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Expert Tips, Tutorials, and Resources for Non-Profits & Charities.

Accept Direct Debit Donations with GoCardless: Plugin News (February)

We’re only a couple months into the year, but we have been busy with updates to Charitable, its extensions, and the launch of a brand new plugin: Charitable GoCardless.
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The Complete Guide to Donor Impact Reports and How they Work (2022)

When donors entrust your nonprofit organisation with their hard-earned money, they want to be assured that their donations are being put to good use. Rather than feeling like their funds have “disappeared into a black hole”, you can reassure donors that their contributions are making a real, meaningful difference by producing donor reports for your…
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How To Add a Donation Button in WordPress

In this guide, we’re going to walk you through the process of adding a donation button to your WordPress website, letting you bring in a new stream of consistent donations from generous visitors. The WordPress plugin ecosystem has been fantastic in eliminating technical challenges and coding from the website customisation process. In today’s world, all…
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Crafting the Perfect Emails to Get Donations for your Nonprofit: Best Practices

As a nonprofit in today’s modern world, adding email donations to your organisation’s online fundraising strategy has never been easier. According to the business data provider Statista, there are 4 billion people who open and read their emails every day. By 2025, this number is expected to increase to at least 4.6 billion. Furthermore, there…
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Black Friday 2021 — Deals & Pricing Update

Black Friday is your chance to grab up to 40% OFF our Plus, Pro and Agency packages!
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How to Manage your Fundraising Event Attendees with Google Calendar and Zapier

Our latest plugin is Charitable Automation Connect, which allows you to send information about your campaigns, donations and recurring donations to automation platforms like Zapier. In this blog post, I’ll show you how you can integrate Charitable, Zapier and Google Calendar to automatically register new donors as attendees to your Google Calendar event. Getting started…
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Release Notes: Charitable 1.6.51 Fixes a Critical Security Vulnerability

Last Friday we released Charitable 1.6.51, which fixes a critical security vulnerability affecting any website using Charitable. While we are not aware of any exploits of the vulnerability, we are urging everyone to upgrade to Charitable 1.6.51 as soon as possible. For those using Charitable Ambassadors, version 2.1.8 was released yesterday, providing additional security fixes…
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Accept Donations with Paystack, a Leading African Payment Gateway

Today we’re excited to release our latest payment gateway integration, Charitable Paystack. What is Paystack? Paystack is a leading African payment gateway, allowing organizations in Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa to accept donations in their local currency from donors around the world. Payments are securely processed on Paystack’s website, with donors able to pay with…
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Accept Donations with Braintree & Charitable

This week we’re excited to launch our latest plugin, a payment gateway integration with Braintree. What is Braintree? Braintree is a payment processor created by PayPal. It has global reach, supporting more than 130 currencies and available in 45 countries. Braintree offers built-in fraud protection, with basic fraud tools available out of the box and…
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Are Recurring Donations Right For My Non-Profit?

As a non-profit, you know that each dollar raised is vital. Every time someone chooses to donate to your organization, they’ve thought about what your cause is, why it matters, and how they can be part of your mission. It also means you’re doing a great job of convincing them of your work and its…
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