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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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….
With the rapid growth of virtual events and challenges, we are seeing International demand for many events. Our latest release allows custom pricing (and exclusions) based on Country and/or State. This helps virtual events raise more by expanding your geographic target, and…
With months of cancelled events due to COVID, more than 8,800 nonprofits have used GiveSignup | RunSignup to go virtual, launch a virtual challenge fundraising campaign, and/or host a virtual ticket event. Beyond the obvious benefit of engaging supporters, we get a lot of questions…
You can now show individuals’ real-time fundraising progress on their results pages with a Donate call to action. This is a great feature for nonprofits where the focus of the event is on fundraising, encouraging fundraisers to hit their goals, and creating…
RunSignup, Inc. is pleased to announce that an investment affiliate of Payroc will become a minority investor and the Company will begin using Payroc as a preferred payment processing platform. Payroc is making a minority investment in the RunSignup|GiveSignup business to help…