 Hi, folks. Welcome to the chat. Welcome, everyone, today. Watch everybody come in. You guys registered today. Very exciting. I'm going to give folks just another few seconds just to join on. And then we'll get started. Also, tell me if you have snow. I want to know. Where all the snow exists. I'm hoping we get some later this week. Yay. I heard I talked to someone I was talking to someone in Ashgash today. They said that you all had a snow up there. Sighting. That'd be normal for you. Exciting for us down here in the. Central Midwest. Welcome Shannon. Gina or Joe Snow. Gorgeous. Hi, everybody. I'm going to show you a little Mark movie there. Stephanie, welcome. Hi, Jenny. Hi, Kristen. Sammy. Okay. All right. Let's get started. Okay. So quick introductions for those of you that don't know who we are. I am Jamie case, one of the co-founders of project Bella and the shelter slumber party. And then we also have a Sarah wink with us. And she is with mighty cause. Our platform that we use for this. For this event. And we have used mighty cause for. I don't even know. So many years. Lots of years since like 2018. I think we've been using mighty cause for this event. So it's really fun to kind of see it go to them. So it's really fun to kind of see it go to the next level with mighty cause and have our own giving, giving event full of giving event. So Sarah's going to walk us through a bit today. And we'll go over kind of what we're going to do. We'll talk through what the next steps are. Can you guys throw in the chat if you've officially registered on the mighty cause platform yet, just so that we can get idea of who's, who's actually on the call. So he's officially like got the link from me said, yes, you registered went through the process and go register. Beautiful. Great. I see him coming in. That's great. So we're going to talk through next steps, what we're doing next. We'll go through the overview of the platform. Just to show you around and where everything's located and how we do the next things that we need to do. Creating your pages. Laura's going to talk us through why and how this event is set up just so that you all have a better understanding of kind of the hierarchy of how the platform is set up. And then other support options for you. And what we have available to help you through the many, many questions that you either have and haven't asked yet or have and have asked. Or you will ask at some point. So we'll give you some kind of self serving tools. And then obviously you can reach out to us anytime. If you're interested in that. All right. My turn over to Laura to take us away on the details. Yes. Hello. Thanks guys for joining. So it's January already, which is crazy, which means the potty is four months away. So I just wanted to spend a few minutes just to hit a couple of the things that we, if you're participating that we hope that you can start crossing the screen. So what we mentioned is to officially register for the potty. There's a QR code down at the bottom of the screen. Registrations open the full month of January. It'll close on February 2nd. That, and we do that just so that way everybody has enough time to really plan and have a successful potty. Once you register. We also have a link to our resource hub. So this is a website that has a lot of resources on it. And also it's where we'll have them. We are putting the recordings to all these webinars. It's got templates. It's got a lot of stuff and we try to keep that updated. So that will be something you'll want to bookmark and reference back many, many, many times. And then in that email also we'll have these next steps of time to get moving. So to set up your organization's profile page, which we'll talk about in depth today. Now's the time if you haven't already to start building and pulling together your individual organizations event planning team. While this isn't a heavy lift of an event. We recommend not doing it all yourself. And so pulling from staff and volunteers. And there's a resource on the hub that kind of outlines the different like team members. You could have that would make it the most successful party and make you not pull your hair out. And now it's never too early to start recruiting participants. So these would be the individuals who will be spending the 24 hours at your. Shelter who will be doing the fundraising. And also soliciting sponsors again. It's never too early. There are resources for both of those things on the resource hub. And we will be doing our next webinar, which we'll talk about at the end of today on recruiting participants. We know that sometimes this can be. Challenging to how to explain it to people. How, so they're not like concerned and then kind of troubleshoot. So that will be our next. Webinar that we'll be having. So more to come on that. So yeah. So that's what we're hoping that you guys can start doing in January. And then we'll step you through month by month. Like on the resource hub, there is an event timeline where it has month by month. The items that you can do. So that's what we're hoping that you guys can start doing in January. And then we'll step you through month by month. And then we'll step you through month by month. And then we'll step you through month by month. The items that you can check off your list. So that's January. But today we really wanted to spend some time, you know, going through the mighty cost platform. Like Jamie said, we've used it for years and years and we love it. But we know that new technology or new platform can be confusing or intimidating. So spending a little bit of time walking me through these things. So that's what we're hoping that you guys can start doing. We think would be super helpful. And just a reminder as we go through these things, everything that I'm about to talk about, or that Sarah shows you, there are resources on the hub that give you in print with screenshots. Step by step to do all of these things. So you will also have a reference to go back to as you, as you create your pages. And speaking