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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, healthcare needs research. This is why you need to connect with your donors today. 

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

Things happen. So what should you do if your school needs to host a virtual fundraising event instead of a live one? We're going to break down the steps and enable you with best practices to run a virtual event so that all of your fundraising dollars don't go out the window.

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Nonprofit Pivot Success: The Series

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 side with fundraising success.

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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 will cover strategies that your organization can implement to encourage and obtain more donations through recurring giving.  

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Webinar: Your Pivot to a Virtual Fundraising Event

Things happen. So what should you do if your organization needs to host a virtual fundraising event instead of a live one? We're going to break down the steps and enable you with best practices to run a virtual event so that all of your fundraising dollars don't go out the window.

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Ultimate Silent Auction Study

This Ultimate Silent Auction Study looks at auction data on a national scale and breaks it down by region. The study points to why some silent auction items perform better than others and how you can implement this data to improve your next charity auction.

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Webinar: Unpacking the Silent Auction

Silent auctions are tried and true fundraising programs, but wouldn’t they be a little easier if you knew what types of items perform best in charity auctions? We took over 440,000 lines of data and compiled the Ultimate Silent Auction Study.

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Creative Campaigns

Creative campaigns to help inspire fundraising ideas that you can run all year round.

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Webinar: Promoting and Marketing Your Fundraising Campaigns

We’re often asked, “how can we spread more awareness about our upcoming event?” It’s a big question, no doubt. In this webinar, we’ll be referencing this research study and viewing some customer case studies to showcase ways that you can promote your next fundraising event.  

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Webinar: Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

You’ve likely already heard about peer-to-peer fundraising. But how exactly can you make it work for your organization in order to further your cause? While you’re kicking off 2020, join us and our partner, GiveGab, for the 411 on peer-to-peer fundraising.

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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.

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Research: Fundraising Event Expectation Study

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.

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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.

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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.

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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 for things pertaining to school fundraising.

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Webinar: Winning the Silent Auction

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

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Signature Event Masterplan

Planning a big event? This 12-month masterplan includes tips, timelines, and checklists to help you plan your best event, 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.

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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.

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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.   

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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?

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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.

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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.  Watch or listen to this webinar to learn more about acquiring new corporate sponsorships.

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

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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.

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Donor Segmentation Guide

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

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3 Missed Opportunities – Webinar

Case Studies

YMCA – National Case Study Story

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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.

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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

Corporate Donation Guide

Whether you are looking for donated items, a corporate sponsorship, or funds for a new project, the Corporate Donation Guide will get you off your feet.

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.