We love all of our nonprofit partners, but we have a special soft spot for The Thomas House Shelter (read on to learn why!), and we couldn't be more proud to be hosting their annual Orange County fun-run campaign this year. Thomas House was started in 1986 by a husband and wife team living in Garden Grove, CA as a resource for struggling families. They had a simple but powerful mission: 1) Get families to safety. 2) Provide the resources to keep them together. 3) Provide the resources and support to make them self sufficient. The secret to Thomas House's success has been in their comprehensive and effective training and skill development programs for whole families. From the time a family arrives at Thomas House Shelter the goal is to nurture and bolster their skill set in preparation for a successful, secure departure, at which time the parent is employed with a secured housing option. Due to a strict no-handouts policy, they have been able to accomplish this on an incredibly lean per-family budget. Over the past 25 years Thomas House has been recognized as a proven model for making lasting and transformational change for the families they serve. Their thorough approach and documented success rate have earned awards from organizations like the State Senate of California, Home Aid Orange County, Pacific Care Foundation Commendation, Nestle USA Silver Bowl, Interfaith Spirit Action Award and Orange County Board of Supervisors just to name a few. As our client, we worked closely with a Thomas House volunteer representative to create a dynamic donation campaign/race-signup form. We have been excited to see the positive response, and we are excited to spread the word about this amazing program!
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memberplanet is the perfect tool for managing school communication. In fact, many of our features and upgrades have been developed as custom solutions for our school clients. For example, the entire online packets module (seamless bundles of multiple pre-created forms) was created for one local school district who needed a seamless, paperless, and cost-effective registration process for parents. But MP has more to offer than just seamless registrations, and most of our school clients are active year round on our system via desktop and mobile app. Here's how schools are using memberplanet year round. Event Registrations Whether you are hosting a carnival, a homecoming dance, a PTA dinner, or a school play, memberplanet makes it easy to manage. MP allows you to host a free-standing event webpage, issue email invitations, sell tickets, monitor guest lists and inventory and much more. Custom Newsletters Keep parents and faculty in the loop! MP custom newsletters are a professional and cost-effective solution for school-home communication. Manage tracking, post button links, schedule future sends, and save your templates to use over and over. Group Texts for Alerts and Reminders memberplanet makes it easy to quickly send a text message to your whole list, or just a segment of your list. Inform parents about last-minute delays and cancellations, or send safety notifications. memberplanet will provide your group with a free local number that your group members can save in their contacts. Online Forms Our online forms are simple to create and flexibly accommodate any type of data collection. Even better, they are 100% white label, export seamlessly to excel, and offer a competitive transaction rate for online payments. Unsure which type of field would most efficiently capture the data you want? Our support team will walk you through the creation process to build the best form for your needs. Online Donations Raise money for new technology, library additions, field trips, textbooks and more. We offer competitively priced online donation campaigns so you can raise money for anything. Database Management The student and parent roster can sometimes feel like a revolving door, requiring constant maintenance and often out of date. memberplanet makes it easy to collect and sync information, and even allows for parents to submit and update their information independently. Distribution lists allow you to quickly and easily segment your list into unlimited cross sections for targeted communication. Transferring Leadership Roles Once your account is up and running, you can seamlessly pass admin responsibilities from one leader to another. Unlike other sites that tie to the primary creator's email address, memberplanet anchors to the group name, allowing you to fully pass administrative to another user, no strings attached. You can also manage administrative access for multiple leaders easily and efficiently. Collaboration Most schools have many small groups working within the larger group, like PTA, Boosters, Student Government, etc. The platform allows you to collaborate with these groups by sharing specified data or combining forms for a shared registration packet. Photo Sharing Whether you are creating an album from a school dance, an overseas trip, or a recent community project, memberplanet allows you to host and share full pixel quality photos and albums. Even better, email-uploading allows you to seamlessly crowd-source photos from everyone at an event. To learn more about any of these school solutions contact a team member at Successteam@memberplanet.com Do you use PayPal to host payment buttons on your site? If so, you could be getting so much more flexibility - at the same low rate. Like PayPal, MemberPlanet also allows you to easily host a 1-click payment button for a website. If you already have a PayPal link, you are familiar with the simple process of dropping an html snippet. If you are frightened by phrases like "html snippet" then you are in the right place! MemberPlanet is made for people like you. However, MemberPlanet gives you so much more flexibility... Unlike PayPal, which only allows you to link to a generic PayPal button to a generic PayPal invoice form, MemberPlanet allows you to link to ANY kind of form, payment item, or invoice. Additionally, while PayPal retains it's logo on it's buttons, as well as the invoice pages, MemberPlanet allows you to customize the button, invoice, and form pages to achieve a fully branded interface for your group. Even at the same transaction rate as PayPal, MemberPlanet forms offer many more options...
