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2023 Impact Report

It has been a milestone year at GiveSmart, and our team is excited to share more about what our nonprofit partners accomplished!  This report highlights our customers’ fundraising achievements and remarkable creativity and offers insight…

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Fundraising Assessment Travel Plans

How can you map out better fundraising and financial management? As you’re mapping out your upcoming year of events and campaigns, it’s important to look at your past fundraising and donor management journey. Did you…

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GiveSmart’s 2024 Annual Fundraising Calendar

Important Dates with Strategies to Steward Donors GiveSmart’s popular Annual Fundraising Calendar delivers the major holidays, recognized awareness moments, days of giving and connection, and fun days (mostly food-related) worth celebrating.  Fill out the form…

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5 Social Media Stats Nonprofits Need to Know

Social media may be free to use, but each channel is invaluable for nonprofit organizations. Whether you use social media to raise awareness for your mission, gain more donors and volunteers, or do other things…

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Checklist for #GivingTuesday Success: How to Attract New Donors on #GivingTuesday

#GivingTuesday is all about getting new donors involved with your organization that may not have been otherwise. It is also about trying new fundraising and supporter engagement strategies.  To help you rally your team, supporters,…

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Creating your Landing Page for Success

To maximize giving and engagement, each of your fundraising landing pages should be user-friendly and informative. You can create opportunities that help you reach and exceed your fundraising goals by better leveraging a fully equipped landing…

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Complete Mobile Strategy Guide 

How text-to-donate and other mobile optimizations boost fundraising for nonprofits  Smartphones have revolutionized our communication and connection with loved ones, the causes we are passionate about, and the world at large. As technology progresses, it…

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The Fundraising Pyramid

Are you treating your donors like an ATM? Fundraising is often too transactional. Don’t let it be at your organization! Fundraising the right way should involve building authentic relationships with investors who are committed to…

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Your Go-To Guide for Donor Segmentation 

Better nurture and engage your donors Giving trends are a bit bleak, with a steady decline in the overall number of both new donors and retained donors over the past few years. As of 2022,…

6 Ways to Increase Revenue During Your Next Fundraising Event

Your organization spends hours upon hours planning and executing fundraising events to reach your fundraising goals. But what else can you do to raise more once the action starts? With these six great strategies, you’ll…

Data Driven Auction Fundraising

The Ultimate Data-Driven Auction Fundraising Guide

What if you could confidently predict which items would send bidding into overdrive?  By using insights hidden within data—from your organization and from outside—you can. With data-driven insights, you can identify exactly the right items…

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6 Stats to Help Nonprofits Navigate Economic Instability 

Uncertain economic times are, unfortunately, pretty certain. According to a recent Community Brands survey, most nonprofits are confident that the economy will stabilize in 2023, there are things you can do to find stability amidst…

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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