Give Lively Reviews & Product Details

Give Lively is a nonprofit technology company reimagining the future of fundraising. Founded in 2015, we believe nonprofits should never have to sacrifice their means to fulfill their missions. That belief drives everything we build and how we show up for the organizations we serve. Our platform offers powerful, practical fundraising solutions that are completely free for nonprofits and intuitive for donors. From customizable donation pages and online appeals to event-based campaigns, peer-to-peer fundraising, and text-to-donate, Give Lively equips organizations with the tools they need to grow without added financial burden. Our mobile-ready technology and flexible payment options, including digital wallets, are designed to meet donors where they are and make giving seamless. We work closely with our community of nonprofit members, collaborating directly to understand their challenges and priorities. This partnership-driven approach allows us to continuously improve and build tools that are not only effective, but also accessible, easy to use, and grounded in real-world needs. Just as important as what we build is how we build it. We prioritize values alignment and are intentional about fostering a safe, trusted community for the nonprofits we serve. This commitment helps ensure our platform remains a space where organizations can confidently fundraise and connect with supporters. By removing the cost barrier often associated with fundraising software, we help nonprofits redirect more of their resources toward their programs and communities. Our goal is to empower organizations of all sizes with the confidence, technology, and support they need to fundraise sustainably and scale their impact over time. To date, nonprofits using Give Lively have raised more than $400 million to support critical causes around the world. As we continue to grow, we remain committed to building a future where fundraising technology is not a limitation, but a catalyst for greater impact. Free nonprofit membership is required to access the platform.

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Give Lively

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Give Lively Community

Languages Supported

English

Solution Type

Best-of-Breed

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David DeParolesa

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Free

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Joabe C.

Secretary General

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/19/2023

"5 stars are not enough to describe Give Lively"

5/5

What do you like best about Give Lively?

Give Lively is the best guidance for nonprofits development and strategy. They are the personification of the expression "go the extra mile". They do not only offer a payment gateway, but also tools, mentorship, planning, and reality. Without Give Lively, Famazonia would not be what it is today. In our short time collaboration, we decided to follow all their tips and planning, and we went from an idea to live TV in our country in eight weeks! Amy and Mike are the best, I have never met people so prepared to take the right actions like them. Famazonia will be forever grateful for their support and for Give Lively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Give Lively?

I tried to think about something I dislike, but I really couldn't Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Parissa A.

Development Officer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/16/2023

"Helpful, insightful and knowledgeable fundraising experts"

5/5

What do you like best about Give Lively?

I think the staff members at Give Lively like Amy Truong and Mike Spadaro are the best part. The webinars that they have hosted on Giving Season have been exceptionally helpful and insightful to ensure your nonprofit is managing the most important touch points during this time and that your giving season will be a success. They thoughtfully answered everyone's questions and offered sound fundraising advice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Give Lively?

I don't dislike anything about Give Lively as I don't have a lot of experience using their platform yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Maria C.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/30/2023

"Wonderful user and administrator experience"

5/5

What do you like best about Give Lively?

Truly unbelievable that this service is offered for nonprofits to use for free! Give Lively was very easy to get set up (and quick!). Once we were approved, creating a campaign and associated event page and peer fundraising page was a breeze. Finally, the individual support from Amy, our contact at Give Lively was incredible!! Very easy to get answers to our questions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Give Lively?

One challenge we had with the peer fundraising was that many of the individuals who had fundraiser pages were frustrated that they could only see the total amount their page raised. Feedback we received is that it would be helpful if the fundraisers could see donor names and amounts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Give Lively solving and how is that benefiting you?

Give Lively provided us a natural platform to start formalizing our peer fundraising efforts. In the past, we hardly were able to leverage peer fundraising because we didn't have an easy way for people to give to specific fundraisers. We were also happy that Give Lively provided integrated ticket sales on the same platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nicole B.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/15/2023

"An attractive interface for fundraising"

5/5

What do you like best about Give Lively?

I like that the interface is designed well to offer a simple and easy user experience. When there is a hiccup or a feature I really would like added to the page, the Give Lively support team has coded it in for me on spot. They offer an excellent quality of support and an easy to use platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Give Lively?

Some of the page designs like the core profile and ticketing page look clunky, and I would like to redesign them, but they are still a big improvement from other sites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Give Lively solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our previous fundraising platform couldn't process large donations, looked terrible and was not easy to set up or use. These platforms charge roughly $150-400 a month for every additional feature we add. Give Lively was a game changer - giving us a modern interface with a great improvement on user experience, and they process each of our transactions quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Legal Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/15/2023

"Give Lively offers everything we need for our nonprofit"

5/5

What do you like best about Give Lively?

It's incredible to have a product like Give Lively offered for free. I'm able to connect with live support when I need the help, and Give Lively offers everything we as a midsized organization is looking for in an online giving platform, plus the integration with Salesforce is really great. Compared to our last system, we are saving tens of thousands per year. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Give Lively?

You can't customize as much with GIve Lively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Wes D.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/23/2023

"GiveLively was easy and effortless"

5/5

What do you like best about Give Lively?

The staff at GiveLively were very communicative and responsive to on-boarding us and setting us up for success. The software was easy to learn, use and execute. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Give Lively?

