 Alright, I guess we can go ahead and get started. Good morning again welcome to the first of two give back Tahoe workshops that will be hosting. I am Caroline crappy with TTCF and Lisa Galperin is also on the line. Lisa, do you want to start sharing the slides. So I'm just going to start by giving a quick TTCF and give back Tahoe overview. And then I will hand it over to Lisa and she'll be giving you the rundown of mighty cause and just getting started, getting your page up and running for this year, and then we'll open it up for some questions. So as most of you probably already know, we are the Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation, and we have been hosting give back Tahoe since 2014. Our mission is to connect people and opportunities generating resources to build a more caring creative and effective community. So this will be the eighth annual give back Tahoe end of your fundraising campaign. The important dates that you want to remember will be kicking off with on giving Tuesday on November 30. And then November 30 to December 14 is the challenge grand period where you will be eligible to win more. Through donations raised during that time. And a lot of our marketing efforts will be focused around those dates and we encourage you to do the same. However, the entire giving season will be the entire month and we just found that a lot of donors are still giving throughout the end of the year so we want to keep it open through the campaign. So the platform is available all year round but the donations during that period are the only ones that will count towards the challenge grants, or just through the give back Tahoe metrics. Last year we had 50 nonprofits registered and on giving Tuesday alone we raise 132,000 from more than 1200 donors. And then during the entire campaign of 428,000 from more than 1400 donors and that was our best year yet. And then like I said we want to encourage you to use the platform all year round for donations and also volunteer recruitment. We did make some changes to the campaign last year so the first one being that the platform was open all year round and we were encouraging donors and nonprofits to use it for that purpose. In the challenge grants, we focus on unique donors versus amount raised and a lot of that was just due to COVID and a lot of the year round fundraising that all of us were doing. So, we also added in some non competitive random grants, again just hoping that more people would walk away with additional money. And we shortened the challenge grant period so it went from being a month to two weeks, because some of the feedback that we heard was a lot of nonprofits were doing their own fundraising campaign. And it just got to be a lot managing to and also just having it last a month long during such a busy time. And lastly, we lowered the donation minimum from $50 to $5 and a lot of that again went back to just year round fundraising and concerns about donor fatigue. But last year at the end of the campaign we did send around us feedback to all the participants and we received positive feedback on all of these changes. So we plan to keep them again for this year. And now I will hand it over to Lisa. Hello, everyone. It's nice to see you. So we're just going to be going over some key reminders and basics about the platform. In case you haven't used it since last year's give back Tahoe season. So the first step this year to get started is to of course register your nonprofit right now registration is open so if you go to give back Tahoe.org, you'll see the main CTA or call to action button is to register. So you can just click that button and complete your registration registration deadline is October 14. So it's a quick and easy survey. The questions are similar to what they were last year. But if you have any questions about the registration form, please feel free to reach out to us and we'd be more than happy to help them to go over the fees for this year. So the overall transaction fee on the platform is broken up into two parts. So there is a credit card processing fee or each fee which I'll get to in a second. And there is also a platform fee. So with credit card processing all together the total fee is 4.9% plus 30 cents. So if you see in the image above or on your screen that's broken down into a 2.9% plus 30 cent credit card processing fee which goes straight to the credit card processors American Express it's a little bit more, it's a little slightly higher. And then the platform fee is 2%. So that's on any credit card processing and of course, as you know, donors always have the ability to cover this processing fee, if they want to. So credit card processing, we also have a CH processing, I believe we had that last year, but just to go over that again. So each processing is actually it's available for donations that are $50 or above. So one option is below $50 a donor is not going to see the ability to donate via a CH. And it's a really great option for donors that are donating a large amount because the transaction fees are actually slightly lower. So there is still a 2% platform fee, however, you would replace that 2.9 credit card 2.9% plus 30 cent credit card processing fee with a 1% a CH fee, and also a $1 and 50 cent fixed fee per transaction. So what that means is that if someone were to donate twice via CH that $1 50 cents would actually be removed from their second transaction. But overall, then that total processing fee is capped at $5. So if you have a donor that's donating $1,000 it's actually much lower the total processing fees for them if they donate via a CH. And to note that cap that $5 cap does not apply to the 2% platform fee. And if you have any questions about the fees pricing feel free to let us know in the chat or we can talk about that after the slides when we go over any questions. So one of the things we talk about every single year is the story that you're going to share for this year's Tahoe campaign. And we always recommend at Mighty Cause since we do host many giving days is for organizations to start thinking about that at the beginning of the campaign that they're trying to build out. What's the story that you're going to share this year about give back Tahoe. 