Posts Tagged ‘donate’

Keep Your Organization’s Donations Growing

04/11/2011

Donations drive change. When your business, nonprofit, club or team depends upon donations to function to the highest potential, your supporters are the fuel to your organization. With donation-giving on a decline, your organization should focus on improving the donor experience and engaging supporters in the fundraising process. Your organization can increase fundraising efforts with these three simple steps:

Interactive fundraising through social media allows donors to feel like they are part of the organization, and directly making a change. Youtube is a great forum where your organization can simply upload videos to promote your campaign at no cost. You can show the people you have helped and where past and future donations are going. People will see the difference they can make and want to help. Videos can easily be shared by viewers, and prompt those interested to visit your organization’s website.

Create a community of supporters. When people feel part of a community they feel an obligation to help when they are asked. Integrate a Message Board onto your organization’s website where your supporters can communicate with each other. Supporters can post pictures, share what the organization has done for them, and ideas to help further. Here supporters can invite friends to get involved and further grow your donation base.

Implementing these fundraising tactics can engage supporters and help your organization to create fruitful, long-lasting relationships with your donors. Try to focus not only on increasing donations, but increasing supporters and improving the donor experience. If supporters feel included, your organization will have no problem collecting donations.

If your organization would like to use Billhighway’s donations functionality, including the ability to create a custom donations URL to share with your donors, please contact us at sales@billhighway.com or call 248-273-0074.

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Collect Donations through Billhighway!

02/14/2011

Collecting donations can be a difficult and overwhelming experience for any organization. With Billhighway’s new donations function, your chapter can start focusing more time on your cause and less time on collecting and distributing donations.

The donations functionality allows your organization to remove all the barriers to fund-raising and charitable giving by leveraging Billhighway’s technology – and vast non-profit experience – to provide a trusted and secure environment in which to collect, process, and distribute donations. Available exclusively to Global clients, the donations function provides a straight-forward, easy-to-follow process that allows supporters to effortlessly locate, select, and donate to the organization of their choice.

Through this innovative system, your chapter has the opportunity to take advantage of the many features that make the entire donating process easier to promote, manage, and organize:

Create your own custom link to drive donors and supporters directly to your organization (for example, http://donate.billhighway.com/MyChapter). Send your personalized link to your donors or embed into your group’s personal website to let visitors know how to donate and help spread the word.  By creating your own personalized link you can make donating easy and accessible to anyone from anywhere.

Convenient and Secure ways to donate whether donors choose to contribute using their bank accounts or credit card (MasterCard, Visa, Discover, and American Express). Billhighway’s secure system protects the financial information of donors and safely transfers banking and credit card donations. Billhighway never sells, trades, or gives out personal information to any third-party or organization.

No Time? No Problem. Donate without clearing your schedule! Attending an organization’s fundraiser or event used to be the only way to donate and support the cause. Now, through Billhighway, donors can give money without being at the event. Supporters can simply click on your custom link and donate to your organization, without the pressure and stress of clearing their schedules. Now everyone has the opportunity to support your cause, whether out-of-state, traveling the world, or running the kids to soccer practice.

Billhighway’s donations feature is an easy way to increase chapter and national fundraising efforts, engage alumnae, and provide a quick and secure way to support and give back to your organization! Through the implementation of the donations feature your chapter will gain supporters from around the world and financially prosper, allowing you to better support your organization and, most importantly, your community. Billhighway’s donations feature not only allows your chapter to make a difference, but allows anyone who supports your cause to make a difference also!

If collecting donations through Billhighway could help your chapter, contact your Headquarters to let them know you are interested. It may be coming soon!

 

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Billhighway “Adopts-A-Family” for the holidays

12/06/2010


This year, the Billhighway team are making the holidays a little more joyful  by adopting a local family in need. The Billhighway team members donated clothing, linens, gift cards, food, cleaning supplies and more to a family in the Metro Detroit area, all wrapped up and ready to be put under the tree.

The Adopt-A-Family program was organized by the Community Housing Network in Troy, MI. This is the first year Billhighway has participated in the Adopt-A-Family program, however, we had such an overwhelming response from our team members that we will most definitely participate in this event again for years to come.

If you would like to participate in a similar program, please contact your city hall or your local Salvation Army or Goodwill Center for opportunities in your area.


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