Most importantly, MemberPlanet offers so much more than just site buttons, or any one feature. We offer the entire suite of tools you need to manage your club, team, school, church, or group online. No matter what feature brings you to our site, your account will give you access to all of our tools. Forget having a separate site and login for forms, payments, email campaigns, donation campaigns, events and photo-sharing. We do it all, on a streamlined, integrated platform. Sign up or Log on now!
We are crazy excited about our new templates, and we want you to give them a spin! Starting NOW the first 100 users to submit a form created from a template will be entered to win a $25 gift card. To be entered, simply create a form, and send us the link here.
We can't wait to see your creations! Does collecting dues from your group sometimes feel like pulling teeth? If so, there is hope! Leaders on our site are making huge gains for their groups - with simple strategy changes that you can implement today. Rachelle Hinkle from Indianapolis is a fantastic example of a forward-thinking leader. She is also the alumni leader for the Delta Gamma Indianapolis Alumnae Chapter. Her strategic decision to simply start sticking a Quickpay button link for dues onto her regular alumnae newsletter resulted in a 50% increase in yearly dues collection. On a recent survey, Rachelle reported that her group “increased its number of dues payers from 109 to 175, 80 of whom had never paid before, because of the ease and accessibility of the MP system.” Her tech-savvy approach to dues collection was simple and manageable, yet profoundly effective. With each custom newsletter she sent (and there were many!) she included a reminder to pay dues, and a big button link directing recipients directly to their personal dues portal. In Rachelle’s case, the consistent reminders paired with the accessible payment interface paid off in spades. Would you like to set up a similar system for your group? Contact successteam@memberplanet.com to find out how! To learn about setting up a Quickpay Click Here To learn about adding a button link to an email campaign Click Here We are on a roll with our templates! We have payment forms for all of the key functions your groups use most, and as of this week we have also expanded our selection of donation campaigns! Now you can log on and modify a pre-made template form or donation campaign for even the most complex, multi-faceted donation drives. Our new donation campaign templates include feilds to raise money in all kinds of ways, like selling t-shirts, dinner tickets, event registrations and more. Hosting a dinner to raise funds for a friend with a disease? We've got a form for that! Not only can you sell tickets to your dinner right from your page, you can also set giving levels, take open donations, and host a compelling donation page with your goal meter. We have campaign templates for the trends we see most, but more importantly, we have the back-end forms built out completely so you can skip the hassle of building extra forms for each piece of your fundraising effort. Simply swap in your photos and text, set prices, and you are good to go! Bonus! We care about the details, so we've taken care of those too. For example, the average profit margin on a dinner ticket is about 50%, so we have gone ahead and set those details as well, so you're "total raised" will be as accurate as possible. You can always adjust your profit margin with a click or two on step one, but we like to think we saved you a step, especially for those of you who haven't yet braved the "more options" fields! Go straight to the Donation Campaign builder!
The new MemberPlanet Events pages are perfect for any type of event, whether it’s an Oscar viewing party, a fundraiser, 5k, or virtual meeting. We created a Virtual Oscars Event to give you a test-drive of our all-new Events feature…and to have some fun with a glamorous giveaway! Read to completion to learn how you can win a $150 Tiffany&Co giftcard! In order to be our grand-prize winner, you will need to complete a few simple challenges on our site. The goal of these challenges is to let you test out our event feature for yourself - in a fun and easy way. You will earn points, or "nominations" for each challenge. Challenges include RSPV-ing to our event, commenting on our page, filling out a fantasy Oscars ballot, logging on to MemberPlanet to create an event of your own (your event can be real or pretend!), and using our easy-as-pie email photo uploader. But first - here’s the nitty-gritty of how you’re gonna win! We will be awarding the giftcard to the individual who receives the most nomination points by completing a series of simple steps on our site. If there is a tie, we will choose the most creative submission! Earn Nominations: RSVP “Yes” to our virtual event…. 1 point! Write a short comment on our event page… 1 point! Fill out your Oscar ballot… 1 point! Create your own event on MemberPlanet and add SuccessTeam to your guest list …. 10 points! Upload a photo or image to our Event Album by emailing it here... 5 points Bonus: Like our facebook page … 1 point Share your event on facebook or twitter… 5 points! (remember to tag @memberplanet so we can see it and give you your points!) Keep in mind, every aspect of our challenge (from the survey ballot, to the event, to the simple email-photo-uploader) was created on MemberPlanet, and they are all things that you can do for your own upcoming events.
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