Discover the top 10 higher education giving days of 2026, the strategies that drove record results, and key trends shaping alumni fundraising this year.
Anwesha Kiran
Published:
May 26, 2026
Updated:
May 27, 2026
Discover AI Summary
• Integrate physical, in-person activities with your digital giving day campaign to create engaging, shareable moments that boost donor participation and community spirit. Think beyond just online links to inspire real-world interaction and buzz.
• Focus your fundraising appeals on specific, named programs rather than broad institutional initiatives, as donors are more likely to give when they can clearly visualize the direct impact of their contribution. This helps reduce donor fatigue and increases targeted support.
• Treat your giving day as a prime opportunity for acquiring new donors, actively measuring first-time contributions as a key metric. Tailoring outreach to welcome these fresh faces is essential for growing your overall donor base.
• Deploy creative gamification, such as real-time leaderboards for departments or hourly match challenges, to encourage friendly competition and turn passive alumni into active, invested participants. This strategy can significantly amplify engagement and donations.
• Weave your institution's unique history, traditions, or identity into the giving day theme, giving supporters a more meaningful and distinctive reason to connect and contribute. This helps build a deeper sense of belonging and storytelling around your campaign.
• Explore flexible campaign windows, like extending beyond 24 hours or offering early giving, to accommodate your global alumni network and maximize participation across different time zones. This makes it easier for everyone to join the collective effort.
Giving days are a concentrated burst of community energy that, when done right, move alumni, parents, students, and staff to act together. They’re also some of the most reliable vehicles to mobilize engagement from the community, year-on-year. But what "done right" looks like isn’t a fixed answer; it keeps evolving and looks different for different institutions.
We’ve put together a few examples of successful giving days that have stood out in 2026 so far. A few shattered institution records. Some took creative risks that paid off. All of them offer a glimpse into what higher education fundraising looks like right now, and what institutions are doing differently for 2026.
The general theme of giving can be described as cautiously optimistic. According to CASE's Insights on Voluntary Support of Education report released in April 2026, giving to U.S. higher education institutions exceeded $78 billion in FY 2025: a 4% year-over-year increase. This continued growth reflects donors' sustained confidence in colleges and universities.
These numbers also paint a more complex picture of the alumni donation landscape. The number of alumni donors shrank in number even as total giving went up, which means fewer donors are giving more. This places institutions in a position where engagement, and an effort to sustain and increase it year-on-year, becomes imperative.
Giving days are one of your best tools to address this directly: they widen the donor pool, cultivate first-time givers, and create visible momentum to signal institutional health.
Findings in CASE and Almabase’s State of Giving Days white paper also support this: nearly 40% of institutions said their giving day helped them engage more alumni and boost donor participation. More than one in four reported that these single-day campaigns contributed between 11% and 25% of their total annual fundraising.
The shift we’re seeing in 2026 is in how these institutions ensure that Giving Days work, through the strategies they’re adopting. Student generated content, more sophisticated and widely present gamification features, matching pools deployed with greater precision: these are some of the trends we’re seeing in 2026. And a handful of schools are even abandoning the standard 24-hour flash format entirely in favor of models better suited to their communities. The giving days below reflect all of that.
Theme: Boilermaker Heroes: Making Victories Possible
Purdue's Day of Giving (April 29) carved out a league of its own with a staggering $95.5 million from more than 34,000 individual gifts, making it one of the largest single-institution giving day results in higher education history, the second-highest gift count in Purdue's 13-year run with this event, trailing behind only last year's national-record-setting campaign.
They had different units (campus, college, school, program, club, or student organization) participate, with Purdue Engineering tracking roughly $12 million, while the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics pulled nearly $5.2 million, at least a little bit fueled by a patriotic thread tied to America's upcoming 250th anniversary. Purdue Athletics brought in a record $16.1 million through 2,569 gifts, surpassing its own prior record of $13 million set in 2024.
What worked: Purdue has refined its gamification model over more than a decade since its launch in 2014, and it shows. They used real-time leaderboards to put colleges, alumni clubs, and student organizations in direct competition for shares of matching pools. This worked very well for the event because it essentially turned passive donors into active participants who track outcomes and are fully involved in the process.
The hourly match challenges, such as Best Photo Challenge, Best Selfie Challenge, Boilermaker Kids challenge, and the much-loved Purdue Pets Challenge, all of which included posting pictures with their hashtags ‘#PurdueConvos’ and ‘#PurdueDayofGiving’ spread word on social media to a degree that would cost far more to replicate through paid channels.
