Recently, we were on a call with some of our favorite YMCA customers, and they brought out some serious love for Funraise. But it was more than just compliments; this discussion went deep into these community organizations' source of success to explain the role Funraise has had in their incredible impact. 

As Katie Hill, Financial Development and Community Relations Director with Gaston County Family YMCA shared,

"From a development standpoint, we focus on relationships, relationships, relationships. And the best way for me to manage those relationships is to have the information that I need so that when I go into the conversation, ...I go in fully equipped to build a relationship and make an ask."

Here at Funraise, we love preparation, so this is the ultimate compliment; thank you, Katie!

Beyond data, Funraise offers a complete suite of fundraising tools. When asked, Katie and Haydee Mata, Mission Advancement Administrator at YMCA of Greater Long Beach, illustrated exactly what they love about Funraise and the features they use every day.  

From a user perspective, are there tools that Funraise provides that you can’t live without?

Katie:

"Peer-to-peer has been a gamechanger! We meet our goal so quickly because we’re able to manage this event through a P2P page on Funraise. Setting the pages up is pretty intuitive. If you don’t know how to write code, you can still put this together and make it look nice."

Haydee:

"We have 9 branches and we use Funraise peer-to-peer for all of them. ...it’s extremely helpful being able to easily post the pages on your Facebook with quick links. The email automation also helps us communicate with our donors."

Fantastic Fundraising Features

Funraise puts fundraising front-and-center for member-based community organizations like YMCAs, Boys and Girls Clubs, and Jewish Community Centers. Check out these must-have features:

• Peer-to-peer fundraising
• Embeddable, branded donation forms
• Events, ticketing, and auctions
• Intelligent reports and dashboards
• More payment methods

But what sets Funraise apart? Ease of use, innovative ideas, built-in Artificial Intelligence, and an industry-leading donation form conversion rate of 50%. Further, customizability is a major strength of Funraise's. With the most flexible branding options in the nonprofit world, you can match your organization's brand strategy with logos, colors, custom questions, recurring frequencies, and more.

Why is the integration between Funraise and Daxko a gamechanger?

Katie:

"It’ll be a timesaver not to be manually entering data between the two platforms. For us, our goal is to make sure that Funraise and Daxko always match. Just saving the time... will be the biggest help."

Haydee:

"For us, our actual admins ...won’t have to transfer data back and forth. With this integration, we're trying to move forward with technology and be more innovative."

Heads up, Daxko users!

Funraise is for you, too! If you’re using something that’s not integrated, you’re wasting a lot of time—when you integrate your Daxko account with Funraise, you'll get more than just friendly front-end fundraising features.

Katie:

"I think that being merged on the back end is realllllly gonna help lay the foundations for us to have better conversations with our donors."

Haydee

"With Daxko, we get a lot of communication… they’re johnny-on-the-spot, amazing, very responsive."

It's true that you can have it all—when you combine Funraise and Daxko, you get a fundraising fusion that checks all the boxes. Talk to Funraise today!