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As part of our review process we often request that the crowdfunding platform provide a short write-up of their companies mission and competitive advantage. We received a compelling note from the founder of Continue to Give and felt compelled to share it with our readers.
I believe to can read quite a bit in to the passion the company has for its business and its place in the technology enabled fundraising arena.
Below the note reprint you will find additional details of our independent review:
“Continue to Give is an online tithing and giving platform designed to help churches, missionaries, nonprofits, individuals, and adopting parents raise more money by making the giving process easy and convenient for givers. Continue to Give’s tools allow giver to quickly give on their phone, at a kiosk, online, and on Facebook. The donor can even setup recurring giving which is great for church tithing, nonprofits, and missionary funding!”
“Continue to Give had its start back in 2005 when it’s founder, Jesse Wellhoefer, decided he needed an easy e-giving solution to raise support for his mission trip to Africa. The idea alone inspired Jesse to not only create a great online giving site for missionaries to raise their much needed support but for churches, nonprofits, and individuals. As Continue to Give grew it didn’t stop there. During the course of its existence the developers of Continue to Give decided that they needed to offer more then just an online button. That’s why Continue to Give created each and every account to be automatically setup with it’s own Text-To-Donate number, QR code, social media integration, crowdfunding capabilities, blog integration, Facebook donations, campaign starters, and Kiosk Giving app. Continue to Give is 21st century giving at it’s best that is customizable for every need and affordable for every budget! In addition, Continue to Give has gown above and beyond the call of duty to intergrade with accounting software to make it easier on your staff whether you are a small church or large nonprofit. With Continue to Give’s reporting each project, campaign, giving page, etc. is equipped with advanced tracking for your books! Some of the other great tools that Continue to Give offers are recurring donations, mobile giving, missionary support pages, automated receipting, campaign starters, projects, kiosk fundraising and tithing, advanced reporting, pledges, and so much more!”
“Continue to Give knows how hard it is to get and retain donations with the world moving so far away from cash and checks. That’s why Continue to Give works for advanced technology. What makes them great is that they have the ability to adapt so quickly. If Continue to Give’s team sees something that needs to be added to their suite of tools, they add it!”
“Another great thing about Continue to Give’s service is it’s customizable for each person’s needs! You need to raise money for a mission’s trip or have continued support as a missionary? No Problem! You need to fundraise for medical bills? No problem! You need to collect church tithes and allow the congregation to setup recurring donations? No problem! You need to setup a fundraiser with different projects or accounts that people can give to with different Text-To-Donate numbers for each? No Problem! You need separate donate buttons for each missionary or project in your account? No Problem!”
“Continue to Give is more then just an online payment platform. Continue to Give is a company committed to helping Churches, Charities, and Individuals. They take time with each member to make sure you know how to use all your tools, teach you strategies on how to fundraise, and show you how to increase giving! They also believe that this service should be affordable for every size budget. That is way Continue to Give works directly with payment processors to give you the best credit, debit, and ACH rate that you will ever find anywhere! The end result? You raise more money than you ever have in the past and the best part – You get to keep more of what you have raised!”
“Continue to Give truly cares about the customers with making sure to utilize each customers ideas and feedback to advance the services and technology Continue to Give provides, the members training in how to fundraise or use the tools for e-giving, and the personal interest in how your church, mission, fundraiser, or nonprofit is doing. Each staff member of Continue to Give is committed to give you and your organization personal attention and professional world class fundraising support.”
Let’s recap – state of the art tools, customer service and continued support, efficiently integrates into your organization, helps raise more money, and it’s the least expensive for your needs. The question now is, why not join in the family of Continue to Give and make this world a better place. Continue to Give “Helping People, Help People!”
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Churches, Missionaries and Non-Profits will always need the financial support of their congregations, supporters and members in order to do the good they provide the communities they serve. Fundraising for many of these organizations have not changed much over the last 200+ years. “Passing the Hat”, Donation boxes and fundraiser events have been some of the only means for these organizations to raise the money needed to function and serve.
ContinueToGive.com has built a system for “21st century tithing”. This extends well beyond crowdfunding as we normally see it presented. ContinueToGive provides churches with the opportunity to use technology in various forms to allow churches, missions and non-profits to collect donations that go well beyond “passing the hat”.
The technology they provide organizations include onsite kiosks, QR codes that can be added to handouts or newsletters, Facebook badges (that allow for donations while on FB) and donation by text. This is the type of fundraising technology that can truly bring a church a big lift in the financial support of their congregants.
The site has various programs through easy to navigate tabs for Churches, Missionaries, Nonprofits and individual fundraising programs.
We are doing further research on this, so far, very impressive fundraising technology provider and expect to bring you additional details shortly. (Wikipedia)
From what we have seen, we couldn’t be more impressed with the fundraising systems they have available.
We encourage you create an account (no charge, of course) and explore the features.
The completion of our review of Continue to Give leads us to placing them on our homepage with a 4+ star rating. They provide access to exceptional technologies for Church’s, non profits and individuals. They have also shown a real desire to provide exceptional customer service and campaign creator support. Perhaps the most impressive and somewhat unique feature is a toll-free phone number (that they actually answer).
The team of Continue to give can be reached at (800) 684-0550 – We encourage you to give them a call for your fundraising needs.
Interesting article about the top raising project held on Continue to Give.
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We used Continue To Give for our adoption and it ROCKED!!!! We raised over 11k! We also give through this site to missionaries and other organizations. They make it easy and fast just what i need right now!
I have been using continuetogive for over 3 yrs. it has become indespensable to me. God loves a cheerful giver and a consitant one is necessary as missions I support are counting on my donations. As I get busy they are automatically getting my support. Also at church and events I have never enjoyed the interruption of worship and praise by the passing of the offering plate. With continue to give I just use my phone to make my donation prior to the beginning of Service or the event. It has sure made my giving simple. Also those I support post to my face book account where others can see it and the link is shared which is great for spreading the word.
My wife and I give to our church on Continue to Give and we support the Roth’s missionary page!
continuetogive is an amazing tool that I have used for the past 3 three years. I believe not only does God love a cheerful giver but a consistent giver. As life is busy for all of us I enjoy knowing that the missionaries I support are always receiving their monthly funding. than my response is prayer and I need not trouble myself with the financial part. Also all the funding I do posts to my facebook account sharing their site so other can have the opportunity to view who I am supporting. It is a great way to spread the Word. And before church or an event I use my phone to simply go to their site and give. This way my worship is not interrupted by the offering plate being passed. thank you continuetogive.
Continue to Give allows for such flexibility in my donations. I can chose one -time donation or an ongoing donation, i can share my donations through social media. the website is very user friendly and quick!
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CTG was simple to get started with and create a profile to share my missions in life and give to those that align with it! Also love how they keep their costs low so that my donations can make the biggest impact and that I can give to specific projects!
We were looking for a site where friends and family could safely donate to my sister’s family after a tornado. We knew there would not be a lot of people participating as many were sending donations directly by mail, but a site was needed. With everything that needed to be done, my head was swimming. I found the set up itself to be a little intimidating and difficult, again, it could have been my state of mind. But all my calls were handled graciously and a lot of assistance was given. We accomplished what was needed at the time and I am thankful for that.