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YourCause makes good intentions survive the paperwork
A failed consumer model became a business selling employers the machinery of generosity. Now YourCause from Blackbaud is tackling the gap between making a donation and getting it where it belongs.
Pushpay made giving easier. Now it wants churches to notice who’s missing.
A mobile donation business became a church software suite by buying the tools around the offering plate. Its next wager: the useful part of a database is the conversation it starts.
Bonterra Bought the Plumbing of Philanthropy. Now It Wants to Make Giving Grow Again.
A $2 billion roll-up put fundraising, grants, casework and corporate giving under one roof. Bonterra's harder job is turning that collection into a network nonprofits can trust - and use without adding more work.
Geng Wang Put the Clipboard Out of Work - Then Retired the T-Shirt
His third startup began as Pokémon Go for volunteering, became the back office for hundreds of nonprofits, and reached break-even before he handed over the keys. Now the Civic Champs cofounder is building again.
Civic Champs Turned Volunteer Paperwork Into a Product - Then the World Stopped Volunteering in Person
The Indiana startup began with a clever geofenced check-in. COVID broke that premise almost overnight - and forced the team to build the broader operating system nonprofits had been asking for all along.
The Parent Volunteer Who Turned a 200-Swimmer Headache Into Team Topia’s Sports-Software Playbook
Mason Hale did not set out to digitize youth sports. He volunteered to be the ‘computer guy,’ found a thicket of spreadsheets and aging software, and built his way out - one swim team, one meet and eventually one stubborn niche at a time.
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.