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43rd Annual Dallas YMCA Turkey Trot Launches Registration on KIMBIA-powered site.

Spencer Whelan — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:41:23 +0000

The Capital One Bank Dallas YMCA Turkey Trot is the largest Thanksgiving Day event of its kind in the country. For the third consecutive year, the Dallas YMCA has chosen KIMBIA to power its online registrations. This year, however, they’ve taken their event to the next level with a site designed to enhance the KIMBIA-powered registrations and fundraising capabilities.

The site at www.thetrot.org is designed first and foremost to make registering for one of the four races as easy and efficient as possible. (Check out the registration pages here) It is also designed to allow participants to become volunteer fundraisers for the YMCA as well. Participants can select from one of five different fundraising goals, and they’ll instantly receive a personal fundraising URL with a progress meter telling them how close they are to reaching their goals. Participant fundraisers even have the ability to copy and paste their personalized form onto their own Website or blog, so they can raise money on their own sites.

This year’s version of the Capital One Bank Dallas YMCA Turkey Trot is poised to be the best yet. Those of us working on this at KIMBIA are honored to be involved with such a first class event and organization. If you’re organization is planning a participatory event and need online registration/fundraising help, please contact us at info@kimbia.com

Client Success: Nashville Flood Relief Case Study

Spencer Whelan — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:41:29 +0000

In the first week of May 2010, heavy rains fell on the Middle Tennessee region raising the Cumberland River to unprecedented levels and flooding much of the Metro Nashville area. Powered by the combined efforts of KIMBIA and GuideStar’s DonorEdge platform, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee responded immediately with a custom online fundraising campaign.

The Community Foundation was able to quickly launch branded, embeddable fundraising widgets all around the community just days after the disaster. Within a week the widget had spread to dozens of sites, including CBS.com, The Academy of Country Music, and GAC-TV’s Websites. In all, the widgets have raised well over a million dolllars in relief funds, with over 46% of the donations coming from third-party sites like the ones mentioned above. Combined with the swift and strategic leadership of the Community Foundation of Middle Tennesse, this technology has proven itself to be invaluable during disaster relief fundraising efforts.

Read all about it by downloading the case study here.

Heritage.org switches all forms to KIMBIA… Triples Overall Conversions

Spencer Whelan — Fri, 28 May 2010 16:38:57 +0000

At KIMBIA we are constantly evangelizing the need for a better online giving experience for donors. We feel that if you work hard to deliver a message that inspires people to give their hard-earned dollars, then the act of making that transaction online should be as simple and reaffirming of their decision as possible. We also say that when KIMBIA forms are used as part of that commitment to improving all online giving opportunities, then you can expect dramatic improvements in online giving. Need proof? Please check out our latest case study from the Heritage Foundation.

Since 2008, KIMBIA has worked with the Heritage Foundation to improve online donations for their “Ask Heritage” member outreach and acquisition campaign. The campaign, coordinated with KIMBIA partner KMA Communications, was an undeniable success with conversion rates 3x the industry average and 90% first-time donors. In March of 2010, The Heritage foundation made the decision to switch the primary donation pages of Heritage.org over to KIMBIA forms. The results are impressive.

Doubled Main Donation Page Conversion Rate
Tripled Overall Conversions
Doubled Average Daily Giving

For more info and examples of how The Heritage Foundation achieved these results, please click here to download the full case study.

Client Success: The Nation’s Triathlon

admin — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 05:20:23 +0000

The Nation’s Triathlon in Washington DC is the fastest growing triathlon in the US, and is the only triathlon in the country dedicated to building awareness and raising money for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Washington Sports and Event Management (WSEM) owns The Nation’s Triathlon™ and produced the 4th annual running of this event on September 13, 2009. WSEM registered 6,000 athletes from 855 cities, 46 states and 7 countries participating in one of five different event categories.

