[OMS_MANAGERS] Donation Software

[Lizzy Caston]

We are signed up with Benevity for corporate donations/giving. This well
established platform allows corporations and employees to be matched to
causes of interest / geographic areas, etc. Google just gave us a nice
chunk of change through this platform.

For other donation promotion/management/giving in general we are looking at
a better CRM linked to donation platform and things like our website,
mailing lists, social media, etc and have a professional fundraising
company, Granted Fundraising assessing that. I know there's there's lots of
options out there but not all Main Streets are the same (we are very large,
very urban, in a city of 670k thousand people with lots of large
corporations etc located here and deep ties to places like SF/Silicon
Valley) so finding the right platform is really based on org and community
makeup/need. We get our biggest corporate donors from outside of our state!

My two cents!

On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 3:09 PM Kelly Haverkate <kellyjhaverkate at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Apologies if this has been mentioned already, but since you're talking
> about corporate donations, we have also signed up with Kroger (Fred
> Meyer).  We get about the same amount quarterly from them and Amazon.  Easy
> money!
> (I think most of their donations come from MY purchases!  ha ha!
>
> Kelly
> Downtown Dayton
>
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 2:57 PM Don Warren <donwarren214 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> it takes a little while to see the "donation" that a buyer supplies to
>> the target non-profit thru smile.amazon.com
>> it is pretty easy to register your non-profit there
>> and then of course you have to continually advertise to engage your
>> community to remember to connect you
>>
>> Facebook (i am not on it ) also has a donation widget .. we get less than
>> a couple benjamins a year from it right now
>> our office manager / webEnabler does all of our facebookery stuff
>> ;0)
>> d
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 2:30 PM Dallas Downtown Association <
>> m.fisher.dda at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you Don!! I had no ideas that Smile.Amazon was a thing!
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 12:38 PM Don Warren <donwarren214 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> our website is built in squarespace and that has email list and
>>>> campaign management for  a very small monthly cost
>>>> for donations, we have been using GiveLively for events and online
>>>> raffles (OLCC approved)
>>>> and we encourage people to use smile.amazon.com naming
>>>> TheDallesMainStreet as beneficiary.
>>>>
>>>> We set up our donations page with option son amounts as well as
>>>> regular/evergreen recurring donations.
>>>> https://www.thedallesmainstreet.org/donate
>>>> we have other donation links throughout the site that are event/project
>>>> specific, which use a similar payment processing system
>>>>
>>>> best to all !
>>>> Don (in The Dalles) Warren
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 12:09 PM Kevin Teater <
>>>> kevin at downtownbeaverton.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> To those of you who have donation programs, or Friends of Downtown
>>>>> programs specifically, do you have a software that you recommend to help
>>>>> manage it and implement it?
>>>>>
>>>>> Basically, I am looking for the best option that can manage different
>>>>> "membership" levels, send out monthly recurring invoices to donors, and
>>>>> compile emails from registrations, and send emails to current donors.
>>>>>
>>>>> Kevin Teater (he/him)
>>>>> Executive Director
>>>>> Beaverton Downtown Association
>>>>> www.downtownbeaverton.org
>>>>> PO Box 311
>>>>> Beaverton, OR 97005
>>>>> (503) 332-5419
>>>>>
>>>> --
>>> *Melanie Fisher, *Executive Director
>>> *Dallas Downtown Association*
>>> *Office:* 971-701-1880*  | Direct: *971-707-2335
>>> PO Box 903 | Dallas, OR. 97338
>>>
>>> Email <M.Fisher.dda at gmail.com> | Website
>>> <https://www.dallasdowntownassociation.org/> | Facebook
>>> <https://www.facebook.com/Dallasdowntownassociation.org> | Instagram
>>> <https://www.instagram.com/dallasdowntownassociation/>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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