raised during Saint Peter Day 2026, surpassing its $600,000 goal
gifts received during Saint Peter Day 2026
through the full migration from NetCommunity to Almabase
"No other platform really syncs the way that Almabase syncs with Raiser's Edge."
For years, Saint Peter's giving ran on borrowed time. NetCommunity handled everyday giving pages, linked directly to Raiser's Edge, but it could only do one thing. So when the team wanted to run Giving Days and crowdfunding, they had to bring in a second vendor, ScaleFunder, just to cover the gap. Then, on a Giving Day, with donors actively trying to give, it crashed.
Even when things didn't break outright, they quietly frayed. Gift data synced into Raiser's Edge exactly as donors typed it, so a name entered in lowercase stayed lowercase, a small glitch that became a cleanup job every summer for a two-person operations team.
With just two people running operations, migrating off NetCommunity and consolidating two disconnected systems at once was the biggest lift the Saint Peter's team had taken on. They did it in two to three months, timed to their fiscal year, so the old NetCommunity setup and the new Almabase platform never had to overlap.
Almabase handled the constituent mapping during migration, matching donor records into Raiser's Edge and cutting down the manual work that would otherwise have fallen on the team.
"Almabase handles the constituent mapping for us, which significantly reduces the work for my team."
Before Almabase, gifts from each Giving Day were pulled in one large batch and reconciled by hand, a process that could stretch over several days and get worse with formatting mismatches like a donor's name syncing in lowercase.
With TrueSync, Almabase's bi-directional integration with Raiser's Edge NXT, gifts now push into Raiser's Edge continuously and in real time while the Giving Day is still live. Constituent matching happens automatically, so a multi-day cleanup became a same-day job.
"It was just easier for them to continuously batch and push gifts into the database, rather than waiting to pull one big batch, which is a lot harder to reconcile."
Donors used to fill out long forms limited to PayPal and Venmo. On Almabase, they check out with Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal, or Venmo instead. The team heard no negative feedback about the switch.
Every giving form on Almabase also asks donors to rate their experience out of five stars right after they give. Over a recent three-month stretch with no Giving Day running, Saint Peter's giving forms held a 4.9 out of 5 average across 30 unique reviews. The experience holds up even outside the big campaign push.
Under the old dual-vendor setup, gift data synced into Raiser's Edge exactly as donors typed it, including case-sensitive names that quietly corrupted records. That meant hours of manual cleanup for a two-person team. Since migrating to Almabase, constituent matching happens automatically and records stay clean, campaign after campaign.
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