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We built and support a powerful and practical fundraising platform that is free for nonprofits and intuitively easy to use for donors.
There are no rules about how to begin with our tech, so jump right in wherever you like!
Launch fundraising campaigns in minutes with beautiful, customizable and responsive donation pages
Our simple-to-embed, customizable donation widgets make it easy to collect donations.
Donors text a custom code (only accessible on U.S. phone carriers) and give via a secure fundraising page.
Create user-friendly pages for fundraising-event ticket and sponsorship sales.
Inspire donors to give generously by tracking and presenting contributions in real time
Donors text a custom code (only accessible on U.S. phone carriers) and give via a secure fundraising page.
Start a movement in a snap by empowering supporters to raise money on your behalf.
Encourage friendly competitive giving with a ranked view of your Peer-to-Peer fundraising activity.
Encourage social giving through a Peer-to-Peer team.
Launch fundraising campaigns in minutes with beautiful, customizable and responsive donation pages.
Our simple-to-embed, customizable donation widgets make it easy to collect donations directly from your website.
Donors text a custom code (only accessible on U.S. phone carriers) and give via a secure fundraising page.
Create user-friendly pages for fundraising event ticket and sponsorship sales.
Inspire donors to give generously by tracking and presenting contributions in real time.
Donors text a custom code (only accessible on U.S. phone carriers) and give via a secure fundraising page.
Start a movement in a snap by empowering supporters to raise money on your behalf.
Encourage friendly competitive giving with a ranked view of your peer-to-peer fundraising activity.
Encourage social giving through a peer-to-peer team.
Launch beautiful, customizable and responsive donation pages.
Collect donations directly from your website.
Encourage secure giving via mobile devices.
We guide nonprofits into the digital age, help them hit their fundraising goals and free them to devote more resources to their critical work.
We support a large and diverse community of nonprofits who trust us with their online fundraising.
Unlimited use of each fundraising product; recurring and offline donations easily accepted; ability to give anonymously or dedicate gifts
Major payment methods accepted, including digital wallets; transparent payment processor fees; Stripe powers donation intake and disbursement
Anytime access to real-time donor data and on-demand data exports
Unlimited use of each fundraising product; recurring and offline donations easily accepted; ability to give anonymously or dedicate gifts
Transparent payment processor fees and Stripe payment processor powers donation intake and disbursement
Unlimited access to real-time donor data and on-demand data exports and Integration with Google Tag Manager
Streamlined, donor-first, customizable design, built by and for donors; responsive layout for mobile, tablet and desktop
Data served using end-to-end encryption and SSL protected pages; data stored on encrypted databases
Live chat and email support with same-business-day turnaround; comprehensive online ‘Resource Hub’ help center
Streamlined, donor-first, customizable design, built by and for donors; responsive layout for mobile, tablet and desktop
Data served using end-to-end encryption and SSL protected pages; data stored on encrypted databases
Live chat and email support with average 24-hour turnaround and online ‘Resource Hub’ help center
Apply early: We manually screen all applications. Although filling out the application is a quick process, the usual review period is 7-10 business days from the moment you connect your Stripe account to Give Lively.
Stripe is a payment processor that securely manages the financial transactions between donors, banks and nonprofits.
Give Lively values. We won't approve membership for any nonprofit that promotes activities not in alignment with our values.
What is needed? Complete set-up includes ensuring ACH bank transfers are activated and that you have applied for Stripe’s nonprofit discount.
Nonprofit Admin Portal: Our Nonprofit Admin Portal is where you update information about your nonprofit and manage all your Give Lively fundraising activities.
Whether you’re a superstar team of one or a large well-funded nonprofit, we’re confident that our free platform will help your organization raise money more efficiently and effectively. We’ll also be your nonprofit’s cheerleader online, and help you further your fundraising efforts.
Membership is completely free and non-committal. Much like a foundation, Give Lively was created by philanthropists to provide free resources to nonprofits, specifically technology. Our founders have worked extensively with charitable organizations and seen first-hand the positive impact innovative tech can have on fundraising. They started Give Lively in 2015 based on the belief that every nonprofit should have access to best-in-class fundraising tech. Learn more here.
