Key Features for Free Email…
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…
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
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…
Read MoreImproved 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…
Read MoreSocial 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…
Read MorePast 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…
Read More3 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!
Read MoreEmail 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…
Read MoreEmail V2 Header Settings
In addition to custom footer settings, you now have more flexible design options for all email headers. The default header setting displays your logo, event name, Sign Up call to action button, and Donate call to action button (if donations are enabled)….
Read MoreEmail V2 Footer Settings
There are new settings to customize the Email footer. By default, emails display the event logo and the event name in the footer. There are more flexible options now available. To disable the footer, click the gear in the upper right hand…
Read MoreEmail V2 for Volunteer Communications
Email V2 streamlines your volunteer communications with a system recipient list for Volunteers and volunteer replacement tags to include custom data for: These replacement tags make it easy and simple to communicate with your Volunteers, as well as include Volunteer calls to…
Read MoreSpellcheck for Email V2
GiveSignup’s free Email V2 now has integrated spellcheck so that you can send emails without misspellings or mistakes. Spellcheck automatically works for all emails created in and sent from Email V2. Right click to get suggested options to correct misspelled words.
Read MorePre-Built-Emails
Want to send an email to your marketing lists announcing that registration is open but not sure what to write? Need to send a pre-event email but not certain which details to include? GiveSignup’s Pre-Built Emails give you a set of templates…
Read MoreFundraiser Email Replacement Tags for Email V2
There are now fundraiser email replacement tags for Email V2. Using these dynamic replacement tags with the Email V2 fundraiser recipient list gives your peer to peer fundraising event more power to automate and customize communications with your fundraisers. We make it…
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