Good things happen in community
January 21st, 2011 About Us, Announcement 0

Beautiful things happen in community: passions ignite, ideas form, and better technology products develop.  Our mission is to create better technology for non-profits and many of you have given us valuable feedback on how we can make that happen.  We’ve built the platform’s user interfaces and page editors (simple tools to change the look/feel/branding of online pages) based on your feedback.

We’ve realized that in order to truly accomplish our mission, we need to hear more voices from the non-profit community to shape what we create at CauseVox.  I’m excited to announce two forums we’re opening up to make that …

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Our Story
January 13th, 2011 About Us 0

We’ve been dabbling with fundraising technology since 2007, and our trip to Uganda, a few years ago, was the catalyst for CauseVox. We served Action for Children (AFC), a Kampala-based NGO that serves children and families vulnerable due to HIV/AIDS and poverty, by providing pro bono marketing and IT support.

Like a lot of pro bono projects, we had to raise funds to get ourselves there, but we couldn’t find a good way to make that happen online. All the choices out there required hacking tools together, were hard to use, or were very outdated; as a result, we built …

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CauseVox Goes Beta
November 30th, 2010 About Us, Announcement, Beta 3

What, I thought you guys were in already in beta??

Well, somewhat. Today marks the launch of our limited beta, which comes with a new website and an updated blog.  For the past few months we have been operating our pilot program with a handful or organizations. Here are a select few case studies. During that time we were able to work through a number of issues ranging from campaign setup to donation processing. We were also able to test out some of the core concepts of the platform. That said, we are now at a point where we …

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What is Supporter-Driven Fundraising?
July 28th, 2010 About Us, Strategy Framework 0

Supporter-driven fundraising is a method of fundraising that enables a non-profit’s supporter to champion and raise funds on the non-profit’s behalf within each supporter’s personal networks.

Synonyms include: peer-to-peer, distributed, and networked fundraising

Supporter-Driven Fundraising

With supporter-driven fundraising. a non-profit’s support base is expanded past what is managed by the non-profit and into the new personal networks of existing supporters.…

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The Reason Why
June 1st, 2010 About Us 0

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Knowing the passion and the motivation of a person helps you truly understand the character of that individual; the same goes for understanding organizations, which after all, are comprised of people. So, let’s talk about who we are, what drives us, and what our mission is.

Who We Are
The best teams are those with diverse backgrounds, and we like to think that we’re pretty awesome :D . In short, our collective backgrounds include management consulting for Federal agencies and non-profits, web development for microfinance institutions, and work with NGOs abroad. More info about each of us can be found at …

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