Event Journal, Inc. has teamed up with Karma411 to offer not-for-profit organizations a continuum of web-based solutions for cause-related and special event fundraising efforts.  Karma411 specializes in web 2.0 "people-to-people" online campaigns to raise funds and awareness for causes. It provides the most complete suite of online, viral campaigns including fundraising, friend-raising, event, walk-a-thon and social commitment campaigns.

Karma campaigns are best used by nonprofits looking for new ways of fundraising, particularly from bottom-up, advocate-driven initiatives. Karma campaigns facilitate online donations as well as record offline donations, so they are an ideal complement to existing, traditional fundraising efforts.

While Karma411 offers “do-it-yourself” solutions that work best for grass-roots, “people to people” campaigns, Event Journal offers sophisticated sites that are fully supported by professional designers.  While Karma411 sites focus, primarily, on individual giving, Event Journal’s online e-journal provides event sponsors a means of demonstrating good will in supporting an organization with online advertising that links to the company website for a full year.

Together, Event Journal and Karma411 offer a powerful team of state-of-the-art, web-based solutions for not-for-profit, special events fundraising.

As a member of the Blackbaud Resource Partner Network since 2009, Event Journal, Inc. will participate in the 2010 Conference for Nonprofits on October 20-22 at the Gaylord National Hotel and Convention Center in Washington, D.C. 

This three-day conference for development professionals will feature intensive educational sessions on the use of Blackbaud software, seminars on best practices in fundraising and non-profit marketing,  and extensive networking opportunities.   Event Journal, Inc. will be participating in the exhibition area, to demonstrate and explain how its offerings can enhance results achieved by organizations running major fundraising events.   The Event Journal system can function as a stand-alone event marketing and fundraising system and/or can coordinate with Blackbaud’s Net Community and Net Solutions products to provide more value and ease of use for the organization, the sponsors and the event guests than traditionally printed ad journals and program books and/or event websites. 

Keeping Event Journal “cutting-edge” in its application of technology for online fundraising is a matter of staying attuned to the needs of our non-profit clients’ and guiding them to best-practice solutions to streamline online giving via their e-journal websites.

This month, Event Journal upgraded functionality of the online donations module for e-commerce in collaboration with e-Giving, a company specializing in merchant processing for non-profits via its affiliation with industry leader, NetDeposit. NetDeposit enables organizations to streamline revenue collection and management with proven payment technologies.   NetDeposit provides single-source solutions for payment acceptance, processing, and management across market segments. With NetDeposit's secure processing solutions, businesses accelerate receivables, reduce risk, and save time and money.  And, in cooperation with e-Giving, Event Journal, Inc. is able to extend specially discounted not-for-profit rates to its clients.

Event Journal, Inc.’s PCI-compliant and certified e-commerce module is also compatible with Authorize.net, Your Pay, First Data Global Gateway, Sage, BluePay, PayFlow Pro, PlugNPay and PayPal.

Event Journal streamlines the process of ad copy and content collection with its uniquely sophisticated, yet easy-to-use online ad submission feature.  Purchasers of e-journal ads and sponsorship packages that include journal ads are prompted to browse and click to submit web-ready ads or elements for their ads such as logos and photos.  An ad copy box provides an open field for the entry of custom text to be submitted to Event Journal’s creative team for production of a custom ad. 

New for June 2010, is a function that allows submissions to be entered in English and Hebrew, with the purchaser toggling between the two online keyboards, as needed to submit their particular message.   The journal ads, themselves, are designed by Event Journal’s production department and are posted online within a few days of receipt. 

Event Journal’s state of the art ad submission system, in English and Hebrew, allows event supporters to express themselves fully in recognition of the special event, Gala, Golf Outing or benefit event of the non-profit organization they support.