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Life Network

Expanding ministry through seamless fundraising: from photocopied pledge sheets and an $11,000 walk to two banquet nights and a Walk for Life that raises $755,000.

A community that values life through the love of Christ

For over four decades, Life Network has worked to present the gospel, provide life-affirming alternatives to abortion, promote healthy choices, empower parents, offer post-abortion healing, and engage the community in advancing life.

Christine Reyes, Chief Operating Officer, has dedicated over 40 years to pro-life advocacy. Her journey began in the early 1980s, when she and her husband, Raul, envisioned opening a pregnancy center for women in crisis. After two years of fundraising and searching, their steering committee secured a modest 700-square-foot facility: a small waiting room, two offices, and a big dream.

Fundraising was challenging. Galas and Walk for Life events were managed manually with spreadsheets and photocopied pledge sheets. The first Walk for Life raised $11,000 and galas generated up to $60,000, but tracking RSVPs and processing donations was exhausting.

“Our first Walk for Life, I remember we raised $11,000. We started [the walk] at the pregnancy center, walked down the street on a main street and for about a mile and walked back into the parking lot of where the pregnancy center was. You know, and it was very, very basic.”Christine Reyes

The challenge

When Christine joined Life Network in Colorado in 2002, she met the same challenges on a larger scale. Banquets and Walk for Life events sustained the work, but managing RSVPs, tracking guest lists, and collecting pledges by hand became overwhelming. With staff and volunteers bogged down by administrative tasks, financial stability beyond event season was difficult to maintain.

“We quickly realized if we were going to go head to head with Planned Parenthood [in our city], we had to add medical resources. And that all involves fundraising, right? You have to raise the money to hire the nurses to get the ultrasound machine. And that was quite a journey.”Christine Reyes

The solution

In 2007, after a banquet where a blizzard disrupted attendance and their keynote speaker never arrived, Life Network turned to FundEasy. Guest tracking, table assignments, and event communications were automated.

“You want to project a professional appearance to all of your donors, and you want to make sure and communicate clearly. We just did not have the tools in place. It gives people a poor perspective of your ministry if you don’t have your ducks in a row and if you don’t communicate clearly. And so that was a really difficult time.”Christine Reyes

By 2010, Life Network added Peer-to-Peer by FundEasy so Walk for Life participants could collect pledges online and share their stories. What once took weeks of data entry was streamlined, freeing the team to focus on serving their community rather than managing logistics.

“And when [we learned] what FundEasy could do, we realized that this was a game changer.”Christine Reyes

What four decades of ministry looks like with the right tools

“[FundEasy] saves so much time because you’ve got this tool that, at a push of a button, can be sending emails, sending information and it goes out to all of your constituents at one time. If you are a ministry that is struggling with just having the manpower in your development department, your marketing department or your events department, this tool saves you time and time is money.”Christine Reyes, Life Network