 Hi everyone, thanks for joining us today for our third webinar for this year's Giving Day for Apes, all about price structure and strategy. We're going to go ahead and get started. So just as a quick note, this webinar is being recorded and it'll be posted to the Giving Day for Apes Asset Library after we've completed it and the slides will also be available for viewing. So welcome. My name is Sarah. I am a project manager that helps out with Giving Day for Apes with a platform provider, might be cause. We're very excited to be partnering with Giving Day for Apes again this year in their 10th anniversary year. So pass it over to Jackie to say hello. Thank you Sarah and thanks everyone. Well, this is our third webinar and we just go to the next slide. And this is going to be about prizes or a lot of it's going to be about prizes. So it's always a fun webinar to talk about the support we have and the kinds of prizes that our participants can win during early giving and leading up to Giving Day for Apes. So let's go on and talk about prizes. This year we have a total of $64,500 in prizes. We have some great event sponsors this year. Of course Art Disfoundation that created this event 10 years ago. And we have some new sponsors this year. So we just want to thank them all for giving us the opportunity to offer these prizes and also just for their support of our mission and the goal of Giving Day for Apes. So we'll start with our first prize. Now we kind of broken these down into prizes that you can win based on activity and early giving and prizes that are going to be awarded on the day itself. And you see we have a little light bulb up in the corner there so some of these are prizes where you might want to think about strategy and that's where we put the light bulb. Some of them are very random prizes where there's not much you can do to prepare. You just might win or not. And so we just want to point that out. The first prize I want to talk about is our storytelling prize. And we talked about this prize in a lot of detail in our last webinar so I won't go into detail again. This is a prize that organizations have to ask to be considered for. You won't automatically be entered. There is a submission link on the prizes page of the Giving Day website. And this year it's a little different from previous years because we're not just looking at your mighty post page, but we're asking you to submit some piece of campaign material as well. Whether it be a link to a video on YouTube that you've created for the event or some graphics that you're posting on social media, or some text of storytelling that you're using in an email or in a social media message. So it's something that you have to submit by September 19. So obviously it's going to be some activity and early giving that you'll have to do if you want to be ready to submit this prize. This prize for consideration. We have the guidelines for this prize on the prize page of the Giving Day website. We have it in both English and Indonesian. There are links to download that. And again, there is now a link there so you can submit your organization for consideration. So let's move on because we have a couple of other prizes that are based on early giving activity. Now early giving begins on September 11. And we've done golden ticket prizes every year, but this is the first year that we are going to be awarding some golden tickets based on early giving activity. There'll be four of those prizes. $250 each. And again, you see the little light bulb. So there's a strategy here. You basically have to start your fundraising in early giving. And the period for consideration is the whole early giving period. So starting September 11 and going up to midnight, October 3. All of those online donations are chances to win. And we always describe golden tickets as being something like every time someone makes an online donation to your organization. The name is being thrown in and out. The more donations you get, the more times your name is thrown in and more chances that your name will be bolted in those golden tickets. And those tickets will be awarded right before we go live, where those names will be drawn. The amount of the donation doesn't matter. It can be as little as $5. That's the minimum online donation. There's a limit of how many early giving golden tickets one organization can win. You know, below we wrote a maximum of two. So think about some activity in early giving, even if you're not going to really be engaging in campaign to get to giving day or closer to giving day. If you just get a few donations in during that period starting September 11, you'll have chances to win these tickets. And let's go on to the next one. Okay, the kickoff prizes. This is not a new prize, but it is one that requires some strategy also. This is also based on early giving activity and two prizes will be given. The smaller budget organization wants the larger budget organization. And it's based on how much activity you've gotten during the early giving period. The most unique donors who have donated online. You don't have to have raised the most money in early giving don't have to be big donations that can be as little as $5. How many different people you have engaged. You're not going to be able to see where you are on that on that kind of leaderboard during early giving. But these might be opportunities for you to do campaigns we often see like, you know, give $5 today, can you just give up the price of a cup of coffee today and just generate those small donations leading up to giving day. The prizes are $300 each. I just wanted to ask you, Sarah, if you have any other ideas on strategy for early giving, since these are the early giving prizes. Yeah, I would say start planning your messaging for early giving so early giving obviously hasn't started yet so you have plenty of time to start kind of creating emails. You have media posts and everything so that you don't feel like you have as much of a lift during early giving. We always talk about doing as much as you can prior to your asks to try to set it up so what are you source of media posts plan for early giving what are your, you know, what images do you need to collect to have a compelling story for like emails that are going out and