors Every Month
Back in the late 2010s, Bloom Our Youth had floundered with their event fundraising management tools, always returning to GiveSmart because it was easy and engaging for donors and volunteers to use, and it supported their exponential growth for their two distinguished events. As they’ve grown, they’ve looked into consolidating the tools they use for fundraising.
The Bloom staff were using multiple credit card processors (with high fees) to process website donations. They also had a separate patchwork of tools for their partner-to-peer fundraising and program-specific fundraisers. The team knew they could save money and increase efficiency by using a single platform that could do more.
Challenge & Solution
The expanded GiveSmart platform offered the tools they needed to save money and raise more. With customizable, embeddable forms and best-in-class peer-to-peer fundraising, the Bloom team was able to better engage with their support network.
GiveSmart offered them far more than award-winning technology and one vendor, though. Bloom has a small staff and has found that the GiveSmart Community Roundtables and the connections made have offered them a network of like-minded, hard-working fundraisers who come together to brainstorm and share ideas. Bloom is also deeply appreciative of the GiveSmart staff they’ve worked with, who have first-hand nonprofit experience. It’s meaningful to the Bloom team that their chosen technology partner is not only familiar with the industry but also cares about their success.
Results
Bloom Our Youth has been a GiveSmart customer for over three years. They use GiveSmart for all their fundraising campaigns and have found success ever since.
It is a good thing they had familiarity with GiveSmart before the height of the pandemic, when their Bloom Closet program found itself overflowing with in-kind donations and saw increased awareness of their mission. They found themselves with willing volunteers and fundraisers, and the expanded GiveSmart platform allowed them to set up branded giving opportunities for these partners to use.
Bloom already had all of the tools they needed to best support their growth. All donor information aggregation, reporting, and payment processing were handled by a single vendor, making it easy for their team to track, manage, and scale these initiatives.
Bloom has also committed to fully serving all foster youth in Georgia within the next five to 10 years, a twofold increase from what they can currently handle. The fundraising and donor management foundation they have established with GiveSmart, along with the growth they’ve worked hard to achieve, has set them up to realize this vision.