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March 20, 2025

Golf Tournament Fundraiser Guide

As one of the most popular types of charity events, golf tournaments let participants live out their PGA Championship fantasies — all while giving to a meaningful cause.
These fundraising tips to discover how to use the green to earn a little green for nonprofit goals and causes.

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March 8, 2023

An Event Day in the Life of a Fundraising Director

Event day is a long, exciting, fun, and draining day. Whether you’re hosting a distinguished…

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March 6, 2023

Software Security Fortress  

Just like Superman has his impenetrable fortress or Batman’s locked-down cave, your fundraising and donor…

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February 23, 2023

“More Nonprofits Are Digitizing Small-Dollar Donations”

This article by Kate Fitzgerald originally appeared in American Banker on February 23, 2023. It…

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February 22, 2023

How to Organize a Walkathon 

Walkathons can be powerful community events that appeal to a large audience and raise a…

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February 18, 2023

Top 8 Fundraising Trends for 2023

Raising awareness about your organization is the first step to creating a successful, meaningful fundraising campaign. To…

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February 16, 2023

Eight Outrageous Ideas for Larger-Than-Life Events

When you’re looking for a great fundraising event, think big! Hosting a larger event is…

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Black-History-Month
February 15, 2023

Black History Month Campaign Ideas for Nonprofits

Get inspired with these three inspiring Black History Month campaign ideas from real world nonprofits.

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February 14, 2023

GiveSmart Loves Its Community Award Winners 

GiveSmart’s third annual class of Community Award winners came out on top in support of…

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February 12, 2023

AmazonSmile is Shutting Down: How You Can Make Up for Lost Revenue 

Amazon announced that it’s shuttering the AmazonSmile program in February 2023. Amazon felt the program’s…

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February 8, 2023

9 Lawn Games for Fundraising Events 

Fundraising events are significant occasions for your nonprofit organization. While you may be busy recruiting…

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February 7, 2023

Onsite Event Support: GiveSmart’s Smart Partners Program 

We are announcing our Smart Partners Program, our vetted, trusted partners that can help provide best-in-class, onsite support to our GiveSmart customers.

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February 1, 2023

GiveSmart Honored with 3 TrustRadius Best of Awards

Our leading fundraising and donor management solution wins Best Relationship, Best Value for Price, and…

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We needed a platform to make sales online and to track and display ads for our sponsors. GiveSmart was perfect. We ended up making close to $15,000 more than we had hoped for. Definite better ROI than we anticipated. The interface is easy to use and provides plenty of options to get help if needed.

Michelle M.

The Rotary Club of South Whidbey Island

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Julie G.

MicroFinancing Partners in Africa

GiveSmart is highly flexible - you can use it for [a] simple registration and check-in, to full-scale galas with complex order forms, onsite upsells, live auctions, seating management, and more.

Jamie F.

Hope Chest for Breast Cancer

GiveSmart is easy to use and ideal for virtual events and can be used for in-person events to manage the silent auction, seating charts, and check-in to the event. Being able to use the platform for unlimited events within the contract year is very useful and being able to add other users and volunteers for different levels of access is helpful as well.

Dawn L.

Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County