Prepared for The Digg Site Productions · July 29, 2026

One home for every supporter.
One foundation to grow on.

For 25 years The Digg Site has taught filmmaking to Nebraska kids, tuition free and all volunteer. This is the foundation to reach younger donors, turn one time gifts into recurring support, and make the revived White Light City Film Festival a real fundraiser, so the team can get off the sub $50K plateau.

Business objective

Get off the sub $50K plateau

Grow past the plateau to fund operations, and eventually paid staff, so a 25 year mission does not rest entirely on volunteer hours.

Your Mission, Multiplied

For 25 years The Digg Site has put real cameras in the hands of Nebraska middle and high schoolers, tuition free, and it is bringing back the White Light City Film Festival on top of that. Here is what a little more capacity could build on.

A conservative first year fundraising lift of about $4,400 is real money toward getting off the sub $50K plateau, and it compounds the moment recurring giving is switched on.

About 20 volunteer hours a month back from admin, roughly $8,400 a year in recovered time, goes straight to the kids, the grants, and the fall festival.

382
Donor records to unify
3 → 1
Systems into one
75%
Of time now lost to admin

Why now

The fall festival is your go live moment.

The White Light City Film Festival is coming back this fall. Get live in Bloomerang and selling tickets through it, and reach younger, digital first donors before more of the aging base slips away.

Why change

Your CRM is a MailChimp list.

Donors sit in MailChimp, gifts in spreadsheets, the festival on cash and PayPal, and none of it talks. There is no recurring giving and no clean way to reach the younger supporters you need to grow.

Why Bloomerang

One system, right sized for a volunteer team.

CRM, online and recurring giving, events, email, and grant tracking in one place, with QuickBooks sync, at the smallest tier for your 382 records. Volunteer and deeper prospecting are there when you are ready, not needed to start.

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Prepared for you by
Patrick Berrier
Account Executive, Team Bloomerang

I work with for-purpose organizations to find the right sized Bloomerang setup, no more than you need, everything you do. With The Digg Site I would rather help you grow into the platform than sell you the biggest one, and I am glad to hop on a call with your board anytime.

615.521.3608  ·  patrick.berrier@bloomerang.com

Prepared for The Digg Site Productions · July 29, 2026

One home for every supporter.
One foundation to grow on.

For 25 years The Digg Site has taught filmmaking to Nebraska kids, tuition free and all volunteer. This is the foundation to reach younger donors, turn one time gifts into recurring support, and make the revived White Light City Film Festival a real fundraiser, so the team can get off the sub $50K plateau.

382
Donor records to unify
3 → 1
Systems into one
75%
Of time now lost to admin
94%
Bloomerang renewal rate
"Our CRM is, I'm ashamed to admit, our MailChimp list."
Dana Reeves, Executive Director, The Digg Site Productions

The fragmented stack problem

Five tools. Zero integration.
One overwhelmed team.

Without Bloomerang, The Digg Site Productions needs separate systems for every function. None of them talk to each other.

🗂️
Donor records
MailChimp list
no real CRM today
✉️
Email
MailChimp
a separate list
🎟️
Event ticketing
Cash + PayPal
reconciled by hand
💰
Gift & grant tracking
Spreadsheets
re-keyed every time
📊
Accounting
QuickBooks
double entry today
Five disconnected places
your supporters live
Nothing talks to anything.
Everything is re-keyed.
Dana, holding it all
together as a volunteer.

Interactive ROI calculator

Move the sliders. See the future.

Seeded with The Digg Site Productions's actual numbers. Adjust to match your goals.

Your inputs

Current annual giving$40,000
Lapsed donors you win back40
Major gift prospects1
Volunteer hours saved per month20
Value of an hour of staff or volunteer time$35
Based on Bloomerang client averages: 47%+ fundraising lift, 154%+ first-time donor retention, 13%+ major gift growth.
Projected Year One total
$59,400
After your Bloomerang investment
Fundraising lift (47%)
+$4,400
Conservative estimate
Major gift potential
$5,000
Avg $5K per prospect
Volunteer time recovered
$8,400
20 hrs per month at $35 per hour
Reactivated donor value
+$1,600
At ~$40 average gift
ROI on your Bloomerang investment
20 to 1
Conservative estimate, Giving Platform Standard

IGP · Predictive donor intelligence

Does IGP pay for itself?

Move the slider to your record count. Any one of the three outcomes below covers the annual cost on its own, and most organizations reach all three.

IGP ROI Calculator

How many outcomes does it take to cover the cost? Usually fewer than you'd think.

