Built for the pledges that build buildings
Record major gift pledges made offline, schedule installments over months or years, designate every commitment to the right fund, and show a public total that reflects the whole campaign — not just what came in online.
For capital, endowment, and multi-year campaigns
- Online $3.24M
- Offline gifts $2.88M
- Pledges $2.30M
Built for how a capital campaign actually runs
Work your prospects
Before anyone commits, there’s a long stretch of identifying, cultivating, and asking — and most of it lives in a spreadsheet.
Stewardship boards give your major gift work a pipeline you can see: add donor prospects as cards, set the phases your campaign uses — identification, cultivation, ask, close — and move each prospect along as the relationship develops. It works the way a sales pipeline board does, so your team always knows who’s where and what’s next.
Record the quiet phase
The largest gifts in a capital campaign are secured in person, long before a public page goes live.
Log offline pledges as they’re committed — the gift a donor signs for across the table. Add installment payments and send installment invoices over the life of the commitment. Assign each one to the right fund, so a pledge secured in a boardroom counts the same as a gift made online.
Structure the commitment
Donors give more when they can pay it across years.
Pledges run on monthly installments from 3 to 60 months, or annual installments across 2 to 5 years, with donors choosing the amount and billing period that works. Every installment gets its own personalized receipt, so a five-year commitment doesn’t become five years of manual acknowledgments.
Designate everything correctly
A capital campaign is rarely one number.
Funds and designations give the building, the endowment, the scholarship, and the naming opportunities each their own page — with a description, a goal, and live progress. Require a designation at checkout so nothing lands unassigned, and track each fund across the campaign period.
Go public with the real number
Your public total should reflect everything raised, including the gifts made offline.
When you launch publicly, the campaign page reflects everything — offline major gifts, pledges, and online donations together. Add a match to accelerate the public phase, layer in peer-to-peer pages for a community push, and let donors give by card, ach, paypal, venmo, apple pay, and google pay.
Steward for the length of the campaign
A capital campaign runs for years, so the records need to stay clear the whole way through.
Every donor, pledge, installment, and designation sits in one record, with reporting by fund and by donor and reconciliation you can hand to finance. Pledges are tracked separately from money received, so committed and collected never get confused on a board report.
Capital campaign features
Prospects & pipeline
Pledges & major gifts
Funds & designations
The public phase
Reporting & stewardship
Planning a capital campaign? Let’s talk it through.
Common questions
Can we track prospects before they commit?
Yes. Stewardship boards give you a kanban pipeline for major gift work — add prospects as cards, set the phases your campaign uses (identification, cultivation, ask, close), and move each one along as the relationship develops. It works much like a sales pipeline board, so nothing sits forgotten in a spreadsheet.
Can we record pledges that were made offline?
Yes — and this is the core of it. Commitments secured in person can be logged as offline pledges, with installment payments and installment invoices scheduled over the life of the pledge, and assigned to the right fund.
How long can a pledge run?
Monthly installments run from 3 to 60 months, and annual installments from 2 to 5 years. Donors can choose the amount and billing period that fits their commitment.
Can we track multiple funds or naming opportunities?
Yes. Each fund, phase, or naming opportunity gets its own page with a description, a goal, and live progress, and gifts can be required to carry a designation at checkout.
Does the public total include offline major gifts?
Yes. Offline gifts and pledges are logged alongside online donations, so the thermometer on your public campaign page reflects the real total rather than only the online slice.
How do we keep pledged and received money straight?
Pledges are tracked separately from money received, so a board report shows what’s committed and what’s actually collected without anyone reconciling by hand.
Do donors get receipts for each installment?
Yes. Every pledge installment generates its own personalized receipt automatically.
Can we run a public phase after the quiet phase?
Yes. The campaign page, matching gifts, and peer-to-peer fundraising are all there when you’re ready to go public — running on the same records that hold your major gifts.
What does it cost?
Capital campaigns vary enough that it’s worth a conversation. Talk to our team and we’ll walk through your campaign structure and the right plan for it.
Running a shorter, project-based campaign? See nonprofit crowdfunding. Just need pledges? See pledge donations.
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