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Ottawa's $500 Million Bet: How a Hospital Foundation Made Infrastructure Personal
The Ottawa Hospital Foundation turned an intimidating capital project into a citywide invitation - and has raised $404 million toward a $500 million goal. Its playbook is less about gala glamour than a disciplined mix of giant anchor gifts, recurring donors, personal stories and proof of impact.
Gravyty
The Boston company teaching universities and nonprofits how to raise more money with less busywork - by handing fundraisers an AI that writes the first draft.
Overflow
Overflow is a faith-and-nonprofit fintech that lets churches, ministries, universities and charities accept the kinds of gifts most donation tools ignore - publicly traded stock, cryptocurrency, donor-advised funds, ACH, cards and digital wallets - all through one online flow that replaces the old fax-and-paperwork process for asset-based giving. Founded by former Google engineer Vance Roush after his own church struggled to accept stock gifts, the company reports that donors who give appreciated assets tend to give far more than they would in cash, and it has expanded into NFC 'Tap' giving hardware, an AI-assisted giving product and analytics. Overflow raised a $20M Series B in February 2024 and says it serves more than 1,000 organizations.
Resilia
Resilia is a New Orleans-based B2B SaaS company that helps nonprofits build organizational capacity and helps funders - foundations, corporations, governments and banks - go beyond the grant with coaching, technical assistance, and impact intelligence. Founded by serial entrepreneur Sevetri Wilson (who first built the nonprofit-formation tool ExemptMeNow), the two-sided platform pairs on-demand courses, templates and fundraising tools for grassroots organizations with dashboards that let grantmakers track and scale impact across their portfolios. Resilia raised a $35M Series B in 2022 - the largest venture round ever for a solo Black-female-founded tech company.
Bloomerang
Bloomerang is an Indianapolis-based software company that builds a complete giving platform for nonprofits, combining donor management (CRM), online fundraising, and volunteer management into one system. Founded in 2012 on the insight that nonprofits were losing the majority of first-time donors, Bloomerang centers its product on donor retention and relationship-building rather than one-time transactions. It now serves more than 24,000 small and mid-sized nonprofit organizations.