The campaign also tracked geographic state participation, giving the team a nationwide Boilermaker Pride narrative that resonated beyond campus.
The ‘social feeds’ tab on their Giving Page also documented the student and community generated content along with their campaign hashtags. They also provided a social media toolkit, complete with ready-to-use posts and images, making it much easier for supporters to show up meaningfully.
The deeper lesson here is that consistency is the gift that keeps on giving. The institution consistently repeats strategies that work for their giving days while also taking new initiatives, keeping the experience modern and fresh for attendees. Purdue's cumulative giving day total since 2014 has now crossed $697 million. That kind of institutional momentum is itself a fundraising asset.
Theme: Nature-Themed Basecamp Exploration
Cornell's giving day 2026 campaign used a custom arcade mini-game in which users avoided obstacles and collected “digital apples” on a virtual campus map. Collecting apples within the campus map gave donors an experience that felt native to the institution and introduced a layer of delight, nostalgia and interactivity that most donors hadn't seen before.
More importantly, that mechanic was tied directly to dollars: top-performing departments unlocked portions of a $2.4 million matching fund pool based on participation. The result was over 17,000 individual donors and more than 25,000 total gifts.
The institution had organised as many as 13 different events to make the Giving Day an immersive, rewarding experience for students. They could write thank-you postcards to donors, enjoy snacks, participate in giveaways and so much more.
They also leveraged peer-to-peer giving, with 704 Giving Day champions securing more than 4,037 gifts, which was record-shattering.
What worked: Cornell mixed and matched a few strategies that worked out best for them. The mini arcade game gave donors a reason to stay engaged beyond the moment of their gift. To this they tied in matching fund unlocks, essentially doubling the impact made. Finally, they also had students write thank you notes to donors, showing moments of gratitude in real time. The nature-themed "basecamp" framing also gave the campaign a cohesive visual identity that made it memorable for attendees and shareable across social channels.
Theme: Ole Miss Giving Day
Ole Miss has had a unique approach of baking institutional history into their annual giving day, which takes place every spring. This year too, the campaign window was set at exactly 1 day, 8 hours, and 48 minutes, as a callback to the university's 1848 founding year. It's a small detail, but one that declares intentionality to donors and attendees.
A leaderboard was adopted to track the number of donors from each department in real time, to increase competition among donors. They also live streamed the event for the duration it was active.
Along with this, they also added a physical element. A "Squirrel Scavenger Hunt" was designed to send participants across campus searching for hidden stuffed squirrels, with each discovery unlocking $250 in matching funds directed to the finder's chosen fund.
Donors could also "name a squirrel" for a $26 gift or sign the historic Ventress Hall turret, turning philanthropy into something tactile and campus-rooted.
Department leaderboards and live-streamed updates from university leaders kept the digital momentum going in parallel.
What worked: The Ole Miss team understood that a giving day is fundamentally a community event. The squirrel activation gave students and staff something to do and share, creating word-of-mouth momentum that is hard to replicate through any other channel. Tying the campaign window to the university's founding year added an element of storytelling that is distinctive to the institution’s identity.
Theme: Mason Now: Power the Possible
George Mason's 2026 giving day stood out for a metric that rarely makes the headline: approximately 25% of its donors were giving for the first time! That's a significant new-donor conversion rate for any institution, and it signals that the campaign successfully reached beyond its existing base.
The strategy here was to closely tie this giving day to a larger multi-year campaign. By positioning the giving day as a visible milestone within that broader arc of their Mason Now campaign, GMU gave both existing donors and first-timers a clear sense of the mission and their place in the outcome.
What worked: GMU approached their giving day as a donor acquisition vehicle rather than purely a revenue event. This influenced messaging, targeting, and put the event in perspective for everyone involved. The 25% first-time donor rate suggests the team invested in prospecting and outreach instead of a single-day fundraiser, which makes a lot of sense in context.
Theme: Make It Count for Meredith
Meredith College's giving day ran in parallel with the institution's 135th birthday; a decision that unlocked a layer of storytelling the campaign used well. The Greatest Needs Fund, which allows the college to allocate funds to areas that need it the most, secured $454,672 on its own, reflecting strong donor trust in institutional decision-making.
