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#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…

It’s All a Game

Guide to FUN fundraising games for your events and campaigns  Feeling stuck in a, “This is how we’ve always done it,” loop?  You don’t have to be.   If you’re looking for simple fundraising games for…

Military and Veteran Organizations Fundraising Guide

Now more than ever, organizations that support active military members, veterans, and their families are vital lifelines for millions. You are a source of stability, mental health advocacy, comradery, needed social and emotional support, community,…

GiveSmart Infographics for Nonprofit Success

Event planning, auction success, communication strategies, and so much more! We’ve compiled the resources and data you need into one library resource for easy access to have it when you need it. We want to…

5 Ways Your Nonprofit Peers Plan to Reach 2022 Goals 

Earlier this year, we polled your nonprofit peers asking them which techniques and features they plan to use to reach their 2022 goals, which are higher than ever. In this infographic, we explore: How do…

6 Stats Nonprofits Need for Successful Event Planning

What is the best window for selling tickets before an event? How can you encourage donors to place more bids? What can you do to improve your donor experience? In this infographic, you can find…

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Adapting for Your Donors

Insights into the State of Fundraising and Technology The 2022 Fundraising Research Study measures technology adoption and use as well as its impact on giving and the donor experience. These study results track financial goal…

5 Stats to Inform Your Donor Communication Strategy 

Which channels inspire donors to give? How frequently do donors want to be contacted? Why do donors leave an organization? In this infographic, we answer those questions and more! As a nonprofit, it’s crucial to…

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What our clients say

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