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FAQ: How to Accept Payments on GiveSignup

GiveSignup is a PCI Level 1 Payment Facilitator that has helped more than 10,000 nonprofit organizations raise more than $1.4 Billion. By combining integrated payment processing with our free fundraising event technology, GiveSignup helps nonprofits market, manage, and grow their fundraising events…

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Power Up Your Social Fundraising With These Tools

As the number of nonprofits continues to grow, so does competition among these organizations. In order for your organization to thrive in this ever-growing environment, it needs to increase its retention rate by better engaging supporters and giving them more memorable experiences. …

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Fundraising Events (Ep. 13):Fundraising Hurdles

In this episode of Fundraising Events, Bryan Jenkins is joined by Marta Blanco of Sofia’s Hope, a nonprofit committed to making a difference in the world of childhood cancer and specifically in the world of pediatric cardio-oncology. Join our conversation as we dive into…

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Free Email From GiveSignup Is Available

We are very happy to release the first version of our free next-generation email system for nonprofits! As we have previously discussed, this will take us several months to completely release, but this release brings important features to nonprofits now: Here is an example email on…

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5 Simple Ways to Include Gamification in Your Fundraising Plan

The year is 2021, and everyone is hooked on something: smartphones, food, games, social media, caffeine, shopping, music, etc. With an abundance of distractions, it is even harder to keep people engaged. Recently, Microsoft sponsored research to show how much the global attention…

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Fundraising Events (Ep. 12): The Rise of Golf Fundraisers

In this episode of Fundraising Events, Bryan Jenkins is joined by Helen Kelley, director of development at Finger Lakes Health Foundation, the fundraising arm of Finger Lakes Health, which is a multi-institutional health system that provides a full range of acute and long-term…

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Single Sign On Across All Sites

We are excited to announce Single Sign On (SSO) for GiveSignup.org, RunSignup.com, and the rest of our platform’s sites including: GiveSignup | RunSignup continues to invest heavily in key platform features, like financials and payments, free email marketing, free websites, and more. At the same time, many…

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4 Ways to Increase Matching Gifts at Your Fundraising Event

Whether you’ve explored the world of corporate philanthropy before or not, matching gifts are a must-have at your next upcoming fundraising event. After all, this is a fantastic opportunity to maximize your fundraising dollars so that donors’ gifts go even further! Corporate matching–gift programs are…

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Email Marketing V2 Plans

We are working on a new generation of email marketing for our GiveSignup customers. We have customers currently sending over 30 million emails per month for free on our platform, and we want to make a significant step forward in what we…

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Transaction vs. Subscription Business Model

As we have started to make progress in expanding from our traditional solutions for endurance events into more general fundraising events, we are also expanding the way software vendors charge nonprofit customers from a subscription based pricing model to a transaction based…

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Webinar Round-Up: Building Future-Proof Events for Fall

In this webinar, Bryan Jenkins and Steve Bingham-Hawk will take you through the differences between 2020 and today, review best practices for creating a hybrid event with a built-in contingency plan, and provide a refresher of all GiveSignup | RunSignup’s free tools…

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