The most distinctive element, however, was the spread in geographic activation: 11 regional watch parties ran simultaneously across North Carolina and Washington, D.C., bringing the giving day to those who couldn't be on campus. The board of trustees, parents, and alumni groups funded 15 matching gift challenges totaling $460,000, and an "Odds vs. Evens" class-year competition ran throughout the day.
What worked: For a women's college with a deeply relational alumnae community, distributed in-person events turned a digital campaign into a series of local moments. The giving day became a reason to gather : which made giving feel like an act of belonging, not just philanthropy. The birthday framing gave first-time donors a natural reason to act: celebrating a milestone feels different from responding to a need.
Theme: UCA Ready to Grow
UCA's March 13 sprint deliberately moved away from broad-message capital campaign marketing toward hyperspecific, fund-level storytelling. Rather than deploying universal matching pools, the team created tailored mini-milestones for individual initiatives: a new Aviation Academy pilot training module, an Athletics Championship Resource sub-pool, and specific tracks for Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
This meant donors weren't giving to the larger "UCA", they were funding a specific program they could see and name.
What worked: Segmented, cause-specific fundraising isn't new, but it was used as the one specific strategy by UCA. By making each fund feel like a distinct campaign within the larger day, they reduced donor fatigue and increased the sense of direct impact. Donors who care about education gave to education. Donors who care about aviation gave to aviation. The $1.2M result across more than 3,100 donors reflects both breadth across different causes and genuine engagement.
Theme: Going Above and Beyond for Students
Creighton's giving day took a grassroots-first approach, centering community voting as the mechanism through which challenge dollars were awarded. Student-led coalitions : including the Street Medicine program, which provides direct healthcare to underserved populations in Omaha : competed for popular vote tallies, with winning coalitions receiving earmarked challenge grants. The top voted club earned a $2000 gift.
Additionally, there were stickers and socks given out to donors, and the campus therapy dog, Ella, was present in the event for a short duration, adding to the delight factor.
What worked: Incorporating voting into the event gives non-donors a reason to participate in the campaign, creating a layer of supporters who become familiar with individual programs before they give. It also adds a layer of credibility from the voters’ perspective. With the freebies, the socks, coffee, snacks and the free hugs, it is clear that Creighton's $1.11M result from nearly 3,000 donors reflects how participatory design expands reach and impact by considering the experience offered to the attendees.
Theme: The Power of Opportunity
St. John's ran one of the more creative low-barrier engagement strategies on this list: small-dollar gift thresholds unlocked on-campus experiential perks. A $10 gift gave donors access to an on-campus food truck dessert ticket; $20 unlocked a full lunch voucher. The campaign was centered on low-income financial aid and the university's Vincentian community mission.
What worked: By pairing small gifts with immediate, physical rewards, St. John's reduced the psychological friction of giving, especially younger alumni who may not have deep giving habits yet. The approach is replicable, and the results suggest it worked.
Theme: Bridge to the Future
Queens' Giving Day runs as a 36-hour online fundraising drive which is already a departure from the standard 24-hour format most institutions use. The 2026 campaign closed with 588 donations and £650,778 raised.
Donor-count challenges were front and center in the campaign: hitting 400 donors unlocked £4,000, and reaching 500 unlocked a further £5,000. Because these were participation thresholds a donor who gives £10 counts the same as one who gives £1,000 toward unlocking those challenges. This framing lowered the barrier to entry and gave smaller donors a reason to act. A final-hour challenge sweetened the close: raise £25,000 in the last 60 minutes, unlock another £25,000. Both mechanics were fully unlocked by the end of the day.
A matriculation decade leaderboard ran throughout, ranking donor participation by the era alumni graduated; the 1970s cohort led with 106 donors, followed by the 1980s at 94. It's a simple touch, but it works: class-year competition creates identity-driven motivation.
What worked: The 36-hour window gives the campaign breathing room for alumni across time zones to participate without the pressure of a midnight cutoff. Paired with a "give early" feature that let donors contribute before the official window opened, Queens' essentially extended the campaign in both directions without diluting the urgency of the final-hour challenge.
This strategy paired with proven ones like a matriculation leaderboard, the choice of funds given to donors and the donor-count challenges, added to lowering the barrier for participation even further. This campaign was engineered to give itself the best shot.
The result is a campaign that felt inclusive globally but still had a hard close that drove action.
