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AWARE Whistler is a charity committed to protecting the natural environment of Whistler, Canada. It marks its 30th anniversary as an organisation this year and is celebrating the occasion by launching the 30 for 30 Fundraiser.
Charitable Stripe 1.4 comes out today and implements two new Stripe APIs designed to smoothly handle new Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) rules in Europe. We strongly recommend updating to the latest version as soon as possible, particularly if you are based in Europe or accept donations from European donors. How will Strong Customer Authentication affect…
Charitable Newsletter Connect 2.0 is out today, with a host of improvements. Besides featuring a deep integration with Charitable’s Contact Consent feature, the update also adds a powerful new field mapping tool and support for ActiveCampaign. Powerful Field Mapping In MailChimp, they’re called merge fields. In MailerLite, they’re referred to as subscriber fields. In Campaign…
Charitable Recurring Donations 1.1 finally brings two of the most highly requested features. Read on to find out what’s new. Monthly, Quarterly, Semi-Annual, and Annual Donations Since its initial release Recurring Donations have only been possible with a monthly frequency. This has been the number one requested feature for a while and we’re pleased to…
By default, your site will have a single donation receipt page, which donors will automatically be redirected to after they make their donation. You can use the auto-generated receipt page provided by Charitable out of the box, or you can specify a particular page to be used as your donation receipt page. Check the guide…
While most people use Charitable for fundraising campaigns, some users have found creative uses for it. One customer recently wanted to continue using Charitable as a donation tool, while also using it as a way for people to register for their event. The first step to achieving this is easy enough: Just create a separate…
If you run many campaigns, you may need to add campaign-specific text to your donation receipt emails. Charitable does not support this out of the box, but thanks to the flexibility of the underlying code, it’s possible to enable this. The Solution To solve this problem, we are going to add a new field to…
Today we’re releasing our first extension for 2019: Charitable Fee Relief. Now you can increase your donations by allowing donors to cover the processing fee when they make their donation. Not surprisingly, this has been a hotly requested feature and we are excited to finally be able to offer you an easy, customisable way to…
Charitable 1.6 is available today, with important user privacy & GDPR-related changes among other things. Read on to find out what’s new.
If you haven’t already, upgrade to Charitable 1.5.14. It resolves a security bug affecting some sites using Charitable.