Case Study: Porter-Gaud School achieves faster gift processing and boosts online giving with Blackbaud Optimized Donation Forms

Saving Time and Streamlining Processes with Optimized Donation Forms

Porter-Gaud School is an independent Episcopal school (grades 1–12) in Charleston, SC, focused on inspiring lives of purpose, learning, and service. The advancement team needed to reduce time spent on daily giving tasks, simplify acknowledgement and coding workflows, and make donation pages more user-friendly for parents, staff, and donors.

By switching their main giving pages to Blackbaud’s Optimized Donation Forms in Raiser’s Edge NXT, the school cut gift-entry time by more than half, embedded a sleeker on-page form experience, and made it easy to create branded, fund-specific one‑off forms. The changes improved donor feedback and usability and helped the parents association boost receivables by over $10,000 year-over-year, while streamlining gift coding and acknowledgements for staff.

Porter-Gaud School

Tracey Zirneklis

Advancement Services Manager