Theme: OneGW
GW's 2026 Giving Day ran for just over 24 hours on April 7 and 8 and raising more than $2 million from over 3,800 donors: the largest in the university's history, surpassing a 2025 campaign that had itself set a then-record. Back-to-back records in consecutive years is a sign that they’re doing several things right!
The campaign covered every corner of the university: scholarships, student organizations, athletics, academic programs, and research, and drew support from all 50 states and even overseas, with the farthest gift coming from Singapore. That geographic spread tells you the campaign is tapping into an alumni network that's genuinely engaged, not just locally loyal.
The "OneGW" framing ran throughout the day, with challenge mechanics and peer storytelling as the primary engagement levers. GW has positioned Giving Day as a signature university tradition since its 2021 launch which means donors now come into the campaign with some familiarity and expectation, and the institution matches those expectations through consistency.
What worked: With five years in the game, each year's record becomes the baseline expectation for the next, and GW has proved that this pressure leads to sharpened execution. The geographic reach suggests the team has gotten better at outreach beyond the DC metro area. And the "OneGW" identity, spanning Foggy Bottom and the health system campus, gives the campaign breadth without losing cohesion. The consecutive record years are the clearest signal that GW has figured out the basics and is now building on top of a solid foundation.
Several threads run across this year's standout campaigns.
UCA and Creighton are the clearest examples, but it's visible across the institutions on this list, one way or the other: donors respond to named programs instead of simple department name drops. "Fund the Aviation Academy" seems to generally perform better than "Support UCA's Growth."
Ole Miss's squirrel hunt, Meredith's regional watch parties, and St. John's food truck perks demonstrate that the most engaging giving days create something to do offline that can be shared online. These are the trade-offs being made in place of the more traditional donation link. It may be more effort intensive but the effort pays off.
George Mason's 25% first-time donor rate won't be the last we hear of this kind of tracking. As CASE's latest data shows, institutions are navigating a narrowing high-capacity donor base, which makes these entry points more valuable.
Meredith's regional watch parties, Ole Miss's campus squirrel hunt, St. John's food truck perks: all of these activities would feel forced at a different institution or a different community. The schools that did the most interesting work in 2026 designed for their own communities, which goes to show how well they know who shows up for them. When the experience itself is worth showing up for, the giving follows.
If you're looking at these results and thinking about what your institution's next giving day could look like, we’ve got some great free resources to help you get started!
The 2026 giving day season isn't over, so we will be seeing more great examples of giving days in the coming months. But even this early snapshot tells us something about the direction of higher education fundraising.
Giving days are getting more intentional and community oriented. The institutions that understand their communities deeply enough to design a day that feels specific, meaningful, and worth showing up for will be the ones driving the best results.
If you are looking for the perfect partner to help you bring success to your next giving day, feel free to book a personalized demo and we’d love to talk!
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Not long ago, Giving Days were simple.
They were calendar events.
They were email-heavy.
But in 2026, Giving Days have become something else entirely.
Today, Giving Days connect fundraising, engagement, and community-building in a giving world that is more complex, focused on fewer donors, and driven by relationships than ever before.
In partnership with CASE, we surveyed 150+ colleges, universities, and independent schools to understand how Giving Days are evolving and what advancement teams are doing differently in response to today’s realities.
What we found was not just a set of tactical changes but a deeper strategic shift. Giving Days are no longer treated as standalone fundraising events. They are becoming central to how institutions engage communities, rebuild donor pipelines, and sustain philanthropy over time.
Across education and the nonprofit sector, giving is holding steady. Institutions are raising meaningful support, major gifts are increasing, and global giving remains strong.
In the UK and Ireland, institutions secured £1.52 billion in new commitments, an increase over the previous year. Australia and New Zealand have also seen steady growth over the past five years. In the U.S., independent schools raised $2.82 billion in 2024, with parents and guardians contributing a quarter or more of total funds.
At the same time, a quieter challenge remains: fewer people are taking part.
Data from the Fundraising Effectiveness Project shows that the sharpest drop is happening among the small-dollar donors.
This tension of more dollars and fewer donors is the context in which Giving Days are being reimagined.
Giving Days used to focus mainly on alumni. Messages relied on shared memories, school pride, and the idea of “giving back”.
Today, donors are more diverse. Parents, families, foundations, donor-advised funds, faculty, staff, students, and community members all play a bigger role.
