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Team Fundraising pages are the latest product to be supported by our second-generation payment form.
This is part of the gradual transition to a payment form aligned with our upgraded system. Learn more about our new payment form and its features.To assist donors who file U.S. taxes, we have arranged easy and secure access to a personalized summary of the donations they made to nonprofits that used our fundraising platform in 2023.
This was done in compliance with U.S. federal tax law. All Give Lively member nonprofits will soon be advised of this so that they can support their donors’ tax needs. Donor tax summaries (as well as individual donation receipts) are located in the Give Lively User Portal. Read what and where the Give Lively User Portal is and how donors can find their annual summary of donations.
Weblinks in the descriptions on Branded Donation Widgets once again open correctly.
A bug briefly blocked the in-text link functionality. Learn how to use embeddable widgets to collect donations on your website. Nonprofits saved between $471,142 and $3,022,041 on tech expenses just in December 2024 by using the Give Lively fundraising platform.
As we did in December 2023 and to quantify our September 2024 milestone achievement of $100 million saved in tech costs for nonprofits on $1 billion raised, we made our new calculations based once again on the fees that nonprofits would have paid if they raised an amount equivalent to the volume of donations Give Lively saw in December 2024 through a different platform. Read the motivation for, calculus behind and importance of Give Lively helping nonprofits save money on digital fundraising technology.As we now look ahead to 2025, we wanted to celebrate with you a day, month and year for the record books!
December 31, 2024, was the largest one-day total ever processed by Give Lively technology. December had the grandest monthly totals thus far in our 10 years of supporting nonprofits. And 2024 was our best year ever, full of growth and milestones. Take a look at our 2024 end-of-year review 2024 and see how we, our member nonprofits and their donors drew strength from one another. 
We always plan for the unexpected, but we also set up continuity and contingency plans for any occurrence.
Our latest developments include a fundraising page with reduced features and a back-up fundraising page in the event of significant service slowdowns or serious service disruptions, respectively. While we don’t anticipate needing this, these options guarantee a nonprofit's ongoing fundraising. Learn about the workarounds we have developed in case the unexpected happens.
It is once again possible to make PayPal donations through Charity Navigator’s Giving Basket.
For a brief period, donors who opted not to cover the PayPal transaction fee were unable to complete GIving Basket donations using PayPal as the payment method. Read about covering the payment processing fees when giving via the Giving Basket and how to get assistance if there is a problem processing a Giving Basket donation.A hiccup with ampersands (the & symbol) in the event title on Event Ticketing pages has been repaired.
Full titles now appear in Google calendar invites, whereas any texts following the & symbol had been cut off. Learn more about how to build an Event Ticketing page.We shared a new Member Story about Wellness Warriors, a Give Lively member nonprofit since 2019.
Wellness Warriors provides new opportunities for cancer survivors to heal – both physically and emotionally – by participating in their own recovery and a mutually empowering dragon boat team. Read about its creative approach to Peer-to-Peer Fundraising. For a short time, the anonymity toggle was missing from Simple Donation Widgets.
The toggle is now back and fully functional, allowing donors to remain anonymous if they choose. Learn how to add the ability to make private/anonymous donations and how to use embeddable widgets to collect donations on your website. Load More
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