Volunteering is a big part of giving back to a community and most volunteering happens on a local level. givezooks! has incorporated All For Good to raise the visibility of volunteer opportunities. All for Good has built an open source application that allows you to find and share volunteer activities. All for Good aggregates volunteer opportunities from craigslist.org, volunteermatch.org, volunteersolutions.org, meetup.com, idealist.org, serve.gov and other sites.

Donors want choice, security and simplicity. Our integration with Amazon Payments allows millions of Amazon customers to donate to their favorite causes with the information stored in their Amazon accounts. Not only does this simplify the donation process, but donors can also be insured that their transactions are being processed by one of the most trusted names in the industry. Learn More

givezooks! leverages Amazon’s Web Services to deliver the most scalable, highest availability services to our members. We take advantage of Amazon.com’s global computing infrastructure, that is the backbone of Amazon.com’s $15 billion retail business and transactional enterprise whose scalable, reliable, and secure distributed computing infrastructure has been honed for over 13 years. Find out more about Amazon Web Services.

Every community has hundreds if not thousands of local nonprofits that provide key services locally. We wanted to provide individuals a way to give to local organizations whether or not they had a givezooks account. We have partnered with Network for Good in order to process any donations to those organizations. Network for Good is a nonprofit organization that acts as a donor advised fund to get your donation to the any qualified nonprofit.

The Non-Profit Purchasing Group is committed to lowering the recurring costs of non-profit organizations by providing its members with discounted rates on their most commonly purchased goods and services. NPPG is also committed to reinvesting in the non-profit community by donating 10 percent of its net income to charity. Its vendor partners were selected based on surveys of non-profits throughout the country, and givezooks! is proud to have been selected.

PayPal is the leader in providing secure online credit card transaction processing. They also have put in place a program to benefit the nonprofit sector by providing qualified 501©(3) organizations with discounted credit card transaction fees. givezooks! is always looking for partnerships that help take cost out of the donation equation.

Plastic Jungle is the most visited online destination to sell, buy, exchange, and donate gift cards in a trusted environment. Gift cards are the most popular gift given today, but 10% of them go unredeemed, which means approximately $40 billion in unused gift cards are sitting in U.S. kitchen and sock drawers (an average of $400 per household). Our partnership with Plastic Jungle allows your supporters to contribute gift cards to your cause via your givezooks! online fundraisers and convert them into cash. Learn More

givezooks! utilizes RightScale’s automated cloud computing management system to help us scale our web applications that are running on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud. RightScale provides us a way to dynamically add compute resources as demand requires thereby helping us provide the most cost effective solutions to our customers.

For over 20 years, Telosa Software has been helping nonprofits spend more time building donor relationships and maximizing their fundraising efforts. Telosa is passionate about delivering affordable, easy-to-use fundraising software and information management solutions that empower nonprofits to focus on and achieve their respective missions and fundraising goals.

Email is still a vital way to stay in touch with supporters, and with the CAN-SPAM Act, compliance is more complicated. We have worked with VerticalResponse to incorporate bulk email services, a monthly email grant, and discounts on other services into our offering. This savings means that more of your donors’ dollars can go to the important programs that your organization provides. Vertical Response is the leader in email marketing.