of pages. There's been some confusion in the past about the three types of pages that we, that are on the mighty house platform. And we reference these pages quite a bit, not just in these webinars, but also in the resources. So we just wanted to start with these so that, so that way you have a solid understanding early on, because it can be a smidge confusion, confusing. So there are three types of pages. One for each organization on the mighty on the mighty cause platform. There's the organization profile page, the slumber party event page, which is the most important. And then the slumber party fundraising pages or the individual fundraising pages. And we're going to go through these one by one. So that way you understand what they are. So the organization profile page. So this is the hub of all of your presence on the mighty cause platform. So what, how I like to think about this is this is a general page. About your organization. And so that's why we ask you to set this up first once you've registered. And so you kind of think of this page as just like a mini webpage that tells. Visitors and users a little bit more about your organization, your mission, your programs, whatever you want it to be. And this is available. So that way visitors can learn more about your org if they don't know a lot about you yet. And so they can. And that way they don't, you don't have to muddle it with the slumber party language. Once this page is set up, and this is why we have you do it first. Once you set this up, I just like to say set it and forget it. Like once this is just a general page, you can set up and then you can move on because of the, what you will be spending all of your time working off of is the next page, which is the slumber party event page. And I want to let me, let me pause for just one second. And say that or reiterate that, that org page because I'm talking about it in the chat with Shannon that once your org page is set up, so you've set it up. If you participated last year, you've set it up last year. And that's good to go. You don't have to do anything. It's tied to your EIN. There's nothing else that you have to do unless you feel like you need to update it at all. So that's the only way that you're going back in and touching that order page. Correct. Yes. And if you've used Mighty Cause for any other of the fundraising outside of this number party, because I know a lot of words to use it because it's so amazing for different other, you know, campaigns. And then you can also go to the org page. And then you can go to the org page is already set up. So again, you could go and, and refresh. If it had any kind of like timely things, but otherwise you don't have to worry about it. Okay. So the event page is how we always tend to reference it. So just when you from here on out, when we say the event page. So this is your main shelter slumber party page. And the one that you will be sharing externally, the one that you will be sharing your supporters to this is the page that where you will add event sponsor logos, add offline donations, add matches. Once it's created, this is essentially where you'll be doing all of your work moving forward for the shelter slumber party. As you can kind of see in the screenshot, this will have a running total once fundraising opens of how much you've raised a little bit further down on the page is the slumber party event page. So this is the slumber party event page. This is the leaderboard of all your individual fundraisers. So this is it. This is the page. Anything to add Jimmy and Sarah. I'm just answering the chat. So. Yes. Slumber party event pages that is one of the pages that needs to be. This is new every year. And it's a, it's a, a 2024 slumber party event page in 2025. You will create a 2025 slumber party event page, but that org page up here stays the same. That's always in there, but every year we'll send you a new registration link where you'll register for this year's event. So this year's event page will need to be set up again. For this year's event. That makes sense. I'm just going to give you a thumbs up in the chat. And if anybody else have the same question. Okay. Great. And then the third page are the individual fund raising pages. So these are the pages that your participants will create themselves. And that they will, you know, share with their friends and family of participants will be able to like customize these pages, like add their own photos, tell the story of why they're supporting your organization, what they're excited about, what have you. And then it will, by doing that they have a direct link to their individual fundraisers that they can post on social media and share with, you know, their mom and whatnot. And then the totals from these pages is what feeds it up back into your event page totals. So again, to kind of reiterate, you have your organization page, which is general that's not tied specifically to anything. It's just general stuff about you. And then you have your organization page, which is general that's not tied specifically to anything. And then the next question is on my event page. So the shelter slumber party event page for 2024. And then the individual multiple, hopefully. Fund raising pages with your participants. So the next question in the chat is on my event page. Is that the join this event button. To get the fundraising pages set up. The answer is yes. But you can also and Sarah will talk about that because she's going to go through all these pages and how to set them up here momentarily. She's going to talk about how you can email your participants directly to invite them to set up a page under your event. So they don't have to go find it themselves you can just email them directly and say click on this link and set up your page. Yes, Aaron. I can get the registration in the chat as well but if you don't, you need it. Yes, you know, so we'll send it to you. Yeah, I can go find the rich, I can get that link to because I'm about to pass it off to Sarah who's going to do a little