Case Study: Vs. Cancer boosts peer-to-peer fundraising with Idealist Consulting and Salesforce integration

Vs. Cancer helps 58 children’s hospitals with Idealist consulting

Vs. Cancer, a nonprofit empowering athletes to fight childhood cancer, faced a significant challenge with its unscalable systems. Their peer-to-peer fundraising platform, Classy, and their Salesforce donor management system were not integrated, leading to a complex and error-prone process for tracking donations and grants. This resulted in manual data work across spreadsheets and a risk of miscalculating donations. To solve this, they approached vendor Idealist Consulting for an integration solution.

Idealist Consulting implemented a customized integration between Classy and Salesforce, tailoring it to Vs. Cancer's unique need to track team and fundraiser information rather than just individual donors. This solution provided immediate visibility into donations, attributing them to specific teams and recipient hospitals. The results included hyper-focused donor communication, increased internal efficiency, and ultimate transparency for donors, who now know exactly where their dollars are going. The vendor's work enabled the small nonprofit to scale its operations confidently.

Vs. Cancer