Frequently asked questions.

Storyraise is a software solution for nonprofits, foundations, and schools to modernize their donor engagement and fundraising by creating personalized digital reports and videos. With Storyraise, teams can create interactive:

• Impact reports
• Endowment reports
• Thank-you messages
• Philanthropy reports
• Donation pages
• Proposals
• Campaign pages
• Major gift fundraising communications
• Annual reports
• Newsletter landing pages
• Event recaps

Improve your organization's donor retention and strengthen fundraising outcomes with engaging content from Storyraise.

Unlike traditional PDF reports, Storyraise digital reports are interactive, mobile-friendly, personalized, and easy to update. Organizations can embed videos, donation forms, animations, testimonials, charts, and CRM-powered personalization directly into reports.

Interactive digital reports also provide analytics that help nonprofits measure donor engagement, track clicks, and understand how supporters interact with content.

Storyraise is an interactive report software platform designed for nonprofits, educational institutions, foundations, and mission-driven organizations.

Unlike generic design tools, Storyraise is built specifically for donor engagement, fundraising communications, impact storytelling, and nonprofit reporting. Organizations can create personalized digital reports with donor-specific content, embedded video, interactive elements, CRM integrations, and mobile-friendly experiences that strengthen donor stewardship and increase engagement.

Organizations choose digital impact reports because they are more engaging, measurable, shareable, and personalized than traditional print reports.

Digital reports help nonprofits, schools, and foundations communicate impact more effectively while improving donor stewardship and fundraising performance.

Yes, Storyraise can replace print annual reports and static PDFs for organizations looking to create dynamic digital reports. Digital annual reports reduce printing costs, improve accessibility, increase donor engagement, and make distributing reports easy through email, websites, and social media.

Storyraise helps organizations create a wide range of digital reports and fundraising communications, including:

• Digital annual reports
• Interactive impact reports
• Personalized donor reports
• Endowment and fund reports
• Capital campaign pages
• Event recaps
• Event invitations
• Newsletter landing pages
• Thank you messages
• Philanthropy reports
• Digital fundraising proposals

These reports are designed to improve donor stewardship, nonprofit communications, and supporter engagement.

Yes, your organization can use Storyraise to create digital impact reports for donors. You start with a template, then drag and drop in stories, photos, videos, charts, and donor data to create a unique impact report to engage your donors. Once the report is ready, you can publish it and share it via email or direct link.

Yes. With Storyraise Video, your organization can record one message for all of your donors and automatically personalize it for each donor who watches. Choose a template, record your message, leverage donor data from your CRM for personalization, and publish. Donors can watch through email, text, a direct link, a QR code, or your website.

Yes. Storyraise offers engagement analytics that track how donors engage with every report and video you send, so you can see what's working. For videos, you can track opens, clicks, and watch time. For reports, the Analytics dashboard shows how many constituents you reached, which sections they viewed, how long they spent reading the report, and which geographic regions viewed it the most.

Storyraise Analytics shows you what messages land and who is paying attention, so your team can follow up with the right donors at the right time.

Absolutely. Storyraise helps organizations modernize nonprofit annual reports and institutional reporting with digital-first experiences optimized for web, mobile, and email sharing.

Interactive annual reports typically outperform print and PDF reports by increasing readability, accessibility, engagement, and sharing.

Yes. Storyraise helps organizations create personalized endowment reports that combine financial reporting with donor stories, testimonials, and stewardship communications.

This creates a more meaningful experience for endowment donors and fundholders.

Yes. Organizations use Storyraise to create event invitations, digital RSVP experiences, and event recap pages that keep supporters engaged before and after fundraising events.

These pages can include videos, registration forms, photo galleries, donation forms, and post-event impact summaries.

Yes. Organizations can embed donation forms directly into fundraising reports, capital campaign pages, event invitations, and impact reports.

This helps supporters take action immediately without leaving the experience, improving conversion rates and simplifying online fundraising.

Yes. Storyraise supports capital campaigns, fundraising proposals, campaign updates, donor stewardship, and end-of-year giving communications.

Organizations use Storyraise to create compelling digital fundraising experiences that combine storytelling, impact metrics, and donation opportunities.