KIMBIA was selected to serve as the event management engine in late 2008 with the ambitious goal of enabling WSEM to take full control of their brand and the relationships with their athletes and volunteers. To accomplish this goal WSEM needed the power to customize and tailor registration processes for different events and different audiences. All these tools needed to integrate seamlessly with their Web site and branding. Since The Nation’s Triathlon™ is a major event that sells out every year, WSEM also required a platform that can handle thousands of registrations at a time without any delay for registrants. Finally, WSEM needed full access and control of all athlete data in real-time, and wanted ownership of all funds related to their events at all times.

Read the whole story in the Client Success PDF below... Client Success: The Nation's Triathlon

Houston (Bay Area) Habitat for Humanity powers their annual 5k “Women Build” race with KIMBIA registration forms.

admin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:13:16 +0000

The goal of Bay Area Habitat's 2010 Women Build 5k is to raise $65,000. This figure represents a concrete concept that everyone can understand: the cost of a new house for a family in need.

Many of Bay Area Habitat's projects are supported by local corporations and churches, organizations whose members can easily organize into teams based on departments, neighborhoods or families. For this fundraiser, Bay Area Habitat had specific requirements:

register a 10 person team at no charge
different levels of team financial commitments ( $1,000, $5,000 or $10,000)
each team member's personal goal must be an equal share of the overall team commitment

Bay Area Habitat is leveraging KIMBIA's personalized fundraising pages to enable each team member to commit to raising an equal portion of their team's total commitment. Each team member receives:

their own personalized donation form on the organization's website with a progress bar tracking their individual progress
access to tools that will enable them to solicit donations via Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and their email address book.

Step 1: Select a Team with a financial Commitment

Step 2: Register the Team

Step 3: Donate to an individual team member

By activating both online and offline communities of supporters, Bay Area is well on its way towards its goal.

Thundercloud Subs Turkey Trot registers over 13,000 while reducing paperwork

admin — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:23:01 +0000

The 19th annual Thundercloud Subs Turkey Trot benefiting Caritas, registered a record 14,500 participants, 13,033 of whom registered online. The event partnered with KIMBIA to automate and streamline registration and packet pickup. Using KIMBIA's major event features, the ThunderCloud Subs Turkey Trot designed a registration and packet pick up system that streamlined the process for both participants and race organizers. Since KIMBIA is a system operated by race organizers, rather than a separate registration "portal", the Trot team was able to design a system around their own needs and those of their participants.

For the first time, race participants were able to sign up directly at www.thundercloud.com. Also, for the first time, web registration was left open until the evening before the event. A total of 12,071 registered online. Another 962 participants registered onsite at packet pickup using KIMBIA registration screens to process credit card, cash, or check registrations. Thanks to KIMBIA's bib assignment and packet pickup features, registrants were able to immediately pick up a packet regardless of where or when they chose to register. The system also dramatically reduced the amount of paperwork for volunteers and established the Austin event as one of the greenest major events.

2009 Dallas YMCA Turkey Trot: Another record year!

admin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:56:11 +0000

The 2009 Capital One Bank Dallas YMCA Turkey Trot, the nation’s largest Thanksgiving Day race, set a new record for online registrations this year.

This year’s Turkey Trot handled 16,824 online registrations, and also set a new, single-day record with 1,682 online registrations.

This is the second year in a row of record growth.

For more information about the Capital One Bank Dallas YMCA Turkey Trot visit: http://www.thetrot.org

2010 USA FIT Marathon & Half Marathon Registration on KIMBIA

admin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:16:13 +0000

Registration for the 2010 USA FIT Marathon & Half Marathon in Sugar Land, TX benefiting the Fort Bend Education Foundation is on KIMBIA. Through the use of KIMBIA's event and fundraising technology, USA FIT is able to keep the participants engaged on the USA FIT site by hosting a Kimbia form on their own site - the user never leaves the USA FIT site to register for the race.

