2024 State of the Platform
I’m pleased to share the 2024 State of the Platform update.
While we returned to Kaizen in 2024, it has been a wild ride helping our clients cultivate and steward their major donors. I am proud to report we’ve made our platform sleeker, smarter—and frankly—even more in tune with what our clients need.
What did we accomplish?
You Spoke; We Listened
From dealing with user frustrations to delivering features that simply make sense, we’ve gone all-in on turning your feedback into tangible enhancements. Inherited Content Panels allow content within cultivation sites or impact reports to be managed centrally. Change Logs provide high-texture visibility into “who did what, where.” Added safety measures ensure that deletion mistakes can be easily and quickly reversed.
Without a doubt, these enhancements drastically reduced user friction and sped up client workflows. We deeply appreciate our more than seventy nonprofit clients for relentlessly pushing us to improve our major donor engagement platform. So keep that feedback coming!
API Connectors
We’re now talking to CRMs—Blackbaud CRM, Brightvine Solutions, and Salesforce—to flow data seamlessly between systems. No more awkward workarounds or arm-wrestling your data. We’ve done the heavy lifting so your team can easily flow data and let Ovrture bring that data to life through deeply on-brand and personalized stewardship reporting or major donor cultivation.
This focus on APIs is just the beginning. We aim to connect with more partners in the coming year to help all our clients unlock big efficiency improvements.
SOC 2 Type 2
We are excited to share that we are close to getting SOC 2 Type 2 audited certification. This certification is the gold standard in our industry. This milestone shows our team’s strong commitment to security, availability, and data integrity.
You can rely on Ovrture to offer effective tools for managing major donor cultivation sites and impact reports. We will also ensure that we protect your data at every step. Stay tuned as we finalize this important certification in the months ahead! Please also let us know if your IT staff members would like to see audited documentation.
Going Beyond Sites & Reports
While we look back with pride on what we have accomplished, the reality is that we are just getting started. 2024 has helped us rethink what’s possible, and we’re only scratching the surface of how much more Ovrture can do. With every update, we’re pushing boundaries and asking, “How can we make this even better?” So buckle up—2025 will mark a great step forward.
What am I referring to? We are busy building an enhancement to help clients query, gather, organize, and connect “stories” across their organization. All in all, it will radically simplify how “story” is gathered and shared within cultivation sites and impact reports. Trust us: your major donors, major gift officers, and donor relations team members are going to love it!
Yeah, I know this is all a bit cryptic. Please reach out to see a sneak peek.
As always, we thank you for your belief in our team, company, and technology. We hope the 2024 State of the Platform gives you a sense of our accomplishments and where we are going.
CHRIS SNAVELY
Managing Partner
CHRIS SNAVELY
Managing Partner
Chris leads the Ovrture team in building, maintaining, and enhancing the platform. He also works directly with clients to build systems, drive adoption, and conceive of new use cases. Believing that the application of new thinking is what drives the world forward, Chris takes great pride in bringing a far more efficient and modern approach to the “digital advancement office.”