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#OutsideTheRoom Webinar Series Episode 3 – Girl Scouts

How the Girl Scouts Inspired and Engaged Donors with Virtual Events. The Girl Scouts of Central California South was honored and involved with an Inspiring Girls Awards Dinner, memberships instead of sponsorships, and our favorite…

#OutsideTheRoom Webinar Series: Episode 2 – First Responders Children’s Foundation

How One Organization Pivoted Their Fundraising to Achieve Success in 2020 Scott Perrin from First Responders Children’s Foundation shared their success with champion fundraising, the Austin Marathon, silent auctions, drive-ins, partnering with the American Cancer…

#OutsideTheRoom Fundraising Success: Episode 1 – Reach for Resources

How One Organization Pivoted Their Fundraising to Achieve Success in 2020 Minnesota’s Reach for Resources takes us through their sidewalk art competition, fundraising at breweries, and how their annual bowl-a-thon fared in 2020. This webinar…

Fundraising Guide: Local Institutions

This guide aims to help local institutions, like museums and zoos, enhance their fundraising campaigns for an even more integrated donor-giving experience.

Dog Days: Giving Campaigns to Run This Summer

Ahh, summer days. A lovely time to relax, however, your organization shouldn’t take the summer off from fundraising. Donors are still willing to give and it’s a good way to set yourself apart, especially since this fall is…

Webinar: Pivot to Virtual Success – Episode 7

How two organizations pivoted in-person campaigns to online. Live streaming chat, virtual heads or tails, video impact stories, and mystery box auction items, Episode 7 covers it all. Joined by Melissa Gorchynsky from Community Sailing…

Connect online with donors today: cultivating and maintaining authentic donor relationships

Just because the world is on hold, doesn’t mean the needs of your mission are. Schools are still teaching, foodbanks still need to be stocked, our homeless populations still need help, healthcare needs research, animals…

Webinar: Your School’s Pivot to a Virtual Fundraising Event

You CAN do this. We can help.  Silver lining: Your peers have been hitting targets via virtual events amidst recent events, and your school can too. So what should you do if your school needs…

Nonprofit Pivot Success: The Series

Your GiveSmart peers share their stories on going virtual What we possibly all need to hear right now: a nonprofit, who’s had to cancel an in-person, major event, pivoted to online, and made it to the other…

Webinar: Implementing Recurring Giving Strategies

Whether it’s weekly, monthly, or quarterly, recurring giving is a crucial element to most nonprofits, schools, and foundations. This webinar covers strategies that your organization can implement to encourage and obtain more donations through recurring giving. …

Webinar: Your Pivot to a Virtual Fundraising Event

You CAN do this. We can help.  Silver lining: Your brilliant fundraising peers have been hitting targets via virtual events for several years, and your org can too. So what should you do if your…

Webinar: Unpacking the Silent Auction

A national examination of successful silent auction data, items, and regional performance break downs “ the ultimate silent auction study. Here’s some good news: You don’t need to do a live, in-person event to have…

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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