Webinars

Webinar: Year Round Giving

To help brainstorm ideas beyond your annual gala, this webinar will focus on year-round giving and fundraising campaigns for every month. We will share techniques and prioritization strategies to get new ideas into your fundraising plans.

Whitepapers

Research Study: Closing the Gap Between Planner and Donor Expectations

Close those gaps with information directly from your donors. We conducted a research study to better understand the importance of signature fundraising events from the perspective of donors and event planners.

Webinars

Webinar: Gobble Gobble

Shake up the way you give thanks this fall! Join this webinar to discuss different ways to thank your entire ecosystem, and what you data you can obtain by saying thanks.

Webinars

Webinar: Research Study

Tune into this webinar (based on our latest research) to determine new opportunities to sync and connect with your donors. As an event planner do you know where you’re meeting your donors’ expectations? Where you’re missing them? Let’s fill those gaps.

Webinars

School Jam Sessions

The School Jam Sessions are a collection of expert interviews that are no longer than 10 minutes and provide some great tips, tricks, and tidbits. These tips, tricks, and tidbits are specific to fundraising for schools.

Webinars

Webinar: Winning the Silent Auction

Learn about ways to enhance, evolve, and expand silent auctions for your charity.

Whitepapers

Signature Event Masterplan

The 12-month tips, timelines, and checklists to help you plan better events, reduce stress, and raise more money...all year round.

Mobile Guides

GiveSmart Mobile Bidding Guide

Your complete guide to using mobile bidding to enhance your events and engage your guests like never before. Tips, templates and more to help you get started. Any questions, just ask!

Los Angeles

Accelerating Your Fundraising: Tips & Tricks Los Angeles

This resource provides examples and expertise for fundraising and auctions in the Los Angeles area. To better understand the best items, this resource shares some of the best performing types of items and gives examples of new venue ideas.   

Donation Guides

New York City Corporate Donation Guide

This is the New York City Corporate Donation Guide. We have included local companies and organizations across the city that support local organizations.

Webinars

Webinar: Turn Data Into Donations

Mine for powerful insights in both yours and the market’s data and become a strategic planner. Inspiration starts here.

Webinars

Webinar: LA Auctions – What’s Working Best?

This webinar provides examples and expertise for fundraising and auctions in the Los Angeles area. To better understand the best items, this resource shares some of the best performing types of items and gives examples of new venue ideas.

Donation Guides

Midwest Corporate Donation Guide

This Guide will provide you access to companies, businesses, and organizations that make in-kind donations, direct donations, and offer sponsorships to nonprofit and charity organizations in the Midwest.

Segment Guides

Accelerating Your Fundraising: Tips & Tricks Los Angeles

This resource provides examples and expertise for fundraising and auctions in the Los Angeles area. To better understand the best items, this resource shares some of the best performing types of items and gives examples of new venue ideas.   

Webinars

Webinar: Paddles Up: Nailing the Live Appeal

The live appeal is one of the most effective ways to raise funds and engage your donors at fundraising events. Turn guests into donors with a positive, inclusive, and impactful moment of giving. Planning and delivery are king here…no one wants to hear crickets after asking for donations, right?

Webinars

Jam Sessions

The Jam Sessions are a collection of expert interviews that are no longer than 10 minutes and provide some great tips, tricks, and tidbits.

Webinars

Webinar: That’s So Corporate

You already know how valuable corporate partnerships and sponsorships can be for your bottom line and the experience of your donors.  Download this webinar to learn more about acquiring new corporate partners.

Donation Guides

Dallas Corporate Donation Guide

GiveSmart has compiled a list of organizations in the Dallas/Fort Worth area that make donations or sponsor local charities.

Case Studies

San Diego Case Study

Accelerating Your Fundraising | Tips and Tools From the Trenches

Webinars

Webinar: The New Fiscal Year

The New Fiscal Year: A Mindful Power Up If you’re a nonprofit leader, you’re lucky. You get at least two “new years” in a year to experience that joyous feeling of possibility.

Whitepapers

Donor Segmentation Guide

The Power of Tailoring your Communication - a guide to donor segmentation.

Webinars

3 Missed Opportunities – Webinar

Case Studies

YMCA – National Case Study Story

Webinars

Engage Your Donors Year Round

Your donors: Keep 'em close. Engage donors all year round. Attention spans are short these days. We get it. But do you ever wonder how you can engage donors every day, not just event day?

Infographics

Look Back to Look Ahead

Look Back to Look Ahead is a resource for the data-driven fundraiser filled with best practices and information to help enhance your next silent auction.

Segment Guides

Animal Welfare Fundraising Guide

This fundraising guide for animal welfare organizations includes a 12-month event prep timeline, necessities for your event vs. fun additions, and ways to make your event memorable.

Whitepapers

GiveSmart’s Ultimate Study Guide for School Fundraising

Host a successful school fundraising event with tips and tricks from GiveSmart.

Smart Analytics

Hamilton: Don’t Throw Away Your Shot – A Smart Analytics Case Study

This study discusses how various factors related to Hamilton Broadway tickets affect fundraising elements of the silent and live auction.

Donation Guides

GiveSmart by Community Brands: The Corporate Donation Guide

From restaurants to airlines, companies have programs specifically designed to support nonprofits through donations, sponsorships, grants, and even discounts on services required to run an event.

Segment Guides

Fundraising for Hospitals

This guide provides research and data to help healthcare systems better engage donors and doctors as the uncertainty surrounding federal funding for healthcare continues.

Case Studies

Make-A-Wish Colorado: Benefits of Implementing Fundraising Technology

This case study looks at Colorado’s chapter of Make-A-Wish and how they increased funds raised across eight campaigns in three years as they implemented best practices and GiveSmart’s fundraising technology.

Case Studies

Case Study: Cancer Kiss My Cooley

This case study looks at challenges faced before mobile fundraising technology offered a solution to a smaller, volunteer-ran organization. GiveSmart eliminated long lines, checkout chaos, and kept the event on schedule.