Storyraise was built specifically for nonprofit storytelling and donor communications. Organizations can combine stories, video, photography, testimonials, financials, and impact data into one cohesive digital experience.

This helps nonprofits communicate mission impact in a more emotional, engaging, and memorable way.

Storyraise helps nonprofit marketing and communications teams create branded digital experiences that strengthen storytelling and donor relationships.

Organizations use Storyraise content across email campaigns, websites, fundraising initiatives, annual reports, stewardship communications, and social media marketing.

Yes. All Storyraise reports are designed to be responsive and mobile-friendly so supporters can easily engage with content on phones, tablets, and desktops.

This is especially important for modern nonprofit communications and digital fundraising campaigns.

Yes. Storyraise helps organizations create accessible digital reports that are easier to navigate and consume than traditional print materials.

Accessibility features support inclusive nonprofit communications and improve experiences for all donors and stewardship communications.

Yes. Storyraise specializes in personalized donor reports and donor stewardship communications. Organizations can personalize reports using donor names, giving levels, interests, campaign participation, and CRM data.

This allows nonprofits, schools, healthcare foundations, and community foundations to create customized donor experiences that deepen relationships and improve donor retention.

Yes. Storyraise connects to your CRM, so you can automatically personalize each video with donors’ names, gift amounts, and program interests.

Your team records only one video, and Storyraise personalizes it for each individual supporter. These tailored video messages help your team build stronger relationships with thousands of donors without adding hours of work to your plate.

Yes. Storyraise is donor management platform agnostic and integrates with popular nonprofit CRM and donor management platforms, including Blackbaud's Raiser's Edge, Salesforce, Bloomerang, Givebutter, and other fundraising systems.

CRM integrations allow organizations to automate donor communications, personalize digital donor reports, and streamline nonprofit reporting workflows.

Yes. Storyraise is designed to support donor stewardship and donor engagement through personalized digital communications.

Organizations can tailor stories to donor interests, automate donor acknowledgments, create customized stewardship reports, and showcase measurable impact through interactive storytelling.

Storyraise is built to increase donor engagement through personalized storytelling, interactive content, and data-driven communications.

Features like video embeds, donor-specific stories, interactive design, mobile optimization, and CRM personalization help organizations keep supporters connected and engaged.

Storyraise works with organizations across many mission-driven industries, including:

• Higher education institutions
• K-12 schools
• Nonprofits
• Healthcare foundations
• Community foundations
• Faith-based organizations
• Youth development organizations
• Environmental nonprofits
• Social justice organizations
• Municipalities
• Condition-specific foundations

These organizations use Storyraise to improve donor communications, fundraising marketing, annual reporting, and stewardship efforts.

Higher education fundraising teams use Storyraise to create digital annual reports, alumni donor reports, endowment reports, campaign updates, and philanthropy reports.

With Storyraise, universities and colleges can use storytelling, student impact stories, and donor-focused reporting to strengthen alumni engagement and support major giving initiatives. Higher education institutions steward thousands of alumni, and Storyraise makes it easy for university advancement teams to automate personalized thank-you videos and donor impact reports at scale.

Nonprofits use Storyraise to create interactive impact reports, stewardship videos, fundraising campaign pages, donor stewardship reports, annual reports, event recaps, and more.

By combining storytelling, video, donor data, and interactive design, nonprofits can communicate impact and inspire continued giving. Storyraise makes it easy for nonprofits to recognize each donor by automating personalized reporting and video creation at scale.

Healthcare foundations use Storyraise to communicate patient impact stories, donor outcomes, campaign progress, and annual achievements through interactive digital reports.

Healthcare fundraising teams often use Storyraise for donor stewardship, annual reporting, and philanthropy communications.

Community foundations use Storyraise to create personalized fundholder reports, annual reports, impact reports, and donor stewardship communications.

Interactive storytelling helps community foundations demonstrate local impact while strengthening donor trust and transparency.

Independent schools use Storyraise to create digital annual reports, donor stewardship reports, impact reports, and fundraising communications that engage parents, alumni, grandparents, and donors.

K-12 schools use interactive storytelling, student success stories, and personalized donor communications to strengthen donor engagement, improve school fundraising, and showcase the impact of philanthropy through mobile-friendly digital reports.