2024 updates: a look back at a busy year on our Updates page

Take a look back at a year of Updates articles.

January 2, 2025

Clair Lofthouse

Technical Writer

February 2024 will mark two years since the Updates page came into being on givelively.org! While still a place for company and product updates, the Updates page has become where we show the human side of Give Lively. Among many other things, we’ve surpassed 100 articles, including our nonprofit spotlight series featuring more than 100 nonprofits that use Give Lively to support their important work!

In case you missed anything, here’s a look back at this year’s Updates articles.

Members

We are proud of what Give Lively offers the nonprofit world. However we know the true heroes are the nonprofits themselves. Over the past year, we shared profiles of dozens of nonprofits, focusing on different issues each month, including those elevated by the 17 Sustainable Development Goals outlined in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015.

Staff profiles

Here at Give Lively, we are a small but mighty team of people who care deeply about their work and impact. So far, we’ve profiled 16 Give Liveliers (around half of our team)! We loved sharing the human intelligence behind Give Lively – the people on the other end of the support chat, the designers keeping our products easy to use for all and the engineers keeping our platform functioning optimally.

Company announcements

As a values-based organization, we place great importance on speaking against injustice. These articles make clear our position on world events and our values. We also shared company-wide developments like expanding our membership eligibility; our progress on DEI, sustainability and accessibility programs; and celebrations of our high customer service scores, money saved by our member nonprofits and the growing use of our free Salesforce integration.

Product announcements

In these articles, we get granular and share information about upcoming beta programs, product releases and improvements. In 2024, that included the ability to add Custom Questions, the addition of Venmo and monthly PayPal as new payment methods and a design refresh of our fundraising page templates. We also offered advice about how to get the most out of all of our products. If you want to watch the nitty-gritty of product development, make sure you’re keeping up with our Changelog.