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Increase donations with alumni fundraising technology

Modern donors demand modern experiences. Stop losing alumni supporters to clunky donation forms and start converting them with alumni fundraising technology that actually works.

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Why education leaders choose Fundraise Up

Today’s alumni are digital-first and expect giving to be as fast and easy as shopping online. Outdated forms quietly cost schools donors, while digital is now the most scalable channel for revenue and future major gifts.

That’s why leading institutions choose Fundraise Up.

Digital giving that actually works

Delight alumni with a giving experience built for today’s donors that is mobile-first, AI-optimized, and proven to lift revenue.

Build stronger alumni relationships

Turn alumni into lifelong supporters with tools that increase engagement, grow recurring giving, and drive long-term value.

No heavy lift for your team

Launch quickly without complex implementation. Fundraise Up fits perfectly into your current workflows and existing CRM.

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.

Ray Im

Director of Philanthropy, Tacoma Community College Foundation

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.

Build sustainable annual giving programs

If you’re overly reliant on today’s major donors or federal grants, long-term growth can feel uncertain. Building recurring support creates near-term stability while also laying the groundwork for future major gifts.

Convert more recurring donors and get larger gifts with AI-powered prompts at checkout $33 average monthly recurring gift, outperforming the $24 industry average.
Retention tools that build predictable annual giving revenue 76% recurring donation retention, exceeding the 61% industry benchmark.

Strengthen stewardship with donor self-service

Support doesn’t have to mean tickets. The Donor Portal empowers supporters to manage their own giving and save your team’s time in managing donor requests.

Self-serve access to receipts, recurring gift updates, and upgrades.
77% of recurring donation upgrades happen through the Donor Portal.
1 in 3 donors increase their recurring gift with the personalized prompt.

Streamline systems and data transfer

Keep all your systems perfectly in sync to optimize campaigns and re-engage donors.

Data flows directly to your CRM, whether it’s Salesforce, Blackbaud, RE NXT, or others, without manual workarounds.
Use accurate, actionable data to drive deeper alumni engagement and feed your future major gift pipeline.

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Smarter fundraising starts here

See why 3,500+ 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.

Quick win: Put a catchy Give button in your website header. Add donation forms to high-traffic pages and see giving jump.

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.

Canadian Red Cross: 25% conversion rate, launched in record time

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

25 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.