Key Features for Free Email…

Email Builder


Design emails quickly and easily with our simple drag and trop tool

Create professional and beautiful layouts

Branded Content


Brand your emails with your logo and color scheme

Match the look & feel of your emails to your websites

Unlimited Contacts


Automated lists of all fundraisers, participants, and donors

Upload unlimited custom contact lists with historical data

Dynamic Data


Personalize emails with automated replacement tags for items like “amount fundraised”

Add custom replacement tags for any data

Upgrade to Organization Email 

Every peer-to-peer fundraising event comes with free email integrated in your dashboard. Like using our easy Email Builder and cutting your Email Marketing costs? Set up Organization Email for your nonprofit and leverage system lists of donors and fundraisers across all of your events. Organization email is perfect for newsletters, event launch announcements, and cross-promoting your events.  Learn more about Organization Email!

Purpose-Built Email Marketing for Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Events

Design Beautiful Templates…

Use our point and click email builder to create professional emails in minutes:

  • Choose one of our templates to customize or build your own
  • Add images with our easy uploader or select from one of our image galleries
  • Bring your own HTML from an email template you already love
  • Pick from our library of content blocks to create compelling email layouts that feature your message, calls to action, and content

Send to Email Lists…

Select from our system generated lists and upload your own contacts:

  • System generated lists of donors, fundraisers, and participants are active and always up to date
  • Unlimited custom contact uploads – even if you have hundreds of thousands from your CRM
  • Include/exclude lists to reach the desired set of contacts; for example, all past participants who haven’t signed up this year
  • Grow your Email lists with GiveSignup’s Email Capture pop-up

Personalize Emails

Use data replacement tags to send important event and fundraising updates:

  • Leverage our extensive library of replacement tags from fundraiser data like amount raised and fundraising goal to Event Day info like QR Code for fast CheckIn and bib number.
  • Easily find the right replacement tag – just start typing the data you want to include and we’ll give you a suggested list to choose from
  • Upload custom data fields to use replacement tags with custom lists

Convert Emails to Donations and Registrations

Use GiveSignup Email Reports and Analytics to optimize your emails and raise more:

  • View individual and aggregate email statistics
  • Use GiveInsights to further track the number of sign ups, donations, and website views each email generates
  • Easy option to copy, update, and re-send successful emails

Automate Your Emails

Price Increase Emails


Never forget to send a notification for price increases! Automated price increase emails are tied to your event data to send past participants a reminder to sign up again, and push current participants to invite their friends.

Incomplete Registration Emails


Bring back undecided participants with an automated email for anyone who abandons their cart before completing registration. This simple-to-enable email ensures you’re never leaving revenue on the table!

Registration Follow-Up Emails


Send fundraising tips and update your fundraisers on their progress with automated registration follow-up emails. Set to send at a specific interval after registering, or on a set date.

Peer to Peer Fundraising Email Guide

Map out your event’s Email Marketing strategy with our guide to the 5 emails every peer to peer fundraising event needs to send. With schedules, recipient lists, and suggested content that’s easy to copy, you can set up your peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns in minutes.

The Latest Blogs on Email Marketing

Share Email V2 Templates Across Multiple Races

You can now export Email V2 templates that you create to other races. This makes it highly efficient and easy to share emails across multiple events. Navigate to Email V2 >> Templates >> Your Saved Templates. Click on the dropdown of any Email…

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Email V1 Retirement in January, 2024

As we have expanded the capability of Email V2, we are now in a position to begin the retirement of Email V1. The primary points of this transition are: We are very happy to have completed such a major upgrade for our customers….

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Email Deliverability

Our customers will send over 500 Million Emails this year on our platform. The email clients like Gmail and Outlooks continue to try to help recipients weed out unwanted email. Google recently published additional steps they are taking to ensure emails are…

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Apple Wallet Email Replacement Tag

GiveSignup makes it easy for participants to add their tickets to Apple Wallet, with numerous benefits including less customer service, automated event reminder notifications via Apple Wallet settings, and an even speedier check-in process. We automatically show options to add to Apple Wallet…

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Email Capture for Email V2

GiveSignup’s popular Email Capture for event websites is now available in Email V2. This streamlines the emails you collect from your customizable website Email Capture with the rest of Email V2. If you have already been using Email Capture in old Email…

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A Case Study: GiveSignup Organization Email and…GiveSignup

GiveSignup introduced Email for Organizations in 2022 to make it easier for our customers to transition away from expensive email services. Email V2 is built into every race dashboard and all customers can access free email through their event. Email for Organizations…

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More Prebuilt Emails

We’ve extended GiveSignup’s Prebuilt Email Template library with new categories and templates to choose from. In addition, we added a new prebuilt templates page so that you can browse and create emails from the library. There are 5 categories for GiveSignup Prebuilt…

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Improved Email Template Flow: Save and Rename

We improved the flow for saving and renaming Email Templates. There are two big updates: We will extend this improved flow to the Email Builder next. This will add a new “Save as Draft” option when working on an email through the…

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Social Media Component for Email V2

There is now a social media component that you can add to your emails to promote your Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter/X pages. The social media component is available for one, two, and three column sections. It will only show the icons for…

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Past Volunteer Recipients in Email V2

You can now easily email past volunteers with the addition of the Past Volunteer Recipient list. We have also made an update so that you can email all current volunteers until the race renews, at which time they will become past volunteers…

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3 Columns for Email V2

You can now add 3 column sections to your emails. This allows for even more flexible email design and layout options. We continue to add more design options to GiveSignup’s free Email Marketing – no coding required!

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Email Save as Draft

One of the most frequent requests we have received from users of our Free Email system was to make the saving of a draft email more obvious. We have added that feature now at the bottom of the page after first creating…

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