tour on the back end so for those who don't know mighty cause very well once you register where you know the organization dashboard how to set up your page how to set up your event page and how to invite participants. My turn. Hello everyone so I'm Sarah I'm the project manager on mighty cause side. And I think being able to show you kind of a walkthrough of these kind of sections from start to finish is really going to help also clarify any questions. So I'm going to bring you to escape out of this and bring you to first I'm going to bring you to the actual shelter slumber party can you see my screen okay still sharing. Yeah. Okay. So first I'm going to bring you to the actual shelter slumber party event page says, you know, the actual giving event page itself. But you will always want to come to this page when you're going to log into your organization and your event page. So you'll click login at the top right corner will be presented with either the email that you used the admin email that's attached to your org page, the one you use to register with, or you can use your Google or Facebook. So this is where you're always going to go, you're going to want to make sure you always see shelter slumber party calm in your URL when you're on your event page and your page tells you you're in the right spot. So then, once you're logged in, you'll see, eventually, like when you log in, you'll see your little icon and your name, and you'll click here and it'll hover and it'll show you your organization page. So I'm going to pop over to our demo site to kind of show you what that looks like. Organization page, like Laura and Jamie are saying, this is basically the background on the platform. So this is, you know, where you're getting your disbursements sent to you. This is like all of that kind of technical stuff, like who's an admin who's allowed to like access the donor data stuff like that that's where you'll come for, you know, to set up those pieces. But this is your organization page itself when you first come here you'll see an overview screen from your overview screen you can see that you're registered for this year's event. It'll say something like your organization is registered for registered for shelter slumber party 2024, or maybe it'll say it's pending if the team is in review. So once you're registered it'll say, you know, of course that you're registered. But this is kind of like a snapshot of just different data and this is customizable to you, you will only be able to see your organization page if you are an approved admin of your organization. So that's one thing to keep in mind if you are brand new this year and you are registering your organization you have not previously participated. You know, have access to an organization page yet our mighty cause support team goes through and also approves your admin request, which is an all in one as part of the registration form. So you don't need to do anything in particular if you're new this year you're just going to go ahead. You know, obviously create like an email account attached to shelter slumber party, but then you'll just go through the process fill out the registration form. And then all in one our support team will also get a notification that this new person is an admin requesting. And so it usually takes between two to three business days just to verify. Maybe you're using like a Gmail account instead of like a, you know, animal humane society. Sometimes that slows things down. So that's something to keep in mind you'll be receiving two emails one notifying you of registration approval and then you'll also get a separate email from mighty cause support notifying you that you now have admin access and you can access your org page. With that out of the way. This is what you'll see, you'll see a navigation dashboard on the left hand side organization page. And this is where you can go in and out, you know, your quick logo background image, little things like that. Just kind of to give you an idea of what you're doing. You don't need to do too much here because this isn't where your fundraising your fundraising on the actual event page that you'll be setting up. But just so you have an idea of what this looks like. It's all on page editing so you can like just type directly on the page. I'm going to go back to what you just said because that's where we're going to have confusion is if you go back up. So again, this is not where you're fundraising right now so you don't have to worry too much about this dollar amounts area here. Because this is just your org page this is not the slumber party and that page just. And as you scroll down, you'll just, you know, add a little bit of quick information just so it's not an empty page. Just showing you what it looks like matches will be set up on your actual event page you don't have to worry here. And then we have your organization data section which maybe you do want to refresh if you were a participant last year maybe you have a different email or phone number or website update that you want to kind of link. It's available to you to edit moving through fundraising tools is really where you'll be, you know, tinkering, so to speak, if you are on your org page, and that's because this is where you can manage your campaigns for the shelter slumber party. So we have fundraising tools, left hand dashboard campaigns, and then I'm also going to cover the template. So this is kind of the two areas that you'll be exploring. So one of the campaigns is where you can see a quick view any active campaigns. These are including campaigns. Last year so if you had individuals who participated and slept at your shelter last year, say they're not participating this year. That's something you'll want to go through your campaigns dashboard and just clean it up a little bit. So you can see, you know, if there's an old fundraiser, they're not participating this year, you'll want to toggle that discoverability so that page is hidden. And it's not going to show up in the actual shelter slumber party