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  1. Fundraiser Signup Walkthrough

    This video will showcase the process for volunteers to sign up to become fundraisers for a Crowdfunding and Peer-to-Peer Fundraising campaign. If you wish to share this video with your fundraisers you can use this link:  https://vimeo.com/691...
  2. Templates for Table Tent Artwork

    Download Instructions slides and printable table tents in Microsoft PowerPoint (.pptx) format for Text to Pledge and/or Text to Donate options. The difference is that Text to Pledge will include the Pledge options when your donors pledge: "Text KE...
  3. Navigation and Reporting Training

    The GiveSmart Fundraise Fundamentals series of training sessions take you through the most common usage of a GiveSmart Fundraise account, through four different sessions.  For more on the  classes/recordings, click here . Get to know your GiveSmar...
  4. Image Sizes

    Image sizes on the forms will often stretch or shrink as needed, but it is recommended to have any image in your form be least a width of 476 pixels or more, so that other sites that may share image from your forms, like Facebook, will display the...
  5. How to Use Crowdfunding for a Paid Registration Event

    Especially during summer months when weather is great, non-profits will often host a run/walk, bike event, dance-off, etc. where participants are encouraged to fundraise. Often, a paid registration may be required before a participant can fundraise....
  6. Mobile Experience

    Once donors open a new text message on their phone and text the keyword to the appropriate shortcode (for Fundraising keywords, 41444 or 91999), they immediately receive an automated response with a link to complete the donation. When they click th...
  7. Edit Automated Text Message Responses

    Some auto-response text messages can be edited. Others cannot. Messages that CAN be edited: One-Time Response messages within a Text-to-Subscribe activity (51555) can be edited. When setting up a Text-to-Subscribe activity, write in your cus...
  8. Using Your GiveLater Form

    The Give Later  form can be used to trigger fulfillment text messages and fill the fundraising thermometer at events. You can access the form from your Text to Donate form by clicking GiveLater in the left menu. You can also get to any Give...
  9. Do donors receive donation confirmations or acknowledgements?

    When a donation has been successfully completed, the donor will receive a thank you text message and email confirmation (based on the information the donor provided on the donation form). Please note customers who are set up with a merchant account ...
  10. Customizing Text Message Responses

    I want to change the wording of the automated text message that my supporters get when they text in to order tickets, complete a survey, etc." This message was set up and locked into place in this format due to regulations. Right now, the onl...