2020 happened in 2021 there was a lot that happened just in your community a lot has happened with all of the fires and smoke. So how has that impacted your organization what can you share about your organization to your donors that's different than what you have shared last year. So you can do that through your organization page and through your inline text editor where you can add an update the images that you've had the text that you've had, maybe you want to update your banner image. There's a custom tab if you want to utilize that there's a lot that you can really change or update on your page, based off, you know, the changes of your organization this year. So we'll also get into fundraising more fundraising strategies in the next webinar. So just to brush up on some of that those fundraising strategies though. One of the things that we also really encourage organizations to do so, especially at the beginning when you're in the planning phases is to activate your ambassadors. What does that mean that can look like a lot of different things but you want to utilize the support network that you have now and help them participate in your giving date campaign most notably or most commonly that comes. It looks like a peer to peer fundraising campaign, where you ask, you know, people in your network that could be your board of directors, your board members to fundraise on behalf of your organization. Like I said we'll go into that more in the strategies webinar but the reason why that we have seen that be really effective for organizations is because it allows your network to share the story of your organization in a different way and to a different network of people that maybe wouldn't have been able to reach. We have a really powerful effective tool, we have those tools available if that's something that you are considering doing or you're interested in doing on the platform. As well in addition to peer to peer fundraising you want to make sure that you are also sharing your organization on all social platforms, part of also activating your ambassadors is to also reaching out to your network and see who can support your organization at that time. It's really great to start thinking about your communications plan. If you are short staffed if you are need additional help again feel free to reach out to your network. Utilize volunteer website to see who can help in those areas where you're lacking. So you want to make sure that you're using all of your channels to spread the word about give back Tahoe. We do have templates in the toolkit that you can use for email for social media. So all you have to do is copy and paste that text into your social or emails. And you want to also start thinking about who you want to reach out to so you want to segment your communication by donor groups. So maybe you want to reach out to a certain donor group or volunteer base to ask them to appear to peer fundraising campaign, or maybe if you're looking for matches, looking to some of your donors to see who would be willing to provide a match for give back Tahoe. So you want to start thinking about those segments because that can actually be really helpful in figuring out what strategies you're going to have in place for your giving campaign. And of course, whenever reaching out to all of your channels making sure that they have a direct link to your organization page they know exactly where to go and what they need to do when when send that information. So as I mentioned just a slide before there are tool resources available to you. So in our toolkit will have another training that goes into more of the peer to peer fundraising matching grants how do you get them will kind of matches etc all of those details will go into further and more detail. So we have links to great tips how to guide and templates as well as images that you can utilize for your communications and marketing. The next webinar or workshop will be on October 13 at 10am specific time. So you can sign up for that today after the webinar. One of the things I one of the things I did want to highlight this year is that we will be resetting metrics for all organizations that register. So you don't have to worry about that step went after you register so you won't see that immediately but after you register we will be resetting metrics for you before the event happens so don't have to worry about that step or figuring that out on your page. If you run into any technical questions confused about anything concerned about anything. Please reach out to our support team as I mentioned we host several giving days so we have supported so many organizations and have received every question you can imagine so please reach out because that's what we're here for and make sure that this is a seamless and easy process for you so reach out to our support team. And we will also post this workshop afterwards on the toolkit so if you need this information you'll find that on the toolkit as well. So I want to make sure that we go through any questions that anyone may have so if you want to utilize the chat if you have any questions about this year's give back Tahoe campaign. And I can help answer any questions anyone may have them. I have a quick question. Yes, this is Mary with Wampler Foundation. So I was creating my registration. And I'm pretty much ready to submit that. I think I'm ready to start with the question about matching funds and right now I have one commitment from an individual for some matching funds but I have another one that I think I might get it does it matter. Should I just put in what I know I have for sure. If I come up with another match that's after October 14. Does it make a difference. In in this process. registration form. Do you want to answer that in regards to impacting, do you need that information? I don't see that impacting I think as long as it is up and running and properly set up by the time the campaign is live I would imagine that was fine. So I have 5000 right now and I'm expecting another potentially 10,000 but I don't have a firm commitment for it. So if I put in 5000 and hit submit. And then later I get another 10,000 matching. I do do I update it on the page. Yep, then you will do it at the time and you can help you as that gets closer. There's also a detailed article in the nonprofit tool kit about that but okay. Yeah, I wouldn't put it in right now if it's not confirmed. Okay, perfect. Any other questions. So I do have one more question. So I've built out my page. A lot of it's not completely done yet. Once I registered does that become visible when do these pages become visible to the public. Like I went back to the give back Tahoe and don't see us listed yet but I haven't submitted the registration so does that show up once I hit submit. Yeah, so there, your, your organization will be in the search. Once you're approved and if you haven't, if you didn't participate last year if this is your first time should be already and okay. Yeah, so then you will be added to the search. So, if a donor would find, you know, your organization there. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions that we could help answer. I think that means you did a great job Lisa. I hope so but if there's anything that comes up afterwards, you know, again please feel to reach out to us I know I have those moments where I'm like, I should have answered I should have asked you and didn't come to mind at that time. Well, if no one has any other questions. Please. Yes, we will be sharing the slide so we'll share a video will share the video of this on the toolkit and we'll also have a PDF copy that you can download afterwards that if you want to share with anyone on your team. That will be available. So all of that will be available and yes Caroline said we have a lot of also support articles on different topics if there's something that you want to find to like send to your team or anything. Please let us know and we can send that over to you and please let us know how best we can support you into this upcoming giving season as we all know it gets really chaotic or really soon so let us know how we can help them. I think everyone already has my email but Caroline at TTCF in case you have any additional questions for me, but thanks so much for joining everyone and we hope to see you on October 13. Have a good day everyone.