Raiser's Edge

Raiser's Edge is the fundraising and alumni tracking database for the advancement department. It is also used by staff in the president's office and the business office for constituent and gift management. RE houses all current information on students, alumni, parents, and donors, including contact information, giving history, work and education information, and other data from across the university.

We have used Raisers Edge for over 15 years for donor gift management, events, membership and so much more. Words cannot begin to describe how it has helped our organization in seamless management of our financials, records, reports and data analysis.

The Raiser's Edge is used by the organization for tracking the lifespan of our constituents. Both current and prospective donors are tracked in the software so that they may be stewarded from first contribution through a planned gift. The software is utilized by several departments to ensure information about current activities with constituents is shared across the organization.

All employees across the entire organization use The Raisers Edge as a tool to manage our interactions with our donors. It helps us track and manage every touch point we have with our donors, from receiving donations to emails sent to donor stewardship. I'm not sure how we would function without it.

We use Raiser's Edge in most of the administrative departments of our organization. It is the most valuable resource that our organization has. It houses all of the contact information and giving history for each person that interacts with our organization whether they are donors, event participants, employees, program participants or friends of the organization. It enables good communication about these individuals and how we can steward them well.

Raiser's Edge is being used in the University Advancement department and in the President's Office. It is used in our department to track contact with and proposals to donors and potential donors, while also enabling us to track all gifts to the university. Additionally, our events team uses it to track and manage events while our Alumni Relations group uses it to track Alumni membership status. It addresses the issue of tracking contact information and relationships our prospects have that could be important. The other area it addresses is accurate reporting of current information. By providing canned reports, custom reports, and query/export options for the data we are able to have a clear picture of where we are.

The Raiser's Edge is used as the primary fundraising management database in our organization. Primary users are development officers and advancement personnel, and the database serves as an important resource for our accounting department. We maintain up-to-date contact information (emails, mailing addresses, phones) on all our donors and potential donors; giving histories, capacities and propensities; as well as information on contacts with our supporters.

Raiser's Edge was the constituent and grants management tool. It was used to track all donors, prospects, many employees and any grant relationship. The philanthropy department used this product to keep track of what was soliciting each prospect, and the status of grant proposals. It was used to generate reports for senior management, internal reporting controls, and to also track performance measures. It helps the organization to address the problem of keeping track of prospects, and donors and their giving history. It also helped us move donors from one giving category to another one.