LOS ANGELES, June 29, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- With Fourth of July on the horizon, Evite, the leading
digital service bringing people together, is helping its users pay
tribute to their independence by offering the option to raise funds
for military organizations with a new charitable donation
feature.
Using Evite Donations, powered by charitable giving platform
Pledgeling:
- Event hosts can select a nonprofit from a list of verified U.S.
charities on the Evite invitation creation page, or recommend a new
charity be added to the list via Pledgeling.
- Invited guests can donate directly on the Evite invitation
page.
- Guests can give seamlessly to charities within the invite.
Evite never takes a fee from donations made.
More information about Evite Donations can be found here.
Since its launch last August, Evite Donations has doubled in
impact each quarter, raising money now for over 2,300 charities
across various events, including unexpected ones like the Polar
Circle Half Marathon.
For this 40-mile race through the arctic tundra, event host
Jennifer Keller used the Evite
Donations feature to spotlight Full Circle Home, a nonprofit
supporting loved ones of the Armed Forces, on her Evite invitation.
Keller's guests donated $3,700 to the
nonprofit directly on the Evite RSVP page.
"Being invited to donate through Evite Donations created a more
intimate fundraising experience for friends and family," said
Keller, the sister of a U.S. Army Captain.
Keller's event is just one of the over 15,000 events pledged to
charity through Evite Donations thus far.
"We want our Evite events to be memorable and meaningful," said
Victor Cho, Chief Executive Officer
at Evite. "We're excited to help make this summer's cookouts and
parties about something bigger with charitable donations through
Evite Donations."
About Evite, Inc.
Evite (www.evite.com), the leading digital service for bringing
people together, has sent over 2 billion event invitations in its
history, enabling approximately 3 billion unique face-to-face
connections. Evite makes getting together effortless and more
memorable for its 100+ million annual users, sending 20,000
invitations every hour and handling hundreds of millions of RSVPs
every year. Evite is headquartered in Los
Angeles and is a subsidiary of Liberty Interactive
Corporation attributed to the Liberty Ventures Group (NASDAQ:
LVNTA, LVNTB).
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