Constituent Records
1K 2.5K 5K 15K 25K 40K 60K 80K 100K
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MAJOR GIFTS
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LAPSE SAVES
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MONTHLY CONVERTS
Scenario 1: Major Gift Identification
GIFT THRESHOLD
DONORS NEEDED
TOTAL REVENUE
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Scenario 2: Lapse Prevention
AVG ANNUAL GIFT
DONORS TO RETAIN
REVENUE SAVED
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Scenario 3: Monthly Giving Conversion
MONTHLY VALUE
CONVERTS NEEDED
ANNUAL VALUE

The cost of doing nothing

What another year on the plateau costs.

None of this is dramatic on any single day. It just quietly compounds, and the mission is the thing that pays for it.

Younger donors give somewhere else

Your older base is aging out, and without online and recurring giving there is no way to meet younger, digital first supporters where they already are. The recurring base you have never had still does not start.

$0 recurring

Volunteers stay buried in admin

About three quarters of your team's time goes to spreadsheets, the MailChimp list, and reconciling the festival by hand, instead of donors, grants, and the kids.

~$8,400/yr

Stuck under $50K

The festival stays on cash and PayPal, gifts stay in spreadsheets, and the tools to grow past the plateau never get built. Another year passes at the same ceiling.

< $50K
94%
Renewal rate
26K+
Nonprofits served
154%+
First-time donor retention
47%+
More raised on average
13%+
Major gift growth
673
Years of nonprofit expertise

What's included

Every tool The Digg Site Productions needs.
Nothing it doesn't.

Bloomerang Giving Platform Standard, right sized for 382 records and an all volunteer team. Everything to run donors, giving, events, and grants in one place, nothing you do not need.

CRM

Donor management

Up to 1,000 records, unlimited users, household tracking, soft credit attribution, pledge management, and in kind donation tracking, all in one profile.

Email Marketing

Built in communications

Drag and drop email builder on the same engine as Mailchimp, plus up to 3 Journey Automations running simultaneously. No separate subscription. No integration to maintain.

Fundraising

Online and recurring giving

Modern, mobile friendly donation forms with a built in nudge that invites one time donors to give monthly, plus event pages with QR check in and text to donate for the fall festival. This is the recurring base you do not have today.

AI

Penny, your AI fundraising partner

Prepare for donor meetings, identify major gift ask amounts, write personalized thank you emails, and prioritize the team's daily to do list, all powered by The Digg Site Productions's own data.

Wealth Screening

Built in wealth screening

Charitable giving history and capacity indicators built into every donor profile. Know what to ask before walking into the room. Included, not an add on.

Automations

Smart retention tools

Automatic recurring card updates, first time donor flags, and lapsed donor identification, running in the background, always.

Meet Penny

Your AI fundraising partner.
Built on your data, not generic advice.

An illustrative look at how Penny works once The Digg Site Productions's donor history lives in Bloomerang.

What Penny does for The Digg Site Productions

Every other AI tool gives every nonprofit the same generic answer. Penny is trained on your specific database, so her advice reflects your donors, your history, your mission.

🎯
Major gift asks, Penny analyzes giving history and capacity indicators and tells you exactly what to ask for, and how to frame it.
✉️
Thank you emails, Penny writes personalized acknowledgments referencing the donor's full relationship with The Digg Site Productions, not just today's gift.
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Daily priorities, Penny reviews overdue tasks, thank you calls needed, and lapsed donors, then builds the team's to do list in priority order.
Penny
Intelligent Fundraising Partner, Bloomerang
Who should we invite to give monthly, and how much?
Once your MailChimp and spreadsheet history is imported, I will look at who gave more than once this year and who bought festival tickets, then suggest a monthly ask for your strongest prospect.
Once your data is imported
$25 / month
Illustrative, based on a small first cohort
Can you draft the invite?
Done. I referenced their gifts this year and the White Light City Film Festival, kept it short and warm, and dropped in a recurring giving link. You review and send, always.

Competitive comparison

How Bloomerang compares to what you looked at.

FeatureBloomerangGivebutterBonterra
One system for donors, giving, events, and email Included~ Giving tools, lighter CRM~ Varies by module
Built in email marketing Included~ Basic~ Add on
Online and recurring giving Included Yes Yes
Events and ticketing with QR check in Included~ Basic Yes
Built in wealth screening (DonorSearch) Included No No
Penny AI fundraising partner Included No No
QuickBooks Online integration Full sync~ Partial~ Partial
Unlimited phone support Included~ Email first~ Tiered
Starting price (comparable tier)CustomFree + platform feesQuote based

Competitor feature and price notes are directional and should be confirmed before this document is shared externally.

What nonprofits say

They were new once, too.

