Prepared for NEU Church Planting · September 14, 2026

One platform to fuel the mission.
From $700K to $2 million.

Bloomerang's Intelligent Giving Platform Pro brings CRM, fundraising, predictive donor intelligence, and automated communications together so your team can focus on planting churches, not managing spreadsheets.

Business objective

Grow annual revenue from $700,000 to $2 million

Every dollar raised expands NEU's ability to train, support, and fully fund church planters as missionaries to the poorest neighborhoods in New England, where only 2 out of every 100 new churches are planted today.

Your Mission, Multiplied

NEU Church Planting is already doing the work. Five church plants across New England, a new seminary partnership through the Haynes School of Ministry, and a Seven Sisters model that surrounds every plant with prayer and financial support. Bloomerang's capacity gains build directly on that foundation.

Projected fundraising lift of $329,000 in Year One would represent nearly half the distance from $700,000 to the $2 million milestone, funding additional church planter salaries and community programming.

Roughly 8 hours per month of manual work eliminated, giving JR and the team time back for donor cultivation, major gift asks, and year-end campaign strategy instead of copying data between spreadsheets and Donorbox.

$700K

Current annual revenue

$2M

First milestone goal

380

Donor contacts today

Why now

Year-end campaign is weeks away.

NEU's highest-volume giving season starts after Thanksgiving. The team needs a real system capturing every donor relationship and every gift from day one, not sorting it out retroactively in January. A decision by end of September makes a mid-November go-live possible.

Why change

Spreadsheets and Donorbox are a ceiling.

No CRM, no tagging, no automation, no query tools, no mobile access. Data moves manually from one place to another. With 60 recurring donors tracked in Stripe and 380 contacts scattered across spreadsheets, the current setup cannot support the growth from $700K to $2 million. Every hour spent on manual data movement is an hour not spent cultivating donors.

Why Bloomerang

JR already knows the platform.

Bloomerang was the runner-up to Virtuous at JR's previous organization, Pioneer Bible Translators. Four years later, Bloomerang addresses all four of NEU's stated top needs: seamless QuickBooks Online integration, robust tagging and segmentation, workflow automation and queries, and a native mobile app. Predictive donor intelligence and Penny AI add a layer of insight that no spreadsheet can replicate.

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Kevin Meyer

Account Executive, Team Bloomerang

Hi, I'm Kevin, your Bloomerang Account Executive. I look forward to working with you to help you achieve your goals and have an even greater impact in your community.

463-274-5176 · kevin.meyer@bloomerang.com

Prepared for NEU Church Planting · September 14, 2026

One platform to fuel the mission.
From $700K to $2 million.

$700K

Current annual revenue

$2M

First milestone goal

380

Donor contacts today

94%

Bloomerang renewal rate

"We really are going from spreadsheets, no CRM, and really just living off of the gift processor Donorbox, which is not a way to live. My goal is to get us to $2 million revenue. I want to have as many interconnected systems as possible because naturally our administrative staff is limited."

JR Bucklew, Director of Advancement, NEU Church Planting

The fragmented stack problem

Five tools. Zero integration.
One overwhelmed team.

Without Bloomerang, NEU Church Planting needs separate systems for every function. None of them talk to each other.

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CRM

$1,200 to $2,400

Spreadsheets

✉️

Email Marketing

$300 to $600

Mailchimp / HubSpot

🎟️

Gift Processing

$500 to $1,200

Donorbox + Stripe

💰

Wealth Screening

$4,000

DonorSearch direct

📊

Reporting / AI

$600+

Add-on tools

Up to $6,600 to $8,800/yr
in separate tools → Integrations that break.
Data that doesn't talk. → JR managing
five systems alone.

Interactive ROI calculator

Move the sliders. See the future.

Seeded with NEU Church Planting's actual numbers. Adjust to match your goals.

Your inputs

Current annual giving$700,000

First-time donors retained per year15

Major gift prospects2

Staff hours saved per month8

Value of an hour of staff or volunteer time$30

Based on Bloomerang client averages: 47%+ fundraising lift, 154%+ first-time donor retention, 13%+ major gift growth.

Projected Year One total

$1,042,480

After your Bloomerang investment

Fundraising lift (47%)

+$329,000

Conservative estimate

Major gift potential

$10,000

Avg $5K per prospect

Staff time reinvested

$2,880

8 hrs per month at $30 per hour

Donor retention value

+$600

15 first-time donors retained

ROI on your Bloomerang investment

174 to 1

Conservative estimate, Giving Platform Standard

IGP · Predictive donor intelligence

Does IGP pay for itself?

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.

IGP ROI Calculator

How many outcomes does it take to cover the cost? Usually fewer than you'd think.

Constituent Records

1K 2.5K 5K 15K 25K 40K 60K 80K 100K

MAJOR GIFTS

LAPSE SAVES

MONTHLY CONVERTS

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Scenario 1: Major Gift Identification

GIFT THRESHOLD

DONORS NEEDED

TOTAL REVENUE

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Scenario 2: Lapse Prevention

AVG ANNUAL GIFT

DONORS TO RETAIN

REVENUE SAVED

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Scenario 3: Monthly Giving Conversion

MONTHLY VALUE

CONVERTS NEEDED

ANNUAL VALUE

The cost of doing nothing

Every month without a system costs real money.

