Online Fundraising Tools
Online Fundraising
When it comes to fundraising, nothing is more effective than being able to accept donations online. With PledgeRaiser, you or your members can create fundraising pages for any cause or event, promote them through email, twitter, facebook and your own website. Track individual and overall goals, chart trends and capture donor information. Automatically generate followup emails, thank you emails, and generate end-of-year tax letters. Donations can be received through your own merchant account or PayPal, having 100% control of your money, at all times. In addition to online donations, PledgeRaiser can keep track of offline pledges and checks coming in, so you get a total picture of the fundraising progress.
Personal Fundraising Pages
In addition to your organization's fundraising pages, your members can create their own fundraising pages based on a template you give them, then promote it to their friends via facebook, twitter, email and other social media tools. They have the ability to upload their own photos, customize the fundraising message and track their own stats. If they join a missions team or other event, their fundraising page is automatically created for them. All donations go directly to your organization's bank account, while the system keeps track of who it was designated for.
Fundraising Events
If your organization hosts fundraising events such as golf tournaments, fun runs, 5k races, PledgeRaiser can handle the event information page, registration (with custom application forms if necessary), and either generate personal fundraising pages for the participants, or require fixed-price payments to participate. In addition, you can get creating with the donations by allowing people to pledge a fixed amount, or an amount-per-unit such as a $1.00/lap for a fun run, or $10/hole for a golf marathon.
Causes and Campaigns
Causes are a particular goal your organization is wanting to accomplish. When you setup a cause in PledgeRaiser, you have the ability to create a custom page to display information about it, set both individual and overall fundraising goals and track the progress as donations come in. Any member of your organization can create their own fundraising page for your cause and personally promote it, giving you the ability to harness the energy and contacts of all your members.
Security
When someone makes a donation to your organization, PledgeRaiser never touches the money - it goes directly through your Merchant Account into your bank. Authorize.NET, Internet Secure, Network Merchants, and PayPal are currently supported, but if you use someone else, our staff will be happy to make them available to you. All of our pages are secured with SSL Encryption and are PCI Compliant.