Features
Blackbaud Friends Asking Friends is designed to support your peer-to-peer fundraising efforts. Your organization can quickly and easily launch an online fundraising site complete with customizable individual and team pages, e-mail and social media capabilities, mobile tools, donation processing support, dynamic reporting and bookkeeping services.
Blackbaud’s online tools add to your peer-to-peer fundraising event’s success by empowering your participants to become successful social fundraisers. Participants can utilize intuitive online tools to set up, manage and monitor a personal fundraising page, as well as send personalized e-mail solicitations and social media mentions to friends and family inviting them back to make a donation or become a participant.
Feature Selector:
Interactive online experience for participants and donors:
Compelling Website Creation
Promote peer-to-peer fundraising and showcase your mission using our intuitive user interface to design and launch your site. Inspire visitors to sign up as an individual, team captain, team member or as family.
Get to Know Your Participants and Donors
Customize registration and donation forms to gather more detailed information about an individual’s involvement, interest, and connection to the cause.
Encourage Corporate Involvement
Support corporate teams and provide a third level of team participation where teams can be grouped under individual or national corporations.
Sponsorship Promotion
Create corporate sponsorship opportunities on the Web site including: sponsor box with rotating sponsor logos and view our sponsor’s page.
Symbolic giving with eCommerce
Build a simple online store to sell event merchandise or create a symbolic gift catalogue and provide visitors with alternative giving opportunities.
Extended Visitors Involvement
Allow supporters to participant further in various online activities such as polls, quizzes, bulletin boards, Coach’s Corner, stores, online auctions, and gadgets.
Extend your reach and turn participants into social fundraisers:
Personalized Fundraising Pages
Enable participants to create their own personal fundraising page; share their reasons for taking action with pictures, stories, and videos from YouTube®.
Donor Recognition
Personal pages not only allow individuals to share their reasons for participating but inspire donors to contribute with dynamic event information, fundraising progress and scrolling gift honor roll.
Participant Address Books
Individuals can easily import and save email addresses to create personalized email solicitations for current and future events. Participants are able to create groups within their address book to manage prospects, past donors and current donors.
Participant Headquarters
Provide participants with tools to track donations, email communications, and personal fundraising page activity. Automatically load participants personal email address book, email history and donation history in future events.
Social Media Extensions
Built-in social media tools allow participants to extend their fundraising efforts to Facebook® and Twitter®. Participants can update their Facebook friends and Twitter followers directly from their participant headquarters. When they do this a shortened URL is included that brings people back to their personal fundraising page – driving increased traffic and fundraising opportunities.
Manage Your Peer-to-Peer fundraising activities more efficiently:
Central Fundraising Administration
All online and offline participant, donor, volunteer, and sponsor activity is compiled and managed in a central online dynamic database to provide a complete view of their activity and interests.
Single and Batch Entry Bookkeeping
Track, record and administer all of your programs registrations, donations, and sponsorships with single and batch entry forms
Friends Asking Friends Reporting
Access a full set of highly customizable peer-to-peer fundraising-specific reports showing social media activity, mobile use, communication, registrant, donation, and sponsorship data.
Corporate Team Pyramids
Provide a third-level of team participation where teams can be grouped under individual or national corporations.
Volunteer Management
Track and manage event day volunteer positions. Manage your event committees online and enable members to track sponsorship and fundraising prospects with the committee dashboard.