Understand Personal Fundraising

Constituents can champion your mission by creating special fund donation pages on your website to encourage their friends and family to make monetary gifts.

Donation pages are offered through Personal Fundraising Campaigns when a donation or online giving form is associated with them to collect online credit card gifts.

You can designate that constituents create:

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

• A Memorial fund to pay tribute to a 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

• A Personal fund to acknowledge a personal commitment to your mission

You can enable all of the fund types in one campaign or set up your campaign for a specific fund type. You can also 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.

After their funds are created, the fund champions have access to their Champion Center where they can personalize their fund page to tell their story about their loved one or involvement in this cause. You have access to the fund pages to edit or disable them if you receive complaints about objectionable material. You can also edit the Guest Book instructions and delete Guest Book entries on behalf of the fund champions.

Champions can create photo albums with pictures and provide links to them from their page.

By default, a Guest Book displays on the page for visitors to enter a quick note. Champions can turn this Guest Book off to keep it from displaying. They can also customize the instructions that display to visitors about signing the Guest Book and they can delete any offensive entries from the Guest Book. To help avoid unauthorized software applications (like SPAM-bots) from accessing a champion Guest Book, enable the CAPTCHA site option to force visitors to enter a special character sequence to verify that they are a person and not a "bot."

The Champion Center has tools to send emails to family and friends to appeal for donations as well as monitor the progress of the funds they raise.

Note: Although Personal Fundraising is designed to enable your constituents to create and manage funds themselves, you can create the funds on their behalf and perform administrative management tasks on the funds (such as editing them).