search. So just go through and do a little housekeeping. If you were a previous participant last year, or maybe you use, you know, maybe because you're around and you have some fundraisers that you just want to hide because they're not relevant during this year this slumber party campaign you can hide those as well. So that's kind of some quick view data, like who is the owner of a page, whether it's an admin or an actual peer to peer participant, kind of some Porter, when I created the page, just kind of stuff like that. Back to your fundraising tools. I also want to mention fundraiser templates and I have slides on this you'll have to bear with me because I took some beautiful screenshots, but I also want to show it. The template is going to be something you also want to build that happens on the back end here in your organization section. This just makes everything so much easier for your participants when you're onboarding them. And I'm sure Laura and Jamie have you know information for you all to work through this in time. This is where you go to set up that fundraiser template. You get access to one fundraiser template. It's going to be by being a part of shelter slumber party. So you can see if you already had one last year. Maybe you want to go in, you want to edit it. I'm going to edit that template. Maybe you have 2023 and last year and you want to make it 2024 so you can go through and edit your existing template. And then if you are back. You can just click create and it'll allow you to fill in pre fill some of that content. It just makes it easier for your participants. They're not starting from a blank page. We have you know, all of the information that you want them to have on their individual fundraising pages kind of pre filled out. So these are those two sections on your fundraising tools. This is a good go to you can just view all of the donations that are coming in during your event. You can also do this on directly through the event page that you're going to create itself. This is also here for you as well if you wanted to look at last year's data or compare or you want to look up a certain donor name really quickly you can do that directly through your dashboard reporting. If you have any participant information, once it's time for disbursements, you can, you know, download full disbursement reports as well. Retained donors that's something you might also want to work into your strategy if you participated last year you can quickly see which donors gave during last year's 2023 campaign but haven't given during this year's campaign the strategy to email them let them know that the event is happening and where they should donate during the day. Let's see after reporting working our way down. Most of this you don't need to really do anything to I will probably say if you would like you can add some additional language to the donation receipt. Everyone's going to be sent an automatic receipt via mighty cause, thanking them and letting them know that their gift has been made, but it is also really nice for you to add a custom message just from your organizations reiterating the things so you can add that here. Additionally, settings. This is a good place to just kind of check through, make sure you know, just in general everything is looking right. This is where you can add additional admins. So if you wanted to add you know a couple different people who are working with you. Because anyone who is added as an admin has access to donor data that's just something to keep in mind. So whoever's you're adding just make sure that you're comfortable with them being able to see that information. But that is your organization kind of dashboard in a nutshell. Yeah, a couple of questions while you're here we should could you could just answer in real time, and I will the one I want to clarify for the fundraising template the goal you put in there is just for individual not the overall goal for the whole organization correct correct yeah and the so when you pull it up. So when you do enter a goal, anything you input here isn't like permanent so if. Okay. Yeah so you can change this they can change this, but this is just specific to the individual. And can you also go to where they would set up their disbursements again. Yes. I figured it was. It's just under settings and then disbursement settings and typically it's probably already set up from last year if you're already participated and then this year it would be set up. When you, you know, get your account set up and it's usually under your mailing address, but you have the option to switch directly to EFT so if you wanted to do payouts with EFT directly to your bank account. You can also set that up early. So I would avoid that $5 check fee that happens with each check disbursement. Who is the payment processor that my because uses. So we use our own payment processor so we, yeah it goes to the mighty cost charitable foundation which is a DAF. Thank you. Any other questions before I switch back to the slide like, who's everybody understand the fundraiser template. Which is like really, and I'm sorry I was like answering chat and like wasn't fully paying attention to what you were saying about it, but understanding that like this helps you maintain some consistency throughout your team as well so if there's a certain goal you have in mind if there's a certain way you want everybody to market this and call it the same thing this is a good way to give them some of that guidance as well. The other questions while I switch back. So, I'll go through this quickly since I pretty much already showed it to you, but when you are ready, and I know Laura has information and kind of a cadence that you will be following to get set up this year. But to set up your actual event which is where you are going to direct people to make gifts to for the event for the giving event. So that we're not using event twice, but when you're ready to set up your event page for the giving day you'll go to your campaigns dashboard and then you'll click