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November 30, 2024

15 Games for Fundraising Events

Looking to spice things up at your next event? Games are a great way to raise additional funds, entertain, and keep guests engaged through participation. Raffles and wine pulls are familiar, but we’ve broken down a few more to help jog new ideas.

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April 21, 2020

How To Host An Online Silent Auction

Today, more and more auctions are hosted online. An online silent auction allows donors to bid directly from their mobile phones, tablets, or computers. An online silent auction also has a wider reach, which can increase participation and ultimately increase the funds that you raise.

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April 17, 2020

What is a Wine Pull in Fundraising Software?

Wine pull, wine grab, or cork grab, are great ways to fundraise for your cause. What’s a wine pull? How’s it done? Can it be done online? It can. And wine not?

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April 16, 2020

10 alternatives for live-experience auction items

Not sure what to do with the live-experience auction items that you have for your live auction? Host your silent auction anyway! If those items don’t quite fit the times, here are some alternatives.

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April 15, 2020

How to attract an audience for your virtual event

Attracting the right audience for your fundraising event is crucial for its success, whether the event is virtual or in person. While it is always important to gain the attention of major donors, virtual events broaden the potential for others to participate. This makes your potential for fundraising limitless! 

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April 9, 2020

How to host an online fundraising event

Whether you’re hosting an online fundraising event for the first time, or tenth, virtual fundraising offers many benefits, such as increased accessibility, faster results, less time required for planning and execution and lower costs.

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April 9, 2020

Benefits of online fundraising events

Online fundraising events can be fun and successful. Right now, people are looking for a way to connect, to get involved, to have an impact. Learn the benefits of online fundraising, and how you can capture them for your organization.

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April 9, 2020

Text-to-donate fundraising statistics

Mobile devices are the constant companion of just about everyone these days. The ubiquitousness of…

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April 3, 2020

3 ways to host a video fundraiser

With many nonprofits, associations, schools, and foundations hosting fundraisers online or virtually, there are new components to consider, like video! Integrating video with your fundraiser doesn’t have to be super involved. All you need is a decent smartphone.

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April 2, 2020

Webinar Q&A: Your pivot to an online fundraiser

What should you do if your organization needs to host an online fundraising event instead of a live one? We’ve got data, inspiration, and best practices to run virtual events so that all of your fundraising dollars don’t go out the window. These are the questions from our webinar, Your Pivot to a Virtual Fundraiser.

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Checklist for pivoting to a virtual event
March 17, 2020

Checklist: Pivoting to a Virtual Fundraising Event

Things not going quite as planned? Here’s how to pivot to an online virtual fundraising event while ensuring that no dollars are lost.

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March 4, 2020

Does my event need a theme?

Does my gala need a theme? Should the event theme be the same year after year? What if people don’t want to participate? All completely valid questions. So. What to do?

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March 3, 2020

Promoting and marketing your fundraising campaigns – webinar Q+A

The following questions are from our Q+A session during our live webinar, Promoting and Marketing Your Fundraising Campaigns.  

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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