Virtual Giving Planned Giving Websites

Kanuga is a place of Christian reshment and renewal in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Our guests support their churches at home and also many other charities, so we have to hold their attention and affection in order to encourage their support.

Our VirtualGiving website is a useful tool in that endeavor. The site explains how planned gifts build our endowment and how they help make a significant commitment to Kanuga feasible for more donors. It clearly explains the benefits of each planned giving vehicle that we offer, provides detailed supporting information, then makes it easy for the prospect to contact us for a follow-up.

The design is warm and inviting, and encourages visitors to linger and explore. Our donors tell us that they like what they see there — and so do we.

United Blood Services serves a vast constituency throughout the United States.

A planned giving website greatly increases our ability to communicate with our supporters. VirtualGiving developed an attractive, effective website in collaboration with our own designer (in order to maintain the look and feel of our current website). They were prompt in delivering the copy and uploading the changes,

VirtualGiving strengthened our marketing presence while we fundraisers kept our focus on raising gifts.

VirtualGiving designed our planned giving website to look like an integral part of our overall development pages. The site is well organized and is easy for a visitor to navigate. Text and graphics make the prospect feel welcome and guide her to a gift decision. I especially like the links placed all throughout the site enabling the prospect to contact us instantly for follow-up gift information and the fact that the request form gives us detailed information on the prospect and is not just an email link.

VirtualGiving took the time to understand Widener´s style and marketing image, and their final copy and design reflect that awareness. They were responsive to our needs and reliable on deadlines. I fully recommend them.

We had high expectations when we decided to add a planned giving website, to Neumann College´s recently redesigned main website, that would enhance our marketing/fundraising portfolio. VirtualGiving delivered a professional product that exceeded our goals. In fact, recently two of our donors have entered into serious discussions with us regarding charitable instruments, so we know that the site is working for us. We also will be promoting it in conjunction with our first comprehensive capital campaign.

We [The Episcopal Church Foundation] have been impressed with the integrity, imagination, and creativity of the VirtualGiving staff.

They have helped us see our work from a new perspective, and we look forward to an improved ability to work with the constituent churches for whom we raise and manage funds.

We are re-establising an in-house InterVarsity Planned Giving program, and our priority is to get our program support systems built as quickly as possible so that we can spend the bulk of our time serving our donors.

The partnership of VirtualGiving has given us a speedy way to enter the world of Web education and communications with our ministry staff and our donor base, without a major drain on our preferred focus or financial resources. In fact, we are actually finding that havingaving a quality website in place is stimulating our creative juices for e-communications in ways that we had not even considered six months ago. Finally, thanks to VirtualGiving´s responsiveness, we were able to get the site up and running in 30 days to match-up with the launch of a new marketing program. Having the website in place added extra depth for the marketing effort.