"It didn't require a lot of training to figure out what to do. And anytime we had an issue, we were able to get an answer pretty quickly, which is pretty rare."
Products
Key Features
Auctions
Donations
Ticketing
2x ticket price
average total giving per guest
1
successful Giving Week
0
checkout issues reported during the gala
Talk School serves students with significant speech and language disorders. Many students have autism and other developmental delays, and they all benefit from Talk School’s therapeutic, academic environment. As the only school of its kind in Pennsylvania, fundraising is critical to closing the gap between district funding and the cost of providing its students with what they truly need.
As a small team without a dedicated development staff member, Talk School needed a fundraising platform that could keep everyone aligned without requiring extensive training or a designated expert to manage it.
Challenge & Solution
To address this challenge, Talk School connected with GiveSmart to bring its events and fundraising into a single, centralized platform. Without a donor CRM or dedicated advancement staff, they needed a platform that was intuitive enough for anyone on the team to navigate and that also included a dedicated, responsive support team for when questions arose. After a check-in call that surfaced features they hadn’t yet explored, Talk School expanded its use of GiveSmart from event management into active fundraising campaigns.
Thanks to this expanded approach, the team was able to monitor ticket sales, donations, and auction items in real time with no learning curve.
Results
Using GiveSmart for both their gala and Giving Week campaign gave Talk School’s lean team visibility, consistency, and confidence. Checkout at the gala was seamless. With just 30 minutes to pack up and clear the venue, a smooth checkout process made all the difference. While their Giving Week campaign finished just short of its goal, the ability to look back across events, track auction data, and automate donor acknowledgments replaced hours of manual reconciliation.
Looking ahead, with unlimited campaigns, matching gift tools, and offline donation capture all in one place, Talk School is positioned to consolidate its donor data, reduce its reliance on spreadsheets, and grow its fundraising strategically, including a spring giving event already on the horizon.