Criteria Eventbrite For Causes Meetup Idealist Eventful Evite

Connecting with attendees

Set up customized event page under the websites domain

Set up customized profile under the website's domain

Create an advertisment for volunteers or an event

Create an event page under the websites domain

Professionally  designed templates for invitations

Maximzing attendence

Variety of promotional tools including social media widgets. Can add questions to event page to get to know attendees.

Supporters sign up as members with their own profile, they can participate in online discussions by commenting on the profile page and can tune in to find the nearest local event

People can search the site for volunteer opportunities

Allows users to track upcoming events in their area and indicate their intent to attend as well as what events they'd like to see staged near by

Import email list or facebook contacts and then forward to them your customized invitation

Building support base

Promotional tools for social media 

May attract supporters from other like minded groups in the meetup domain. Each page shows what members of a group are also members of. The group can be tagged with keywords that will then return the site to anyone searching for it under the domain. 

Volunteers search the domain for volunteer opportunities engaging supporters passionate about your general cause or those that live near by

Volunteers search the domain for nearby events engaging new supporters in your area

Encouarge guests to invite their friends by fowarding the invitation