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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Discourse

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/ADiscourse is a community management and moderation product.

    $20

    per month

    Mobilize

    Score7.4 out of 10
    N/AMobilize is an events management and volunteer recruitment platform that connects mission-driven organizations and supporters. Mobilize boasts usage by 2,000+ campaigns, nonprofits, advocacy organizations, labor unions, and more, including Joe Biden (and 19 other Democratic presidential candidates), Human Rights Campaign, Planned Parenthood, NARAL, NextGen America, DNC, DCCC, Sierra Club, Crooked Media, Oxfam, National Education Association (NEA), Service Employees International…

    $0

    5 users, 5 events

    Pricing
    DiscourseMobilize
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $20
    per month unlimited members and 2 staff
    Pro
    $100
    per month unlimited members and 5 staff
    Business
    $500
    per month unlimited members and 15 staff
    Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    Limited Starter Account
    $0.00
    5 users, 5 events
    Small organizations (starting price)
    $100.00
    per month
    Mid-sized organizations (starting price)
    $500.00
    per month
    Large organizations (starting price)
    $2,000.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DiscourseMobilize
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    DiscourseMobilize
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (3 ratings)
    6.7
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DiscourseMobilize
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Civilized Discourse Construction Kit Inc.
    [Discourse is by] far the best online forum platform in the industry. It may be a little pricey for people looking for a cheap option for their hobby forum, but for any type of business that relies on a forum, the pricing is more than fair.
    Incentivized
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    Bonterra
    Mobilize is very well suited to add processes around your non profit activities. Especially to host events and intimate your audience in real time about any new and upcoming events. It also automates the whole process to collect feedback from your audiences. Not so suitable to target new audience for your events.
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    Pros
    Civilized Discourse Construction Kit Inc.
    • User Privileges : Teams, Trust Levels, Moderation, Private and Public Threads make it possible to have as much transparency, privacy or power decentralization as one wishes.
    • Gamification: Badges and Achievements can be customized for User Activity and frequent readers and writers.
    • Mailing List mode: Users can choose to use forum threads without the User Interface by subscribing via mailing list mode.
    Incentivized
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    Bonterra
    • Event RSVP.
    • Automated confirm emails/texts.
    • Integration w/ NGP-VAN tools (EveryAction, Votebuilder).
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Civilized Discourse Construction Kit Inc.
    • Some configuration UIs are difficult to follow
    • Not well-suited for managing workflows (grant management as an example)
    • Bulk operations across multiple threads either impossible or difficult to figure out
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    Bonterra
    • Doesn't help provide top of the funnel audience.
    • Connecting like-minded people to mobilize crowd together for a common cause.
    • The insights can be more actionable.
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    Civilized Discourse Construction Kit Inc.
    Vanilla's mobile functionality was downright awful and it felt like it was stuck in the 2000s. While they have similar features, Discourse blows them away in almost every department. We don't regret switching at all.
    Incentivized
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    Bonterra
    Before using Mobilize, we were handling confirmations using traditional organizing methods. By shifting to Mobilize, we freed up our organizers to focus on new volunteer recruitment and cut our flake rate significantly. We still use EveryAction from NGP-VAN, but we set up Mobilize to interface directly with that system via API.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Civilized Discourse Construction Kit Inc.
    • Community Members are eager to jump into the discussion.
    • Conversations can be tracked easier without the risk of being lost in a sea of messages as people tend to construct their posts more carefully than on any workspace messenger.
    • It's open source and configurable with many other add-ons to help integration with other services.
    Incentivized
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    Bonterra
    • My audience is more aware of upcoming schedule.
    • We get pin pointed feedback on our events.
    • Reduced the TAT to schedule events.
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    Mobilize Screenshots

    Screenshot of Public-facing event signup pageScreenshot of Public-facing events feedScreenshot of Organizer dashboardScreenshot of Event creationScreenshot of Cross-promotion between organizationsScreenshot of Event and volunteer stats