The next generation of fundraising for education
Why education leaders choose Fundraise Up
Alumni participation is declining, as today’s donors are digital-first. They expect giving to be fast, intuitive, and friction-free just like buying something online. Yet many schools still rely on outdated forms and one-size-fits-all tools that quietly cost them donors. Digital is no longer optional. It’s your most scalable channel for generating revenue and cultivating tomorrow’s major donors. Schools that don’t modernize will fall behind.
That’s why leading institutions choose Fundraise Up — a platform built to meet the expectations of modern donors and the goals of future-ready advancement teams.
Digital giving that actually works
Build stronger alumni relationships
No heavy lift for your team
Fundraise Up makes it easy for us to provide the online giving experience that we’ve always wanted our donors to have. From campaign-specific donations forms, to automated acknowledgement communications, to individual donor portals, Fundraise Up has us covered on all this and more.
Raise more from every campaign
Running multiple missions while maintaining donor engagement and raising online donations across diverse initiatives is no easy feat.
higher conversion rate
increase in gift size
donor retention
Optimize the entire donor journey
In today’s alumni digital giving journey, every touchpoint matters. We help you meet donors at each step, guiding them from first click to lifelong support.
Engage the next generation of alumni
Digital-first alumni and students like Gen Zs and Millennials expect fast, personalized, mobile-first experiences — and won’t tolerate friction.
With more causes competing for their support than ever before, the giving experience you offer matters more than ever.
- Embedded Checkout that adapts in real time to device, behavior, and context.
- Interactive website widgets that convert 2x more visitors.
- Digital wallets (Apple Pay, Venmo, Google Pay) for click-and-done giving.
Smarter fundraising starts here
See why more than 3,000 nonprofits use Fundraise Up to personalize the donor experience and maximize revenue.
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Run high-performance campaigns in one unified hub
Fundraise Up helps you capture every giving opportunity across your digital ecosystem. Stop juggling tools that don’t talk to each other. Run everything from daily appeals to Giving Days on one unified platform.
Turn your website into a donor magnet
Are you missing thousands of potential gifts by not using your website effectively?
Most schools focus only on their donation page, overlooking their website as their most valuable fundraising asset.
Elements helps you capture impulse gifts from alumni and supporters by embedding interactive buttons, forms, and other smart widgets across your website.
Launch Giving Days and other targeted appeals
From Giving Days and reunions to year-end and student appeals, go live fast with high-converting Campaign Pages built for engagement.
Empower donors to give to multiple funds in a single gift, track progress with real-time goal meters, and increase conversions with built-in social proof and sharing tools.
Run effective alumni-driven campaigns
Turn your community of alumni, students, and parents into fundraising champions with Fundraisers — the easiest, yet most effective, peer-to-peer tool.
Supporters can create personal fundraising pages in seconds, track their progress, and celebrate milestones — all with tools that feel intuitive and fun to use.
“The peer-to-peer program was almost so easy to use that I felt like I was missing something.”
Brieanne Repp, School Program Manager, Bringing Hope Home
Reimagine alumni’s giving experience
Replace 'donation forms' with smart revenue engines. Deliver personalized donor journeys that drive higher conversion, long-term support, and community engagement.
Before Fundraise Up
- Lengthy forms with 15+ fields
- Multiple redirects that break the experience
- No modern payment methods like Apple Pay or Venmo
- No tools to grow recurring giving
- Desktop-first design that fails on mobile
- Static, one-size-fits-all approach
- Donors abandon at every step
- Manual data reconciliation and siloed systems
- The experience is not localized for international alumni
- 11% average conversion
After Fundraise Up
- Lightning-fast Checkout Modal — without redirects
- AI-suggested personalized donation amounts that maximize every gift
- Every payment method alumni use, from digital wallets to crypto
- AI-powered prompts to convert more recurring donors
- Mobile-first experience that works everywhere
- Built-in tools to capture abandoned donations
- Reliable, pain-free integrations for all your systems to work in sync
- 20+ languages and 135+ currencies for international alumni
- 30% average conversion
Make every gift count with AI that actually works for your revenue goals
While others use AI to write emails, we use it to maximize revenue. Fundraise Up’s models are trained on millions of donations from nearly a decade, using anonymous (non-PII) data to optimize every donor journey in real time, without compromising privacy or security.
AI-powered gift suggestions that lift average donation size
Whether it’s a mobile donor late at night or someone giving from their desktop at work, Fundraise Up adapts each ask based on real-time context — so you get the right amount, every time.
Result: Average gift is more than 30% higher than the industry average for both one-time and recurring donations.
Smarter recurring gift prompts that convert and upgrade
Fundraise Up uses AI to prompt one-time donors to give monthly by personalizing the donation flow based on their likelihood to convert. Prompts can appear before or after the gift, and smart defaults help suggest the right frequency to maximize revenue.
Result: organizations using AI-powered frequency optimization have seen revenue increase by up to 15%.
Intelligent fee coverage nudges that increase net revenue
Most donors are happy to cover processing fees, but only if the ask is thoughtful. Unlike tip models that prompt donors to add 10–20% (and often feel pushy), Fundraise Up suggests only a small amount and uses AI to determine whether to pre-check the coverage option.
Result: 80% of donors cover transaction fees when the AI setting is enabled.
Foundation for your fundraising excellence
Built for advancement teams who need performance, not complexity. Fundraise Up gives institutions the infrastructure to scale giving, increase operational efficiency, and meet ambitious fundraising goals without compromising donor trust and campaign agility.
Fast to set up & effortless to run
Your advancement team should focus on relationship building, not administrative tasks.
Fundraise Up’s dashboard makes it easy to launch, manage, and optimize campaigns without IT.
- Intuitive, user-friendly admin interface
- Launch Giving Days, appeals, and evergreen campaigns in minutes
- Automated thank-you emails and tax receipts
Transparent pricing with everything included
We succeed when you succeed: our customers are our long-term partners.
Your turn to succeed — switch to Fundraise Up!
Join thousands of nonprofits already transforming their fundraising with us.
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