Text-to-Give vs. Text-to-Donate 📱💚
They sound similar—but the way donations are processed, the flexibility donors get, and the information your organization receives can be very different.

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#ChurchGiving #OnlineGiving #Fundraising #NonprofitTech #SimplyGiv

#VendorAccountability series: Charity Navigator was one of six platforms building #donation pages without consent — pulling the #donorrelationship onto their own #brand instead of yours.

engine9.ai/post/donation-site-brand-relationship-scraping

#NonprofitTech #DonorData #Fundraising #engine9

#VendorAccountability series: Donorbox, Givebutter, Fundraise Up, and Kindest all charge on top of Stripe's rate. Here's what that markup costs on the same $100,000 in giving.

engine9.ai/post/nonprofit-donation-platform-transaction-fee-stacking-ai

#NonprofitTech #Fundraising #engine9

#VendorAccountability series: Mailchimp's own docs say it — unsubscribed and never-opted-in contacts still count toward your paid tier.

engine9.ai/post/mailchimp-unsubscribed-contacts-billing

#NonprofitTech #EmailMarketing #SaaSAccountability #engine9 #emailmarketing

#VendorAccountability series: Meta advertised "0% fees" on Facebook #donations for years, then quietly moved processing to PayPal. GoFundMe Pro won't publish a #nonprofit rate at all.

#NonprofitTech #Fundraising #engine9

#VendorAccountability series: the SEC, FTC, and 49 state attorneys general found the same thing — what Blackbaud told nonprofits about its 2020 breach didn't match what it already knew.

engine9.ai/post/blackbaud-data-breach-disclosure-sec-order

#NonprofitTech #DonorData #engine9