Hi everyone,
I wanted to correct what I think are gross and unfair inaccuracies written by
one of this forum’s members recently about IsraelGives.
First of all, IsraelGives is extremely transparent and up-front about our costs
and pricing. You can see them right on our website:
http://www.israelgives.info/pricing#fees. We’re proud to be ;(surprisingly, but
accurately) one of the least-expensive ways to fundraise online, with a
transaction fee starting at only 1.9%. We provide tax-deductible receipts to
your American, Canadian, and British donors, and can help you with just about
any type of online fundraising: crowdfunding, marathon campaigns, ticket sales
for fundraising events, recurring monthly giving, and more. We also have a
money-back guarantee: if you don’t raise more funds with IsraelGives than with
your previous provider, we won’t charge you a cent.
Our new marathon fundraising platform is already helping dozens of non-profits
to create fundraising teams, and the transaction fee (as opposed to what was
written here), starts at only 4.9% (see for yourself here:
http://www.israelgives.info/marathons). We also run national fundraising
campaigns where we donate of our own funds to promote giving (like when we
added 1% to every donation made on GivingTuesday Israel). We do this because as
a social business, our goal and mission is to promote giving in Israel (in 2016
alone we helped 583 different Israeli non-profits to fundraise successfully).
I’m sorry that some people don’t feel comfortable that we take a business-like
approach to fundraising, but the fact is that it’s just such an approach that’s
allowed us to help non-profit fundraising continuously and successfully since
2009, and to help grow giving in Israel to its highest level ever.
Best,
Yonatan Ben-Dor
CEO, IsraelGives
