244 Bloomerang Testimonials

"InitLive's flexibility in creating volunteer shifts and curating schedules is incredible. Volunteers really appreciated the ability to self-sign up and the flexibility to fit their volunteering around their busy life, work, and family schedules. The integration between InitLive and MapTag has also been incredible. We have been able to streamline our workflow to the point where we could take on new food banks without an increase in staff resources."

"InitLive helps me communicate a 100% more efficiently and accurately. Using InitLive, if there is any type of safety situation, I know who's checked in to the event. It’s part of our security plan: using InitLive, we can pull up all the information we need on our phones. I can send broadcast messages just to specific groups or all volunteers at once."

“We needed to switch to a CRM that was user-friendly while still robust enough to run dashboards and reports. We were currently in a system that was too complicated to learn and get information quickly.”

“Qgiv has helped us with creating online forms so our donors and members can donate with ease and with the assurance their donation is secure. Qgiv’s employees truly care about the betterment of each organization. They helped us get our forms up and running in no time and ensured that we understood every aspect of the platform before we put it on our website. They also always answer the support phone, which is very helpful when you have a lot of questions randomly! It helps us keep all our “Friends” members organized into one platform. We’re able to quickly pull reports regardless of if they paid online or sent in a check (the virtual terminal helps with this as well!). Bloomerang recommended using Qgiv’s online forms for the “Friends” memberships, and it has solved many problems! We were able to customize our form with everything from wording and payment features to changing colors and logos. The fact that we did not have to set up a third-party payment processor with Qgiv was also very helpful. Ashley helped make the transition and integration easy! She got on the phone with us and showed us her computer screen as she was editing in our profile. It didn’t seem like it would be an easy process up front, but she made it great and smooth!”

“Thanks to the training from the Customer Experience team, I feel better equipped and it was so easy to get us started!”

“There are so many reasons we love using Qgiv! First, they’re local. Born and housed right here in our county—we love that! And from the start, we’ve gotten nothing but superior customer service—they’re timely in responses and courteous when answering questions or helping you to figure out the best way to format your page or utilize a tool. The products are so easy to use, however, that we really don’t have to reach out often. As Qgiv has grown, they’ve continued to increase the number and types of products they offer, and in the ever-changing landscape of fundraising, that’s important! Another thing that really makes them stand out is the support through the professional development they offer. From webinars and email updates to a wonderful event they hosted a couple of years ago that was FREE to clients, they really make you feel like they care. We use Qgiv the most for our Stepping Out for Education event to manage registration and collect $1 votes cast for our dancers. It’s so easy to run reports and get up-to-date numbers in real time—it’s wonderful! I highly recommend you speak to Qgiv about how they can help you!”

“I’m Gale Wilcox. I’m one of the co-Founders of Mi Work Matters, and I currently serve as the Secretary on the Board of Directors. Mi Work Matters engages in extremely important work—helping employees with disabilities find employment. We serve Wayne and Oakland counties in Michigan. We became Qgiv users when a volunteer suggested we add a silent auction to our golf outing, and this is our second year using the Qgiv platform to host the auction with no issues whatsoever. The golf outing this year was more successful than last year’s—we raised about $30,000 with about $5,000 of the income coming from the silent auction. Regarding onboarding and the Help Desk, Qgiv is off the charts—just wonderful! The free, one-on-one training we received was very good and very easy to follow. Anytime we had a question, we got a response almost immediately. I can’t tell you how good that made me feel as the lead for the golf outing to know that whoever was running the silent auction had a whole team behind them to help them prepare. The resources and training helped put my mind at ease in case our main event volunteer didn’t make it. I’d easily be able to jump in because of access to the easy-to-understand resources on the Help Desk and as a result, I felt confident going into the event. To ensure everything went smoothly on the day of the event as the golfers arrived and got registered to bid, we had our trained volunteer on hand to help answer questions. Most of the attendees were returning golfers, and since this was our 2nd year using Qgiv, they knew how to log in and set up the Givi app on their cell phones. One difference between this year and last year’s outing was that we decided to open the auction to non-golfers. We were a little apprehensive at first, going back and forth about how to handle delivering items to any non-golfers that might potentially win. Luckily, a volunteer offered to handle item delivery to non-golfers. With delivery logistics taken care of, we decided to move forward with opening the auction up, and I’m glad we did! I think that’s the reason that we were able to raise more money this year, even though we had fewer golfers and teams register compared to last year’s event. As far as favorite features, our main auction volunteer loved being able to see the auction results in real time. Watching bids in real time put a smile on her face because it was so much fun to watch everyone trying to outbid each other. In fact, the Executive Team and Executive Board Members that were there ended up crowding around our main auction volunteer right before the auction closed to see who was going to win because they had bid on items! All in all, the bidders were highly competitive, especially when it came to bidding on a custom-made table that one of our volunteers created as a one-of-kind piece for the winner. There was so much interest and attention from the golfers when it came to the silent auction, and it has been a great addition to the golf outing.”

“Incredibly intuitive interface. And, so many useful capabilities. I love the reports function — it makes me look capable to my stakeholders, and also feel like a tech whiz ;). There have been features I’ve wished for that end up launching only a couple months after I realize I have the wish. There are still some features that would make this platform better, but I only know of them because I am here so much making use of alll the incredible existing features. Above all, customer service is the best, bar none. I am extremely grateful for their patience. I imagine I am a known entity at this point for how much I make use of their expertise. But it’s hard not to when they’re so helpful.”

“My name is Denise Nembhard and I’m the Director of Finance for Family Promise of Delaware County. I wanna tell you about the improvements in our financial processes and the quick return of our donations and the ability to document and send messages and thank you notes to all of our donors by transferring to Bloomerang. The software and the organization has been just great. Support has been amazing and it is very thorough. Since I’m not a creative person if I can put a page up and get it done, so that it looks halfway decent and people will donate to that page, then anybody can. I suggest you give Bloomerang a chance.”

"In the last year, we paid Bloomerang $1,200 dollars, and we made $6,000 extra. We’re paying for the service but making more money because of that. So that made Bloomerang a no brainer."

"It really adds up for us to be able to save that kind of money just from eliminating something as silly as fees."

"Every time we've ever had an issue, they're just right there. Every time we have a suggestion, they listen to us. They'll roll out an update and we'll be like: "That thing. There's a thing that we needed."

"I would definitely recommend Bloomerang Volunteer. It's been able to streamline so many of our different areas of volunteerism within our organization, and the customer service is phenomenal."

"I have used a number of systems, and I really really enjoy using Bloomerang Volunteer."

"I really feel like we have a partner now. And now I have a professional team of fundraisers and communicators that are really there to help me along the way."