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

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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Email 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)….

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Email 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…

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Email 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…

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Spellcheck 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.

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Pre-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…

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Fundraiser 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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Fundraiser Email Recipient List for Email V2

You can now send and schedule emails to your fundraisers from Email V2. This enables your peer to peer fundraising event to easily communicate with fundraisers throughout the fundraising period. If your event offers peer to peer fundraising teams, you will be…

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It’s All about Connection: 5 Essential Emails For Peer-To-Peer Events

Invite, retain, appreciate, and inspire your biggest supporters with RunSignup’s free next-generation Email Marketing. Personalize communication – vital to the success of a Peer to Peer (P2P) initiative – by combining your custom database with integrated replacement tags. Create branded templates for…

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Hyperlink Images in Email Builder

You can now add URLs to images in the Email Builder, enabling you to redirect email recipients to a website. This gives you additional ways beyond call to action buttons and hyperlinks to link to website content from your GiveSignup emails for…

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Divider Content Block for Email Marketing

There is a new Divider content block that lets you make breaks and transitions between sections of content in your emails. With flexible weight and color options, you can use dividers to visually separate other content blocks in your layout. To add…

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