Welcome to the Future of Fundraising.

As the fundraising conference season begins, my team and I are excited to learn about the successes your team earned in the last year and the challenges you’re working to overcome. We’ve been honored by an amazing response from leaders who want to meet at upcoming shows across the country.

I’m excited to share the breakthroughs that we’ve created here at Givzey in the last nine months to simplify your gift documentation processes so you can elevate the donor experience to new levels and book gifts faster, with more consistency.

This past week, we introduced two key innovations for the industry:

• Givzey 2.0 , which makes the Gift Agreement Platform a true end-to-end Digital Gift Agreement solution by adding Major Gifts into the fold.
• LOI Gift Agreements , which elevate the donor experience while decreasing the time to close future gift intentions from DAFs and family foundations.

We hope to see you this conference season and can always be reached at hello@givzey.com.

Here’s what’s on my radar this week:

Givzey Announces Version 2.0 of Fundraising’s First Gift Agreement Platform Including Digital Gift Agreements for Major Gifts

Announcing Givzey 2.0, which expands fundraising’s only Gift Agreement Platform to a truly end-to-end gift documentation solution by adding major gift agreements.

The upgrades and new functionalities included in Givzey 2.0 address the processes that prohibit multi-year giving, proper gift documentation, and seamless donor experiences. Innovations include:

• Digital Gift Agreements for Major Gifts
• Digital Gift Agreements for DAF, Foundation, and Future Gift Intentions
• New Manager Dashboards
• Automated Pledge Reminders & Follow-ups
• Improved Integrations
• And much more

See the full release here .

Givzey Revolutionizes the Donor Experience with New Letter of Intent (LOI) Gift Agreements

Givzey invented digital LOIs to ensure confirming and documenting multi-year and future gift intentions, whether stock DAFs, grants from family foundations, or otherwise are on-brand, donor-centric, personalized, and appropriate for the needs of fundraising today.

For example, according to the National Philanthropic Trust, DAF giving has increased by 400% in the last decade, amounting to $52.16 billion . However, documenting multi-year gifts that a donor intends to fulfill through DAF or family foundation grants is difficult. Neither can be booked as pledges. With their skyrocketing popularity, finding a solution to document DAF intentions that appeases both donors’ and nonprofits’ accounting needs is a priority.

Givzey’s digital LOIs ensure proper documentation in a first-of-its-kind fundraising solution that makes DAF giving warm and donor-centric, on-brand for organizations, personalized for fundraisers, and automated for advancement operations professionals. Best of all, with the average DAF grant at just $5k , Givzey’s digital LOIs scale to all levels of giving. (LEARN MORE)

Demo Day 2024: Learn About Software That Can Supercharge Your Capital Campaign

Thursday, February 15, 2024, from 1 - 5 pm Eastern

Learn About Software That Can Supercharge Your Capital Campaign

Join us for this special "demo day" where you'll be introduced to our friends and partners who, like us, are shaking up the fundraising landscape through digital transformation, artificial intelligence, and hyper-personalization. You'll discover how to leverage these software applications before, during, and after your campaign. (REGISTER )

[On-Demand] Pledges and Gift Documentation for Independent Schools

If you missed our webinar with Miss Porter’s School ahead of CASE-NAIS, here’s your chance to see it on-demand. In the webinar, Cristina Dieguez-Kou walked us through how Miss Porter’s School is simplifying the pledge process with Digital Gift Agreements and scaling pledges to donors of all sizes, across the giving pyramid.

Watch on-demand to learn how scaling pledges with digital gift agreements unlocks multi-year giving, easy DAF acceptance, and a world-class donor experience. (WATCH HERE )

Upcoming Conferences

January

• Jan 21-23: CASE-NAIS - Austin, TX
• Jan 24: AFP NYC - New York, NY
• Jan 28-30: AGB Foundational Leadership Forum - Los Angeles, CA

February

• Feb 4-6: CASE District III - Orlando, FL
• Feb 11-13: CASE District II - Baltimore, MD

Fundraising Jobs

If you have jobs you would like posted in the Future of Fundraising newsletter, please email hello@givzey.com with your requests.

• Assistant Director of Employee Engagement and Development | University of Illinois | Urbana, IL | APPLY>>>
• Senior Director, Office of Philanthropic Partnerships | MIT | Cambridge, MA | APPLY>>>
• Executive Director of Development and Alumni Relations $133,500 - $146,500 | Northern Michigan University Foundation | Marquette, MI | APPLY>>>