Prepared for The King's Academy · October 5, 2026
You have the relationships.
Let’s stop making you dig for them.
Everything from our demonstration on October 2, in one place, ready to share with anyone at the school who needs to see it.
Business objective
$650,000 raised this year
$550,000 undesignated and $100,000 designated. The paint, the flooring, the playground, the stadium sound system: the things families notice, and the reason the giving matters.
Your Mission, Multiplied
The King’s Academy has been a venture of faith since 1880. Today 423 students, from 26 countries, are known by name on one East Tennessee campus, and 93.4% of them come back each year. The question is not whether this community gives. It is whether you can see it in time to act on it.
The donors for the $550,000 are already in the building. Founders’ Day drew 178 donors against a goal of 150, and parent participation sits at 12.1%. Growing that is a matter of knowing who to call, not finding people who have never heard of you.
Your own measure, from the demonstration: “it’s about how much contact you can have at the end of the day.” Every hour not spent cross-referencing a parent list against a gift list is an hour back for the calls and the visits.
Why now
December 1 is eight weeks out
You have a goal to raise $550,000 in undesignated giving so you can fund the enhancements families can see, which means the trust rebuilt over the last few years keeps compounding instead of stalling. Giving Tuesday is the first real test of it, and deciding by the end of October keeps the launch comfortable rather than rushed.
Why change
The cost is the contact you don’t make
Ten years of inherited records, paper files going back to the 1880s, and one family showing up as three separate entries. None of that is a software problem on its own. It becomes one when the hours spent reconciling it are the same hours that were meant for phone calls and visits.
Why Bloomerang
More contact, the same hours
You will be able to see parent and class participation in any month of the year, not reconstruct it at Christmas. You will be able to run December 1 without re-entering a single gift afterward. You will be able to walk into a donor conversation already briefed, with Penny.
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Call Recording
I spent ten years as a special education teacher before I came to Bloomerang, and I found it the way a lot of people do — my wife’s nonprofit was using it, and her executive director told me I’d like working there. She was right. Two years in, I work with organizations across North America, mostly small teams carrying more than they should be. My job is to build you something you can afford and actually use, not the biggest thing I can sell. I also have two dogs, Dudley and Cooper, who will interrupt a call given any opening.
