Drive better fundraising outcomes with new auto-matching gifts and challenges! Automatically update matching gift thermometers, create dynamic fundraising challenges, and streamline your campaign management—no manual tracking needed.
Matching gift challenges have always been a great way to motivate donors and boost participation—but keeping up with them? That’s another story. Manually tracking donations, updating totals, and making sure your campaign stays engaging can take up valuable time that could be spent building relationships with donors.
That’s why we built Almabase’s new Matching Gifts and Challenges—so you can run dynamic, high-impact fundraising challenges without the operational headaches. Here’s what makes it a game-changer:
What motivates your donors the most? Is it the thrill of a dollar-for-dollar match or a nostalgic nod to a class year? Or is it perhaps a time-sensitive goal that builds urgency?
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With the new matching gifts challenges, the admin can design and set custom participation, tiered donation, and time unlocks additional funds when a specific donor count is reached. This flexibility will allow you to create challenges unique to your mission and resonate with your donors.
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No more scrambling to update donors or manually tracking challenge progress. Every gift is instantly recorded, and challenges auto-update, giving your team a clear picture of campaign performance by automatically updating the matching gift thermometer. With less time spent on admin work, you can focus on what truly matters—building relationships, crafting compelling donor messaging, and driving long-term fundraising success.
Your giving page isn’t just a place to donate—it’s a dynamic hub for your fundraising priorities. With customizable layouts, you can categorize and highlight your most important campaigns, ensuring donors see what matters most. Whether it's donor participation challenges or time-sensitive giving day matchups, multiple campaign hubs help you tell a clearer story and drive more impact—while a frictionless donation process ensures more completed gifts and fewer drop-offs.
Gamifying your campaigns does more than raise funds—it builds community. Challenges like matching gifts or participation goals create shared milestones, helping donors feel part of something bigger. With Almabase's matching gifts challenges, you're not just creating campaigns—you're creating moments that bring your community together, inspire generosity, and leave a lasting impact.
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Pulling lists and updating constituent data, and updating information in Raiser's Edge is now even more efficient! While admins can pull data from Raiser's Edge independently with minimal effort, they still need to pull lists every time they want to pull constituent data, which requires them to keep moving between Almabase and RE. As we continuously make the database processes more efficient, we want to simplify how you create new records, pull lists, and fix errors seamlessly.
And that’s precisely what we’ve done with our latest auto-pull feature!
Dive in to find out more.
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The auto-pull feature lets you set up and update RE lists and queries through multiple one-time and auto-recurring pulls, simultaneously. If a new profile or record is added to RENXT, the recurring pull will automatically add new information from RENXT to the directory, improving data accuracy. Admins can save time by setting up daily, weekly, or monthly auto-pulls.
Note: Recurring pulls allow admins to add only new constituent information without updating existing records, as the sync system handles updates. For bulk updates, administrators should create a separate one-time pull session with the recurring pull option disabled.
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The new auto-pull feature streamlines email list management on Almabase. With the auto-pull update, admins can pull constituent data for email lists. For example, if you establish a daily pull for a list with 100 records on RENXT, any changes—such as adding or removing records—will be automatically reflected in your Almabase list. This means new records will be created for constituents not already on Almabase, and existing records will be updated accordingly.
Note: Almabase will periodically pull data from the RE list or RE query, and depending upon the type of configuration, it will add/remove constituents from the email group or list of records on Almabase.
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The new sync data dashboard lets you set up and manage: set upone-time or recurring and view historical pulls, all in a single dashboard. If there are any errors in constituent records or email lists, you can fix them directly within the same dashboard by clicking on the "Fix errors" button, eliminating the need to switch different tabs on Almabase or RENXT.
If you’re an Almabase customer, simply log into the platform's database settings to create your first auto-pull session.
If you’re not an Almabase customer, click here to learn more about our industry-leading integration with Raiser’s Edge NXT.
Keep email lists and user-directory updated on their own with auto-pull sessions
We are constantly adding new capabilities to our integration with Raiser’s Edge NXT to help you create delightful alumni experiences while minimizing the resources and time you spend collecting, cleaning, reporting, and updating data.
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For advancement teams, managing data isn't just about storing information—it's about harnessing it to drive meaningful alumni engagement and fundraising impact. Cohesive data workflows are crucial for seamless operations; many teams at universities and colleges struggle with fragmented systems, leading to inefficient manual work, inconsistent data, costly errors, and missed growth opportunities.
Unlocking growth starts with building efficient processes that streamline data flow across all platforms. By bringing all engagement and fundraising data into a single, cohesive view within your donor management platform, advancement teams can make data-driven decisions, reduce manual tasks, and make it a single source of truth.
