Case Study: Peninsula Community Foundation surpasses $1M Giving Day milestone with Bonterra GiveGab

How Give Local 757! surpassed their $1 million milestone with Bonterra Giving Days

Peninsula Community Foundation’s Give Local 757! had established strong local engagement but ran into stagnant year-over-year growth and limited staff capacity. Their previous platform offered no user support, leaving director Tammy Flynn to answer hundreds of support requests and create time‑consuming training resources, which crowded out strategy, marketing, and partnership work. Seeking a partner to handle technical help and fundraising best practices, the foundation turned to Bonterra GiveGab’s Giving Day solution.

Bonterra GiveGab provided a dedicated project manager, GG Chat support, a library of toolkits and trainings, and access to the Giving Day Leaders Network, allowing Tammy to shift focus to marketing and community partnerships. The results were dramatic: Give Local 757! nearly doubled funds in its first year on Bonterra GiveGab, raising $1.6M in 2020 and $1.8M with 10,781 donors in 2021; GG Chat handled 334 support requests in 2020 and 235 in 2021 (569 total); and 70 organizations' peer‑to‑peer campaigns raised $596,547 (32% of donations), enabling the foundation to scale impact.

Peninsula Community Foundation

Tammy Flynn

Director of Philanthropy