create a little plus sign. It'll bring you to a pop up page and you'll click events and I will take you through the process to get that event page set up for fundraising this year. So if you have your event set up it's going to bring you to the actual event and it's kind of you know a templated style so you can start to fill in the pieces. There's a place for your logo, you can title your shelter summer party event. You can edit the background. This is where you'll be setting your goal. So if you have you know a certain amount of them for dollars you want to raise you can set that here. The dashboard looks very similar it has kind of you know the same kind of flow on the left hand side, each one of these buttons will show you different editable sections, funding goal, your story. That's just kind of like you're about like what you're fundraising for specifically. This is where you'll also add your sponsors for this year's event so if you have you know someone who is kind enough and generous enough to support you, you'll want to highlight them here you can have their photos linked to their page type that type of thing. So this is really where you're going to be spending the bulk of your time, really kind of customizing and finessing this page. Since this is where you'll be pointing donors. Then you have campaigns participants reports registration settings. And don't forget to publish I'll show you that in a second as well. The next section that I'm going to focus on his settings. These are kind of our recommended settings for you all. What the individual who is asking the question about where you see join this event. You see that text on that button because your event is currently set for anyone can join. If you're asking that to event invite only. No one will see that join this event button anymore they'll have to be individually invited, which is probably a good thing because you want to know specifically who is going to be participating because there are people who are actually sleeping up a shelter most likely you know. So you'll want to toggle it to invite only. You can start to customize your social sharing settings. That's you know what people see when they click share to socials. You can see the URL for this year's event. So if you want it to be similar to last year's but maybe 2024 you can do that. And then working through this, your page metrics, your progress calculations start time you'll need to set. And I put a little note here because the event host is in central time, you're going to want to make sure that your progress calculation is reflective of your time zone to that central start time so I just have some examples here if you're Eastern time you'll start at 1am was your one hour ahead of central. And then you'll also want to make sure include offline donations is toggled on in your settings so that any offline gifts that come in are reflected on your event page which means it'll be reflected on the leaderboards. You can also add specifically just admins specific to your event page so if you have somebody who's helping you. Again these people are going to have access to donor data so just keep that in mind. So that moving through once you have kind of worked through all of these buttons on your event dashboard. You'll likely be ready to publish but I did want to show these are four things that we require you to have done before you publish. And then just making sure you have your logo making sure you have some information filled out about what your fund raising for filling out your organizer info and then just making sure you have a goal added to your event page. And then you can click that fun little rocket ship and publish your page questions. But I'll keep going so adding offline donations. This is where you're going to also add your offline gifts that come in so if you have you know. Hashtags things like that that are being given to your specifically for your event fundraiser. You will want to log them directly onto your event page so that that dollar amount adds to your goal bar and gets reflected onto the leaderboards. So adding the donation is really pretty simple you're just going to go to reports and then click that little add offline gift, a little window will pop up and you can input any of the data that you need donor names. This is just tracking for you so that post event, you know you have that information you have a log of who made an offline gift, and then you can do follow up yourself manually. When you add like an email, they're not going to be notified of their gift or think for their gifts so that's just something to keep in mind this is solely for tracking purposes. There's no communications being auto sent to anybody who's making an offline gift. And then your events page is also where you're going to want to manage any matching gifts that you, you know you've set up for the event. And then you can go to reports matching grants. And from here you'll see a nice little dashboard display of live matches upcoming matches and then any past matches. You can easily create a match by just clicking the little plus sign creates, it'll pop up with this little kind of modal that allows you to input all of the data, I mean the information, like the time start time and time. There's a bunch of different parameters that we allow you to make your matches really flexible. You can always just keep it a one to one match, I think that's the most popular, just in general, but if you do want more information, maybe you did matches last year and you're looking to get a little more, you know, creative or intricate with them. You can always look at the resources that we have available for matches. It'll walk you through kind of what each of these settings means. We also have just as a call out when you see a little question mark with a gray bubble. That means that we have support articles on that topic available so you can click this and then you'll see instantly different support articles related to matching grants frequently asked questions. We try to make it just