Prepared for Sumner Community Food Bank · October 15, 2026
Intelligent Giving Platform Pro V brings donors, volunteers, events, email, and daily guidance into one system, so a one-person development team can steward every supporter while the capital campaign builds.
Business objective
$10 million capital campaign
Builds the capacity to help more people and distribute more food, including as a hub for smaller food banks, without leasing warehouse and cold storage space elsewhere.
Your Mission, Multiplied
Sumner Community Food Bank provides nutritious food with dignity through a marketplace where neighbors choose their own food, and volunteers are on site every day. Here is how the extra capacity Bloomerang creates builds on that work.
The ROI calculator models a fundraising lift of $658,000, about 6.6% of the $10 million campaign goal.
Fifteen hours back each month is 180 hours a year, about four and a half work weeks your development director can spend on major donor cultivation instead of manual touch points and report requests.
Why now
Budget talks for 2027 are under way, the $10 million campaign is moving toward launch, and your current CRM is billing month to month. A move takes about 14 weeks from kickoff to final conversion, so the date you decide sets the date you go live, and you can plan it away from year end giving season.
Why change
Charityproud, Mailchimp, Givebutter, and Square each hold a piece of the picture. Volunteer activity does not show on a supporter profile, reports over 5,000 records go through a support request, and every new recurring donor means hand-building four or five touch points.
Why Bloomerang
Gifts, event registrations, volunteer shifts, and email activity sit on one timeline. Journey automations handle the touch points, predictive donor intelligence ranks who to call next, and scheduled volunteer shifts log hours on their own, with unlimited users so your administrator works in the same system.
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Prepared for Sumner Community Food Bank · October 15, 2026
Intelligent Giving Platform Pro V brings donors, volunteers, events, email, and daily guidance into one system, so a one-person development team can steward every supporter while the capital campaign builds.
"At this point I'm looking for a software that will act like my development team a little bit."Katie Garling, Director of Development, Sumner Community Food Bank
The fragmented stack problem
Without Bloomerang, Sumner Community Food Bank runs separate systems for work that belongs together, and they share very little with each other.
Interactive ROI calculator
Seeded with Sumner Community Food Bank's actual numbers. Adjust to match your goals.
IGP · Predictive donor intelligence
Move the slider to your record count. Any one of the three outcomes below covers the annual cost on its own, and most organizations reach all three.
How many outcomes does it take to cover the cost? Usually fewer than you'd think.
The cost of doing nothing
Here is what staying with today's setup costs Sumner Community Food Bank each year, using the same inputs as the ROI calculator.
Building touch points by hand for every new recurring donor, requesting large reports through support, and carrying data between four tools takes about 15 hours a month in the ROI model.
With one person and 3,000 records, no one has time to review every supporter for capacity. Two major gift prospects at the $5,000 average in the ROI model stay hidden.
About 30 monthly donors still mail a check each month, and many supporters go uncontacted for a year. At $40 per donor retained, 25 donors who go quiet cost real dollars every year.
What's included
Everything your team asked for, in one system, with room for your administrator and your development director to work side by side.
Up to 5,000 records and unlimited users. Gifts, event registrations, volunteer activity, and email engagement sit on one profile, so your development director and your administrator work from the same picture.
Public and private opportunities, recurring shifts, shift self sign up with waitlisting and approvals, and hours logged to the profile after each scheduled shift.
A new recurring donor triggers the thank you, the call task, and the anniversary note automatically. Built in email marketing with unlimited automated cultivation sequences and open and click data on every profile.
Donation forms, event management, peer-to-peer fundraising, auction fundraising, outbound texting, and text-to-donate, all feeding the same donor record.
Prepare for donor meetings, see who is ready for a bigger ask, and turn recommendations into tasks. Penny does the analysis and the busy work, and your team keeps the writing.
Prioritized daily lists of who needs attention, plus on-demand prospect briefs stored in the CRM. Know who to call and what to ask for before you pick up the phone.
Advanced data cleanup plus automatic address and deceased status updates, with duplicate review that lets you merge records or group them into a household.
A mobile app with unlimited Mobile Video Acknowledgements, plus volunteer and administrator apps with real-time messaging by email, SMS, and in-app.
Unlimited chat, email, and telephone support, live and on-demand webinars through Bloomerang Learning, daily group training sessions, and the Philanthropy Institute Course.
Meet Penny
A look at how Penny works once Sumner Community Food Bank's donor history lives in Bloomerang.
Every other AI tool gives every nonprofit the same generic answer. Penny works from your own database, so her analysis reflects your donors, your history, and your mission, and your data stays in Bloomerang.