stuff like that. If you are going to try to work on securing an early giving prize. Start planning now because planning ahead is definitely going to be easier than just deciding, you know, when early giving starts to try to, you know, secure prizes. Okay, so let's go on to the prizes that are going to be given away on giving day itself. And the first of these are milestone prizes. There's no little light bulb here because there's no real strategy this is just a matter of chance and luck. Every donation that comes in online, it comes in order when we open early giving the first donation that comes in is donation one. There will be a donation 2000, there will be a prize to whoever receives that of $200 and then donation 2500 and donation 3000. Again, it doesn't matter what size the donation is it doesn't matter if this is a unique donor it's just a number of the donation. This year is really to just get some online donations, we don't know where in the event these are going to happen. So it may be your organization it may not, but we will announce those whenever they happen. So next we go on to another one where there's no strategy, this is our 10th giving day, and we are celebrating by giving away some prizes. We've created this 10 at 10 price category, where $100 prices are going to be given out at 10am Eastern $100 prices given at 10pm Eastern. They're not even based on donations received these are not golden tickets. These are just random polls of names of participants that might be a puzzle handle. So if you were registered participant, you're going to have a chance to win these prizes. We're going to limit them to two per organization so that we can spread the luck around and everyone can participate in celebrating our 10th giving day. Okay, now golden tickets. These are a matter of strategy and we're really excited that we have 18 golden tickets to give away in this giving day. They are all worth $500. And these are the tickets that during designated hours, you have to receive at least one online donation for a chance to win. There is now a 24 hour price schedule posted on the prizes page of giving day, you can download that and that lists every prize happening in a certain hour. The tickets are separated into categories so make sure you know which ones you qualify for. We have three general golden tickets that every participant has a chance to win. There are three that are restricted to the smaller budget organizations that is the budgets of $500,000 and under as indicated on your registration forms. And then we have region restricted golden tickets for for those on the Africa leaderboard for for those on the Asia leaderboard for for those on the North America leaderboard. So there are lots of chances to win. And just make sure to look at the schedule and look at the times for the tickets that your organization is eligible to win depending where you're located and depending on your budget. Again, the rules on this if there is a ticket time here's the example I gave seven to eight a.m. That means your organization has to receive at least one online donation during that hour, and then the winner will be announced right after the end of the hour. It doesn't matter how much the donation is it can be a $5 donation. So some limits on one general golden ticket per organization three total golden tickets. So as a matter of strategy here, these might be ours where if you have a matching grant matching fund, but you might want to use those to kind of generate more interest and activity during that hour. So the first that you might want to make sure that you publicize on your social media, put up a schedule or tell your peer to peer fund measures to just generate activity during that hour. And Sarah, did you want to add anything golden ticket strategy. Yeah, golden ticket strategy. While it is random the more donations obviously that you get the better chances you have to be pulled. I would say just making clear calls to your supporters that you have a chance to win the golden ticket and this is the hour. Donors can give multiple times in the hour like Jackie was saying, so they don't have to give just $5 they can give, you know, $5 10 times if they wanted to do that. So those are going to all the chances to enter so you can kind of come up with a strategy as far as breaking if you have a donor who wants to give in a larger amount. You could even send out emails letting them know like if you want to give $50 consider giving you know $5 10 times. So there are a couple different kind of ways that you can get creative to try to get more tickets in the hat so to speak. You know, and another thing you might consider with social media for the golden tickets we all know how difficult it is to get our Facebook and Instagram posts distributed to audiences, but use stories using Facebook and Instagram stories can get a more immediate response they can reach more people immediately with more the sense of urgency to just kind of let them know right now right now is the time that you can help us to maybe win $500. Okay, so we're going on to our leaderboards. And these are the same leaderboards that we've had just about every year. We have most dollars raised leaderboards for each region with four winners for each. So a lot of opportunities to win here. And for all of the leaderboards. And of course this only is going to be counting online donations on the mighty cross platform. And it will include all donations received from the time early giving opens on September 11. For the most dollar raised leaderboard it's not going to be just donations to your organization page but also to peer to peer fund users that are supporting organization so all of those go into the most dollars raised. Those are the goals for your organization. So as a matter of strategy on this. Obviously, if you start an early giving you have more time to kind of build that leaderboard total. So you may not want to rely on just giving day for apes itself. You may not want to try to win a leaderboard. You might want to start early, early start getting the message out that you are participating in giving day for apes this year. Because leaderboard totals are based on the performance throughout the event and early giving. It doesn't really matter what times that you might