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March 11, 2025

15 Games for Fundraising Events

Discover creative fundraising game ideas make your next event a success. Engage supporters, foster friendly competition, and raise more.

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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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January 11, 2023

Why You Should Stop Using Spreadsheets to Track Donors

Nonprofits need to track several data types to run successful campaigns and fundraisers. From donor…

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December 28, 2022

Top Fun and Memorable Golf Tournament Themes

Golf tournaments are an excellent way to raise money for a good cause. People can…

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December 20, 2022

Why DonateStock?

November through December is known as the season of giving. To make this period a…

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December 15, 2022

Jon Biedermann, Momentive Software: The role of cryptocurrency

This interview originally appeared in Philanthropy News Digest on December 15, 2022. It features insights…

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December 12, 2022

‘Tis the Season of Giving 

What Do You Think of When You Think of November and December?   Hot cocoa. Fuzzy…

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December 8, 2022

Giving Tuesday 2022 Results

Check out what wrapped and what’s playing next There is one day that lives rent-free…

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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

Using GS has created ease in auction bookkeeping, payments, and generating post-event thank you/tax letters. While we were online during COVID, our interactions with our GiveSmart via phone, email, and zoom were seamless. A representative always got back to us within the day. I would recommend GiveSmart to anyone doing a large online event.

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