Local Businesses - Goodsend App

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Goodsend offers white-labeled donation pages for local businesses and communities to drive impact with their next-gen audience. Whether you’re a restaurant, shop, or apartment building, giving with Goodsend is perfect way to get your brand noticed for community impact.

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Goodsend aims to reduce financial barriers for those in underrepresented communities and increase economic mobility.

Built In Chicago

Goodsend's direct giving app allows you to help local community members pay their bills, their rent, buy groceries and more

Forbes

Goodsend — a social app for direct giving — is rolling out an interesting program: paying expenses (e.g., gas, phone bills) for underprivileged jobseekers

The Hustle

Secure donations link for your business

Each Goodsend business partner receives a free white-labeled donations page where their patrons, residents, or members can donate to Chicagoland students in need. All donations are securely processed by our partners at industry leader, Stripe.

Share your business donation link in-person and online

Associate your brand with community impact by posting your donations page in your physical space via QR codes and linking to your page online through social media and your website.

Expand your local reach in Chicago

When you work with Goodsend you don’t just get a community partner, but also a business marketing partner. Goodsend spreads awareness of your brand to all of our followers and stakeholders online.

Receive information on your consumers

Goodsend provides each partner with a full report at the end of each month, detailing individuals that interacted with your donations page, along with their contact information.

Use Cases

We partner with all types of small businesses and communities in Chicago

Bars, Restaurants, and Shops

Goodsend is a free way to engage with your customers, online and offline, and spread awareness of your business to a local audience of next-gen, socially aware consumers in Chicago.

Apartments and Neighborhood Associations

Receive a free, go-to community outreach partner with Goodsend. Drive donations via QR codes in your physical spaces, and spread goodwill amongst your resident community.

Local Membership Organizations

For religious institutions, student organizations, professional associations, work with Goodsend to spread impact and better retention amongst your membership in Chicago.

Why Goodsend is a better way to give

Ease

With our mobile and web giving platforms, we offer a seamless and easy way to give directly to local students.

Trust

By working with established school partners, we're able to offer vetted donation opportunities to our donors.

Local

Give to the students and families that are currently in need of help in your own community.

Consistent

With several recurring micro-donation options, Goodsend ensures that you never forget to help others.

Tax-deductible

Unlike other P2P giving platforms like GoFundMe, all donations made through Goodsend are tax-deductible.

Stories

See the impact that you're making on real lives in your community, via emailed thank you notes and updates.

Give directly to students from local schools

We partner with established schools in the Chicago, Atlanta, and Bay Area communities to identify, vet, and support low-income students and families in need.

Testimonials from Goodsend donors

Giving with Goodsend is the most effective and innovative way to donate directly to others in my community. I think any company with a Chicago presence should strongly consider joining their community.

Gabriel Adams

Product lead, gtm operations, google

Giving with Goodsend always feels like the most impactful way to give to others. I love having the opportunity to give directly to local students in need every month. I'd highly recommend Goodsend as a service to others!

Rohun Papa

senior product manager, stellar health

Goodsend makes the act of donating to others streamlined and immediately effective. I'm so excited to be a part of their Chicagoland community, and I hope to see it expand even more.