These are not hypothetical. They are grounded in NEU Church Planting's actual numbers and Bloomerang client averages.

Fundraising revenue left on the table

Bloomerang clients raise 47% more on average. Applied to NEU's current $700,000 base, that is $329,000 in projected Year One lift that stays unrealized without a system driving donor intelligence, segmentation, and automated outreach.

$329,000

Major gifts never identified

Without predictive donor intelligence, the team has no systematic way to identify who to ask or how much. Even two missed major gift prospects at the locked $5,000 value per prospect leaves $10,000 a year uncaptured.

$10,000

Staff hours burned on manual work

Copying data between spreadsheets, Donorbox, and Stripe. At 8 hours per month and $30 per hour, that is $2,880 a year in staff capacity spent on data entry instead of donor cultivation and year-end campaign strategy.

$2,880

94%

Renewal rate

26K+

Nonprofits served

154%+

First-time donor retention

47%+

More raised on average

13%+

Major gift growth

673

Years of nonprofit expertise

What's included

Every tool NEU Church Planting needs.
Nothing it doesn't.

Bloomerang's Intelligent Giving Platform Pro replaces spreadsheets, Donorbox, Stripe, and any separate email tool with a single system built for nonprofit fundraising.

CRM

Donor management

Up to 1,000 records, unlimited users, household tracking, soft credit attribution, pledge management, and in kind donation tracking, all in one profile.

Email Marketing

Built in communications

Drag and drop email builder on the same engine as Mailchimp, plus up to 3 Journey Automations running simultaneously. No separate subscription. No integration to maintain.

Fundraising

Embedded donation forms, text to give, standard ticketed events

Branded giving pages that embed directly on neuchurchplanting.org, connect dollars to specific community action items, and include a recurring prompt that increases sustainer programs by 25%. Plus peer-to-peer fundraising, outbound texting, and unlimited Journey Automations with the Pro bundle.

Penny, your AI fundraising partner

Prepare for donor meetings, identify major gift ask amounts, write personalized thank you emails, and prioritize the team's daily to do list, all powered by NEU Church Planting's own data.

Wealth Screening

Built in wealth screening

Charitable giving history and capacity indicators built into every donor profile. Know what to ask before walking into the room. Included, not an add on.

Automations

Smart retention tools

Automatic recurring card updates, first time donor flags, and lapsed donor identification, running in the background, always.

Meet Penny

Your AI fundraising partner.
Built on your data, not generic advice.

An illustrative look at how Penny works once NEU Church Planting's donor history lives in Bloomerang.

What Penny does for NEU Church Planting

Every other AI tool gives every nonprofit the same generic answer. Penny is trained on your specific database, so her advice reflects your donors, your history, your mission.

🎯

Major gift asks, Penny analyzes giving history and capacity indicators and tells you exactly what to ask for, and how to frame it.

✉️

Thank you emails, Penny writes personalized acknowledgments referencing the donor's full relationship with NEU Church Planting, not just today's gift.

📋

Daily priorities, Penny reviews overdue tasks, thank you calls needed, and lapsed donors, then builds the team's to do list in priority order.

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Penny

Intelligent Fundraising Partner, Bloomerang

Who are our top 10 donors most likely to increase their giving this quarter?

Based on NEU Church Planting's giving history, I identified 10 donors showing strong upgrade signals. Three have given consistently for 3+ years with increasing amounts, and two recently attended an event. Here is the list ranked by likelihood of a gift increase.

Once your data is imported

$2,500

Recommended ask for your top-ranked prospect based on giving history and capacity indicators

Can you draft a personal outreach email to our top prospect?

Of course. I've drafted a personalized email referencing their 3-year giving history, their connection to your Worcester church plant, and a specific ask of $2,500 toward the year-end campaign. The tone is warm and mission-focused. Ready for you to review and send.

Competitive comparison

How Bloomerang stacks up.

Feature	Bloomerang	Virtuous	Little Green Light	Donorbox + Spreadsheets
Built in email marketing	✓ Included	✗ Separate	~ Add on	✗ No
Online giving and donation pages	✓ Included	~ Basic	✓ Yes	✓ Basic
Built in wealth screening	✓ Included	✗ No	~ Integration extra	~ Integration extra
Penny AI fundraising assistant	✓ Included	✗ No	✗ No	✗ No
Journey automations	✓ 3 concurrent	✗ No	~ Limited	✗ No
QuickBooks Online integration	✓ Full sync	✗ No	~ Partial	~ Partial
Auto recurring card updates	✓ Included	✗ No	✗ No	✗ No
Unlimited phone support	✓ Included	~ Tiered	~ Limited	~ Ticket based
Starting price (comparable tier)	Custom	$4,000+	$540+	$0 to $1,200

Competitor feature and price notes are directional and should be confirmed before this document is shared externally.

What nonprofits say

They were new once, too.

"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

A similar story

A small nonprofit went from spreadsheets to Bloomerang and transformed their fundraising.