Competitive comparison
| Feature | Bloomerang | Charityproud today |
|---|---|---|
| Volunteer activity on the supporter profile | ✓ On the same timeline as gifts | ✗ Not on the profile |
| Volunteer hours from scheduled shifts | ✓ Logged automatically after each shift | ✗ Marked by hand |
| Reports over 5,000 records | ✓ Self service, any size | ✗ Request through support |
| Automated donor journeys | ✓ Unlimited | ✗ Manual tasks, no templates |
| Email with open and click data on profiles | ✓ Built in | ~ Mailchimp, one way sync |
| Online giving forms feeding the CRM | ✓ Built in | ~ Givebutter used alongside |
| Predictive donor intelligence | ✓ Included | ✗ Not available |
| Annual price | See Your investment | Lower price, basics covered well |
What nonprofits say
"We did a Bloomerang demo and I was like, 'This is it.' It has everything we want, everything we'll need in the future. It's so intuitive, and the onboarding process was very seamless."Becca Gray, Pensacola Habitat for Humanity
"Bloomerang is one of the best giving platforms I've ever seen. It makes it so easy to run everything from peer to peer fundraising, to transaction reports, to event check in."Beth Hill, Lakeland Volunteers in Medicine
"We did our due diligence looking at other CRMs, but Bloomerang was the clear winner. With Bloomerang, I feel like we're finally running the department the way it should be run."Julie Angulo, ScholarMatch
Compassion Delivered · Northeast Ohio meal delivery nonprofit
Like Sumner, Compassion Delivered ran lean on spreadsheets and a first CRM that could not keep up. After moving to the Bloomerang Giving Platform, the team re-energized its volunteer base and stopped losing hours to manual data entry.
The result
Growth in donor base
Monthly donors grew from 11 to about 40, time spent managing volunteers fell by 50%, and email open rates tripled.
See it in action
A quick look at Penny and the volunteer tools your team asked about.
The transformation
Without Bloomerang
With Bloomerang
Your investment
One annual price covers your donor database, volunteer program, fundraising tools, insight, and support. Add the Core Coaching Package if your team wants guided help.
It's not because they're locked in. It's because the system works, and the team behind it genuinely wants nonprofits to succeed. When you thrive, we thrive.
The path forward
A shared plan for Sumner Community Food Bank and Team Bloomerang, so nothing falls through the cracks between now and launch.
We mapped your $10 million capital campaign, the four tools you run today, and what a new system needs to do for a one-person development team.
CompletedWe walked through daily recommendations, donor timelines, journey automations, reporting, and the volunteer experience with our volunteer specialist.
CompletedWe aligned on your decision timeline and on the executive summary and overview you can share with your CEO, treasurer, and board.
CompletedWe meet at 11:00 AM Pacific to review the proposal and agree on the next step.
Bloomerang and SumnerYour CEO, treasurer, and board review the options, and you share the decision.
SumnerBloomerang creates your initial accounts. Your billing contact receives an email with access and can invite additional users.
BloomerangYou meet your conversion project manager and your onboarding specialist, then provide your source data and Bloomerang access details.
Bloomerang and SumnerWe map your data into Bloomerang CRM and load it into a test database.
BloomerangYou confirm your data transferred as expected and request conversion-related corrections, with up to 2 rounds of revisions.
SumnerWe prepare and load your final data into Bloomerang CRM, while onboarding and training continue alongside.
BloomerangSee it in action
John can walk through any of these live on your next call.
Your path to getting started
From signed contract to a team that is confident in Bloomerang, here is the path, step by step.
This is an example of a two core product onboarding. Timeline, effort, and number of calls depend on the core products purchased.
Meet your onboarding contact, enroll in Bloomerang Learning, and register for a Group Welcome Call.
Discuss your goals, priorities, account setup, and the onboarding plan alongside other new Bloomerang customers.
Complete your assigned on-demand courses in Bloomerang Learning, your primary source for product training.
Ask questions about the Bloomerang products you purchased, including CRM, Fundraising, or Volunteer, and build on what you learned through Bloomerang Learning and group training.
For customers with Smart Start Standard conversion
Your onboarding and data conversion happen in parallel. While we convert your data, your team learns to use Bloomerang with support from our specialists.
Your conversion at a glance
What to expect
Timelines assume that source data, decisions, and feedback are provided by each milestone date. Delays may shift later milestones and the final conversion date.
Prepare and provide access to your source data, answer mapping questions, and review each version by its milestone date.
We map, format, transform, and deduplicate your data before loading it into Bloomerang CRM. Further data cleanup is not included.
Meet your dedicated guide for kickoff, data preparation, and each step of your conversion.
Meet your onboarding contact, enroll in Bloomerang Learning, and register for a Group Welcome Call.
Depending on your source system, your Conversion Project Manager may request exports or coordinate secure access.
We map your data into Bloomerang CRM and load it into a test database.
Your Conversion Project Manager will guide you through the test database to confirm your data transferred as expected and identify any conversion-related corrections.
Based on your source system, we will confirm whether Bloomerang will retrieve your final data or your team will provide a final export.
We prepare and load your final data into Bloomerang CRM.
Meet your onboarding contact, enroll in Bloomerang Learning, and register for a Group Welcome Call.
Discuss your goals, priorities, account setup, and the onboarding plan alongside other new Bloomerang customers.
Complete your assigned on-demand courses in Bloomerang Learning, your primary source for product training.
Ask questions about the Bloomerang products you purchased, including CRM, Fundraising, or Volunteer, and build on what you learned through Bloomerang Learning and group training.
With your welcome call, training, and product follow-ups complete, you are ready to put Bloomerang to work for your mission.