Prepared for Anchorage Youth Court · October 6, 2026
Six systems,
one place to work from.
Anchorage Youth Court runs 310 youth volunteers through a real courtroom and raises the money to do it with two people. The records for both live in six places that do not talk to each other. Here is what changes when they do.
Business objective
Raise $150,000 in individual giving and corporate sponsorships to keep the lights on, by consolidating the manual workload into one system that improves donor engagement and communication, by January 2027.
Hitting it means operating the year without drawing down the cushion, and keeping 400 to 500 juvenile referrals a year moving through a courtroom run by teenagers.
Your Mission, Multiplied
Anchorage Youth Court has been running since 1989, and in 2025 more than 300 youth members gave over 6,800 hours serving as judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys for their peers. Young people who come through the program are re-referred at 16%, against 39% for a comparable group on informal probation. That outcome is already yours. The capacity below is about protecting the time it takes to fund it.
A modeled fundraising lift of $44,000, which is a little under a third of the $150,000 gap, and roughly what it costs to keep the doors open through a quarter.
Around ten hours a month back from moving data between systems, which is more than a full workday returned to your coordinator every month.
Why now
January, or the year repeats.
Your fiscal year turns in January, Pick.Click.Give runs January through March, and there are events in March and May. You said this year felt rushed and backwards. Deciding in January is what stops next year feeling the same, and you were right not to move before the November appeal.
Why change
The numbers could not be checked.
You found the real gap by accident, when a figure you read as one year turned out to be three. Information sits in at least four places, two people keep it in agreement by hand, and lifetime giving is the only thing that can be reconstructed. There is no view of who could give more or who is slipping away.
Why Bloomerang
Your volunteers and your donors, together.
310 young people are not a side program, they are the program, and today nothing connects what they give in hours to what your supporters give in dollars. One place holds both, with students kept separate from your donor count and nobody deleted to hold a price down.
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Call Recordings
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 spouse'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.
