 So hello and thank you for joining us today for today's public good app house demo event So joining me today. We have James Citron chief executive officer of pledge Today, we're gonna see how you can install and easily start fundraising through zoom and how your zoom meeting can become a fundraiser In minutes through the donations by pledge app It's an honor to be here and I'm excited to to share about the first donate button built for zoom So just a little bit about pledge. We are a totally free no contract Turnkey fundraising platform for any nonprofit and we've won a lot of exciting awards of the past year including fast companies most Innovative company for the launch of the first zoom donate button Which you're gonna actually see a sneak peek of in one minute. Some of you may be familiar with with pledge We have actually raised money for now over 33,000 nonprofits Have received funding through pledge Some of the products you may have seen or used are we have really easy to integrate donation forms and fundraising pages We'll talk about zoom in a minute But we actually won the first folks to launch text to donate for every nonprofit We launched Apple pay for charity in the US several years ago And so a huge growth in Apple pay and then a number of corporate partners We powered the fundraising line. So everything from Shopify to evi legacy and just announced Yesterday a big partnership with cameo Let me walk you through the backstory and why a donate button on zoom as the world shut down during covid We like i'm sure everyone here on the webinar. We're thinking What's going to happen to the world but also to nonprofits everywhere Analysts were predicting literally one third of nonprofits May go out of business during covid, you know, obviously every in person event cancelled Would donors still donate? What would happen? during covid I pledge we saw this Huge challenge the challenge for the world as an opportunity to rethink the future of fundraising And that led us to zoom and to virtual donation. We said Is there a way now that we're all connected virtually and this is the only way we're connected during covid Could we build donations seamlessly across every virtual event? That led us to first build a platform a virtual fundraising platform that works across twitch youtube and and every virtual fundraising and live streaming platform And ultimately to zoom And it was so fascinating when we first started talking to zoom a little over a year ago The number one literally the number one request from customers was why is it not easy to donate and zoom? I can donate I can do a fundraiser in facebook But why not zoom and that led to this big partnership with zoom where now Every nonprofit basically in the world we have 2.2 million nonprofits can now launch a free donate button zoom The thing that was amazing about the past let's call it 18 months or so Where it was scary for everyone, you know, no in-person events Let's pivot to virtual just so we can engage with our donors and try to continue fundraising. Well, what we found It was actually incredible for a number of organizations. We did 50 000 virtual fundraisers last year Raised tens of millions of dollars all virtually across all of the different platforms And these are just a handful of the big events that we did that some of you may have seen or participated in But the amazing thing for nonprofits is they pivoted to virtual one Many of them raised more money than ever before Nearly all of them reached a larger audience. You no longer have to Battle with travel times and traffic etc. You can reach anyone anywhere And many of our nonprofit partners actually had their best year ever last year And similarly this year because of the pivot to virtual we're going to hit play And let's turn on the audio here. You're going to actually watch a quick two-minute demo of the zoom donate button I'm going to talk over What you're seeing here. So at the bottom of everyone's zoom meeting You're going to see there's now an apps button Okay, and what's happening here is I just search for the pledge button Click install pledge Create a fundraiser and and that's me typing right there You can choose from any nonprofit in our database. That's 2.2 million. That's You know 2 million nonprofits globally not just everyone in the u.s Plug in a goal It our app automatically creates a fundraiser page. So beyond just zoom your fundraiser lives on It's got built-in text to donate So folks are on mobile and they're tuning into your virtual gala and they just want to text and donate With their thumbprint on apple pay donate in two seconds. They can And probably the most innovative feature everyone knows about these amazing virtual backgrounds on zoom So now with our donate button on zoom Literally as soon as a donor donates They actually get a special custom virtual background from you the nonprofit And built into the app are literally a bunch of templates or you can upload your own So here I am uploading one for once you planted an incredible environmental organization we've done a lot of work with And literally that's all I had to do to create a fundraiser in zoom it took Can take as little as 30 seconds you then paste it in chat like everyone's asking questions right now And once anyone clicks on a link in that chat they are actually going to have a donate button built into zoom like you see on the screen So you see my colleague Anna I know it's a little funny because you're seeing a video of me talking over the zoom app, but literally Anna Is just making a quick donation or that's me making a donation as well It's all in real time And you can set the virtual background and voila Now we've recreated that same experience of being an in-person event where when folks raise their hand and everyone wants to be a part of That fundraising that special moment We've brought that same experience now to a virtual experience a lot of what we did when we built this this zoom app was Taking the insights from 50 000 virtual events You know one of the biggest ones is if you put a link in chat and send everyone outside of zoom You're going to lose a bunch of your audience So now with everything built into zoom you're going to have the most donor participation possible You're going to raise more money more profitably because there's absolutely zero cost And for you as the nonprofit you see in real time how much money is raised You don't have to log into a another website and see oh did my big donor just donate Can I add offline donations all of that is built into zoom so in literally A handful of weeks launched we've seen nonprofits in 30 countries take advantage of this new functionality So we're really excited to launch this Zoom is an incredibly mission driven company. We've been working very closely with them to launch this functionality And they would love to see every nonprofit in the world is connecting with zoom really You know start successfully fundraising through this platform If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me I'll put my email in the chat and also a county link so you can you can book a time to see it But again, it's totally free. You can go to this URL today and set it up And we hope all of you have an incredible end of your giving I know it's a it's a stressful time, but we wish every nonprofit online the best the best end of your possible Thank you