Updated Articles

  1. Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) Fact Sheet for Non-Profits

    The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) was enacted in 1991 and codified in Section 227 of the Communications Act of 1934. The FCC adopted updated rules effective October 16, 2013. Although the new rules contain changes affecting for-profit ...
  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. Recurring Donations Section

    Recurring Giving is a great way to maximize donations and ensure constant funding from top supporters.  For more about how Recurring Donations function, click here .  Read below for how to enable the different capabilities of Recurring Donatio...
  4. Manage Pledges

    The Manage Pledges reporting option lets you see everyone who has interacted with your activities, whether it is people who have donated, pledged, signed up to volunteer, etc. The Manage Pledges page allows you to view and export several key pieces ...
  5. Receipts and Notifications Account Settings

    The Receipts and Notifications section of your Account Settings allows you to modify the templates for the default emails that are sent to supporters when they complete one of your forms (Receipts) and default emails that are sent to people within y...
  6. Donor CRM: Automate Tracking Donors, Thank You Letters, and Retaining Them to Give Again

    Your Intuitive, Simple CRM Community Brands, GiveSmart's parent company, acquired SimplyFundraisingCRM in March 2022, rounding out the GiveSmart fundraising and donor management platform.   Built by fundraising experts with over 25 years of experi...
  7. Fundraiser Account Settings

    As an Administrator of your GiveSmart Fundraise account, under Settings , the Fundraisers section allows you to view and control all your fundraisers from any and all your Crowdfunding activities. From this Settings section, you can ...
  8. Collapsing Navigation Bar

    The GiveSmart Fundraise navigation along the left side of the application can collapse to provide more room on the screen for you to work with your campaigns, activities, reports, etc. To collapse or expand the navigation bar, click on the arrow in...
  9. Release Notes 2022 Q3 (July through September)

    Fundraising Rebrand Updated v30.7 Support the updated rebranded URL of https://fundraise.givesmart.com . app.mobilecause.com will be decommissioned by the end of the month. Until decommissioned fundraise.givesmart.com will redirect to app.m...
  10. Release Notes 2022 Q2 (April through June)

    Fundraising Rebrand New v30.4 MobileCause is now known as GiveSmart Fundraise . GiveSmart is now known as GiveSmart Events. Updated anywhere MobileCause is seen within the platform to GiveSmart Fundraise: Updated anywhere MobileCause is seen...