An honest review by event planners and database administrators of Trellis, the only fully integrated Raiser's Edge Auction and Event Platform.

When Kate Careb joined Child & Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut as Chief Advancement Officer, her team was running their annual gala on paper bid sheets, spending a week and a half on post-event data entry, and manually typing donor records into Raiser's Edge one by one. The process worked... barely, but it consumed the time the development team should have been spending on relationships.
   
In this session, Kate and Trellis CEO Justin Goodhew walk through what actually changed when CFA moved to a platform that integrates natively with Raiser's Edge NXT: silent auction items now close with one click, funds land in the account automatically, donor records update in RE without a single keystroke, and tax letters go out the same night. The result: CFA's fall gala grew from $125,000 to $350,000 — and Kate was on the phone with new donors the morning after.
   
Kate is joined by two database administrators and a head of operations who've lived it from the RE side. Lauren Williams, Advancement and Database Administrator at GRACE Christian School, watched her team's three-week post-event reconciliation collapse to a single day — and says Trellis is the only platform she found that could do auctions AND talk to Raiser's Edge. Terri Nackid, Director of Database and System Services at Northwell Health Foundation, ran a 600-guest gala through Trellis and walked away with zero post-event manual entry. Bryan Rurey, Director of Development Operations at Blessings in a Backpack was able to automatically trigger fundraising actions in RE from a purchase made on Trellis. 
   
Manage every aspect of your gala and auction in one easy-to-use platform — sponsorships, ticketing, online and live auctions, raffles, and paddle raises. Built for fundraisers, so your cause takes center stage, not the technology. Learn more at trellis.org