Downtown Greens: Downtown Runaround

Downtown Greens Community Greenspace is a 2.7 acre public garden in Fredericksburg, Virginia. In addition to an open greenspace for city residents to use, Downtown Greens provides environmental literacy and food access programming for both youth and adults, with an overall mission to increase…


Customer Case Study: Downtown Runaround

Downtown Greens Community Greenspace is a 2.7 acre public garden in Fredericksburg, Virginia. In addition to an open greenspace for city residents to use, Downtown Greens provides environmental literacy and food access programming for both youth and adults, with an overall mission to increase…


Growing Again

After a tough year, we are happy to report that live events are returning, and we are growing. It is a bit difficult with our business model to figure out growth, but all signs are positive: New Openings The first thing this means…


Why Your CRM or DMS is Not the Best Tool for Event Fundraising

Nonprofit CRM and DMS platforms are purpose-built to manage and track donor relationships. Your CRM or DMS enables your nonprofit to centralize supporter data with features like custom data fields to segment data and tools like wealth insights to target large donors. …


Ten Virtual Fundraising Ideas

Vaccine news continues to be better than many people realize and organizations are looking to put on hybrid events with both in-person and virtual options in 2021. However, many nonprofits are looking for easy and low overhead fundraising ideas that require minimal planning to bridge the…


What Happened to GoFundMe Charity?

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…


No Lock-in Contracts

As GiveSignup begins to gain traction in the nonprofit market, we are finding one of the big reasons customers are moving to us is our customer-first terms of business. We are finding that customer relationships are formalized by other vendors with contracts…


Photos 2.0

We are close to completing our huge project to upgrade our free Photo platform. Here are some of the highlights: Photos on Your Website Whether you upload photos, or you all participants to upload photos, your website will be updated automatically with a page…


GiveSignup 2021 Product Roadmap

We are excited to share our 2021 Product Roadmap to give our customers visibility into our development plans and priorities for the upcoming year. First, we will continue our investment in our secure infrastructure, making monthly server updates, and taking on incremental…


2020 Year in Review

TLDR; We broke our normally consolidated Year in Review into multiple parts. This one will focus on the business and market. We also did a 2020 Development Recap and a 2021 Product Roadmap. Since we document things openly, we can take a look back at 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, Q1, Q2,…


Hybrid Events Become Standard with Pfizer News

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…


GiveSignup Strategy

In September we announced a Series A funding round from Payroc that allows our company to accelerate the growth of both RunSignup and GiveSignup. In our typical openness, we wanted to share why GiveSignup is a key and complementary initiative to drive that growth….


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