Funraise Debuts Fundraising Events Software, Replacing Point Solutions with One System for Nonprofits
New suite unites ticketing and registration, guest check-in, table management, auctions, paddle raises, real-time reporting, and more in a single fundraising workflow designed by Funraise alongside leading nonprofit organizations.
COSTA MESA, Calif., Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Funraise, the fundraising platform built by nonprofit professionals, announced the launch of Funraise Events, a fully integrated events suite that connects event fundraising directly to a nonprofit's fundraising campaign sites, donor communications, and donor management system. The launch addresses a problem nonprofit fundraisers have voiced for years: event technology that exists in a silo, disconnected from the rest of an organization's fundraising and donor data.
Learn more about the next wave of fundraising event systems and how Funraise Events will change the future of fundraising events.
Funraise has partnered directly with five nonprofit customers to build side-by-side with our engineering team, giving Funraise users unrestricted access to our product design team and creating a near-perfect fundraising event suite.
For most nonprofits, events aren't a side initiative; they're the lifeblood of the fundraising calendar. A gala, walk, or auction can represent the single largest fundraising and community-building night of the year, and it can make or break an organization's annual goals. That reality is exactly why Funraise Events was designed and built in direct partnership with leading nonprofit organizations, for nonprofits everywhere. The result is a set of purpose-built, highly specific interfaces built for the workflows a fundraising event demands.
Unlike standalone ticketing or auction tools that solve a single friction point and force staff to reconcile data across multiple systems afterward, Funraise has built one continuous fundraising events workflow, from the first pre-event invitation to the post-event thank-you and every report in between.
Ending the point-solution era for nonprofit events
Most nonprofit event technology on the market today was built to solve one problem: sell tickets, run an auction, or manage a paddle raise. Fundraisers are then left to manually stitch that data back into their donor database, often days or weeks after the event, at the cost of mission momentum and relationship-building follow-up.
Funraise Events was built to eliminate that gap entirely. Because it lives inside Funraise's platform, every ticket sale, sponsorship, meal choice, table assignment, pledge, and paddle raise flows automatically into the same donor record used across a nonprofit's campaign sites, peer-to-peer fundraisers, donation forms, and email and SMS communications. No need to export and re-import into separate software with a separate login.
"Every nonprofit we've talked to has the same story: their event software works fine for the event, but the second the night is over, someone on their team is stuck manually re-entering data into their source-of-truth donor management system," said Justin Wheeler, CEO and Co-founder of Funraise. "Instead of following the trend and building yet another point solution for events, we built events directly into the fundraising machine nonprofits already run everything else through. That's the whole idea—one system, from the first invite to the thank-you call, so a team's best night of the year makes every day after it better too."
A workflow system, not a feature list
Funraise Events is organized around the full lifecycle of a fundraising event:
Before the event
- Custom fundraising campaign sites and event pages
- Peer-to-peer fundraising pages tied to the same event
- Branded donation forms with custom questions built into ticketing
- Email and SMS messaging to engage guests before, during, and after the event
- Sponsorship and table management with a drag-and-drop interface for seating assignments
During the event
- Guest check-in, with mobile app ticket scanning and on-the-spot payment
- Paddle raise with configurable giving tiers, assigned paddle numbers, and realtime, trackable pledges
- Live auctions run through an easy, guest-friendly bidding experience
- Live donation display showing momentum-building totals and goal progress on-screen
- Pledge fulfillment featuring automated follow-up emails and contribution tracking
- Realtime revenue reporting that gives staff a live view of tickets, donations, auction proceeds, and pledges as they come in
After the event
- Connected guest, donor, and pledge records in the nonprofit's donor CRM
- Automated tasks routing follow-up to the right staff member
- Custom reports and dashboards that turn event-night data into long-term fundraising intelligence
"Funraise Events solves fundraising events for nonprofits," said Tony Sasso, Chief Product Officer and Co-founder of Funraise.
Real-time reporting, built on one data model
Because Funraise Events is part of the same system as Funraise's donor CRM and fundraising tools, reporting isn't a backward-looking process that happens after the event; it's continuous.
"Nonprofits don't need another dashboard to check a week or month after an event. They need to know, in the ballroom, whether they're going to hit their number," said Jason Swenski, Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder of Funraise. "Because ticketing, pledges, auctions, and donations convene in real time, a development director can watch their event progress live, and then walk into Monday's staff meeting with a donor report that's already built."
Designed by nonprofits, for nonprofits
Funraise was founded by a team that built forward-thinking fundraising tools while building a nonprofit movement. Their firsthand experience shaped Funraise from day one.
Rather than build in isolation, Funraise worked hand-in-hand with five nonprofits to design Funraise Events. Met Council, New York Cares, Liberty in North Korea, Tim Hortons Camps Foundation, and Chick Mission tested early versions of the product and advised Funraise on what to build, what to fix, and what an ideal event workflow should feel like, from the chaos of event night check-in to the exhaustion of post-event follow-up.
Funraise asked these teams a simple question: what does it feel like when an event goes right? Not just when the numbers are good, but when your staff gets to actually spend the evening with donors instead of fighting with a check-in tablet. That's the version of success we built toward.
About Funraise
Funraise is the top all-in-one fundraising platform designed specifically for nonprofits. Leading with innovative, user-friendly software that includes comprehensive CRM and donor management capabilities, integrated email marketing tools, and advanced analytics, Funraise's mission is to empower nonprofit organizations with beautiful, effective technology that enhances their ability to raise funds and create impact. Learn more about Funraise Events.
What is Funraise Events?
Funraise Events is a nonprofit event management suite built into Funraise's fundraising platform, covering registration and ticketing, sponsorship and table management, check-in, paddle raise, auctions, pledge fulfillment, live donation display, and real-time revenue reporting, all connected to a nonprofit's donor management system, campaign sites, and communication tools.
How is Funraise Events different from other nonprofit event software?
Most event fundraising tools are point solutions that manage a single task, such as ticketing or auctions, in isolation from a nonprofit's broader donor database. Funraise Events is built directly into Funraise's platform, so event data—tickets, sponsorships, pledges, and donations—flows automatically into the same donor records used across a nonprofit's other fundraising tools, eliminating manual data entry and post-event reconciliation.
Who helped design Funraise Events?
Five nonprofit organizations—Met Council, New York Cares, Liberty in North Korea, Tim Hortons Camps Foundation, and Chick Mission—worked directly with Funraise's product team to shape the system workflows before launch.
Does Funraise Events include donor management and reporting after the event?
Yes. Guests, donors, and pledges captured during an event automatically populate a nonprofit's donor CRM and portfolios, trigger automated follow-up tasks, and feed real-time reports and dashboards.
Who is Funraise built for?
Funraise is built for nonprofit fundraising and development teams that want a single platform rather than a collection of disconnected tools. Hundreds of nonprofits of all types and sizes use Funraise to run donation forms, fundraising websites, peer-to-peer campaigns, recurring giving, events, and donor management.
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