Members get payouts from donations to their bank account within 2 days, early access to new products, donor contact information, and more. In addition, members get free access to our best-in-class online fundraising platform which includes Text-to-Donate, Peer-to-Peer, and much more. Non-members are mailed paper checks within 30 days after the close of the month in which the donations were made, per our Terms Of Use.
The Resource Hub is one-stop shop for information and instruction about how Give Lively members use our powerful, practical and free fundraising technology. For more background support about Give Lively, go to our introductory FAQ pages.
The Give Lively membership application process can be completed in four easy steps. You will only need a few minutes, provided you have a few essential details right at hand.
To set you up for success, this page contains important information about the process. Please read it carefully so that you can make easy progress toward leveraging our powerful, practical and free fundraising software, including unlimited access to smart digital fundraising pages, peer- and event-based campaigns, the power of text-to-donate, mobile-first payment methods and much more.
Unsure about membership? Here's why you should sign up to become a Give Lively member.
Our fundraising platform stands apart from others for a trio of reasons:
We believe that nonprofits, no matter their size, should not sacrifice their means to satisfy their missions. So we built and support a powerful and practical fundraising platform that’s free for nonprofits and intuitive for donors — no setup fees, no platform fees, no membership or subscription fees, no annual or monthly fees, no hidden Give Lively fees.
We also never sell, rent or lease any data — just one aspect of our comprehensive approach to data privacy and security. Nor do we charge donors to give through our platform.
Learn more about why we’re free for nonprofits.
Give Lively’s dedicated team of advocates and technologists is proud to collaborate directly with nonprofits of all sizes as we improve our platform to better serve their needs and desires. To facilitate this, our nonprofit members have access to a shared transparent feedback tool through which they make requests and upvote others’ suggestions, as well as gauge our progress on projects we undertake.
We support values that inspire nonprofits to tackle tough challenges and complex issues such as gender and racial equality, reproductive health and LGBTQ+ rights, social and environmental justice, education, domestic violence, immigrant services and more.
In keeping with that, we personally review every membership application to ensure each nonprofit member aligns with our values. We also work to terminate all uses of our technology that promote activities not in alignment with our values
Notably, we believe that #BlackLivesMatter and stand in solidarity with Asian Americans.
Learn more about the values we hold dear.
We believe that nonprofits, no matter their size, should not sacrifice their means to satisfy their missions. So we built and support a powerful and practical fundraising platform that’s free for nonprofits and intuitive for donors.
We understand and sympathize with your concern about what “free” means today. We've experienced the same “free” service offers with hidden gotchas. And we know that some services claim to be "free" as a way to justify selling your data.
We pledge to be different.
We do not charge nonprofits for use of our fundraising platform — no setup fees, no platform fees, no membership or subscription fees, no annual or monthly fees, no hidden Give Lively fees.
We also never sell, rent or lease any data — just one aspect of our comprehensive approach to data privacy and security. Nor do we charge donors to give through our platform.
Learn more about why we’re free for nonprofits.
Our founders are committed philanthropists. In keeping with their goodwill vision of digital fundraising, they cover our operating costs so that we don’t have to charge nonprofits or donors.
They see Give Lively as a technological remedy to the complexity of fundraising, as well as a way to make strategic, efficient and impartial decisions about how to support the nonprofit community. In Give Lively, they identified a mechanism for sustainably leveraging their resources to help meet the development needs of a very broad group of potential beneficiaries.
That mechanism is our superpower. We call it the Give Lively Effect: a proven way of democratizing and leveling the digital fundraising playing field, guiding nonprofits into the digital age, helping them hit their fundraising goals and freeing them to devote more resources to their critical work.
Learn more about our founders’ rationale, the Give Lively Effect and our impact.
At the moment, the Give Lively platform integrates directly with a quartet of third-party services: Salesforce, Zapier, PayPal and Double the Donation.
Until other integrations are added, you can download donor data from the Nonprofit Admin Portal as a CSV file and import it into any CRM of choice.
For more details about existing integrations, our Resource Hub (for members, but open to all) has information about: