Universities and foundations17.5 hours a week back, across 40+ campaigns a month.
The University of Mississippi Foundation and Ole Miss Athletics Foundation process gifts for 120,000+ living alumni. See how they stopped hand-entering every donor into Ellucian Advance, and kept AQ2 running through a move to Salesforce.
Savings range derived from 17.5 hrs/week × 50 weeks × a $50–65/hr university-staff rate including overheads.
Every check photocopied, typed and walked to the bank.
The Foundation and Athletics Foundation handle every step of giving across the main campus, four branches and a Medical Center in Jackson. Before AQ2, every donor name was entered by hand into Ellucian Advance.
With 40+ mini-campaigns active in a given month, each bringing in 300+ additional checks, the manual work kept growing.
That’s the workload AQ2 was brought in to take on.
The process behind the hours saved
- Why the Foundation chose AQ2 for a complex multi-campaign, multi-form environment
- How batch scanning codes every gift to the correct fund on capture
- What replaced daily trips to the bank and seven years of paper archives
- The impact measured across time, cost, accuracy and scale
- How gift capture kept running through the move from Ellucian Advance to Salesforce
Works with any CRM, including the one you haven’t moved to yet
Ole Miss started on Ellucian Advance and has moved to Salesforce, and AQ2 moved with them. The full case study covers how gift capture keeps running while the system underneath it changes.
A foundation that grows without growing the back office.
See the full before-and-after process in the complete case study.