You can register for the event at
http://usafitmarathon.com/raceinfo.php

KCET powers latest pledge drive with KIMBIA

admin — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:03:48 +0000

KCET, a PBS station in Los Angeles, created multiple unique KIMBIA donation forms for their latest pledge drive. With a form for each program on the air, KCET was able to encourage "contextual giving" in their donors by providing membership levels and thank you gifts that were relevant to viewers of specific programming.

KIMBIA's flexible reporting system also enabled KCET to create and download custom reports that could be imported directly into their donor management and fulfillment system.

http://support.kcet.org/site/PageServer?pagename=nolfnv_support_makeadonation

Paul Quinn College creates and distributes KIMBIA donation forms

admin — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:00:53 +0000

Paul Quinn College created a set of donation forms and distributed them to two sites on the web in support of their mission.

They created a unique donation site and a news blog that contained a distributed form. By expanding their web presence with KIMBIA-powered forms, they've created a fundraising network to help increase their donations.

http://www.supportpqc.com/donate.php

Joyful Heart Foundation launches KIMBIA donation form

admin — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:00:01 +0000

The Joyful Heart Foundation needed to replace their old donation system - which sent supporters off their site to process their donations.

They were able quickly able to deploy a KIMBIA powered solution, and by keep supporters on their site through the whole donation process, increased their donors' confidence and loyalty in the online giving process.

http://www.joyfulheartfoundation.org/donateonline.htm

Dallas South News launches first fundraiser with KIMBIA

admin — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:07:16 +0000

Dallas South News is a brand new non-profit news organization using a membership model to sustain their independent voice. Using KIMBIA forms, Dallas South News has set up recurring payments for their members, ensuring an ongoing support.

http://www.dallassouthnews.org/donate/

GENAustin Opens registration for the Girls Now Conference with KIMBIA

admin — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:03:54 +0000

GenAustin, a girl's empowerment organization, opened registration for their annual conference that helps parents and guardians to explore the issues of Body Image and Mean Girls. Their Kimbia forms allow for individual and group registrations, but also give donors the ability to give additional funds to provide scholarships for girls to attend for free.

http://www.genaustin.org/whatwedo/girlsnow-register.php

PBS Launches National Parks Online Fundraising Campaign using KIMBIA

admin — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:13:33 +0000

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and its participating member stations across the United States have launched a national online fundraising campaign surrounding Ken Burns’s film, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. Using KIMBIA’s innovative fundraising forms, PBS.org distributed localized forms to participating member stations to accept donations directly on their own websites. You can ensure that Ken Burns's remarkable stories continue to be broadcast on-air and online by PBS at: https://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/donate-now/

2009 Thundercloud Subs Turkey Trot Registration Launched on Kimbia

admin — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:57:26 +0000

Registration for the 2009 Thundercloud Subs Turkey Trot in Austin, TX benefiting Caritas of Austin has launched with KIMBIA. Through the use of KIMBIA's event and fundraising technology, Thundercloud is able to keep the participants engaged on the Thundercloud site by hosting a Kimbia form on their own site - the user never leaves the Thundercloud site to register for the race. In addition, the participants are able to simultaneously register for the event and make additional donations to Caritas of Austin.

You can register for the event at
http://www.thundercloud.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49&Itemid=53

KCSM Jazz 91 Public Radio Launches Fall Fund Drive on Kimbia

admin — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:23:53 +0000

KCSM, the only station in the San Francisco Bay Area with a 24-hour jazz format, has launched its Fall Fund Drive campaign using KIMBIA in conjunction with KELL Partners. Using KIMBIA's event and fundraising technology, KCSM is able to, on its own website domain, easily offer donors the option to donate with or without premiums.