"We did a Bloomerang demo and I was like, 'This is it.' It has everything we want, everything we'll need in the future. It's so intuitive, and the onboarding process was very seamless."
Becca Gray, Pensacola Habitat for Humanity
"Bloomerang is one of the best giving platforms I've ever seen. It makes it so easy to run everything from peer to peer fundraising, to transaction reports, to event check in."
Beth Hill, Lakeland Volunteers in Medicine
"We did our due diligence looking at other CRMs, but Bloomerang was the clear winner. With Bloomerang, I feel like we're finally running the department the way it should be run."
Julie Angulo, ScholarMatch

A volunteer run org that scaled

You are not the first small, all volunteer team to outgrow spreadsheets.

Early stage, volunteer heavy nonprofits come to Bloomerang for exactly the reason you did, their community outgrew the tools holding it. City of Good is one close analog from our customer base, a lean team that put every supporter in one place and built real giving programs on top. Different revenue band from The Digg Site, so we will not overstate the parallel, but the shape of the move is the same.

The result

The pattern that shows up again and again

47%+

More raised, average Bloomerang customer

Across 26,000+ nonprofits, consolidating onto one system is consistently what frees the time and the data to grow giving, the same shift The Digg Site is making now.

See it in action

Resources worth a look.

Patrick will send links to these once the proposal is finalized.

Built for Purpose: the Bloomerang Giving Platform

Built for Purpose: the Bloomerang Giving Platform

Keeping your recurring donors

Keeping your recurring donors

How AI helps you find fundraising opportunities

How AI helps you find fundraising opportunities

The transformation

The Digg Site Productions: before and after.

Without Bloomerang

⚠️Donors live in a MailChimp list, there is no real donor record
⚠️Gifts are tracked by hand across spreadsheets and QuickBooks
⚠️No recurring or monthly giving exists, at all
⚠️Festival tickets run on cash, PayPal, and a POS, reconciled in spreadsheets
⚠️About 75% of volunteer time goes to admin instead of fundraising

With Bloomerang

Every donor, gift, and grant lives on one record, nothing re-keyed
Online and recurring giving is switched on, the base you never had
The fall festival sells tickets with QR check in and card on file, straight to the record
Email sends from Bloomerang on live donor data, the MailChimp list retired
Volunteer hours go back to donors, grants, and the kids

Your investment

Two ways to close the gap.

Bloomerang Giving Platform Standard, right sized for your 382 records. The bundle discount and the waived data conversion are already baked into the number below.

⏱ This pricing is valid through August 20, 2026.
Bloomerang Giving Platform · Standard

Everything The Digg Site needs to launch.

  • Bloomerang CRM, up to 1,000 records, unlimited users
  • Built in email marketing, from your own domain
  • Online and recurring donation forms
  • Events with QR check in and text to donate
  • DonorSearch ProspectView wealth screening
  • Up to 3 Journey Automations
  • Penny AI fundraising partner
  • QuickBooks Online sync
  • Unlimited phone, chat, and email support, plus the Philanthropy Institute course
$2,899
per year
List $3,451. Your 16% bundle discount and $0 data conversion (normally $800) are already included. Three year agreement, billed annually, or quarterly at $761.
Optional, when you are ready to grow

Add-ons, not in this quote.

  • Bloomerang Volunteer, signup, shifts, and a mobile check in app
  • The full DonorSearch Prospecting Suite for company and new prospect search
Natural next steps as you scale, not needed to start. We will price these with you when the time is right.
Why organizations stay

94% of Bloomerang customers renew, among 26,000+ nonprofits.

It's not because they're locked in. It's because the system works, and the team behind it genuinely wants nonprofits to succeed. When you thrive, we thrive.

94%
Renewal Rate

The path forward

From here to go live.

A shared plan for The Digg Site Productions and Team Bloomerang, so nothing falls through the cracks between now and launch.

This week

Take it to your board

Dana forwards this Bloom Room and the proposal, both built to show the value and the number so the board can vote yes.

The Digg Site
On request

Board call, if it helps

Patrick joins the board meeting to walk through the proposal live and answer questions, no pressure.

Team Bloomerang
By Aug 20

Lock pricing and confirm 382 records

Approve before the quote expires on August 20, and a quick MailChimp export locks the count against the up to 1,000 tier so the number will not move.

The Digg Site
About 1 week later

Kickoff and migration

Your Conversion Project Manager runs the move from MailChimp and spreadsheets, you do not carry it.

Team Bloomerang
About 5 weeks, by the fall festival

Go live for the White Light City Film Festival

Live in Bloomerang and selling festival tickets through it, with recurring giving switched on. We will set the exact date once the festival date is confirmed.

The Digg Site and Bloomerang

See it in action

Resources worth a look.

Patrick Berrier can walk through any of these live on your next call.