Your path to $500K — St. Paul, November 2026

Democracy doesn't fund itself.
Let's change that.

You're building something that could reshape how legislation happens in America. Here's how Bloomerang helps you raise the $500,000 you need to prove it in St. Paul—starting now.

$500K
Campaign goal
Nov '26
St. Paul deadline
1
Platform for everything
55%
Avg. donor conversion lift
The cost of waiting

Every week without a real platform is a week of lost momentum.

You're racing toward a November deadline. The clock started ticking the moment you left Classy. Here's what staying on Zeffy—or waiting—is actually costing you.

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No recurring donor engine
Young donors give monthly, not in lump sums. Every month without a recurring giving page is a month of $10/month donors that never become part of your base.
~$0 in recurring revenue
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Zeffy's limitations
No CRM. No wealth screening. No email automation. No peer-to-peer. You're collecting donations into a black hole with no follow-up, no tracking, and no strategy.
Donors disappear after giving
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Campus outreach without tools
You've identified college students as your primary audience. Without campaign pages, QR codes, and peer-to-peer, you're showing up to campus events with nothing to leave behind.
Engagement that evaporates
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150K contacts, no scoring
Hugh has a list of 150,000 political donors. Without DonorSearch wealth screening, you can't identify which 2,000 of them are major gift prospects. You're treating everyone the same.
Major gifts left on the table
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No text campaigns
Hugh's 1,800-text test got a 0.5% conversion to engaged sponsors. Scaled outbound texting campaigns—tied to a donation flow—could multiply that result significantly.
Outreach ROI unknown
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Marcus doing it all manually
It's you and Hugh. Without automations, journey sequences, and AI tools, every thank-you, every follow-up, every report is manual. That's not a fundraising operation—it's a treadmill.
Burnout before November
The real cost of doing nothing
Studies consistently show it costs 4× more to acquire a new donor than to retain one you already have. Every first-time donor who doesn't get a personal thank-you call has a dramatically lower chance of giving again. With no first-time donor alerts, no CRM, and no follow-up automation, you're not just losing revenue now—you're eroding the donor base you'll need for every campaign after St. Paul.
more expensive to find a new donor than to keep one you have
Interactive ROI calculator

Move the sliders. Watch $500K come into focus.

These numbers are based on real Bloomerang customer averages. Adjust them to match your goals and see what's possible.

🔁 Monthly recurring donors (avg. $12/mo) 250
Young audiences convert to monthly giving at high rates. A QR code at a campus event alone could net 50–100 recurring donors per event.
🎯 Major gift prospects identified via DonorSearch 15
From Hugh's 150K political donor list, DonorSearch identifies who's already giving big elsewhere—and tells you exactly what to ask for.
💰 Average major gift ask $2,500
DonorSearch tells you what to ask for based on actual giving history—so you never under-ask or scare someone off.
🤝 Peer-to-peer ambassadors 40
Each ambassador creates their own fundraising page and shares with their network. Activated networks, community leaders, and campus organizers are natural fits.
💵 Average raised per ambassador (P2P) $350
Industry average for peer-to-peer campaigns. Your cause has strong personal resonance—advocates tend to outperform this benchmark.
📧 Email/text campaign conversions (one-time gifts) 500
Based on outbound campaigns to your warm list. Hugh's test of 1,800 cold texts got 9 sponsor responses—warm audiences convert significantly higher.
💸 Average one-time donation $45
Smart Amounts (dynamic donation tiles) raise average gifts from $52 to $108. Your impact-oriented giving page tells donors exactly what their money does.
Your projected revenue
Recurring donors (12 months)
Major gifts
Peer-to-peer fundraising
One-time campaign gifts
Projected total
vs. $500,000 goal
Projections based on Bloomerang customer averages. Individual results vary. Adjust sliders to reflect your realistic assumptions.
The single biggest unlock

Peer-to-peer is your grassroots engine. Don't leave it on the table.

You're already thinking about college campuses, community organizers, and social media influencers. Peer-to-peer turns those people into fundraisers—without you lifting a finger for each one.

Why Pro pays for itself immediately

The difference between Standard and Pro is $2,000/year.
Two ambassadors cover it.

Peer-to-peer is only available in the Pro bundle. The average P2P ambassador raises $350 for their cause. That means just six ambassadors—six people who already believe in what you're doing—cover the entire cost difference between Standard and Pro. After that? Pure upside. And you've said yourself that you have networks of people ready to be activated for exactly this kind of cause.