You can support KCSM at
http://kcsm.org/pledge/index.php

You can learn more about KELL Partners at
http://www.kellnonprofit.com

2009 Decker Challenge Registration Launched on Kimbia

admin — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:21:14 +0000

Red Licorice Events has launched registration for the 31st Annual Decker Challenge in Austin, TX, consisting of the Decker Half Marathon, the Double Decker Marathon and the Decker Relay benefitting The Trail Foundation and the Dick Beardsley Foundation. Through the use of KIMBIA's event and fundraising technology, Red Licorice is able to simultaneously register participants and collect donations for the beneficiary organizations.

You can register for the event at
http://decker.austinrunners.org
or at
http://www.redlicoriceevents.com/events/Decker_Challenge.html

Dad's Day 5K – Everybody can get involved

admin — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:07:27 +0000

On May 20, KIMBIA received an email from the folks who run the Dad's Day 5K in Houston. They asked us if it was possible, with just a month to go before the event, to add individual fundraising to their event. We launched them the very same day, right on their existing website.

Registration Form

Donation Form

"KIMBIA delivered a seamless transition for their on-line services to be added to our web site, www.dadsday5k.org. They responded quickly with reliable services. This added to our great success in 2009 and we look forward to moving ahead with more on-line services for our sponsors, teams and participates in 2010"
— Sherri Ellisor, Dad's Day 5K Web Developer

One month later, the event was run on Father's Day. About 25% of all the funds collected by the event, were gifts given to individual participants. The high proportion of gifts means that more money went to the fight against prostate cancer.

This success is due completely to four groups: volunteers from the prostate cancer survivor group, Tex Us Too who put on this event, the employees of Marathon Oil, the event's primary sponsor, and of course, the individuals who reached out to their networks and raised significant money for the cause.

KIMBIA was built specifically to support this kind of effort. The folks putting on this event had very limited time and resources, but wanted to be able to run a first class fundraising event without having to learn a bunch of new technology or spend a lot of money. Individual participants wanted to be able to quickly create a personal fundraiser and get to work raising funds, without having to go through a multi-step process.

"At first we were leery of introducing new technologies and methods to our efforts, because, as one might expect form a cancer support group of older men who still think 'Tweet' is the sound a bird makes, we weren't much for change. But then our sponsors and early participates started asking for more on-line services than just registration, and we found that KIMBIA could deliver them ... and much more. KIMBIA helped us take our event to the next level."
— Dean Trierwiler, Dad's Day 5K Registration Director.

The reason we call our individual fundraising tools "Everybody" is because that is everybody is exactly who we built this product for. The Dad's Day 5K is a great example of how quickly and successfully Everybody is enabled to support a great cause.

Client Success: WGBH

admin — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:17:10 +0000

WGBH is the public service media organization for New England — featuring media on TV, radio, and the Web. WGBH is the largest station currently in the PBS system and is the single largest producer of PBS prime-time and online programming.

Using KIMBIA’s technology, WGBH placed 80 unique TV and radio donation forms on their site during the March 2009 pledge drive. WGBH more than doubled the number on online TV donors and more than tripled the number of online radio supporters. For radio, the percentage of online donations increased from 10% to over 45% using KIMBIA.

Read the whole story in the Client Success PDF below.

Client Success: WGBH – May 27, 2009

Client Success: The Heritage Foundation

admin — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:27:03 +0000

The Heritage Foundation is the nation’s most broadly supported public policy research institute with more than 430,000 individual, foundation and corporate donors.

KIMBIA worked with the Heritage Foundation and KMA Communications to create a unique fund raising site who’s goal was to increase conversions for new members/donors. (http://www.askheritage.org)

Just three months into the 2009 campaign, the success is undeniable. Heritage has outpaced all their original projections and raised their expectations for the rest of the year. In short, over 10% of all unique visitors are engaging in some kind of action using KIMBIA forms, and over 3% are giving money. The Heritage Foundation is raising an average of $1.38 per unique visitor to the site. Best of all, 90% of all donations made through KIMBIA forms are new or first-time members/donors

Read more in the Client Success PDF below.

Client Success — The Heritage Foundation