Case Studies

Four OmniAlly installations are documented on this page. K-State Athletics replaced a printed acrylic board that changed once a year with a donor recognition wall of six portrait panels, sorted by giving levels, in the Carl and Mary Ice Family Concourse. Fresh Start Women's Foundation recognizes its $100,000 Visionary donors with photos and donor stories in their own words. The Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta moved a century of giving, a history wall across three buildings, off engraved wood onto three displays. The Newman Center at St. Agatha-St. James, a Catholic campus ministry serving Penn and Drexel, went from no forms of recognition at all to a touchscreen donor board drawn from the church's own Gothic room. Each case study page tells the whole story.

At K-State Athletics, the Ahearn Fund donor recognition board in the concourse is six portrait panels running on one donor list. Donor names are sorted by giving level, and a new name goes up in minutes rather than waiting most of a year for the next printed board. The K-State case study shows the before and after.

Fresh Start Women's Foundation in Phoenix recognizes its highest-level supporters, the $100,000 Visionary donors, with a photo and a quote in each donor's own words, in a lobby that hosts events all year. The wall honors the generosity behind the gift rather than listing a name, and that is donor stewardship that keeps those donors close. The Fresh Start case study explains where the value shows up.

The Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta is a century old and on its third building. Its wood plaques no longer fit the organization, so a century of philanthropy moved onto three digital displays. When a donor surfaces a gift that was missing, it is corrected the same week instead of waiting for a new engraving. The MJCCA case study covers what is on the wall.

The Newman Center at St. Agatha-St. James serves Catholic students at Penn and Drexel alongside a West Philadelphia parish, and it had no donor recognition at all. OmniAlly designed a digital donor board drawn from the church's own Gothic room, down to the typography, so the recognition belongs to the building it sits in. The Newman Center case study covers how they chose a partner and what the board carries beyond a list of names.

At K-State, a donor's wait to see their name went from most of a year to minutes. At the Marcus JCC, a lost gift is fixed the same week. At Fresh Start, Visionary donors are recognized with their own photo and words instead of a line on a list. At the Newman Center, an organization that had never recognized donors now has a home for it. In every case the wall updates from a cloud dashboard or the organization's donor management system, so new donors appear as giving does, and donor retention gets a home.

Organizations using OmniAlly also include Baptist Health, Colorado Northwestern Community College, and Crossover Mission, and OmniAlly can walk you through those projects. Completed installations to date are indoors, so outdoor donor recognition is presented through site-specific renderings created for the exact location where it would be installed.

Yes. OmniAlly creates renderings of custom donor walls in your actual room or on your actual building, and the capital campaign package adds 3D renderings and a virtual donor wall, so your board and your donors see what to expect before anything is built.

Each project was priced for its room, its screens, its enclosure, and its content. OmniAlly publishes starting prices for every recognition product, with installation included, on its pricing page, and a software license follows installation. Adding names costs nothing, which makes the wall cost-effective over the life of a fundraising campaign compared with traditional plaques that are re-cut with every change.

Each wall was designed for its room and its brand rather than taken off a shelf, each runs on OmniAlly's donor wall software with donor names updated from a cloud dashboard or the organization's donor database, and each was built around the moments its room already hosts: the tour that ends there, the event morning, the family that comes back to find a name. For more donor wall ideas, from a donor tree to a history wall, the donor wall ideas guide on the blog shows fifteen.