as easy and helpful as possible for you to, you know, get your matches and just in general everything set up. One thing to note, you can make edits to your matches, so long as it is not closed and considered a pass match. So that's just something to keep in mind once a match closes you can only make edits to it. Next thing you kind of have a, you know, a full grasp on all the settings, you've got everything ready your lowest added so you're ready to start to invite your participants. On your participants dashboard you'll be able to go in and click the plus sign. And then you can invite new event members. So these are people that you want to set up an individual fundraiser page for your shelter event. You can see kind of what that looks like you can enter their email addresses and just send out the invites. And it will prompt them to click a button and start filling out like the fundraiser template that you've created. Moving into those individual fundraising pages. We already kind of went through this, but on your organization page under fundraising tools, that's where you're going to access your fundraiser template and either make edits to last year's template or create a new one if you're a brand new participant this year. So I won't spend too much time on this since we already covered it. But some kind of things to keep in mind for individual fundraiser pages. So these are pages for people who are actually fundraising at your location, you're going to have them set up an individual fundraiser page. This is the page link that they are going to be sharing with their own supporters so maybe, you know, they'll share their own individual fundraising page link with like friends family, Facebook, Instagram, wherever they want to promote. These pages, while we call them individual fundraisers multiple people can be, you know, using the same page link so if you have two people who want to fundraise together. And they plan on staying at your shelter together they don't need to set up individual pages, they can both set up one page and share the same link to all of their community. These pages are also the ones that will be listed on your leaderboard on your event page. And yeah, this is just kind of they get to fill out any information, they'll have their own kind of donor wall and a link so it gives them some autonomy which is really nice. Questions on anything that I showed, or else I'll pass it back to you all for resources and support. Thank you, Sarah that was very helpful and I actually thought I knew everything but I actually learned a couple just always. Always good always good so I'm glad I got to attend. So yeah so I just wanted we wanted to mention the many resources again that are available, because we are here to help. There's a shelter slumber party support there's obviously the resource hub, where like we've mentioned, there are quite a few resources, checklists templates what have you. I did want to say that if there is something that you want help with can't find on the resource of please reach out to let us know at help at project Bella.org. We're, you know, building these support that services and there's, we may not have thought of something so we're always happy to not only answer your question but you know create additional resources so that because if you have the question somebody else probably does as well. You can always email us, Jamie or I will get that email and respond. And we're also available as time goes on to chat with you one on one if it can't really be explained or answered, you know via email we're always happy to jump on a quick call with you to step you on the next. And then also just a plug, we will have two more webinars before the event, and we'll be sending invites with those soon, but just to save the date so we know that participant recruitment can sometimes be challenging so we are going to do what we're calling a workshop in a few weeks on February 7th at 2pm Central, where we will, you know, talk you through some ideas and troubleshooting or hoping to get some of our slumber potty veterans to join us and share their tips and tricks for getting participants. And then about three weeks before the events starts we'll have another webinar on what we like to call run of show planning so that we'll be talking about planning what those 24 hours and having a plan going in. And so that way, because it gets a little fun a little crazy a little distracting in those 24 hours so it's really helpful to have a plan so we'll be talking about those two upcoming as well and like I said, invites for those so you guys can register for those webinars are forthcoming and we'll be sending those with the recording to this webinar here probably by the end of the week. And then as Sarah has mentioned to mighty cause has a vast online support library for all of those things that you can access on support dot mighty guys dot com. We also have if there's any weird technical questions, they do have a technical support team available throughout the week sometimes if you like email Jamie or I and it's above our head, which happens sometimes we may kick you over to their technical support because we're not. We can't answer all the things or sometimes it's like a technical thing that we can't fix on the back end and they, and they can which is nice. If you have any technical questions I know Jamie it looks like there's one in the chat that you want to answer live. Yeah. So, person was asking about donations and when they can come in for the individual pages versus event pages and things like that. So, because this event is. I've been saying that the work, there's a lot of information being thrown at you right now there's a lot of information in the hub. Your first year probably feels quite disorienting and like there's a lot of things to do. And I'll tell you that like in year two you're gonna be like did it done it got it. I might want to read a little bit more on that thing because I feel like we could do that part better. I feel so much more smooth next year for you