There were a number of features that we needed for the text to give option that could not be accommodated in the timeframe that was needed. However, I believe our point of contact (Amy) went to bat for us and took our feedback for future purposes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Recreational Facilities and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/10/2023

"Useful tool for smaller nonprofits"

5/5

What do you like best about Give Lively?

Support staff has been extremely helpful during onboarding and ongoing support. They are very familiar with how the product works and some have had experience working as fundraisers, which has been helpful. Very easy to setup! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Give Lively?

Reporting options are limited. There isn't a good interface to see all of the data. This is also not a CRM platform, so there will also be limitations with contact/communications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Individual & Family Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/27/2023

"Personalized and Helpful"

5/5

What do you like best about Give Lively?

The process to get started is straightforward, and tracking that process is also made accessible. The GiveLively team is also very kind and patient in the process. They have been available to me to get efforts off the ground. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Give Lively?

I don't have much to dislike about Give Lively. Organizations like data tracking, so any place where more data can be tracked is always a good improvement, but nothing stands out to me now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jenny L.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/22/2023

"Positive Experience with Diversifying Fundraising Streams"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Give Lively?

The customer service, online tutorials, and marketing and communication materials templates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Give Lively?

The functionality and versatility of the widgets are limited. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rachel M.

Director Of Development And Communications

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/26/2022

"Free... but at what cost?"

2/5

What do you like best about Give Lively?

This is the lowest cost option for small nonprofits. It creates good looking page designs, it integrates well with Salesforce, but the steps for payment are not ideal, and not optimized. It pushes donors to pay via apple pay or gpay or bank transfer. It hides the link to pay with CC which is what MOST people want. This is a very odd feature.

There are other basic level things missing from this platform that make it less than ideal. 1. the org is not copied on donor receipts, 2. monthly donors do not receive monthly receipts. 3. you cannot edit the language about covering fees (and it is less than ideal).

For a small org, these are issues you might be willing to overlook. But recently, Givelively announced that their 'free service' will include a mandatory question near the end of the payment process to ask donors to make a 'contribution' (non tax-deductible) directly to Give-Lively. This has left me completely convinced that they don't have any nonprofit experience on their board (who on earth could have thought this was a reasonable idea???), and very little on their staff. I will be looking for a new option before this gets rolled out to my org. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Give Lively?

Little ability to review reports without downloading. Poor language used in the 'cover the fee' message, no ability to copy org on donor receipts, receipts are not standard for monthly donors, monthly donors cannot update their cc info without cancelling subscription. After your first donation is made to a campaign you can no longer edit some of the information.

**they are rolling out a new mandatory feature that will ask YOUR donors to pay money directly to GiveLively, this will be a mandatory part of your payment process. Worst Idea I've Ever Heard Of Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Give Lively solving and how is that benefiting you?

Givelively provides a low-cost donation portal to create attractive pages for ticket sales, donations, crowdfunding. It easily integrates with Salesforce which I why my org adopted it recently.

But the detractors of this product have become too high and we are searching for an alternative solution at this time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Clair Lofthouse of Give Lively

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Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts. We’re very pleased to hear about your successes using Give Lively for ticket sales, crowdfunding and our Salesforce integration, but concerned and sorry to learn about the disappointments.

We also appreciate your meaningful feature requests. Since our founding, our product development roadmap has been guided by direct collaboration with nonprofits and we have always made a point of gathering and taking into account nonprofit feedback. We have been reflecting on yours and hope to continue this conversation with you on our publicly accessible platform for this at https://feedback.givelively.org.

To answer some of your concerns, we’re excited to share the recent rollout of our second-generation payment form, in development since 2021, which solves for many of your requests. For example:

- Apple Pay and Google Pay are no longer emphasized on the first screen, and they still only appear for donors who have these payment methods enabled on their own devices.

- The credit card payment option is now listed prominently on the payment method screen.

- We have updated the language about covering transaction fees, although legal constraints limit our ability to make it customizable.

For lots more information about our member-driven second-generation payment form, see www.givelively.org/resources/understand-give-lively-payment-forms.

This new payment form has also allowed us to tackle other major improvements:

- We just released the beta version of an updated data reporting system. It is now with a group of member nonprofits that volunteered to trial the upgraded data downloads (restructured CSVs with lots of new data) and on-screen data access (so that downloads are no longer required).

- Receipts for recurring donations are already available as a beta feature that can be requested at any time.

- We’re currently designing a way for donors to update and manage their subscriptions in their User Portal.

For more about the new “Line Item (All)” data reports, here’s the announcement of the beta in our changelog: https://feedback.givelively.org/changelog/latest-updates-march-24-2023.

We also greatly appreciated our earlier phone call and fully hear your frustration regarding voluntary contributions to Give Lively. In keeping with common practice on many other fundraising platforms, donors can indeed make a voluntary contribution (non tax-deductible) to Give Lively and join forces with our founder-funders in supporting the nonprofit community. We call this donor-powered generosity “pay free forward” because donor contributions extend the reach of our free products and services, thus helping nonprofits direct millions of dollars to their critical work, not digital fundraising software. More details can be found at www.givelively.org/faqs/how-do-voluntary-donor-contributions-to-give-lively-pay-free-forward.

Once again, we place high value on your feedback. With the ongoing collaboration of nonprofits, we will continue to do our best at anticipating and responding to your and other nonprofit needs. When we fall short, we take it seriously and try to address the shortcomings, building better for the future of nonprofit fundraising. Please know that we remain open to and interested in your feedback.