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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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March 10, 2022

Corporate donor guide: Western United States

Rugged mountainscapes, golden deserts, picturesque coastlines, and a list of world-renowned cities — the Western…

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March 10, 2022

Wordle: Best Fundraising Words to Try

Wordle went from 90 players in October 2021 when it launched to millions of players…

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March 3, 2022

How to Update Supporters on Fundraising Campaign Progress

One of the most effective ways to keep the momentum going for your fundraising campaign…

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February 23, 2022

How to Boost Your Nonprofit’s Social Media Reach

There are over 1.8 million nonprofit organizations in the United States.1 How can yours possibly…

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February 15, 2022

Where Are They Now? An Update from First Tee – Delaware

We catch up with Leslie McGuigan from First Tee – Delaware, who joined our team for episode 11 of the series in 2020, to ask how First Tee – Delaware’s fundraising has grown, changed, and improved since the last time we featured the organization.  

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February 7, 2022

Capital Campaigns | 9 Proven Strategies

What is a capital campaign? Capital campaigns are concentrated efforts undergone by nonprofits to accomplish…

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February 4, 2022

A Guide for How to Ask for Donations

Many nonprofit professionals are forgetting the foundation of success: how to ask for donations. As…

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February 2, 2022

Email Marketing For Nonprofits

Despite the rise in social media and text message communications, many supporters still check e-mail…

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February 1, 2022

6 essential strategies to improve your corporate donations

Every donation matters when it comes to nonprofit fundraising. Monetary contributions allow many organizations to keep…

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January 28, 2022

GiveSmart’s Second Annual Community Awards

GiveSmart is thrilled to announce our 2021 class of Community Award winners.

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January 20, 2022

Google Grants For Nonprofits: The Comprehensive Guide

The Google Ad Grant program is one of the most powerful, consistent, and scalable ways…

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January 14, 2022

The Best Times To Send Text Messages: A Memoir

Text messaging is a powerful communication tool. It has an immediacy that is ideal for…

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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