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We guide nonprofits into the digital age
We built and support a powerful and practical fundraising platform that is free for nonprofits and intuitively easy to use for donors.
Reimagining the future of digital fundraising for nonprofits – powerful, practical and free.
Free for nonprofits
Give Lively does not charge nonprofits for use of our platform.
Values-driven
Our platform supports nonprofits that make the world a better place.
Secure & transparent
We feel strongly about privacy, security and transparency. At every level of what we do.
Speedy & frictionless
We offer streamlined payment forms and quick, seamless donation disbursement.
Explore our online fundraising solutions
Unleash the power of online appeals
Translate the excitement of live events into fundraising success
What our members love
Flexible fundraising
Multiple payment methods
Real-time data
Streamlined donor-first design
Privacy and security
Outstanding customer support
Growing with nonprofits
nonprofits
$100 million saved
by member nonprofits on fundraising tech expenses since our start in 2015.
What members are saying
We work for nonprofits, not for profit
We do not charge nonprofits for use of our fundraising platform, products and features — no setup fees, no platform fees, no membership or subscription fees, no annual or monthly fees, no hidden Give Lively fees.
In addition to major operational support from our philanthropic founder-funders, we accept tips from donors wishing to help nonprofits direct dollars to critical work instead of for-profit digital fundraising software.
Our values set us apart
We support values that inspire nonprofits to tackle tough challenges such as gender and racial equality, reproductive health and LGBTQ+ rights, social and environmental justice, education, domestic violence, immigrant services and more.
Members gain full and free access to all of our digital fundraising products.
Step by step
Apply early: We manually screen all applications. Although filling out the application is a quick process, the usual review period is 7-10 business days from the moment you connect your Stripe account to Give Lively.
Stripe is a payment processor that securely manages the financial transactions between donors, banks and nonprofits.
Give Lively values. We won't approve membership for any nonprofit that promotes activities not in alignment with our values.
What is needed? Complete set-up includes ensuring ACH bank transfers are activated and that you have applied for Stripe’s nonprofit discount.
Nonprofit Admin Portal: Our Nonprofit Admin Portal is where you update information about your nonprofit and manage all your Give Lively fundraising activities.
We have some answers that will help you
Our fundraising platform stands apart from others for a trio of reasons:
- Our cost -- we are free for nonprofits
- Our direct collaboration with nonprofits
- Our emphasis on progressive values
Our platform is free for nonprofits
We believe that nonprofits, no matter their size, should not sacrifice their means to satisfy their missions. So we built and support a powerful and practical fundraising platform that’s free for nonprofits and intuitive for donors — no setup fees, no platform fees, no membership or subscription fees, no annual or monthly fees, no hidden Give Lively fees.
We also never sell, rent or lease any data — just one aspect of our comprehensive approach to data privacy and security. Nor do we charge donors to give through our platform.
Learn more about why we’re free for nonprofits.
We communicate and collaborate directly with nonprofits
Give Lively’s dedicated team of advocates and technologists is proud to collaborate directly with nonprofits of all sizes as we improve our platform to better serve their needs and desires. To facilitate this, our nonprofit members have access to a shared transparent feedback tool through which they make requests and upvote others’ suggestions, as well as gauge our progress on projects we undertake.
Our commitment to nonprofits goes beyond fundraising
We support values that inspire nonprofits to tackle tough challenges and complex issues such as gender and racial equality, reproductive health and LGBTQ+ rights, social and environmental justice, education, domestic violence, immigrant services and more.
In keeping with that, we personally review every membership application to ensure each nonprofit member aligns with our values. We also work to terminate all uses of our technology that promote activities not in alignment with our values
Notably, we believe that #BlackLivesMatter and stand in solidarity with Asian Americans.
Learn more about the values we hold dear.
We believe that nonprofits, no matter their size, should not sacrifice their means to satisfy their missions. So we built and support a powerful and practical fundraising platform that’s free for nonprofits and intuitive for donors.
We understand and sympathize with your concern about what “free” means today. We've experienced the same “free” service offers with hidden gotchas. And we know that some services claim to be "free" as a way to justify selling your data.
We pledge to be different.
What free means to us
We do not charge nonprofits for use of our fundraising platform — no setup fees, no platform fees, no membership or subscription fees, no annual or monthly fees, no hidden Give Lively fees.
We also never sell, rent or lease any data — just one aspect of our comprehensive approach to data privacy and security. Nor do we charge donors to give through our platform.
Learn more about why we’re free for nonprofits.
How is free possible?
Our founders are committed philanthropists. In keeping with their goodwill vision of digital fundraising, they cover our operating costs so that we don’t have to charge nonprofits or donors.
They see Give Lively as a technological remedy to the complexity of fundraising, as well as a way to make strategic, efficient and impartial decisions about how to support the nonprofit community. In Give Lively, they identified a mechanism for sustainably leveraging their resources to help meet the development needs of a very broad group of potential beneficiaries.
That mechanism is our superpower. We call it the Give Lively Effect: a proven way of democratizing and leveling the digital fundraising playing field, guiding nonprofits into the digital age, helping them hit their fundraising goals and freeing them to devote more resources to their critical work.
Learn more about our founders’ rationale, the Give Lively Effect and our impact.
At the moment, the Give Lively platform integrates directly with a quartet of third-party services: Salesforce, Zapier, PayPal and Double the Donation.
Until other integrations are added, you can download donor data from the Nonprofit Admin Portal as a CSV file and import it into any CRM of choice.
For more details about existing integrations, our Resource Hub (for members, but open to all) has information about: