Understand Personal Fundraising Campaigns

Within a Personal Fundraising campaign, you can designate that constituents create:

• Honorary funds to honor a loved one by name and enable the constituent to receive email notifications when gifts are made to the fund

• Memorial funds to pay tribute to a special loved one who is no longer living and designate a next of kin contact to receive email notifications when gifts are made to the fund

• Personal funds that acknowledge a personal commitment to your mission

• All three types of funds

You can create multiple campaigns and set each campaign to its own fund type to be sure the appropriate text and messaging displays to the creators of each fund type.

You can edit the minimum setup to change the predefined settings and configure additional options, but you cannot change the type of funds offered in a campaign after it has been saved.

The Champion Dashboard page helps champions with multiple funds (within one campaign or across multiple campaigns) to switch between their funds. This dashboard is enabled by default.

Additional fundraising options let you:

• Allow champions to set fundraising goals when they create their funds

• Define a set up fee that champions must pay in order to create funds

• Define the number of gifts that a champion must collect before the Funds Raised Tally on their fund page displays donors and gift amounts

• Add questions to the champion information pages to gather more information

• Customize the waiver that outlines the guidelines for collecting donations

• Customize autoresponders content sent in response to actions taken with funds and fund pages

• Create new message templates that fund champions can send to family and friends

• Select the fund page layout that each champion will configure to tell their story and use to collect donations

• Customize text that displays on various pages, including on the Champion Center to identify the fund being managed

You can manage the campaign funds to create a fund on behalf of a constituent, confirm cash and check gifts that the fund champion has entered and forwarded to you to process officially, edit the fund name, description, champion, and Honoree. If the Approve Fund Page feature is enabled, you can also view and approve edits to fund Web pages before they are made available online.