Good Morning (almost afternoon), all!
I have a question for any folks out there whose collective/workshop does large fundraisers/events where participants are asked to register either themselves or teams. We have been using crowdrise and had a number of complications with it this year. Are there any fundraising websites or apps out there that you would suggest? Just kinda getting things organized for next year...
Thank you in advance. Greatly appreciated.
Hi Judith,
In the past I have always use Eventbright though I have heard great things about it Little Green Light-a donor management software for Nonprofs. Just last year I started using Flipcause for the Bike Library. No huge complications to speak of, but as with anything else there is a learning curve. I like using Flipcause for the most part. You can get it on tech soup for 50% off. If you want to try it out they have a referral program that I can send you an invite to (our org then gets $100), but if not no worries. I have also heard good things about Sales Force.
I'd prefer to simply have folks register on a free platform and pay when they come to the event and/or still contribute when they end up not being able to make it. However, I think those days for my projects are over because I have bought into getting extra assistance with easy donor tracking for large events/fundraisers. Besides, if we want to grow our fundraising efforts one of our main priorities to retaining donors and the paid platforms help do that.
To add the creative touch that I feel is lost using large paid platforms for our fundraisers, we commissioned a local artist to do a print for us and gave them to high donors and all .volunteers. So combining funky with the tech stuff is key for us.
Peace & grease,
*Audrey Wiedemeier* (She/her/hers) Iowa City Bike Library, Director
700 S. Dubuque St, Iowa City *Hours: *Sat. 10-3, Mon. 5-7, Tues. 6-8, Wed. 6-8, Thurs. 6-8, Fri. 4:30-6:30
BikeLibrary.org C: (515) 450-1651
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 10:58 AM Judith Feist judith@backalleybikes.org wrote:
Thank you, Audrey! This is very helpful!
I will do a little exploring on the mentioned sites/platforms. (:
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 12:28 PM Audrey Wiedemeier audrey@bikelibrary.org wrote:
We use Salesforce, both for donations and tracking volunteer hours. It works fine for some events, but have used PayPal in past to sell tickets and manually entered the data. We just started with Click&Pledge, which is a free/donor paid platform. It has some event management features we want to explore, and good connection with Salesforce. I like how Salesforce lets us customize to capture all the info we want to track, and have one central place for all data. This is the year we tackle event management!
Jack Murphy Bike Walk Wichita
On Jan 23, 2019, 10:50 AM, at 10:50 AM, Judith Feist judith@backalleybikes.org wrote:
We use Salesforce, both for donations and tracking volunteer hours. It works fine for some events, but have used PayPal in past to sell tickets and manually entered the data. We just started with Click&Pledge, which is a free/donor paid platform. It has some event management features we want to explore, and good connection with Salesforce. I like how Salesforce lets us customize to capture all the info we want to track, and have one central place for all data. This is the year we tackle event management!
Jack Murphy Bike Walk Wichita On Jan 23, 2019, at 10:50 AM, Judith Feist judith@backalleybikes.org wrote:
Thank you Jack!
Good suggestions! I will look in to those as well. I believe we use paypal through our website to take donations....I would think it'd be easy to track as well for fundraisers?
On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 3:47 PM Jack Murphy jack@bikewalkwichita.org wrote:
PayPal is a simple platform, which is good and bad. Easy to set up, but no recurring donations and no free, easy connection to Salesforce. We've used it for donations, and used PayPal buttons to register for our classes. So it would work for an event. I like that you can create different buttons for various events, with different prices. They click, fill out the PayPal form, you get an email with details of the order.
Jack Murphy
On Jan 24, 2019, 4:07 PM, at 4:07 PM, Judith Feist judith@backalleybikes.org wrote:
Does anyone use Patreon? Seems to work well for artists and podcasters; and there's a recurring payment option.
Ulick The Bike Circus Clonakilty, IReland
On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 at 08:48, Jack Murphy jack@bikewalkwichita.org wrote:
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