Bloomerang Fundraising

When I first started my nonprofit career over 10 years ago, I never thought ‘reporting’ would be one of my favorite features of anything; however, it definitely is when it comes to Qgiv. I find it so easy to use, and it gives such a comprehensive overview of when and how the donations are coming through. It has also streamlined our internal processes: the donations go directly into our BFAIR fundraising account, which is then allocated to programs and services as needed. This has made some of our administrative tasks for fundraising so much more efficient.

The features that we’ve used so far–the donor forms, auction platform, and mobile suite–have certainly met our expectations! Before switching to Qgiv, our donation process was utilizing a few different systems. Qgiv really has helped streamline the process so that we’re able to capture the same (and additional) information within one system. While formalizing our annual fundraising strategies, one of our goals was to have a solid foundation on which we could easily build. Having Qgiv has definitely made that easier because we can add or modify products to best fit our needs.

In April of 2020, we were set to host our first fundraising event of the year, ArtFeast9. The annual auction is typically in person and showcases many local artists’ work and features food vendors. Due to COVID-19, the live event was cancelled. After some brainstorming, we came up with the idea of hosting a virtual live auction. We were unsure of next steps, but thankfully our donor database software, Bloomerang, introduced us to Qgiv.

Qgiv helped us keep our fundraising events going during COVID-19. The administrative team absolutely loves the automatic data transfer from Qgiv into Bloomerang; it makes for easy reporting and saves us from having to manually enter donation and registration data.

We’re looking forward to using Qgiv at our upcoming Annual Golf Outing! We love the idea of guests being able to bid from wherever they are and not having to use paper bid sheets. We look forward to using the auction site during our future live events to make bidding and donating even easier! We really love the checkout portion of the auction site–it’s a huge time saver. Everybody can use their phones to view purchased items, and just like that, checkout is done!

The time-saving aspect of Qgiv has been a huge improvement for us! Qgiv makes it easy to create and manage events, and their customer service is very good. They answer questions promptly and send instructions when you need help!

We needed a custom form. As someone with very minimal experience building something like that, it was so nice and easy to use Qgiv’s donation form. When I did have questions about anything, I was able to reach out and get answers very quickly.

It was a successful fundraiser for us, it went very well, and was very smooth. Even when we can go back to having in-person, we’ll always keep this digital option and the low-cost video element because people really responded to it.

Overall, it almost ended up bringing in the same revenue. We view this as a very successful event.