In curling, you need the right stones, the right team and the right strategy.
Kurling for Kids brought all three to their new website, and we’re excited to share that they swept to two Gold Anthem Awards in the Health category: one for Donor & Volunteer Engagement and another for Event (Fundraising & Resource Development).
The Anthem Awards recognize organizations making meaningful social impact and are selected by selected by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences. Past winners including Sabrina Carpenter, the ACLU, “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” and World Central Kitchen.
This year, Kurling for Kids was among over 2,000 submissions from 42 countries.
About Kurling for Kids
To date, K4K has raised over $6 million for eight children’s hospitals across the country. This year alone, they’ve brought in more than $361,000 and are already past the halfway mark toward their $600,000 seasonal goal.
K4K hosts annual curling bonspiels across Canada to raise funds for children’s hospitals. What makes them remarkable is that they’re entirely volunteer-run. Every dollar raised goes directly to supporting sick children and their families.
“We are grateful for the recognition from the Anthem Awards among organizations making a positive impact, which reflects the dedication of our volunteers and supporters who help us improve the lives of sick children and their families,” said David Dienesch, Director of Sponsorships and Corporate Events at K4K.
K4K’s Web Experience
Our team worked with K4K to design and develop their online presence, powered by raisin Software and Apostrophe CMS. The goal was to create a digital experience that could support their growth across Canada while making it easy for volunteers to organize events, participants to fundraise, and donors to give.
The platform needed to handle everything from event registration to peer-to-peer fundraising to raffle ticket purchases, while staying true to K4K’s community-driven spirit.
We focused on creating seamless experiences that help supporters connect with the cause, take action – be it signing up for a tournament, making a donation, or rallying their network to fundraise – and celebrate progress with dynamic, real-time thermometers. As a Canadian organization based out of Montreal, the entire K4K browsing experience is also entirely bilingual in French and English.
With more than 100 annual volunteers and up to 1,000 participants in peak years, K4K has built something special. The new platform gives them a foundation to keep growing that impact.
We’re proud to have partnered with K4K on this work, and we’re especially proud to see them hit the button with this recognition for the difference they’re making for kids across Canada.
Congratulations to the entire Kurling for Kids team on the win!
Read more about the Anthem Awards: anthemawards.com
See the award-winning platform: kurlingforkids.org
Fundraising in 2024 is both art and science.
On one hand, the reasons that people donate are deeply personal and intuitive. As a fundraiser, you bring real-world meaning to your supporters’ gifts – through stewardship that brings a smile, events that crystalize community or a real-world action that saves a life.
These generous acts can’t necessarily be quantified (not to mention, they’re the reason we do what we do!), but the value of “data and numbers” in understanding your supporters and their motivations is hard to overlook – especially now.
Consumers expect greater personalization, giving patterns are shifting, and there’s a whole generation of young donors seeking more diverse ways to get involved with your cause.
Responding to these trends relies on meaningful data. And as an industry, truthfully, we haven’t done a great job in getting this data to causes like yours.
Throughout the course of developing raisin Analytics, we heard from so many organizations – learning not only about the metrics that drive their success – but also the often-complex processes that get them to these key results: Old-school daily progress reports, generating the same report multiple times a day, complex third-party BI tools, personal alchemies of formulas and macros, “head in hands” moments waiting for aging data to percolate into another siloed system, and of course, lots of spreadsheets.
All of this takes time, takes effort and takes you away from the fundraising work you’re doing on the ground.
Which bring us to raisin Analytics, our new reporting and supporter intelligence platform.
Analytics gives you greater insight in less time, so that you can be a more effective fundraiser. Here’s how:
Spot-on insights available on the spot
Analytics brings all of your campaigns together in one powerful place. Dynamic, pre-built fundraising dashboards visualize the most meaningful fundraising metrics, making it easy for you to monitor progress, celebrate wins, and spot opportunities as they happen.
Yes, gone are the days of juggling campaign spreadsheets and waiting for information to make its way into a siloed, third-party tool.
Interact with your data in-app and in real-time
There are so many ways to engage with your fundraising data – explore chart drill-downs, apply filters on almost any dimension, re-order and re-label columns, and much more.
Find answers to the fundraising questions keeping you up at night… without spending all night combing through spreadsheets.
Personalized to your unique reporting needs
It was clear from our research and discovery that no one cause, business group or fundraiser handles data the same way. It makes sense: responding to the unique needs of your supporters requires equally unique reporting regimens.
In Analytics, no matter if you’re dropping in new insights into your fundraising dashboards from our library of charts, rearranging them for a better flow, or choosing different visuals to better illustrate your achievements, it will always work the way you do.
Action your analysis
Broadcast your newly-discovered insights up, down and even outside of your organization. With eyes on the right metrics, presented in the right way, your team is empowered to make informed decisions quickly and confidently.
Reporting shouldn’t have to be a mad science. Meaningful data informs and enrichs the connections you build, giving you the freedom to explore the art of fundraising.
Analytics is the first step towards a new supporter experience on raisin. Let us know what you think! 💡