Case Study: Old Sol Music Hall achieves first-time online fundraising success (raised $5K+ and funded 20,000 meals) with Bonterra GiveGab

Old Sol Music Hall experienced incredible success by participating in NH Gives for their very first fundraising campaign

Old Sol Music Hall, a young community arts venue in Manchester, New Hampshire, needed to run its first online fundraising campaign to support a meal-packaging Serve-a-thon but had never used an online giving tool. For NH Gives Day they chose Bonterra GiveGab (the GiveGab platform) to power their campaign because of its intuitive interface, easy-to-set-up giving levels, and user/admin-friendly features—critical after securing a fiscal sponsor just one day before the event.

Using Bonterra GiveGab’s platform and clear donation tiers, Old Sol quickly launched outreach and collected gifts; on NH Gives Day they raised over $5,000 through GiveGab and offline donations and ultimately totaled $7,965 from 116 supporters, plus $2,600 in cash prizes. That funding offset dry-ingredient costs and enabled the Serve-a-thon and concert to package more than 20,000 meals, which were donated to local hunger-alleviation programs.

Old Sol Music Hall

Anna Caron

Startup Coordinator