As a result, institutions are turning Giving Days from alumni-only campaigns into events for the whole community.
The question has shifted from “How do we get alumni to give today?” to:
By including more people, Giving Days are becoming open entry points, not exclusive events.
One clear takeaway from the CASE data is that institutions are changing how they define success.
When asked what drives their Giving Day:
Giving Days now account for a meaningful share of annual fundraising:
In short: Giving Days can do what traditional campaigns often can’t. They make it easy for lots of people to participate.
As Giving Days grow, institutions are using smarter strategies.
Digital tools are key:
But Giving Days aren’t just online.
The goal is to make Giving Day feel personal, celebratory, and human, so donors can see themselves as part of the story.
One of the biggest changes is how institutions measure success.
Instead of just looking at total dollars, most now track:
Looking ahead, many plan to track even more: retention, donor upgrades, gifts from ambassadors, leadership giving, and which email subject lines work best.
The takeaway: Giving Days are no longer just experiments. They are data-driven opportunities to learn and grow the donor base year after year.
Looking at the bigger picture, Giving Days in 2025 tell an important story about philanthropy.
They show how institutions are responding to fewer donors, but not by inviting everyone to take part. They show a focus on engagement as a long-term goal, rather than chasing quick spikes in donations.
Most importantly, they reveal a change in mindset:
Colleges and universities doing Giving Days differently understand this. They aren’t just raising money; they are building a culture of giving, one person and one Giving Day at a time.
Giving Days in 2026: What 150+ Institutions Are Doing Differently Now
In partnership with CASE, we surveyed 150+ institutions to understand how Giving Days are changing in 2026.
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March 31, 2026
12 minutes
Giving Days have quietly become one of the most exciting traditions on campus calendars. A single day when alumni, students, and staff come together to show what their community can do. It’s not just about the total dollars raised anymore; it’s about the energy, the storytelling, and the sense of belonging that comes with it.
That same mix of spirit and strategy is what this blog explores. We’ve gathered ten Giving Days that stood out in 2025 and the trends shaping how institutions approach them, along with ideas and insights to help you plan your next one.
Simply put, a giving day is a 24-hour digital fundraising campaign run by a university, school, or alumni association to rally its community. The main goal is to get alumni, students, faculty, staff, and friends to come together and make small gifts that add up to a big impact.
Over the years, giving days have become a key part of fundraising. Alumni teams run class challenges, track live leaderboards, and social feeds light up with campus pride. Most institutions use this one-day format to bring their networks to life. According to CASE’s Giving Day Insights 2025 Report, nearly 40% of institutions said their giving day helped them engage more alumni, boost donor participation, and almost 25% reported that these campaigns contributed between 11% - 25% of their total annual fundraising, proving how these short, high-energy campaigns can move the needle in total annual fundraising goals and community engagement.
From creative campaign themes to all-out campus celebrations, these ten Giving Days show how universities are redefining community spirit in 2025-
The best giving days feel well-planned, personal, and full of energy. Success usually comes down to a mix of clear goals, good storytelling, and an experience that makes giving easy and enjoyable. When Germanna Community College, along with Almabase, hosted its first 24-hour campaign, it raised $503,855 and hit 168% of its goal because the message was clear and the experience was simple. Similarly, when Boyd‑Buchanan School launched its first-ever Giving Day using Almabase, they surpassed their goal by 201%; thanks to strong peer-to-peer networks, streamlined giving tools, and an outward-looking social campaign. Successful campaigns like these usually share a few traits:
To dig deeper into the features and setup that help campaigns perform this well, check out the Almabase blog about giving day platforms and features.
So far, Giving Days in 2025 have revealed a few clear patterns in how universities are rallying their communities and breaking records. Here are some common threads that stood out across campuses this year:
The successful campaigns are the ones that plan, use data wisely, and make participation effortless. Here’s a checklist to help you build one that actually delivers-
2025 has marked a real shift in how higher ed approaches giving days. What started as 24-hour fundraisers has become powerful engagement platforms uniting alumni, students, and staff around shared goals that outlast the campaign itself. Across the country, institutions have broken participation records, grown first-time donor counts, and used these short, high-energy events to strengthen long-term loyalty.
The common thread has been smarter storytelling backed by data. The best campaigns this year didn’t rely on chance; they understood their audience, shaped messages that resonated, and used real-time insights to adjust on the fly. That’s where higher-ed fundraising is heading: intentional, personal, and measurable.