In a bold step towards revolutionizing alumni engagement and fundraising, Almabase has launched TrueSync, a native integration with Blackbaud platforms like Raiser's Edge NXT. This update solves the data disconnect between systems that don't talk to one another, leading to duplicate records and missed opportunities. It's a game-changer that sets a new standard for data integration in the advancement industry.
”To be honest, the word integration has been abused by several software companies. Once you look beyond the marketing, you realize that the integration is exporting excel sheets and importing into your donor management platform. This is the reason we set out to create a truly seamless experience with TrueSync,” said Kalyan Varma, Co-founder and CEO of Almabase.
"Customers want their advancement donor management platform to be a single source of truth and don’t want to go through complex processes to make that happen. This allows them to be data-driven, save time, and grow their fundraising outcomes. TrueSync delivers on this promise.”
While many platforms claim to offer seamless integrations with Raiser's Edge NXT, these integrations often rely on third-party connectors, resulting in a patchwork of data flows that are prone to delays, errors, and duplicate data. These misleading promises can leave advancement teams in a frustrating cycle of constantly cleaning up messy data and manually transferring data across systems.
TrueSync is a direct native integration across Almabase and Raiser's Edge NXT. This approach ensures bi-directional syncing of data without relying on third-party connectors, reducing the risk of errors, duplication, or data silos. Advancement teams can now benefit from a real-time flow of information, enabling more informed decision-making and improved engagement strategies.
Key benefits of TrueSync include:
The launch of TrueSync reflects Almabase's ongoing commitment to innovation in the advancement sector. By providing a more streamlined, cost-effective solution, TrueSync enables teams at universities, colleges, and nonprofits to focus their resources on strategic goals rather than troubleshooting data integration issues.
“TrueSync will significantly improve how institutions manage their data,” added Sudip Datta, Chief Product Officer at Blackbaud . “With this kind of bi-directional native integration between Raiser’s Edge NXT and Almabase, advancement teams can operate with greater efficiency, improve the quality of their data, reduce costs, and ultimately deliver better outcomes for their organizations.”
Illinois Institue of Technology has transformed its alumni data management with TrueSync’s bi-directional sync capability allows the team to quickly push/pull out lists from Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT, improving the team's overall administrative workflow.
The integration allows the university’s database team to configure data collection per their needs, ensuring they can structure information effectively and cleanly enrich the data between systems. This eliminates the need to enter data manually and saves the institution valuable time and resources.
Read their complete success story here.
With the launch of TrueSync, advancement teams can eliminate the roadblocks caused by disjointed systems, empower organizations to build stronger relationships with their alumni and donors, create more effective engagement strategies, and unlock new fundraising potential. TrueSync will expand to support Blackbaud CRM customers, too, helping them streamline how they manage their events and online fundraising campaigns.
To learn more about how TrueSync can transform your institution's data-management workflows, visit TrueSync webpage or connect with our team to see it makes managing programs seamless.
Introducing TrueSync: Industry's only two-way, native sync with Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT® to change the way you manage data, saving time and costs
Almabase has partnered with Blackbaud to launch TrueSync, a first-of-its-kind native integration with Blackbaud platforms like Raiser's Edge NXT.
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Having observed 100+ Giving Days, we have enough data to conclude that Giving Days can provide a major boost to your fundraising efforts.
A Giving Day is a powerful online fundraising campaign conducted for 24 hours with the purpose of raising money and finding new donors. On every calendar, there are special days, or holidays, dedicated for different purposes or activities. For example, most calendars automatically include holidays like Independence Day, Mother’s Day, and Halloween. A giving day could be one such special day marked on your school’s event calendar, dedicated to fundraising and known to your constituents as a special day for your school.
If you’re asking yourself why a designated day should be any different from any other day of the year, read on. While your constituents can donate throughout the year, asking them to participate in a 24-hour event exclusive to a cause helps create a sense of urgency. Giving Days also help create healthy competition and a sense of community as your constituents get an opportunity to contribute towards a common goal.
A well planned Giving Day can entirely transform your fundraising approach by helping you acquire new donors, enrich the giving experience, and instill a culture of giving in your constituents.
Need more information on how to plan for a Giving Day? Click on the image below to get a free copy of our Planning a Giving Day Handbook today!
Why are Giving Days so important?
Giving Days have proven to be highly successful in boosting fundraising efforts. Learn how they can help you acquire new donors, enrich the giving experience, and instill a culture of giving in your constituents.
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