Steve Bernat

I’m Steve Bernat, founder and CEO of RallyUp, and I come at nonprofit fundraising from a very practical place. I spent years on nonprofit boards trying to raise money with tools that felt too clunky, too expensive, or just not built for real teams with limited time. RallyUp started as my attempt to fix that, combining my startup and product background with what I was hearing every day from mission driven organizations. Since then, I’ve focused my work at the intersection of nonprofit fundraising, customer led product design, and thoughtful use of technology. I’m very hands on with the campaigns running on our platform and I like understanding what actually happens on the ground, not just in a spreadsheet. A lot of my energy goes into making donor experiences smoother and helping organi...