LOS ANGELES, June 22, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Evite, the
world's leading online and text invitation service, today announced
the company has won the 2018 Silver Halo Award for Best Consumer
Donation/Crowdfunding Campaign for its Evite Donations feature.
The Halo Awards are North
America's highest honor for corporate social initiatives and
cause marketing and presented by Engage for Good (formerly Cause
Marketing Forum). This is the sixteenth year that Engage for Good
honored businesses and nonprofits with Halos for doing well by
doing good.
Evite launched its Evite Donations feature after the company
began noticing that hosts wanted to ask guests to donate to their
favorite charity in lieu of bringing gifts to their parties.
Collaborating with Pledgeling to create a seamless donation
experience, Evite embedded donation functionality into event
invitations, enabling hosts to add a nonprofit and personally ask
guests to donate to their cause of choice. If guests choose to
donate (anonymously if they'd like), guests receive an immediate
receipt for tax purposes. The host can then thank each of their
guests with a customizable thank you note.
Over 50,000 events have been pledged to charity through Evite
Donations with hundreds of thousands of guests donating to their
hosts' favorite causes. To date, over $7
million has been raised by Evite Donations for over 5,000
nonprofit organizations, and donations doubled each quarter in
2017. Donations go to organizations large and small in every cause
area imaginable.
"Evite Donations allows any event to become a meaningful
fundraiser," said Victor Cho, Chief
Executive Officer of Evite. "All of us at Evite are proud to help
enable this generosity of spirit through our platform."
About Evite
For 20 years, Evite has been the world's
leading digital platform for bringing people together. With free,
easy-to-use invitation designs, inspirational video content, and a
private sharing feed for photos and conversations, Evite makes
coming together face-to-face effortless and more memorable for its
100+ million annual users. The company has sent over 2 billion
event invitations in its history and currently handles hundreds of
millions of RSVPs every year. Headquartered in Los Angeles, Evite, Inc. is a subsidiary of
GCI Liberty, Inc. (NASDAQ: GLIBA, GLIBP). Launched in 1998, the
company is celebrating its 20th birthday at
evite.com/birthday.
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