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Ultimate Silent Auction Study

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

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School Fundraising Guide

GiveSmart’s Ultimate Study Guide for School Fundraising

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

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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.

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fundraising ideas to run all year round

Creative Campaigns

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

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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.

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Donor Segmentation Guide

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

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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