GiveCampus

What do you like best?

We subscribed to GiveCampus in the fall of 2019, in anticipation of our Giving Day in March 2020. The platform was relatively easy to learn and quite user friendly. For our donors we have heard that they liked the fact that they did not need to create an account in order to make a give via GiveCampus. We recently launched a second fundraising campaign via GiveCampus for our student emergency fund, and it was easy to set up - we got it up and running quickly, and we are able to see the progress of through the visuals built into the platform. We are glad to have the platform and would definitely recommend it to others.

What do you dislike?

There is a little but of a learning curve for the platform. We had to learn how to set up our campaigns. One of our staff members took a few days aroudn the winter holiday to JUST learn how to set up and use the GiveCampus platform. We then needed to figure out how to get users to use the platform, upload their own videos or offer fundraising challenges via the platform. That took a bit of time, and there are some helpful videos and tools provided by GiveCampus to assist with that, yet we still got questions from users who were not clear on what they needed to do. We do understand that any platform like GiveCampus would require a learning curve, and were happy that this one was not too steep.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

For anyone who is still running online giving campaigns on their own website, or are struggling to start doing online fundraising campaign, I would highly recommend GiveCampus. Our organization is on a tight budget and we found it to be priced economically. We found the back end, where you set up your campaigns, upload your logo, videos, etc, and decide what data to include in the giving for - all that was set up in an easy-to-use way and we are able to customize the online giving form in a way that suits our needs. We can easily track the donations that come in, even getting an email alert for each new gift. You can designate who received those email alerts, which can be handy of you have different teams doing different campaigns within your organization. The platform allows for ease in reporting out the gifts that were received, and we can upload that data into our CRM database quite easily. Our constituents have given us good feedback on the platform and we are quite pleased with how the two campaigns we've used it for have gone. Definitely worth checking out and seeing it it will suit your organizations needs.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

We are able to do small/targeted fundraising campaigns using GiveCampus, and integrate video with them in a way that appeals nicely to our constituents. We did not have any such capabilities prior to getting GiveCampus. Using GiveCampus gives us a more modern look for our online fundraising efforts, and we did not have to built a platform ourselves to do this. We love the ease of the platform and the sleek look. We also like the visual breakdown of where the gifts come from (geographic, type of donor, etc) and the list of who made the gifts. It makes everything seem more personal somehow.