Scholastic Loyalty Rewards™

Strengthen lifetime loyalty with students and alumni

We save you time & money

Scholastic Loyalty Rewards™ provides the essential elements for sustaining your organization, creating loyalty in your alumni, and gaining new donors.

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Benefits | Facts & Figures | Features | How It Works | Pricing | Summary

Benefits

• Gain Loyalty from Lifetime Cash Rewards™

Inspire your donors to feel appreciated.

Your students want to help make a difference. Capture your current students by showing them the difference they can make over their lifetime.  AND -- attract your alumni who have since lost touch by offering annual cash rewards for their generosity.

• Incentivize With Less Expense

We are here to help you create long-term loyalty in your donors, and maximize the power of every donation.

The expense of recurring donations through the use of current methods creates an unnecessary burden for colleges and universities.  Fundraising budgets are exhausted on the cost of additional staff, color printing, brochures, postage, and donor incentives such as mugs and t-shirts.  Our technology enables donors to receive Lifetime Cash Rewards™ generated from a Charitable Mutual Fund (CMF).  This cash incentive comes without expense and creates loyalty among alumni.

• Customization & Seamless Integration

Encourage your donors to feel comfortable in giving.

We offer you the ability to customize your campaigns and fundraising endeavors to attract alumni and create loyalty.  We have the tools to integrate our breakthrough technology seamlessly into your website – protecting your brand and comforting your donors.

• Promoting Awareness through Social Media

Find new ways to connect with potential donors.

Most of your students are registered with at least one of the 15 popular social media websites in existence.  For a nominal cost, we provide a social media widget in order for you to generate awareness of your organization and its needs.  These sites include social networks such as Facebook and MySpace with over 90 million registered users combined.

We also provide image banners, buttons, and logos customized to fit your needs.

Facts & Figures

• According to the Association of Fundraising Professionals, the percentage of alumni giving to their colleges has decreased from 16.7% in 1996 to 12.4% in 2005.
  
  
• Every year, university/colleges via to increase their ranking in the US News and World Report: Ranking of America’s Best Colleges. Prospective students, and their parents, use these rankings as a factor in deciding which institution to attend.
  
  This ranking consists of numerous criteria such as student-to-teacher ratio. All but two criteria can be improved by direct actions of the institution. However, the criteria of “average alumni giving rate” is 5% of the total score and can only be improved by additional alumni starting to make donations.
  
  Thus, university/colleges are asking all of their alumni to start giving. The President of an east coast university in a President’s Letter to alumni stated that they need to start donating any amount.
  
  We created Scholastic Loyalty Rewards™ in response to this challenge.

Features

• Annual Fund Online Donations
• Charitable Mutual Fund Online Donations
• Custom E-mails & Automatic Documentation
• Administrative Abilities
• Social Media Widget

Annual Fund Online Donations

Receive operating income to grow your organization. We give you the option to customize your donation levels & campaigns in order to receive the online funds your organization deserves - over $1.6 billion was donated online in 2006.  We can integrate the capability to receive single or recurring donations seamlessly in your website. By using this tool, you can receive annual funds to cover your administrative expenses.

 Charitable Mutual Fund Online Donations

Receive annual income & gain lifelong loyal donors. Build loyalty as your alumni & friends earn Lifetime Cash Rewards™ for their donations.  Our innovative technology and efficient processing allows for the lowest sales and marketing fees in the endowment donation processing industry—everything is paperless and automatic, and requires no additional fundraising staff.  Collect donations 24 hours-a-day, 7 days-a-week through your own website with our software, seamlessly integrated.

Custom E-mails & Automatic Documentation

Relax. We take care of it! All tax documents, thank you messages and important information are automatically e-mailed to your donors, even to those who choose to remain anonymous.  You have the freedom to adjust the message as frequently as you desire, and include a pdf file of a newsletter or other information about your organization. Additionally, our software reminds donors to update their expiring credit cards and can resend any document created for them – all with no additional support needed from your staff.

Administrative Abilities

We are comfortable with change. Our system is designed to be easily adjusted and modified to fit your individual needs.  Through our online administration system, you have the ability to track your donations, produce reports, and adjust campaigns and requirements.  Regardless of the size of your organization or campaign, our flexible system can help you optimize your fundraising.

Social Media Widget

Young donors contribute differently. We understand the difficulty in establishing and maintaining relationships with young donors.  Many institutions are paying ongoing extensive amounts of money to create social networks for their alumni associations, but to no avail.  Our approach involves creating tools that reach them in environments that they trust and fully utilize.  This is why we offer a Social Media Widget at a nominal cost – which extends your reach into Facebook, MySpace, Blogger, Wordpress, and 15 other popular social media websites and blogs.  We can customize your widget to match your brand – you share it with others to create a viral effect.

How It Works

How it Works for Your Institution

1. Inform your alumni and students via email, print, and/or website
2. Donors donate online via custom web pages
3. You receive:
   • Reports - donors & transactions
   • Annual cash rewards
4. echoDonations.org™ performs daily & annual CMF administration
   • Distribution of assets upon death of donor; funds transferred to your university

Pricing

Minimal Out-of-Pocket Expense:

• A one-time setup fee: $2,995
• 100% money back guarantee
• Monthly charge of $195 per month

Summary