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Year-End Fundraising Appeal Templates

Messaging templates for fundraising success End-of-year giving can account for over 30% of annual giving. In the last few months of the year, use this messaging guide to copy, paste, and edit easy, pre-made messaging…

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Recurring Giving Appeal Templates

Communication templates for fundraising success Recurring giving is a growing, year-round revenue stream option for nonprofits and schools. Did you know that recurring donors give, on average, $326 every year? Or that donors who set…

6 Stats to Diversify Revenue Streams

Data shows that organizations with diverse revenue streams tend to be more resilient to economic change.   With ever-changing economic conditions, take the opportunity to review this infographic and inform your nonprofit or school’s revenue stream…

Hybrid Fundraising Events Guide

Ensure your audiences are engaged and ready to give Fundraising events—galas, golf outings, cocktail parties, and more—look different than they did pre-pandemic. Instead of strictly virtual or in-person fundraisers, organizations are increasingly turning to hybrid fundraising events. …

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5 Stats to Boost Year-End Appeals

Approximately $48 billion is donated to nonprofit organizations every year between November and December. Your year-end giving campaigns have the potential to bring in a significant amount of money for your mission. As you close…

Fundraising Guide: Local Institutions 

Millions of people visit their local museums, theaters, aquariums, and other institutions every year. They go for culture, education, community, and entertainment.   And while your local institution may charge admission, it rarely covers all costs….

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5 Stats for #GivingTuesday Growth 

Take your fundraising success to the next level this #GivingTuesday. With this infographic, you’ll have insights into data including donor trends, giving trends, popular traffic channels, and more that will help you make more informed…

#GivingTuesday Communication Templates 

With #GivingTuesday around the corner, your communication plans need to be established and ready to go across all of your channels. This includes e-mail, social media, and text messaging. Use this #GivingTuesday messaging guide to…

Fundraising Guide: Creating Your Perfect Peer-to-Peer Campaign

Peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraising involves volunteer fundraising ambassadors, usually families, supporters, community partners, and volunteers who raise money for your organization through personal outreach for donations.  Funds raised from P2P campaigns can support programs that directly…

End of Year Fundraising Plan: A Quick Reference Checklist

From September to December, this guide is aimed to help you plan, act on, and exceed your goals year after year. Donors tend to donate generously to nonprofits and schools between Thanksgiving and New Year’s,…

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Fundraising Guide: Food and Food Banks

Did you know that food banks feed some 46.5 million people in need across the U.S. alone, including 12 million kids and 7 million seniors? Food banks are squeezed between short supplies and surging demand…

4 Strategies to Help Attract New Donors 

In this infographic, you will dive into stats to help you improve your donor acquisition strategy. How and where are donors influenced to follow and give? How can you make sure your fundraising channels are…

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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