Themes

Themes are pre-built design layouts that can be applied to DonorDrive. Themes can be applied at the organizational level or at the event level, giving you the ability to have distinct looks for each of your events. You may choose from a library of pre-designed themes that can be customized and applied easily. If you would like Global Cloud to create custom themes for your organization, contact your Account or Project Manager.

New My Account Landing Pages

To make the constituent user experience more intuitive, DonorDrive has redesigned how your constituents access their events and donations.

• Donors: After making a donation, donors will be taken directly to the “Donations I Have Given” area where they can easily make further donations or download a PDF receipt for each donation.
• Participants: After participants register or login, participants will be taken directly to their “My Events” area where they can easily send email invitations, manage fundraising pages and much more.

Team Pages linked to Fundraising Pages

When a visitor navigates to a Team Fundraising Page, they will be able to access all team member fundraising pages by clicking on each participant’s name in the team member list.

More Control of DonorDrive Settings

We’ve added increased flexibility to DonorDrive. You can now control website and event settings. Administrators with appropriate access will be able to:

• Choose a payment gateway for your organization or event
• Control many aspects of how your organization, event and participant fundraising pages are presented, including whether a thermometers and statistics appear.
• Enable or Disable General Donations.
• Enable or Disable Personal Campaigns.
• Enable or Disable Offline Donations.

More Control of Permissions

You now have greater control over administrative user access. New Checkpoints, or permission levels will allow you to restrict the following:

• Accessing specific email campaigns
• Accessing specific email lists
• Accessing specific events in Reports, not all events

Application Programming Interface (API)

Global Cloud can now partner with you to build custom extensions and integrations between DonorDrive and your existing systems. Please contact your Project Manager to explore these options.

What’s Coming

The following is a list of high-level items we’ll be researching and developing in the coming months. If you are interested in learning more or providing feedback on how we should build these features, please contact support@globalcloud.net.

Family/Group Constituents:
The ability to register family or friends in one transaction.

Promotion Codes:
The ability to assign promotional codes to events to allow for free or discounted registration.

Scheduled Reports:
The ability to save custom exports and have those exports sent via email on a regular schedule.

Preview Event:
The ability for Administrators to fully preview an event prior to publishing.

Improvements to Invitations:
Improved invitation workflow to enable constituents to more effectively communicate with their supporters/team members.

Improved Facebook Integration:
We’ve received such great response from our Facebook widget that we’re looking exploring ways to integrate in deeper and more substantive ways.

Default Image for Fundraising Pages:
Enable administrators to set default images for all fundraising pages.

Improve Donation Process
Continued streamlining of our Donation Process to improve conversion rates.

Custom Content Blocks on all DonorDrive Pages:
Customizable blocks of content on every page and form for administrators to provide tips for constituents.

Event Search (by city, promo code, org code)
Enables administrators to conduct more specific event searches.

Donate to Team:
Allows donors to donate to a team as a whole as well as to a participant.

From the press release:

“We worked closely with Children’s Miracle Network over the past year to meet their strict requirements for online fundraising. It’s motivating to collaborate with an amazing organization like Children’s Miracle Network. To help improve children’s lives with our software and services feels great to the entire Global Cloud family,” said Paul Ghiz, Co-Founder, Global Cloud.

Tony Rehmer from Children’s Miracle Network added: “We selected DonorDrive™ after an exhaustive search among the other leading online providers. We believe DonorDrive™ offers the best tools at the best value. We look forward to our long-term relationship with Global Cloud, the makers of DonorDrive™.”

Children’s Miracle Network is an international non-profit organization that raises funds for more than 170 children’s hospitals. Countless individuals, 90 organizations and 400 media partners unite with Children’s Miracle Network hospitals to help sick and injured kids in local communities. Donations to Children’s Miracle Network create miracles by funding medical care, research and education that saves and improves the lives of 17 million children each year.

To learn more, visit: www.ChildrensMiracleNetwork.org

Read the full press release…

I’d like to take this chance to welcome all of the following organizations to the DonorDrive family:

• Ault Park Concours d’Elegance
• The Cancer Institute of New Jersey Foundation
• Community Alliance
• Irish Pub Philadelphia Children’s Foundation
• The Jean Cadet Restavek Foundation
• Re-elect Leslie Ghiz for City Council
• Ride For A Reason
• Spina Bifida Association of Cincinnati
• Stop Child Trafficking Now
• Susan G. Komen Foundation – Knoxville, TN Chapter
• The University of Cincinnati Foundation

Whew! That’s quite a list. We’re ecstatic to have the opportunity to help each and every one of these organizations meet and exceed their fundraising goals.

Since the Winter Release, we have made a significant number of incremental releases in response to the feedback from our clients. These include things like support for personal campaigns, improved deliverability on constituent-initiated emails (donation solicitations, updates and team invitations), and adding support for more flexible content on personal fundraising pages.

In the coming days and weeks, we have a lot of awesome new features that we can’t wait to share. Among the updates we’re currently working on, the next major release entails a substantial overhaul to the existing donation/registration process in order to streamline the experience for end users. Stay tuned for more!

By Tim Mixell, Senior Developer

• Improved Reports
• Multilingual Capability
• Conversion Tracking
• Company Management
• Receipts

Access to New Features - Most of the features will appear in your DonorDrive® right away. Some features, such as Corporate Management and Multilingual Capabilities, can be made available at your request.

Training - View our Training Schedule with dates and times available to maximize new features.

Customer Support - As always, if you have any questions or suggestions regarding your DonorDrive® software, access our Customer Support Center.

Did you know?

• DonorDrive® has reached over 1.2 Million Users
• DonorDrive® has helped raise over $42 Million for non-profits
• You have the ability with DonorDrive® to market your cause to the 260 Million active users on Facebook and Myspace.

Our mission is to empower nonprofit organizations with web-based software and services to maximize their development capacity by fostering long-term constituent relationships, exceed financial goals and deliver on its mission.

Dance Marathon at UCLA (DM) is the largest student-organized philanthropic event on the West Coast. Initiated and run entirely by students, the 26-hour dance-a-thon unites college students, activists, and community members in the fight against pediatric AIDS.

UCLA Dance Marathon just broke $179,000 raised with DonorDrive™! Congratulations!

http://ucla.donordrive.com

By Dan Volkens, Interactive Designer
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Dance Marathon at UCLA (DM) is the largest student-organized philanthropic event on the West Coast. Initiated and run entirely by students, the 26-hour dance-a-thon unites college students, activists, and community members in the fight against pediatric AIDS.

UCLA Dance Marathon just broke $50,000 raised with DonorDrive™! Congratulations!

http://ucla.donordrive.com

By Dan Volkens, Interactive Designer

WALK TO SAVE LIVES… In the United States, a person dies by suicide every 16 minutes, claiming more than 32,000 lives each year. It is estimated that an attempt is made every minute; with close to one million people attempting suicide annually.

AFSP (American Foundation for Suicide Prevention) just broke $3.3 million raised with DonorDrive™! Congratulations!

http://afsp.donordrive.com

By Dan Volkens, Interactive Designer
Posted in Client Success, News Tagged: AFSP, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, DonorDrive, Fundraising, Walks ]]> http://blog.donordrive.com/2008/12/15/donordrive-afsp-community-walks-update/feed/ 0 dvolkens