Frequently Asked Questions
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New businesses can get started in a matter of minutes.
Once you join, Local Impact Network provides a few links, so that you can centralize your donation requests and access your dashboard.
It takes businesses about 5-10 minutes to set things up on their end.
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No!
We encourage businesses to support their communities. But our goal is to help businesses make a greater impact. In some cases, that may mean donating more. In most cases, it simply means being more responsive to the needs of your community and identifying new mutually-beneficial opportunities in your community.
Your business can’t say yes to every donation request. So when you have to decline, we share other resources with those nonprofit organizations and find creative ways to ensure that they have the resources they need.
We ensure that even when you decline a donation, you are building goodwill in your community.
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Yes!
If you have records of past donations, we can import them into our system.
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No!
Businesses are charged just $10/month and can cancel at any time.
If you choose to cancel, simply remove Local Impact Network’s links from your website(s). You own all of your data and can take it with you if you choose to cancel.
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Local Impact Network integrates seamlessly. You simply add links to your website(s) and social media profile(s) and the system tracks your donations and social impact initiatives.
We work with PR firms, bookkeepers, accountants, social media managers and on-premise staff to ensure that they have the information they need to do their jobs even more effectively and efficiently.
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Local Impact Network charges a flat $10/month fee for businesses to use the service, whether they operate a single location or multiple locations.
In addition, we takes a small percentage when new revenue is generated through events or auction item sales that are booked through our system. That includes only new revenue, meaning Local Impact Network only makes money when you make money and when local nonprofit organizations make money.
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Local Impact Network is a for-profit company with a mission to support local businesses and local nonprofits. In order to do that, we created an easy and affordable fee for our technology.
In addition to the fee, Local Impact Network only makes money when local businesses and local nonprofits make money by taking a small percentage of revenue generated through its system.