Each year, we analyze registration and finisher data from RunSignup endurance events and GiveSignup fundraising events to identify industry trends and provide recommendations. In all, the resulting RaceTrends Report accounts for 45-50% of the US endurance market, including more than 85,000 race…
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Fee transparency laws have been enacted in several states, and a Federal Law is working it’s way through the system. While it’s early to draw any strong conclusions about the impact of the pricing changes on ticket sales, wanted to take a…
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One of our Year End Wrap-up Blogs. Others include 2022 Availability Report, Company Strategy, TicketSignup 2022 Product Recap, RunSignup 2022 Product Recap, and TicketSignup Product Roadmap. Also, here is our 2023 Roadmap Webinar. RunSignup helped our customers process $400 Million for their events in 2022. We have continued our…
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MobileCause was acquired by Community Brands on June 16, 2021. As is typical of announcements like this, there was a nice press release: “Adding MobileCause into our dynamic portfolio will provide a new take on digital philanthropy and truly advance fundraising efforts for…
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In November 2019 we wrote about the abrupt brand and platform shut-down of Crowdrise following their acquisition by GoFundMe. While Crowdrise was designed for nonprofits, GoFundMe has been designed from the start as a platform for individual fundraising for many purposes. The change caused…
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Funraise announced Funraise Free this month, giving nonprofits access to their “core platform” for free. But what does free nonprofit software really mean? Funraise Free is yet another freemium model – a common business strategy that seeks to grow the customer base while protecting…
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The world received encouraging news when Pfizer and BioNTech announced early results of 90%+ effectiveness on their vaccine trials: Vaccine candidate was found to be more than 90% effective in preventing COVID-19 in participants without evidence of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection in the…
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This guest post is from Double the Donation, the industry-leading matching gifts platform. You can enable the GiveSignup – Double the Donation integration for any event, donation form, donation website, or fundraising campaign to grow donations through corporate matching gifts. Learn more…
Read MoreThe $2 trillion COVID-19 Stimulus Plan was signed into law this afternoon. Among the many benefits, the emergency relief plan contains several measures that directly apply to nonprofits that we would like to highlight in this blog: The passage of this plan…
Read MoreWe are beginning to see the impact of Coronavirus on our communities and on our run/walk/rides and nonprofit events. We are trying to be proactive to help the industry with information about any direct impact we see and education about actions races…
Read MoreAs we write this, Coronavirus is the headline of every news story and the subject of every water cooler office (physical or virtual) discussion. Let’s hope that the spreading stops soon, and that illnesses and death are minimized. But as event directors,…
Read MoreAs an employee owned company trying to help nonprofits, we have no love for the money hungry private equity industry. As famed open source software developer Kohsuke Kawaguchi notes, this is outright corruption. If you are not familiar with the story, ICANN is the…
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