If you’re looking to make your next giving day easier to manage and more effective, book a personalized demo with Almabase and see how you can turn your campaign into something that truly moves the needle.
Top 10 University Giving Days That Stood Out in 2025
Giving Days are a huge part of any advancement fundraising calendar. We picked out 10 inspiring giving days that happened in 2025 to see what we can learn.
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November 27, 2025
12 minutes
Giving Days are one of the most important fundraising events today for institutions and nonprofits alike. According to EAB, 12.7% of private institution alumni and 19.8% of public institution alumni make their first gift on a giving day. In turn, powerful Giving Day platforms have cropped up to help teams get the most out of these events.
With so many excellent giving platforms available today, we’d like to zoom out and let you know which features you should consider essential and how you can make the most of your eventual choice. Let’s get started:
A good giving platform should ideally be:
Test your dashboards, giving pages, forms, and all other touchpoints to make sure all the people involved in your Giving Day have a smooth and memorable experience across all devices.
For social media, your team should be looking for features such as:
💡 Consider which social media your donors and supporters are most active in. You’ll want a platform that integrates to the same level of depth on those specific platforms.
Giving Days, due to the nature of being a focused fundraiser within a short window, will naturally need a platform that can handle many transactions at the same time. You will have bursts of transactions, such as when the campaign launches and after a successful promotion. A good Giving Day platform also needs to incorporate SSL/PCI-compliant payment processing as well as any other compliance requirements depending on the national or state laws applicable to your fundraiser.
You need to be able to engage donors and potential donors before, during, and after your Giving Day. Automated and personalized engagement through email, text, and social media may be crucial, especially if communicating with a larger pool of donors.
💡 Depending on your overall engagement strategy, you may want a fundraising platform that has a few donor engagement features on top or a dedicated engagement platform that works in tandem with your fundraising tool.
With a relatively short burst of high activity, you should be looking for platforms that support:
💡 Keep the above features as well as your needs in mind as different might CRMs interact with different tools in varying capacities.
Engaging and enabling donations from mobile device users are no longer something novel. Today, you’ll want a giving platform that not only engages mobile users but also optimizes their experience so that they don’t end up with an inferior experience.
Some platforms provide an app-based approach, while others go for mobile-optimized browser experiences.
💡Surveys and donor device metrics should help you get a sense of how much of a priority mobile features are for you as well as which method your donors prefer.
The cornerstone of any modern-day Giving Day campaign is a well-designed, customizable fundraising page that captures your organization's unique brand and mission. Customization is especially important for peer-to-peer fundraisers, where you’ll want to find the right mix between flexible templates and recognizable branding.
If you are regularly hosting Giving Day fundraisers, chances are that you have a long-term fundraising plan. This is where you’ll want a giving platform that is viable for both long-term and short-term fundraising efforts. Depending on your needs, look for platforms that include:
to make sure that your Giving Days produce an effective ripple effect.
It’s easy to get lost in all the fancy and innovative features that fundraising platforms offer today. Instead of trying to use a feature simply for the sake of trying something new, keep your mission and the people involved at the heart of your Giving Day campaign by enabling your storytelling and vision through the features available.
Whether it’s connected to an existing CRM or comes with its own, you will most likely get a good amount of data about your supporters, donors, and prospects throughout your campaign. Make detailed segments to optimize your outreach and communication efforts and enrich these segments after your campaign to make your engagement better with each fundraiser.
Always test your forms, pages, and communication efforts on mobile devices to check how they would feel for a donor trying to donate. Your CTAs might be a couple of scrolls away and on the side of your giving page when it’s front and center on other devices.
Your recent first-time donor might just be your next superstar supporter. Make sure your donors feel good about their contribution by keeping them informed on goals reached throughout the day. Keep them looped in on how the funds are being used and inform them about future initiatives coming up.
Giving Days are so integral to your long-term fundraising plan that you might feel like the choice of platform might make or break your strategy entirely. However, a lot of work goes into making these platforms work optimally for a specific institution or organization.
If you’re looking for a platform that syncs effortlessly with CRMs with a team committed to ensuring your giving day success, get in touch with us, and we’d be glad to show you how we can help. 🫡
Giving Day Platforms: Essential Software Features
With many excellent giving platforms available, learn which features to consider essential and how to make the most of your choice of fundraising platform
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