Dec 20, 2023

Navigating Fundraising Data: How Custom Reporting Can Help

Custom Reporting

Understanding your fundraising data set is integral to fundraising success. The right reporting helps you measure success and discover trends so that you can improve future campaigns. Being able to see at-a-glance what is working at your events or how an adjusted online form setup is driving increased donations helps you more effectively plan.  

Out-of-the-box reports are helpful in that they often cover the basics of what you need, but they are not timebound and the formatting is fixed. The often-required manual manipulation by your admin team wastes time and makes at-a-glance read-outs sometimes difficult.  

GiveSmart’s easy-to-set-up custom reporting in Donor CRM allows you to manipulate datasets, views, and timing so that you get the information you need, and only the information you need.  

Save Time with Automation 

With nine out of 10 employees reporting that they are burdened with mundane, repetitive tasks, your team is eager to save time where they can. They are wasting weeks a year! 

With GiveSmart’s custom reporting in Donor CRM, you can save your settings and pin them to the top of your dashboard for quick access. The setup makes it easy to create, save, and export your data. 

Give your qualified, smart development, events, and fundraising staff time back in their day to support your mission and to steward donors. Automating reporting brings in more revenue and is best for your teams and donors.  

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Delight Your Donors (and Board!)

Custom reporting supports your team and donors best. Because you manage the set up to work for you, you see the data at-a-glance, exactly how you need to see it. From multi-select column reordering to custom field selection and user-set timeframes, your team has the opportunity to get the need-to-know in a moment.  

A better understanding of data allows you to make necessary improvements and helps with decision-making to find success and grow your organization. 

See What GiveSmart Can Do for You

At GiveSmart, we understand every nonprofit has different needs, so we’ve developed our Donor CRM in a way that will benefit your organization.  

Our fundraising management tools help you provide an engaging donor experience while using data to expand your reach. GiveSmart is equipped with numerous features and capabilities to help you improve your fundraising and grow your organization. 

If you want to see what GiveSmart’s Donor CRM can do for your organization, request a demo to see it in action. 

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What our clients say

We needed a platform to make sales online and to track and display ads for our sponsors. GiveSmart was perfect. We ended up making close to $15,000 more than we had hoped for. Definite better ROI than we anticipated. The interface is easy to use and provides plenty of options to get help if needed.

Michelle M.

The Rotary Club of South Whidbey Island

Using GS has created ease in auction bookkeeping, payments, and generating post-event thank you/tax letters. While we were online during COVID, our interactions with our GiveSmart via phone, email, and zoom were seamless. A representative always got back to us within the day. I would recommend GiveSmart to anyone doing a large online event.

Julie G.

MicroFinancing Partners in Africa

GiveSmart is highly flexible - you can use it for [a] simple registration and check-in, to full-scale galas with complex order forms, onsite upsells, live auctions, seating management, and more.

Jamie F.

Hope Chest for Breast Cancer

GiveSmart is easy to use and ideal for virtual events and can be used for in-person events to manage the silent auction, seating charts, and check-in to the event. Being able to use the platform for unlimited events within the contract year is very useful and being able to add other users and volunteers for different levels of access is helpful as well.

Dawn L.

Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County