Like NEU, many Bloomerang clients start with no CRM at all, managing donors in spreadsheets and basic tools. Within their first year on the platform, they gain visibility into donor behavior, automate their communications, and free up staff time that goes directly back into mission-critical work.

The result

More raised, less manual work.

47%+

Average increase in funds raised (Bloomerang client average)

Across 26,000+ nonprofits, Bloomerang clients consistently report raising more, retaining more donors, and spending less time on administrative tasks. That pattern holds for organizations of every size, from small startups to large operations.

See it in action

Resources worth a look.

Kevin will send links to these once the proposal is finalized.

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Turn Donor Insights Into More Fundraising Impact

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The Truth About Getting Recurring Donors

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Keeping Your Recurring Donors

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Creating and Managing a Recurring Gifts Program

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Recurring Donations: How to Boost Donor Retention

The transformation

NEU Church Planting: before and after.

Without Bloomerang

⚠️Donor data scattered across spreadsheets, Donorbox, Stripe, and email inboxes with no single source of truth.

⚠️Manual data entry every time a gift comes in, hours each month copying information between systems.

⚠️No way to identify major gift prospects, lapse risks, or monthly giving conversion candidates without manual analysis.

⚠️Year-end campaign communications built ad hoc with no automated sequences, no segmentation, and no personalization at scale.

⚠️No mobile access for donor notes in the field, no QuickBooks sync, no wealth screening, no recurring card auto-update.

With Bloomerang

✅Every donor, gift, interaction, and communication in one profile with a complete timeline.

✅Gifts flow automatically from Bloomerang Fundraise into the CRM and sync to QuickBooks. Zero double entry.

✅Predictive donor intelligence identifies who to ask, how much to ask, and who is at risk of lapsing, automatically.

✅Journey Automations handle new donor welcome series, year-end drip campaigns, and task creation triggers on autopilot.

✅Mobile app for field notes, tap-to-pay donations, automatic recurring card updates, and wealth screening built into every profile.

Your investment

Two ways to close the gap.

One platform, one price. Everything NEU Church Planting needs to grow from $700K to $2 million and support the year-end campaign from day one.

⏱ This pricing is valid for 30 days from September 14, 2026.

Intelligent Giving Platform Pro

Everything NEU Church Planting needs to grow from $700K to $2 million.

CRM, up to 1,000 records, unlimited users
Built in email marketing tool
Embedded donation forms, text to give, standard ticketed events
Peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns
Unlimited Journey Automations
Outbound texting campaigns
Merch store
Predictive donor intelligence (Prospect AI, major gift identification, lapse prevention, monthly giving conversion)
Built in wealth screening
Penny AI fundraising partner
QuickBooks Online sync
Unlimited phone, chat, and email support
Philanthropy Institute course (40 hours toward CFRE)

$5,999

per year

Total first year investment. One major gift covers the cost of predictive donor intelligence.

Why organizations stay

94% of Bloomerang customers renew, among 26,000+ nonprofits.

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.

94%

Renewal Rate

One platform to fuel the mission.From $700K to $2 million.

Year-end campaign is weeks away.

Spreadsheets and Donorbox are a ceiling.

JR already knows the platform.

ROI Calculator

Proposal

Mutual Action Plan

Resources

One platform to fuel the mission.From $700K to $2 million.

Five tools. Zero integration.One overwhelmed team.

Move the sliders. See the future.

Your inputs

Does IGP pay for itself?

IGP ROI Calculator

Every month without a system costs real money.

Fundraising revenue left on the table

Major gifts never identified

Staff hours burned on manual work

Every tool NEU Church Planting needs.Nothing it doesn't.

Donor management

Built in communications

Embedded donation forms, text to give, standard ticketed events

Penny, your AI fundraising partner

Built in wealth screening

Smart retention tools

Your AI fundraising partner.Built on your data, not generic advice.

What Penny does for NEU Church Planting

How Bloomerang stacks up.

They were new once, too.

A small nonprofit went from spreadsheets to Bloomerang and transformed their fundraising.

More raised, less manual work.

Resources worth a look.

NEU Church Planting: before and after.

Two ways to close the gap.

Everything NEU Church Planting needs to grow from $700K to $2 million.

94% of Bloomerang customers renew, among 26,000+ nonprofits.

From here to go live.

Discovery Call

Demo

Proposal Review

Decision and signature

Go-live before year-end campaign

Resources worth a look.

How AI Helps Nonprofits Find Major Donor Gifts

How AI Helps Nonprofits Find Fundraising Opportunities

How AI Helps Nonprofits Prepare for Donor Meetings

Revolutionize Donor Engagement with Journey Automation

Mastering Year-End Fundraising: Proven Tips from Bloomerang

Introduction to Penny: AI for Nonprofit Fundraising

One platform to fuel the mission.
From $700K to $2 million.

One platform to fuel the mission.
From $700K to $2 million.

Five tools. Zero integration.
One overwhelmed team.

Every tool NEU Church Planting needs.
Nothing it doesn't.

Your AI fundraising partner.
Built on your data, not generic advice.