Convio Makes It Easier for Nonprofit Supporters to Connect, Advocate and Engage with Comprehensive Product Release
“Convio’s clients continue to lead the industry in using the Internet to enhance relationships with donors, volunteers, advocates and other supporters,” said Gene Austin, CEO, Convio. “With these new, innovative features and core product enhancements, nonprofits can raise more money while efficiently and effectively reaching and inspiring more people to engage in their mission. As supporters move online to communicate with their family and friends, it is fast becoming the primary channel for engagement with their charity of choice. More and more nonprofits are turning to Convio because of our passion to deliver innovative software and services that drive online fundraising and marketing results that support their mission.”
Key new Summer ‘09 features:
* TeamRaiser™ Participant Center – new and improved features provide even easier-to-learn and easier-to-use fundraising tools for a nonprofit’s event participants. Participant Center delivers an updated, action-oriented toolset for participants to reach out to friends and family in support of a charity’s TeamRaiser-powered fundraising event to broaden and strengthen event participation.
* Facebook Connect – encourages supporters to take action by publishing or sharing “stories” from the nonprofit’s website to their Facebook wall and to their friends’ feeds, helping the nonprofit leverage the power of social networking to raise awareness.
* Fundraising Milestones – allows the nonprofit to set motivational goals for event participants using TeamRaiser. The feature makes it easier for event administrators and managers to coach and reward participants as they make progress toward fundraising milestones to drive fundraising success.
* Advocacy Letter to the Editor – enables supporters to easily send a letter to the editor of targeted newspapers/publications to take actions, such as endorsing the organization, their cause or important issues, or promoting fundraising or advocacy events in the area. This new capability helps nonprofits foster further engagement from their most passionate supporters and leverages that engagement to drive awareness and activity.
* eCommerce QuickGiving – a new option in the eCommerce store that allows an organization to display some or all of the products from their store on a single page making the donor/shopper experience more user friendly and productive with the goal of creating higher sales conversions from visitors.
