Every Brick Personal, at Every Stage
Cultivate the people your donors bring with them: a supporter walks guests up to their own brick, and every brick they pass can carry a family photo, full color, even video. Solicit with something a donor can picture. At your campaign kickoff, donors personalize their own brick, a wedding date, a team logo, a moving tribute, chosen right there in the room. Steward for years: when a gift anniversary comes around, that brick is still unmistakably theirs, and the story beside it is still their own.
Personalized Bricks Without Engraving Limits
Engraving fixes a brick at a few short lines the day it is cut. A digital brick is personalized in the software, so the giver chooses the wording, adds a photograph, a date, a logo, or a short video, and the brick goes live the same visit. A paver or a tile at a higher donation level is simply a larger brick on the display.
Because nothing is engraved, nothing is final. A family adds a photograph years later, a typo is fixed in a minute, a memorial line is added when the time comes, and a business updates its logo. The decision to buy a brick stops feeling permanent and starts feeling like joining something that keeps growing.
- Wording with no character limit, in your typeface and colors.
- Photographs and video beside the name, in full color.
- Memorial and tribute lines that return on the dates families choose.
- Donation levels shown as brick, double brick, paver, and tile sizes.
- Edits any time from the dashboard, with every change on the display the same day.
Instant Recognition, Not Weeks
Your brick program is a fundraising instrument, designed to raise more, to bring donors back to it, and to widen the culture of philanthropy around your grounds. Every brick in it is a naming opportunity you can open on the spot. A donor gives, personalizes their brick, and sees it up the same visit, with nothing to wait for and nothing to install. On an event morning, the gifts made in the room are on screen before the room clears. The thank-you happens while the donor is still standing there.
Running an Engraved Brick Fundraising Campaign on a Digital Display
- Set the campaign. The fundraising goal, the donation levels, the deadline, and what the money builds, exactly as you would for engraved brick fundraising.
- Open the order. Your giving page is the donor website, with an event table or a printed order form for special events, and a personalization field for each brick.
- Personalize. Your team enters the brick from the dashboard, or the donor list arrives from your donor management system.
- Unveil. The display goes live with the first bricks at the dedication, and every gift after that appears the day it is entered.
- Keep the campaign open. There is no last brick. The display grows with the campaign and the next one, so you keep raising funds on the same grounds for years.
Built for outdoors. The display is sealed against water and dust, rated for impact, and serviced on a schedule by OmniAlly, so it holds up at a path, a plaza, or an athletic entrance the way an engraved brick does.
Where brick fundraisers run. Schools and athletic facilities, parks and playgrounds, veterans memorials, churches, libraries, hospitals, and the grounds of any nonprofit organization with a path to name. Many keep the engraved walkway they already have and add the display for every campaign since.
The rest of the system. Digital donor bricks pair with an outdoor digital donor wall or a digital donor plaque at the same site, and the whole outdoor donor recognition line shares one software. Starting prices are on the outdoor pricing page, and the fundraising events guide covers the kickoff.
What the Display Does for a Brick Campaign
Personalize Every Brick
Each brick is personalized in the software: wording, photograph, date, logo, or video, entered by your team or arriving with the gift from your giving page, and live on the display the same day.
Memorial Bricks and Veterans Memorials
A memorial brick holds the photograph and the story beside the name and returns on the anniversary the family chose. A veterans memorial adds new names every year with service dates, with nothing to re-engrave.
Donation Levels as Pavers, Tiles, and Bricks
The display shows each donation level at its own size, so a paver still reads as a bigger gift than a brick, and a sponsor tile carries a logo in full color.
The Fundraising Goal, on the Display
A campaign panel shows progress toward the fundraising goal beside the bricks, updates as gifts are entered, and resets for the next campaign on the same display.
A Lasting Legacy You Can Still Edit
The brick stays on the display for as long as the organization keeps it, readable with its photograph and story, and it can be corrected or added to at any time without touching the walkway.
