Almabase and Storyraise Announce Strategic Collaboration to Elevate Donor Experience and Stewardship
Almabase, a leading Digital-First Donor Engagement Solution, is thrilled to announce a new strategic partnership with Storyraise, a solution for schools and nonprofits to create engaging, digital impact, donor, and endowment reports to thank donors. This collaboration marks an exciting development in the nonprofit and educational sectors, aiming to revolutionize how institutions connect with and sustain their donor base through enhanced digital experiences.
A Unified Vision for Superior Digital Experiences
In an era where digital interaction is key to maintaining and growing donor relationships, Almabase has consistently empowered educational institutions and nonprofits to offer seamless and engaging online experiences. Whether through alumni directories, job searches, mentorship programs, event registrations, or online donations during giving days, Almabase ensures that every touchpoint is optimized for engagement.
Storyraise takes this a step further by enabling organizations to effectively share the impact of donations. Through personalized digital reports, Storyraise helps institutions tell compelling stories about how donor contributions are making a real difference. This not only enhances transparency but also significantly increases the likelihood of donors returning to give again, thus deepening their connection with the cause.
Strengthening Donor Stewardship with AI-Driven Innovation
In the current fundraising landscape, the ability to attract new donors is just the beginning; retaining and nurturing these relationships is what truly drives long-term success. Almabase excels in creating highly engaged alumni networks, often converting first-time donors into loyal supporters. Storyraise complements this by ensuring that these donors are continuously informed and inspired by the impact of their gifts, thereby enhancing donor stewardship and increasing their lifetime value.
"As we continue to innovate at Almabase, our partnership with Storyraise is a natural extension of our commitment to providing world-class digital engagement solutions. Together, we’re not just engaging donors; we’re building lasting relationships that will sustain and grow over time,”
said Kalyan Varma, CEO of Almabase.
“With Storyraise’s AI-driven approach, we can now offer our customers an even more powerful toolset to nurture and expand their donor communities.”
Aligning with the Future of Fundraising
This collaboration aligns perfectly with Almabase’s innovation-first, digital-driven values, as both companies are deeply committed to enhancing the donor experience through technology. By integrating Storyraise’s AI-powered campaign tools with Almabase’s comprehensive engagement platform, institutions can now deliver a holistic donor experience that not only drives initial contributions but also fosters long-term loyalty.
“Donor engagement starts with transparency, and sharing stories of impact through exciting digital impact and donor reports can foster that environment,”
said Josh Kligman, CEO of Storyraise.
“The further you can go to customize stories of impact the better, and to do that it’s nice to have a handle on your audience segmentation. Storyraise can you connect those audiences to content they care about, through impact and donor reports.”
Looking Ahead
As Almabase and Storyraise join forces, the future of donor engagement and stewardship looks brighter than ever. This partnership not only represents a significant leap forward in fundraising innovation but also provides nonprofit organizations and educational institutions with the tools they need to thrive in an increasingly digital landscape. Together, Almabase and Storyraise are empowering institutions to build stronger, more engaged communities and achieve their fundraising goals with unprecedented efficiency and success.
About Almabase
Almabase is a modern digital engagement, event management, and fundraising platform that has powered over 400 educational institutions to build meaningful relationships with their community. The platform enables self-serve digital engagement for peer-to-peer networking and career outcomes, drives action with personalized communications, and keeps constituent information up to date within CRM systems. Almabase stands out in the market with its ability to help small teams deliver big results, creating a significant fundraising impact.
About Storyraise
Storyraise is a solution for nonprofits, healthcare foundations, K-12, and higher education donor relations teams to create engaging, digital reports. The solution is drag and drop, a self-service environment, and the customer service is hands-on, including white glove data set-up for personalized reports, that pull data from donor management platforms and CRMs. Storyraise is the only solution providing organizations with reports across desktop, mobile, tablet, and PDF with the click of a button.
Blackbaud, the leading provider of software for powering social impact, and Almabase, the digital-first alumni engagement solution, have announced the expansion of their partnership to the education sectors of Canada and the United Kingdom. The partnership will provide institutions with a modern, digital-first solution to improve constituent data, drive self-serve engagement, and boost event participation.
A Unified Vision
The partnership aligns with Blackbaud’s commitment to customer-centric innovation across digital engagement, Advancement CRM, and financials.
“Partners bring integrated capabilities that extend capabilities and outcomes for Blackbaud customers. We are thrilled that Almabase’s offering, integrated with Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT® and leveraging Blackbaud’s best-in-class payment solution, Blackbaud Merchant Services™, is now available to even more of our customers around the world.”
- Liz Price, Sr. Director of Global Partners at Blackbaud