Alumni Annual Giving Campaign Form

Support Your Alma Mater: Alumni Annual Giving Made Simple

Staying connected with your alumni community and supporting the next generation of students shouldn't require jumping through hoops. Whether you're a recent graduate looking to give back or a long-time supporter of your alma mater, this Alumni Annual Giving Campaign Form makes it easy to contribute meaningfully to the institution that shaped your future.

Why Use Paperform for Alumni Fundraising?

Alumni associations, development offices, and educational foundations face unique challenges when running annual giving campaigns. You need to accommodate different giving levels, offer flexible payment options, track designations, and provide recognition opportunities—all while creating an experience that feels personal and engaging rather than transactional.

This template is specifically designed for higher education institutions, private schools, and alumni associations that want to:

• Increase participation rates with a streamlined, mobile-friendly donation experience
• Offer flexible giving options including one-time and recurring gifts at multiple levels
• Capture employer matching information to maximize gift impact
• Provide designation choices so donors can direct their gifts where they're most passionate
• Honor loved ones through tribute and memorial giving options
• Maintain clean donor records with updated contact and employment information

A Giving Experience That Reflects Your Institution

Unlike generic donation platforms that strip away your brand identity, Paperform lets you create a giving form that looks and feels like an extension of your institution. Customize fonts, colors, and imagery to match your school's brand guidelines. Add your logo, campus photos, or even video messages from students and faculty to create an emotional connection that drives giving.

The doc-style editor means your development team can update campaign messaging, adjust giving levels, or add new designation options in minutes—no need to wait on IT or web developers. Launch special campaigns for Giving Day, reunions, or year-end appeals with the same flexibility.

Smart Features for Sophisticated Fundraising

This template includes everything modern alumni relations professionals need:

Flexible giving levels from entry-level gifts that welcome young alumni to leadership circles for major donors, with clear impact statements at each level. The built-in calculation engine handles complex scenarios like matching gifts and recurring payment totals.

Recurring gift options that turn one-time donors into sustained supporters. Monthly, quarterly, and annual giving options are built right in, with automatic processing through Stripe, PayPal, or your preferred payment gateway.

Designation preferences let donors choose exactly where their gift makes the greatest impact—whether that's scholarships, athletics, specific academic programs, or areas of greatest need. Conditional logic can show additional options based on their selection.

Employer matching integration captures all the information your gift processing team needs to pursue matching funds, potentially doubling or tripling the impact of each donation.

Tribute and memorial giving provides a meaningful way for alumni to honor classmates, beloved professors, or family members, with options for notification cards to be sent.

Seamless Integration with Your Advancement Ecosystem

Your alumni database and CRM are the heart of your fundraising operation. This Paperform template integrates smoothly with the tools advancement professionals rely on:

Connect directly to Raiser's Edge, Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud, or other advancement CRMs to ensure every donation updates donor records automatically. Use Stepper (stepper.io) to build sophisticated workflows that trigger thank-you emails, update donor recognition listings, process matching gift paperwork, and notify program directors when designated gifts are received.

Integration with Google Sheets or Airtable provides real-time campaign dashboards so your team can track progress toward goals. Webhook connections to Slack or Microsoft Teams can celebrate milestone gifts as they come in, keeping your entire advancement team energized throughout the campaign.

Built for Development Professionals and Volunteers

Alumni association boards and volunteer fundraisers appreciate how easy Paperform is to use and share. Create custom tracking links for class agents and reunion committees so they can see their cohort's participation rates and compete for bragging rights. Embed the form on reunion websites, email it in appeals, or share it across social media—it looks great everywhere.

The AI Insights feature helps summarize giving patterns, popular designations, and donor feedback, making board reporting and campaign analysis much faster. Instead of manual data crunching, you get clear summaries of what's working and where to focus your outreach.

Security and Compliance Your Donors Expect

Handling financial information and personal data from your alumni community requires institutional-grade security. Paperform is SOC 2 Type II compliant with data encryption, secure payment processing, and configurable data residency controls that meet the standards of university compliance offices.

All payment processing goes through trusted, PCI-compliant gateways like Stripe or PayPal—Paperform never stores credit card numbers. Your donors can give with confidence, and your compliance team can sleep soundly.

Perfect for Educational Institutions of All Sizes

Whether you're managing giving at a major research university with hundreds of thousands of alumni, a small liberal arts college with a tight-knit community, or an independent school with a growing alumni network, this template scales to your needs.

Small shops love the simplicity—set up your campaign in under an hour and start accepting gifts immediately. Larger advancement teams appreciate the Agency+ features that let you manage multiple campaigns, schools, or class-specific appeals from one account with role-based permissions and consolidated reporting.

More Than Just Forms—It's Your Annual Giving Platform

With Paperform, you're not just collecting donations—you're building an integrated advancement platform. Use Papersign (papersign.com) for pledge agreements, planned giving documentation, or major gift commitment letters that donors can sign electronically. Create accompanying forms for event registration, volunteer signups, or program nominations that feed the same database.

The Stepper workflow builder turns each gift into an automated stewardship journey: immediate thank-you emails, gift acknowledgment letters for tax purposes, updates throughout the year on how gifts are being used, and timely renewal reminders when it's time to give again.

Trusted by Educational Institutions Worldwide

Over 500,000 organizations trust Paperform for mission-critical workflows, including countless schools, colleges, and universities running successful annual giving campaigns. With 30,000+ templates to draw from and a support team that understands the unique needs of educational fundraising, you're in excellent company.

Your annual giving campaign deserves better than a generic donation button or an outdated form that donors struggle to complete on their phones. Give your alumni a giving experience that matches the quality of the education you provided—and watch your participation rates and gift totals grow.

Start building deeper connections with your alumni community today with Paperform's Alumni Annual Giving Campaign Form.