Here's how wowcrowd works
Ready to go? Find a plan or check out the quick-start guide
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Identify a cause or purpose
It could be something general like the environment or specific like staff training
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Establish a fund
Earmark money from your budget for crowdsourced allocation
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Solicit proposals
Often the best ideas come from advocates on the ground: staff, customers, and supporters
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Collect votes
Watch as proposal authors discover new marketing channels to rally voters around their ideas
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Fund customization
Tweak colors, backgrounds, and images to make your fund part of your brand
- Branding is applied throughout fund pages, including login and signup
- Set custom default avatars for new projects to get a consistent look on your leaderboard
- Hire a wowcrowd-approved design partner for turnkey skin delivery
Customize important copy to make sure it sounds right
- Detailed control over email copy ensures your message gets across during critical communications
- Craft site language to match your voice
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Total control over the proposal process
Get proposals from the right people
- You can choose to open up submissions to the public or invite and pre-approve specific authors
Customize your submission form
- List specific requirements for project descriptions
- Gather custom project metadata like location and contact information
Guide projects through a multi-step workflow
- Approve projects when they're ready, or send them back to their authors for further editing
- Track projects as they proceed through the voting process
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Voting and security
Empower your people with votes
- Give votes to anybody when they join your fund, or restrict access to a specific voter roll
- Weighing in engages on-the-ground participants and ensures the best ideas rise to the top
Prevent and manage fraud
- Use sophisticated analysis tools to identify fraud "hotspots"
- Suspend suspicious projects and votes temporarily or disqualify them altogether
- Special inspection period built into fund workflow to allow time for fraud detection
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Getting social
Foster community conversation
- Project discussions offer a forum for voter inquiries of authors
- Fund discussions and project updates offer additional opportunity to interact
Integrate your fund with 3rd-party services
- Tie your fund to your external donation site
- Hook your voter roll into your CRM
- Allow members to spread the word with Twitter and Facebook tools
Get started for free or read the quick-start guide for step-by-step instructions
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