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Salesforce, a leading provider of customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, has recently announced that they will be retiring their fundraising solution, Elevate. Elevate provided customers with a modern giving experience, increasing conversion with personalized giving pages.

This decision comes as a surprise to many non-profit organizations and fundraisers who have relied on the platform to manage their donor relationships and fundraising campaigns. In this blog post, we will explore five alternative solutions to Elevate, and how this might be an opportunity to improve your fundraising game!

Top Elevate Alternative: Soapbox Engage

1. Soapbox Engage

If you’re looking for the top Salesforce-integrated fundraising alternative to Elevate, look no further than Soapbox Engage.

Affordable and packed with features, Soapbox Engage offers a suite of ten apps that helps your organization tackle fundraising, advocacy, and everything in between. Like with Elevate, you can seamlessly accept online gifts and maximize donations with the Donations app, which provides unlimited online donation forms and endless customization.

With the Soapbox Engage Donations app, every donation page is mobile-friendly, so your supporters can donate from any device! Social media integration feature helps donors tell friends and family about your cause, too. On the backend, automated thank-you emails ensure every donor receives an immediate acknowledgment from your team.

The Donations app allows you to accept gifts from all major credit cards and payment platforms, so your supporters can easily make one-time or recurring donations. And you'll enjoy access to real-time reports for all your campaigns from anywhere, via your CRM.

In addition to the main suite of apps, there are a number of fantastic add-ons that can extend the capabilities, such as the Peer-to-Feer Fundraising add-on, so you can activate supporters to become fundraisers. You can also diversify your fundraising streams with an e-commerce store using the Shop app, easily manage events, class registrations, and more.

The cherry on top? Soapbox Engage offers CRM implementation and support services. Need to move from spreadsheets into Salesforce or Microsoft Dynamics? Want to clean up an existing CRM instance? Soapbox Engage provides on-demand strategic consulting, technical support, and CRM expertise your team can count on.

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Additional Elevate Alternatives

2. Hivebrite

Hivebrite is an all-in-one community management platform. It empowers nonprofits to launch, manage, and grow fully branded private communities. Hivebrite is completely customizable and provides all the tools needed to strengthen engagement.

3. Bloomerang

Bloomerang gives nonprofits access to a range of features, including email marketing tools, templates for letters and mailings, an integrations hub, online giving pages and forms, peer-to-peer fundraising tools, reporting and analytics, and automatic data updates.

4. DonorPerfect

DonorPerfect helps your team manage donations, contacts, receipting, reporting, email, and fundraising initiatives from a single system. With automatic monthly giving, integrated online donation forms, standard and custom reports, Constant Contact email, auction management, and a network of integrated partner solutions, DonorPerfect is supports organizations of all sizes.

5. Neon One

Neon One is a platform that helps nonprofit organizations and membership associations to manage their constituents and members more effectively. Its relationship-focused approach provides a comprehensive view of supporters and members, leading to increased engagement and revenue. With Neon CRM you can manage fundraising campaigns, events, and communications, while gaining insights into your organization through customizable reporting.

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We hope these alternatives to Elevate are helpful to you as you seek to execute your nonprofit’s mission. Here are some more resources to help you on that journey:

• Accept Donations Online: 8 Effective Tools for Nonprofits: For nonprofit organizations, accepting donations online is absolutely essential today. Fortunately, it's easier than ever to get up and running with powerful sets of online fundraising tools quickly.


• 5 Annual Giving Campaign Strategies That Win More Donors: An annual giving campaign is essential to the success of nonprofit fundraising. If you’re looking to gain more donors, check out this blog post with 5 strategies.


• 5 Ways to Make Your Peer to Peer Fundraising Campaign More Successful: A campaign becomes even more effective when you can get your audience to advocate for you. That’s what makes peer to peer campaigns so great. This blog post offers five ways for you to make your peer to peer fundraising campaign more successful.