A nonprofit runs the food pantry and volunteer orientation. A foundation runs the grantee showcase and benefit dinner. A faith community runs services, classes, and festival meals. Alora Giving gives every gathering a public page, RSVP list, waitlist, calendar feed, and donation path.
Connected to giving: event donations, attendee lists, segments, and follow-up all stay tied to the same records.
The job
Right now the schedule lives in a spreadsheet, the sign-ups live in someone's inbox, and the website calendar has been out of date since March. The job is simple to name and hard to do: fill the room, know who's coming, and don't let it all rest on one heroic volunteer.
…and the Spring Benefit Dinner is coming in June, with 150 seats, a waitlist, and a room full of donors to thank afterward.
Native events
The volunteer orientation, the ten-week language course, the spring benefit dinner — each becomes a public event page with a shareable link. Supporters open it, read the details, and RSVP — no account to create, no app to install. Drop the link in the newsletter, the link-in-bio, or the community's WhatsApp group.
Set the number of seats — the room holds what it holds. RSVPs count down in real time, and the event closes itself when it's full.
When the last seat goes, new RSVPs join a waitlist. Someone cancels? The first person in line is promoted automatically — nobody keeps the list on paper.
Who's coming, who's waiting, who cancelled — one view for the volunteer coordinator, the caterer's headcount, and the program director's Monday briefing.
Full? Join the waitlist — seats open as plans change.
A public event page — share the link anywhere your community reads.
The events calendar in the dashboard — month, week, day, and list views.
One calendar
The language course's ten Monday sessions, youth mentoring every Wednesday, the food pantry every Tuesday — each program writes its own schedule onto the organization's calendar. Change the program, and the calendar follows.
Ramadan, the High Holy Days, Advent, Diwali, Vesak, Vaisakhi — whichever observances your community keeps are already on the calendar when you plan, alongside the civil and fiscal year. Schedule the food drive into the season of generosity, not on top of it. Eight calendar systems, built in →
Everyone adds your organization's .ics/iCal feed to Google Calendar, Outlook, or Apple Calendar — and new events simply appear on their phones. No more "when is it again?" messages.
Announce everywhere
Create the event once — then let it show up on your website, the lobby screen, and in the inbox of exactly the people it's for.
Event cards with one-click RSVP, a mini-calendar of what's ahead, and countdown timers — embedded on your existing website with one line of code. Website widgets →
Upcoming events rotate on the lobby screen — the benefit dinner, registration open for the fall program, this week's schedule — managed from the same dashboard. Digital signage →
Segment-targeted broadcasts: families in the youth program get the mentoring update, benefit-dinner guests get the seating note — each donor emailed individually, not the whole list every time. Automation → · Segments →
Events that collect
The benefit dinner, the ticketed gala, the annual giving day — some evenings are both a gathering and an ask. Pair the event with a live fundraising event: RSVP handles the seats; the live fundraising event handles the donations.
Guests scan the QR on the table card or enter a short code from their seat, donate in a few taps, and watch the total climb on the big screen as the room responds together.
And every donation lands in the same ledger as every other channel — on the same donor records, counting toward the same campaign, on the same year-end tax receipt. No separate event float to reconcile on Monday.
Live fundraising events in the dashboard — live now, scheduled, raised, and goal at a glance.
Donor lifecycle automation — the follow-up drafts itself; your staff approves.
After the event
Who came to the volunteer orientation, who registered for the course, who RSVPs to everything — event participation lives on the same donor profiles as donations and pledges.
The supporter who attends every program but has never donated. The donor who RSVPs to every benefit night. Segments built on engagement, not just donations, tell your team who to reach next.
A welcome for the first-time attendee, a thank-you the morning after the dinner — automation drafts the follow-up for your staff to review and approve. Nothing sends itself.
Up and running in minutes
No setup project, no developer, no waiting on whoever built the website.
Funds, vocabulary, and calendars configure themselves in about a minute — tzedakah for a synagogue, dana for a temple, seva for a gurdwara, or plain neutral language for a secular nonprofit.
Title, dates, seats, waitlist on — the public event page and RSVP list are live in a couple of minutes.
The newsletter, the link-in-bio, the community's WhatsApp group, the website widget — RSVPs start arriving the same day.