Ascend vs. Funraise

Ascend is a powerful, intuitive CRM platform designed specifically for higher education, healthcare, foundations, and nonprofit organizations. This comprehensive solution aims to enhance fundraising operations by providing tools that enable teams to process gifts more efficiently, manage donor relationships seamlessly, and ultimately scale their impact. By addressing the unique challenges faced by these sectors, Ascend serves as a vital resource for organizations looking to optimize their fundraising efforts.

Funraise is an all-in-one nonprofit fundraising platform. Built by nonprofiteers. Funraise was built by hardworking nonprofit workers like you—we know your stresses because they were ours. So we built an easy-to-use, innovative, effective fundraising platform that's loved by thousands of nonprofits. Our platform features include donor management, donations forms, campaign websites, peer-to-peer fundraising, recurring giving, data and reporting, events and ticketing, AI features to boost fundraising impact, and much more. Funraise is more than technology.