Have a simple program with only one requestable item like diapers or a scholarship? You only need the essential platform. Have a complex holiday wishlist program where you need to have high control over what is being requested with custom sizing questions? Choose premium and add as many requestable items as you need! If you wind up needing more requestable items, simply upgrade your account.
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Enter your EIN or organization name to start using Advocate!
Tired of managing a website? Add your organization's mission, social media, website, and more on your own custom profile page available to the public.
Our program creation form allows organizations to create new programs within minutes, featuring everything from banner images to eligibility requirements.
Run similar programs on a regular basis? Advocate allows you to save and categorize your most-used items into templates.
Give your program administrators access to change your organizational settings, administrate all programs, and perform high-level tasks across your Advocate account.
View donors across all of your programs and be able to export the data into important impact reports or additional services for marketing.
Add other organizations on Advocate to create referral and administrative partnerships between your organization and theirs.
Set what items recipients can request on their wishlist, and control the attribute information you need, like sizes, notes, and more. It's 100% customizable to be as precise as you need. Items can be physical or financial too!
Need to know important information outside of a recipient's profile for evaluation into your program? You can add additional custom questions with our form builder.
Application Insight allows you to see every other Advocate application status during the application review process, helping to foster collaboration with other nonprofits and prevent duplicate services.
Create the boundaries you need for your program by defining program dates, enrollment deadlines, wishlist request minimums, eligible ages, program visibility, and much more.
Have a question for a recipient about one of their requests, such as sizing or clarification? Simply send them a request review notification and let them respond!
Add dropoff and pickup locations and timeslots for your donors and recipients, allowing you to set schedules ahead of time and avoid the hassle of coordinating distribution!
Recipients fill out their profile during account creation, allowing them to add information about income, transportation, and demographics that they can reuse for every application, minimizing burden.
We want all recipients to control what info they share online, so we allow them to customize any information that donors would see. This allows recipients to know their application responses are totally private.
Recipients are able to browse through programs in their area, searching on anything from location to eligibility criteria. This allows their advocate account to be their One stop resource library.
Donors are able to connect with the story as well as the needs of approved recipients by viewing their household profiles within a program. Profiles include household circumstances, requests, and even photos if applicable.
Advocate streamlines the whole hot mess of donor pickups and drop offs at the point of signup. Donors choose time slots and locations to choose what works for their schedule.
While donors can make either physical or financial donations based on the type of program it is, they can always add an additional donation at checkout to further help their favorite programs