$2,000
Pro vs. Standard difference
$350
Avg. raised per ambassador
~6
Ambassadors to break even
ROI beyond that

How it works for Jury Democracy USA

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Recruit your believers
Put a "Become a Fundraiser" button on your website. Anyone who's passionate about the cause—a professor, a community organizer, a student body president—can register in 60 seconds.
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They get their own page
Each ambassador gets a personalized fundraising page with their photo, their story, their goal. They share it via text, email, Instagram, and TikTok. Their friends donate to them—not to a faceless org.
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QR codes at every campus talk
Hugh speaks, audience scans, they land on a recurring donation page built for that campus. Their donation is tracked back to that event. You can show your campus sponsor "your group raised $X."
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Donations flow into the CRM automatically
Every donor who gives through a P2P page lands in your CRM. You know who they are, how they found you, and Bloomerang flags first-time donors so Marcus can make the thank-you call that turns a $25 gift into a $250 one.
"In real time, they would see that going up. And of course, kids want to be competitive and gamify it a little bit."
— Marcus, on what he's seen work in past campaigns
Your plan options

Standard gets you started. Pro gets you there.

Both bundles include the full Bloomerang CRM, DonorSearch wealth screening, email marketing, Penny AI, and reporting. Here's where they differ—and why it matters for your November goal.

Standard
$2,889
per year · 0–1,000 contacts · billed annually
Bloomerang CRMFull donor management, contact profiles, giving history
Fundraising toolsEmbedded donate forms, campaign pages, recurring giving, Smart Amounts
DonorSearch wealth screeningGenerosity scores on every contact you import
Penny AIDaily priorities, meeting prep, plain-language reporting
Email marketing suiteMailChimp-equivalent, merge fields, scheduling
Up to 3 journey automationsFirst-time donor sequences, lapse campaigns, etc.
Peer-to-peer fundraisingNot included — Pro only
Outbound text campaignsNot included — Pro only
Unlimited journey automationsCapped at 3 — Pro removes the limit
The math on Pro: The $2,000 difference between Standard and Pro is covered the moment six ambassadors each raise $350 through peer-to-peer. After that, every dollar raised through P2P—and there will be thousands—is net gain. You've described yourself as someone who takes calculated risks on tactics you believe in. This is that tactic. The ROI on peer-to-peer for a cause-driven campaign like yours is about as close to certain as fundraising gets.
Bridge offer available: Start using Pro now. Your contract term—and first payment—begins 60–90 days from today. You get the full system immediately, without paying during your setup phase. Ask Kevin for details.
Everything under one roof

You said it yourself: one platform beats five bills.

Right now, building a real fundraising operation for Jury Democracy USA would mean stitching together multiple separate tools—each with its own cost, login, and integration headache. Bloomerang replaces all of them.

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MailChimp / Constant Contact
Bloomerang Email Marketing
Same drag-and-drop builder you already know. Merge fields pull directly from your CRM. Journey automations built in. No separate subscription.
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Hustle (outbound texting)
Bloomerang Text Campaigns
Hugh's texting experiments are already showing results. Scale them through the same system that holds your donor data—no separate platform.
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Separate wealth screening service
DonorSearch (built in)
DonorSearch is embedded in your CRM. Cheaper than buying it directly, and it scores every contact automatically. No exports, no uploads, no lag.
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Zeffy + Wix + spreadsheet
Bloomerang CRM + Fundraising
Every donation that comes in flows straight to a contact record. No manual imports. No separate donation platform. One source of truth.
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ChatGPT for donor comms
Penny AI (trained on your data)
Penny knows your donors, your history, and your goals. She drafts thank-you emails, preps you for major gift meetings, and tells you who to call today. Not a generic chatbot.
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Airtable / manual reporting
Plain-language automated reports
Type what you want in plain English. Schedule it to hit Hugh's inbox on the first of every month. No query language, no CSV exports, no manual builds.
55%
Avg. increase in donor conversions after switching to Bloomerang
103%
Higher average second gift when first-time donors receive a thank-you call
75%
Of donors cover transaction fees when given the option
97%
Phone support pickup rate — no more being ghosted
You're ready to move

Let's get your donation portal live—and start building toward November.

You said it best: you want to get a viable donation portal on the website and start pushing it immediately, then backfill the rest. That's exactly how we'd approach this.

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Sign and start the bridge
Get access to the full Pro platform today. Your contract term—and first payment—begins in 60–90 days. Use that time to get your donation page live, connect your email domain, and start building.
2
Launch your embedded donation form
30 seconds of HTML code on your Wix site and you have a live, branded donation page with recurring giving, impact tiles, and fee coverage. Your first recurring donors can come in within hours of launch.
3
Import Hugh's top-priority contacts
Start with your warmest 500–1,000 contacts. Within 24–48 hours, DonorSearch scores them all. You'll know exactly who to call, what to ask for, and where to focus your energy first.
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Build your first campus campaign page + QR code
Create a recurring-only donation page for your first campus talk. Generate the QR code. Put it on the last slide. Let the room do the fundraising for you while Hugh works the crowd.
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Activate your first five peer-to-peer ambassadors
You know who your believers are. Give them a page and a toolkit. The average ambassador raises $350. Five of them covers your first month of Bloomerang costs and then some.
Ready to move forward?
The cause is real. The deadline is real. The tools are ready.
Reach out to Kevin and let's get the bridge in place so you can start building today—not next month.
Your account executive
Kevin Meyer
Bloomerang
35+ years in the nonprofit world.
Your success is the whole point.