Case Study: Essentia Health Foundation untangles event operations and boosts ROI with Almabase

Essentia Health Foundation raises $200,000 and manages 25+ sponsors with Almabase

Essentia Health Foundation, which supports healthcare across a large rural region, faced significant challenges with its event fundraising. Their process was chaotic, relying on manual tracking via spreadsheets and emails for sponsors, using Eventbrite for ticket sales which created anonymous donor records, and depending on a separate marketing team to publish event pages. This disorganization hurt their ROI and made it difficult to track and cultivate donor relationships. They turned to Almabase for a unified event management solution.

Almabase implemented a dedicated sponsorship portal and event management system that automated and streamlined Essentia's operations. The solution allowed sponsors to self-manage their commitments and guest lists, integrated directly with Raiser's Edge NXT to ensure all attendees were captured as named constituents, and gave the events team control over creating branded pages. As a result, Essentia raised $200,000 at a single gala, efficiently managed over 25 sponsors, eliminated weeks of administrative work, and finally gained a visible donor pipeline. Almabase provided the integrated platform that transformed their event fundraising.

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