Givebutter

“Givebutter was new to us. We had never heard of it, and we were recommended by one of our top volunteers to check it out. We talked with Max and decided to just go for it, especially being able to offer Venmo and PayPal which our donors have asked for for years and years and years. Being able to say, “Okay, here it is!” was a huge plus… Max and all the team were just so accessible and easy to work with. If you've got questions, ask them. [The Givebutter team] was so helpful.”

“All in all, Givebutter has really helped serve our needs. We researched a bunch of other kinds of fundraising tools and I think Givebutter is unique in the support of [Livestream] events.”

“We liked that we could livestream our event and enable our donors to make a contribution without leaving the platform for the Livestream. In any other platform that you're using, if the giving function is not there, they have to go away from the event to make that gift. We don't want to lose anyone; we wanted to make sure that people continued to stay engaged with us while they were making a gift. This [Givebutter] platform made the best sense for us.”

“I think that created this idea of community, that collective organization, was the vibe that we were trying to build. We were doing this as a community which is a kudos to Givebutter.”

“I think part of the great thing about the Givebutter platform is you do see each individual person. Their importance is really highlighted. It doesn't feel like it's this campaign with no faces. It becomes really easy to be like “I'm supporting the specific person and also all these other people.””

“You can count on my business and I will definitely be doing a No-Call-Phone-A-Thon next year, too.”

““It was the customer service and responsiveness of the Givebutter team that drew me in. It was immediate. It was personal. I definitely felt like I was not going to be alone during that process.””

“Choose your technology wisely. We had a journey with this event on it. Bells and whistles and new stuff is great, but when it comes down to it, you need something that is reliable and something that is easy and as frictionless as possible—which Givebutter fits the bill for me. I'm doing other campaigns on it right now. Pick your tech wisely. Don't be afraid to try new things. Don't be afraid to try and leverage all the features.”

“I jumped right to Givebutter...I've used it before, I know it's a very stable product, and I can rely on it. And it has great abilities to handle international registrants, international donors, and the kind of flexibility we needed. Choose your technology wisely...when it comes down to it, you need something that is reliable and something that is easy and as frictionless as possible—which Givebutter fits the bill for me.”

“When I started using the [Givebutter] platform and seeing how it worked, I was just amazed at how organized everything was, how user-friendly it was . . . We wanted people to be able to donate and buy tickets—which Givebutter does so well. After using it successfully for more complicated events, it was just super easy to be able to say, “Yeah, we can use this for our Housing Heroes event!””

“The fact that Givebutter allowed you to be watching the Livestream and click on the donate button and see the feedback in the live feed at the same time, we really liked that interaction. That was a key element that led us to choose Givebutter, was that fact that you could have the live stream and people didn't have to leave the platform to give in the moment.”

“Well, it seemed pretty intuitive to use. I think also for the donor on the other side.”

“Thank you! Raising $25,000 funds one pediatric clinical cancer trial, so we're happy about that.”

“To be honest, I'm good with computers. I can do some things, but I'm not what you would call an “IT specialist,” or anything. But, I found it very easy to set it up, invite everybody, have the stories, add your photos… You could make it as detailed as you wanted or you could make it as minimal as you wanted.”

“The ease of use, honestly, to create your page, to get it out there, and to share—you do not have to be very tech savvy and can really make it work for you.”

“And thank you for doing what you're doing, keeping this platform open for people to do good in the world.”

“I think something that I personally like about Givebutter is that it's very easy to understand. It's pretty straightforward that you can just click the donate button. Compared to like GoFundMe and other sort of websites I found, there to be like a slightly overwhelming amount of information, whereas this felt very just simple and straightforward. I also like that you have the option to use a lot of different payment methods on Givebutter. So it felt like a way to sort of be the most kind of catch-all for anyone who wanted to donate and give.”

“And it continued throughout the campaign. I was really running the campaign part and they're often just little questions. Whatever it was, it was the same thing. I was able to reach them quickly and get support. There was always someone there to back me which was really helpful.”

“Can I give a quick shout out to the Givebutter team? Because of those Shevets. There were a lot of them, and it seemed really overwhelming to me. When I chat-boxed you guys, within a minute I had help and you guys set it up on your end which was amazing. I was not expecting that. It's great for people to know that there's really a support team on the backend.”

“It was very user friendly for everybody. There wasn't a lot of training that you have to do because it's so user friendly to begin with.”

“Givebutter gave us the tools and the outlet to create this campaign. [Givebutter campaigns are] great because they're easy to search, easy to find, and people really enjoy participating in them. [Givebutter] was very user friendly for everybody. There wasn't a lot of training that you have to do because it's so user friendly to begin with.”

“You're so welcome. Thank you for the tool to make it happen. You'll be hearing from me again!”

“Really, you just made it so easy. Especially in a chaotic world, we need to have the tools for this kind of giving back to be easy. I think an important thing to me too was that I was able to tell the story without making myself the hero of the story. It was really important to me that this was about Obur Village, it was about all of the generous donors, and it was not about me celebrating myself as a “Look at what I did.” You gave us all the tools to say, “This is about a community of givers,” and that was really exactly what I needed.”

“And thanks to everyone at Givebutter for making it so simple.”

“It's really easy to learn. It's very user friendly. It's kind of a what-you-see-is-what-you-get platform. Nothing's hidden and the second you make the change it appears, which feels really validating.”