Ascend combines enterprise-scale fundraising capabilities with embedded donor intelligence, AI-powered workflows, and the flexibility of Salesforce. It allows advancement and fundraising teams to modernize operations without the heavy customization burden often associated with legacy enterprise CRM platforms.
Built on the modern, flexible, and secure Salesforce architecture.
Proprietary and rigid.
Hundreds of pre-built, configurable workflows built for fundraising.
Often requires more customization and development resources.
Implementations center around configurations, not customizations.
More of a blank slate means longer implementation timelines.
Ultimate flexibility to integrate with other apps and services in the AppExchange and with our Interims staging tables.
Difficult to integrate without custom development.
Built on the modern, flexible, and secure Salesforce architecture.
Proprietary and rigid.
Hundreds of pre-built, configurable workflows built for fundraising.
Often requires more customization and development resources.
Implementations center around configurations, not customizations.
More of a blank slate means longer implementation timelines.
Ultimate flexibility to integrate with other apps and services in the AppExchange and with our Interims staging tables.
Difficult to integrate without custom development.
Collaborative and tight-knit customer community that attends frequent meetings and events to share insights and best practices.
Community extends across several product lines that aren’t focused on fundraising.
Focused on advancement and fundraising for higher education, healthcare foundations, and nonprofits.
Product suite that spans across verticals outside of fundraising.
High-touch customer support.
Standardized, difficult to get product support.
Collaborative and tight-knit customer community that attends frequent meetings and events to share insights and best practices.
Community extends across several product lines that aren’t focused on fundraising.
Focused on advancement and fundraising for higher education, healthcare foundations, and nonprofits.
Product suite that spans across verticals outside of fundraising.
High-touch customer support.
Standardized, difficult to get product support.
Benefits from the innovation of the Salesforce platform, in addition to Kindsight’s innovation.
Struggles with technical debt and modernizing.
Active community that helps to drive the product roadmap.
More focused on corporate initiatives.
Continuing to develop and innovate on the complete Kindsight portfolio of products for enterprise nonprofits, higher education, and healthcare foundations.
Mid-sized nonprofits and developing Raiser’s Edge NXT.
Building a single, integrated platform for fundraisers that includes prospect research.
Disjointed and disconnected products that don’t necessarily talk to one another.
Benefits from the innovation of the Salesforce platform, in addition to Kindsight’s innovation.
Struggles with technical debt and modernizing.
Active community that helps to drive the product roadmap.
More focused on corporate initiatives.
Continuing to develop and innovate on the complete Kindsight portfolio of products for enterprise nonprofits, higher education, and healthcare foundations.
Mid-sized nonprofits and developing Raiser’s Edge NXT.
Building a single, integrated platform for fundraisers that includes prospect research.
Disjointed and disconnected products that don’t necessarily talk to one another.
Thoughtfully built into fundraising workflows to automate manual tasks.
Chatbot functionality, not meaningfully embedded.
Staging tables that are built specifically to manage the flow of data required to process gifts, manage bio/demo data, and more.
Custom code required to manage integrations, difficult to get data in and out of the CRM database.
Dedicated staging tables for processing gifts, and a new, modern UI for processing all kinds of gifts, individually or in batches.
Rigid, multi-step, and disjointed gift processing interfaces.
Thoughtfully built into fundraising workflows to automate manual tasks.
Chatbot functionality, not meaningfully embedded.
Staging tables that are built specifically to manage the flow of data required to process gifts, manage bio/demo data, and more.
Custom code required to manage integrations, difficult to get data in and out of the CRM database.
Dedicated staging tables for processing gifts, and a new, modern UI for processing all kinds of gifts, individually or in batches.
Rigid, multi-step, and disjointed gift processing interfaces.
