Case Study: BuildON achieves $13.2M in fundraising and manages 55,000 donors with Salesforce for Nonprofits

BuildON - Customer Case Study

buildOn is a Connecticut-based nonprofit that mobilizes urban youth and local volunteers to break the cycle of poverty by building schools and running service programs at home and abroad. The organization needed to scale peer-to-peer fundraising, engage high schools and college teams where it has no local staff, manage trip logistics, and track program impact and donor conversion across a global network.

buildOn moved to Salesforce Nonprofit Success Pack in 2014 and layered on Classy, FormAssembly, Community Cloud, Lightning and other apps to manage prospects, peer-to-peer fundraising, field reporting and logistics. The integrated system enabled real-time team collaboration, donor stewardship and program tracking — and delivered strong results: since 2014 buildOn has raised $13.2M and managed 55,000 donors, increased total giving by 75%, and now documents outcomes including 1,351 schools built, 177,510 additional students attending school daily and millions of volunteer work days.

BuildON

Eric Dayton

Director of Data Management