all. As you are setting up and recruiting participants and doing all those things that feel daunting right now. Because of that. And because this organic this group this event has grown so large in just the past year even we're trying to step everyone through and creating some really strict timelines. We're trying to take each step of the way so it doesn't feel so over tasking. We know that there are certain times you want to do certain things and parts of this process so that's why we're doing these things kind of release systematically. So registration being in January, participant recruitment. So we're trying to keep everybody together and I know it's exciting. Some people want to be really anxious and like do the next thing and you can start thinking about those for sure, read the resources do the things. But if everybody's moving along at different pieces it's hard because we're like, we don't get paid for this this is our work of passion. So it's easier if we can kind of move everybody along at the same time. So that being said, we have donations set up at certain times as well. So we have, I don't think any organization. Well, let me go back, let me, let me back into it via the actual event timeline. And Laura you're going to tell me what the date because I know you know the matter to me. So the event is April 6. So the 24 hours of the event are April 6 to April 7. So your individuals will fundraise two weeks, three weeks prior to that. Sorry. March 15. March 15 is the date that your fundraisers can, your individuals, the people participating or yourself or whatever it is, can start accepting donations for this event. So we're giving you three weeks ahead of the event to start fundraising for all those reasons like you're saying, person, that is when you're going to start reaching out and saying, Hey, I'm doing this really cool thing give me money. What we've seen is that about 50% of the money is raised in those three weeks prior to the event. The other 50% of the money raised for your organization, the event as a whole your individuals is raised during the 24 hours. If you do too much time in the beginning, it loses it's like enthusiasm and oomph. And if you don't give you enough. Sometimes you're feeling like your participants are like you're trying to bring them along and get them updated quickly before the event starts. So, three weeks we feel we feel is the magic sweet spot. Your organization then so you're asking if your organization can receive funds. That answer is no correct Sarah you're turning off your there is no fundraising on the shelter slumber party until what date. So I am manually turning it on at midnight on the 15th. So right now if someone goes to click donate on your shelter slumber party page. It'll say donations are not accept like being accepted right now. Please return March 15 to make your gift. So, there are a few reasons you don't want to also shift them to another place. Like I really encourage you to make sure that you don't lose that that timeline of three weeks. And there are a few reasons why you just don't want to and don't even tell your people and that's why we're also moving you along in this timeline. So that your top we're going to tell you when you need to, like, your, your participants need to start doing the things that they're doing, because we know that participants get excited and they get their page set up, and then they want to start raising money. But what happens is, if the donations are not turned on, it's going to different places, like your, your organization, which is not counted towards the shelter slumber party. Now, let me tell you why that's important. This, the counting towards the shelter slumber party is important because it doesn't roll up to your totals right so when at the end of this if you give yourself a $40,000 goal and you have a rogue participant who got real excited and they've raised. $40,000 on their own and it's going to your org page. We can't get that over to your boundaries, your, your, your shelter slumber party advantage. So let's like we don't even want to go there we want you to just your everybody to stay within the parameters for your totals to be correct because there's also friendly competition and your prizes. And yes, I'm going to get to that. And then there's prizes. So at certain times, there will be certain prizes that are offered. Most donations during this week before most number of number of donations there's things that we are going to be helping you incentivize your people with. But, but if the fundraising is done before all of that you guys don't get to participate in those things so those are, those are some of the reasons why it's important to just like stick with the timelines that we're, we're giving you and encouraging your participants to do the same because again they will get excited and you will have that one participant that's like, let's start raising money and it's going towards the organization and then there's not much we can do about that. Yes, Marcus good question. We have had about 180 organizations slash shelters interested in the event. We have since registration open on Friday at 11am. What did you tell me this morning, 20 at 30 30 organizations registered. We had 41 officially last year participate in the event but I anticipate way more this year. I think those 40 will return and then there's a whole lot more that are new this year. So, yes, and we will have some press releases in the hub that you'll be able to utilize. Soon, we will have kind of a will have a Facebook group that you will be able to start talking in and asking some of those questions so that we can be as we're going really answering those questions real time offline donations. Yes. Are you asking Sarah for offline donations can they do those early before fundraising or no, doesn't matter. Um, I mean I would probably wait and just log everything at once. But I mean technically we don't, we don't disable off adding that because that's just like a data, just like internal data, but it go towards