Kindful, a Bloomerang product vs. Salesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Kindful, a Bloomerang product
Score 7.7 out of 10
N/A
Kindful aims to help nonprofit organizations across the world fundraise more effectively. Kindful includes fundraising tools, reporting, and analytics all in one CRM. Kindful was acquired by Bloomerang in January, 2021. It is now a Bloomerang product.
$119
per month
Salesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Salesforce for Nonprofits, the Salesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud, is a nonprofit constituent relationship management platform from Salesforce, which supports constituent engagement, fundraising, and grants. Nonprofit editions contain Salesforce Lightning Edition along with the former Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) combined.
$36
per month per user
Pricing
Kindful, a Bloomerang productSalesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud
Editions & Modules
Standard
$119
per month
Standard
$239
per month
Standard
$349
per month
Standard
$459
per month
Standard
$579
per month
Standard
$699
per month
Sales Cloud - EE
$36
per month per user
Sales + Service Cloud - EE
$48
per month (billed annually) per user
Nonprofit Cloud - EE
$60
per month (billed annually) per user
Nonprofit Cloud - UE
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Kindful, a Bloomerang productSalesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsAll plans include: unlimited admin users, unlimited donation pages with peer-to-peer fundraising, built-in integrations, and automated reporting. Pricing also includes comprehensive web-based training upon signup and ongoing online support at no additional cost.—
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Community Pulse
Kindful, a Bloomerang productSalesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud
Considered Both Products
Kindful, a Bloomerang product
Chose Kindful, a Bloomerang product
  • Kindful is a one-stop-shop solution (whereas Salesforce and Dynamics require add-ons)
  • Kindful is much more affordable than Virtuous, Salesforce, Microsoft when your team grows
  • There are many more integrations available than with all competitors we evaluated
Salesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud

No answer on this topic

Top Pros
Top Cons
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Medium-sized Companies
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Kindful, a Bloomerang productSalesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(19 ratings)
8.4
(29 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.8
(11 ratings)
9.0
(9 ratings)
User Testimonials
Kindful, a Bloomerang productSalesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
Bloomerang
Kindful is well suited when:
  • Important to integrate with a wide range of systems such as online fundraising tools or event registration without being tied to a single vendor
  • Small to medium sized organizations looking for an affordable but powerful donor database/CRM
  • Need a powerful but user friendly tool with customizable reports
Kindful is not well suited when:
  • You need very advanced customization such as the ability to built entire custom screens
  • You need to track donations in multiple currencies
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Salesforce
If you only want to track donations, I'd go with something simpler. If you want to track donations and programs and connections between them, there may be nothing better. If you have no technical abilities and no budget, restricted yourself solely to what it does as described exactly in the manual. If you can't devote about 0.25FTE to the constant maintenance and upgrades, don't go with it.
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Pros
Bloomerang
  • We particularly love the flexibility of Kindful's donation pages and donation plug-ins. They make it possible for us to accept donations on our website, without having donors have to leave the website.
  • Kindful effectively streamlines back-office functions including acknowledgements for gifts - which saves our small 2-person team vital hours each week.
  • Kindful integrates to a variety of valuable platforms, allowing us to manage all of our data in one place. Currently, we integrate with MailChimp [so all email recipients are segmented in Kindful, emails are sent from MailChimp], Fundraising Report Card, and several custom integrations through Kindful's open API [including one that tracks volunteer events and another that connects to CauseVox].
  • Kindful's basic metrics and "dashboard" give us instant access to live fundraising results that are shown against historical information - giving us the ability to see how we're doing at all times.
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Salesforce
  • NPSP is designed to help with donor management.
  • There are free add-ons for volunteer management.
  • There is a new Program Management Module to better manage program participation and attendance.
  • Campaigns help organize and report on marketing efforts though we use a third-party solution to send out marketing materials.
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Cons
Bloomerang
  • Detailed custom email campaigns and reports can be confusing to navigate. However, Kindful provides excellent customer support and training to make it as easy as possible.
  • The price can be a turn off for many people, but if you have an aggressive plan to increase funding, Kindful pricing is scalable based on the size of your database.
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Salesforce
  • Learning curve - very powerful, but takes time to learn
  • Batch processing - takes time and advanced skills to reach efficiency for data entry and certain operations which you want to do in batch
  • Mass email is extremely limited - must choose a third party tool which adds complexity and cost to the system
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Likelihood to Renew
Bloomerang
No answers on this topic
Salesforce
There is really no other tool to compare and especially since Salesforce for Nonprofits is free!!
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Usability
Bloomerang
No answers on this topic
Salesforce
I think Salesforce has so much functionality that it makes it difficult in terms of overall usability. Once you can figure it out, it's a 10/10, it's just getting there. If you're willing to do the work to figure it out then you're golden. For what it's worth, I don't know if you're going to find something with this level of functionality that's easier to figure out
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Support Rating
Bloomerang
I have not utilized the support for Kindful very often but the one time I have was fantastic. It was quick, courteous and thorough. Kindful consistently offers Webinars that outline the best way to utilize their product and get the most out of it. I think Kindful does a pretty solid job with support.
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Salesforce
I have never had bad conversations with any support people with Salesforce but we also have not used them very much. I put it a little less because we are struggling to switch to lightning (some of our custom features do not migrate well) and it feels like the help and support for a little organization is not incredibly helpful unless we want to spend a lot of money.
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Alternatives Considered
Bloomerang
We recently added HarnessApp to our software tools. Harness has a strong donor interface but not the backbone that Kindful has to offer. We find them a good match. I looked at dozens of other platforms that compare to Kindful but we always find ourselves sticking with Kindful as our primary CRM.
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Salesforce
As a cloud native organization with no previous Microsoft infrastructure, Salesforce was a more logical and effective option for us. The suite of products was also far more comprehensive and required less customization. We were able to adopt a "configure not code" approach to our development of systems to support our mission that lowered the cost of upgrades.
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Return on Investment
Bloomerang
  • It is great to be able to quickly tell a prospective sponsor how we are doing financially in each fundraiser along with repeat donors that are helping to keep us going.
  • I love that it sends a receipt to the donor immediately (if the email address is included in the profile) without me having to do anything! I am sure our donors love it too.
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Salesforce
  • Salesforce has allowed us to easily track donor communications in one area, which I believe has improved our donor communication overall.
  • Salesforce for Nonprofits has made it easier on my org to track and pull donation-related information and has reduced the amount of time we need to do these regular tasks.
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ScreenShots

Kindful, a Bloomerang product Screenshots

Screenshot of Reporting analyticsScreenshot of Contact profileScreenshot of Fundraising functionality

Salesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud Screenshots

Screenshot of Case ManagementScreenshot of Contact RecordScreenshot of Home DashboardScreenshot of Management ModuleScreenshot of Marketing Cloud for Nonprofits