An Existing Engraved Walkway, Included
The names on the bricks already dedicated import into the display, so the engraved path keeps its place and the campaign continues on screen beside it.
Engraved Brick Fundraiser FAQs
Digital donor bricks are a screen-based alternative to an engraved brick fundraiser or memorial brick program. They recognize individual donors with names, messages, photos, and stories inside a larger digital recognition display, and new gifts appear without waiting for physical bricks to be produced and installed. OmniAlly designs the display around your organization's brand and grounds.
For the organizations we work with, yes. Digital donor bricks run the same buy-a-brick fundraiser as engraved bricks, with the same donation levels, the same personalized brick, and the same permanent place on the grounds. The difference is that the brick is engraved in software: it goes up the day the gift arrives, it can carry a photo and a story, and the campaign never runs out of walkway.
Yes, and most organizations do. The engraved bricks stay exactly where they are, the names on them import into the display so families find both, and every campaign from now on offers digital bricks on the same grounds.
Set the donation levels and the goal, open the order through your giving page, an event table, or a printed order form, and let each donor personalize a brick. Your team enters the bricks from the dashboard or the donor list arrives from your donor management system, and each brick appears on the display the day the gift is entered.
Engraved bricks have to be produced and installed for every gift and hold a line or two of text. Digital donor bricks recognize a new donor as soon as the gift is entered, carry a message, a photo, or a story with each name, and let you add an entire campaign of donors at once. The recognition also stays current as names are added or corrected over the years.
An engraved brick campaign pays for engraving and installation on every brick dedicated. A digital brick campaign pays for the display once, and after that each brick is a line in the software with nothing to engrave or install. OmniAlly publishes the starting price for digital donor bricks on its outdoor pricing page, with an annual software license per media player after installation.
It depends on the donation levels and how many brick gifts the campaign brings in, and with a digital display the number of bricks is not limited by the length of a walkway. Campaigns that keep the order open after the dedication, at reunions, anniversaries, and the next season, keep raising money on the same display.
A name, a date, and a short phrase: in loving memory of, in honor of, the family name and class years, or a business and what it helped build. On a digital brick you can add a photo, a longer message, a logo, or a short video, so the wording is not limited by what fits on an engraved brick.
Yes. Existing donor names and recognition wording can be brought into the digital donor brick program and presented in a design created for your organization. You keep the recognition you already promised while expanding what your brick program can do from now on.
Yes. An entire campaign list can be added together, just as an individual donor can be added. That makes digital donor bricks suitable for ongoing recognition and for larger campaigns with many donors to recognize.
Many organizations treat a brick donation as a charitable gift with no retail value, which may make it tax-deductible for the giver. Rules vary, so confirm the wording for your receipts with your accountant before the campaign opens.
The same way they personalize an engraved brick: they choose the wording, and on a digital brick they can add a photograph, a date, a logo, or a short video. Your team enters it from the dashboard, or the personalization comes through with the gift from your giving page, and the brick is live the same day.
Yes. Memorial bricks are the most personal bricks in any campaign, and a digital memorial brick carries the photograph and the story that an engraved line cannot. A veterans memorial can list every name with service dates, return each one on the date the family chose, and add new names every year without a new engraving.
Multiply the donation levels by the number of brick gifts you expect at each level, then add the stretch you want the display to show on campaign day. With digital donor bricks the goal is not capped by the size of the walkway, so a second campaign can start the week the first one closes.
Yes. The brick stays on the display for as long as the organization keeps it, exactly as an engraved brick stays in the path, and the family can come back to find it on every visit. The display also keeps the brick readable, with the photograph and the story beside it, long after an engraved surface would have weathered.
The system is designed for outdoor use, sealed against water and dust, and rated for impact. OmniAlly also provides scheduled servicing to keep the system operating properly over time.
Your team manages donor names and content remotely from OmniAlly's cloud dashboard, so new recognition appears on screen without fabrication or installation, and donor lists can update automatically from your donor management system. If your team would rather not manage updates, OmniAlly's White Glove Experience handles them for you.