the total for the slumber party. So I'm guessing hasn't officially started. Um, yes. I believe, yeah, I believe so because they're logging it, it's going to show on their page. The only thing that's totally disabled is online donations or not. The prizes though are online donations, they are not like you can't hold a bunch of offline donations, and then enter them all in when we're having a prize hour or week or whatever it is and have that count. So the goal, the point is because you want your participants like the beauty of this event is that other people are raising money for you. So you want to be offering them your other people, helping you, you know, giving them your money so that you're like hey right now there's a power hour. It's a big week like ask all your friends and family. Okay, another question one more question and I delete participants like myself who is playing around in there and I just want to read you my personal fundraising page to use the template I haven't made yet. So that they're in charge of all their participants. They can delete a participant or hide it. Which would you recommend Sarah should she just delete it and start over or just hide it. If you, I mean if you just want to, like, you don't have to like create a template and then use the template, like you can just fill in like I wouldn't recommend just deleting something and then redoing it necessarily, because all your, you know, all you want to do is I'd like that title. Technically you can you can just remove it just added stuff for you. Okay, any other questions. Oh yeah there's a Q&A. I forgot I didn't even I wasn't even checking the Q&A. Jenny you're on top of it. Oh fancy I didn't even look either. Okay, Jenny. Does this apply to us this a while ago I feel like this is applied event sponsorships we would like to do. Probably that probably the offline donation adding them to the event page. I'm assuming that's probably where she was going with that, because that seems to be what we were talking about. Yeah. Yeah, so yes, essentially event sponsorships are offline donations right it's the same thing because most of the time event sponsors aren't going to want to, you know, do an online credit card thing they're probably just going to hand you a check, or do a direct thing that way so I would wait until fundraising but it while you're setting up your event page if you already have sponsorships you can add the low I would definitely add the logos as you're building out your event page and then you can just add them as an offline donation. We would like to do shirts and a sponsor's name to the back. So three weeks prior to the event would be hard. Gotcha. I mean, I'm like, you can still take collect that money from the sponsor and their logo and get the t shirts going and what have you. And then when fundraising starts when you start promoting it you add that offline donation, and the logo is already on the event page so I've seen that all at the same time with kickoff so like if I was your sponsor. I would go to your event page and I'd see my logo and know that the money was incorporated as soon as like yeah fundraising starts because you won't be sharing your event page until fundraising starts anyway really because there's really no reason to because you know, like the public can't do anything with it necessarily so. So I think as a sponsor I'd be cool with that as long as when I logged on I got to see my logo. Yeah, and I think you're ahead of the game to Jenny and the other thing I don't I want to. You all will learn this that are new but don't over complicate things you the urges there because it is such a neat event to like do all the things and like lots of things and and you just don't need to and that again is the beauty of the event is it's the stick, the thing is that people are sleeping candles and that's all the general donating public honestly really cares about is that they're they're a part of this really interesting neat different thing that's happening. So we've had shelters have parties and invite the public in and do big adoption events and different things like that and you can, but you don't. Not necessarily not you don't have don't feel like you're not doing the event justice if you're not doing those things. The first year we literally, it was us and kennels and we didn't do anything like it was and we asked some people for some sponsors and that was it and raised over $30,000 for a shelter that's never raised that much money in a single event so it was. You really don't don't don't burn yourself out trying to over complicate you don't need to. You do the key is the participants that's where you want to spend your energy right now is thinking about the people in your community and your supporters that have a decent following. And network. Some influencers begin to know what other questions. The sun is out so I don't think it's going to snow here today. Okay. I think we have a link to the hub. Yeah, I will send follow up email later this week that will have the recording obviously will add the recording to the end the slides to the hub as well. I'll send that to the next webinar slash workshop. And obviously there'll be a reminder to for those who haven't registered and. And there will be reminder emails going out throughout this entire process especially once you're registered to remind you, don't forget set up your event page we don't forget, you know so you'll be getting those reminders to. Please anybody can join these webinars please bring bring everyone. So the again the takeaway today is get your organization's page profile page completed. Yes, and register if you haven't. So register, get your organization's page put together, and then start building your pulling together your team of people so all those people you went on the webinars like start pulling them together to start planning your party. Okay. Thank you everybody and thank you Sarah for stepping us through it's so nice to have the expert. Yeah, that's too. All right, everyone will talk to you soon. Thanks.