Do you use Givalanche?

Leslie Choitz

Is anyone actually using the Givalanche feature in Online Express?  I would love to hear what your experience has been from set-up to final results.


We have been using OLX since March and thought we would give it a try.  I played with it this week and was very disappointed at how completely inflexible the set-up seems to be, such as the inability to control where it appears on the page, the spacing around it, etc., and that I could not see how it would appear until I made a donation.  I was also surprised that the email that was generated when I clicked on that option to start a Givalanche, did not refer to our organization, except in the wording of the link.  


Are my initial impressions correct?  Is it useful?  Has anyone come up with work-arounds to address these problems?


Thanks for your insight.


 

Art Maxwell

No. Just getting started with Raiser's Edge and after looking at Givalanche, I don't understand how it would ever do what it claims. It generated an incredibly boring facebook post with no images or pizazz. It would be up to the donor to invest the time and energy to make the post appealing. I can't find any information about how to customize. I'm left scratching my head and will turn it off until I see the light. 

Faith Murray

We used it for several months. We got maybe one Givalanche gift. It messed up the layout of our thank-you emails, and eventually, we stopped using it. It seems more effective just to generate our own Facebook or email campaigns.