use matching grants, but obviously a matching grants will help build your totals. Anything else you want to add on this sir. Yeah I was thinking about matching grants as well so matching grants, and we have some slides on that towards the end of the presentation. But they can really fuel the excitement during the giving period. So obviously it doesn't matter what time because it's encompassing the whole of early giving through the event. But matching grants definitely make people excited to give, and they create just momentum. So if you want to consider as part of strategy this year maybe you haven't done a matching grant try to get maybe one or two. And then hopefully all of you know, potentially also your the grantor once the matches met, if they submit their grant their match as an online gift that would also be counted towards your board. An exciting thing about the leaderboards are they are visible once giving day starts the giving day website changes and all the leaderboards are live and they change in real time. So you can watch how close you are to that next place so if you're in second and just, you need a little help to get to first or you're in fifth and you just want to reach up so you can get the fourth place price which whichever. These are messages that you can send to your supporters and send those in your Instagram stories or, or email say we're so close, you just help us get to the next level, and your supporters can kind of see in real time where you are and how, how much more you need to get to that next step. So just completing our leaderboards we have the most unique donors leaderboard again and then there are three places on this one. The same rules there only online donations. This will include the count from September 11. This isn't necessarily the organizations that have raised the most money. Again, it's engaging the most different people. So, let's move on to the next one. Can I also mention something on this one Jackie? Of course. So one thing for strategy for unique donors. It's listed here third bullet down, but this includes donors who make donations to peer to peer fundraisers. So peer to peer fundraising is a really, really wonderful way to try to get more unique donors. So obviously unique donors are in one person. So if one person makes you know three gifts during the day they're still only going to count as one person. But to reach more people, peer to peer fundraising is going to open up a whole new network to you that you might not otherwise have access to. So that's a really good plan is to try to get whoever you can think of, you know, staff volunteers sponsors to try to create peer to peer pages to try to reach people who you might not necessarily be able to connect with during the event. Great point. In the leaderboards we are again going to have a leaderboard for peer to peer fundraisers with four prizes on it. And the same rules will apply as only online donations this will include cumulative totals from the time that early giving opens on September 11. And I just put a note here that we do have rules and information about peer to peer fundraisers in the participant toolkit and I think in our general rules as well. And specifically that organizations are not to be using their own resources to promote or encourage donations to peer to peer pages, peer to peer is really separate individuals or groups of individuals reaching their contacts. And that means that your organization during the early giving and giving day period should not be putting up links to your peer to peer fundraisers or calling them out by name and social media. Of course you can contact them privately and thank them for their support. And of course once the event is over you can recognize them by name, but just please do not promote them keep them separate from your organizations fundraising. Okay. So next we move on to the power hours we have had these for many years and so this really not much different these are $2,500 each. There are assigned start and end times for each power hour. Each region has to power our competitions for most dollars raised in that hour and most unique donors in that hour. And for, you know, obviously it is just based on activity that is happening in that hour it's not necessarily who has raised the most funds overall. It's just who was at the best performance in that hour. And so just to point out on the most unique donors power hour, if you've had a donor already make a donation, they can come back in that hour just to give another $5 and be counted as a unique donor in that hour. They're not recounted as a unique donor overall, but for this hour they are. And we did have the light bulb here because this is a big strategy prize. This is one where you really want to focus activity and you're giving during this hour. So if you know donors, for example, you know, larger to larger dollar donors who say, Oh, I'm going to come in during giving day and give you $1,000 or $5,000, whatever you're lucky to have. You might want to let them know that this would be a great hour to do it during the most dollars raised our during the most unique donors power hour. That might be where you have a strategy where you want to send messages to your supporters, please come back and just give us $5 during this hour, just at least $5. These are great opportunities to use matching grants as well. And Sarah anything else you want to add to that. Yeah, I was going to highlight matching grants as well. Really good idea to try to schedule a match during one of these hours, because it's going to also fuel momentum, as far as encouraging donors to give it a specific time. Especially if you know you have a match, and it's it didn't just you know pop up during the day matches are something that you can bring awareness to throughout like emails communication social media. Hey, during this day, this hour we have a match for matching one to one maybe or whatever your match looks like. So that's something to keep in mind. There was one other thought that I had. Oh yes. So, most unique donors. Again, that's going to also reflect peer to peer pages. So, if you do have peer to peer supporters, you should think about having a communication plan in place with them, as far as when it would be a great time for them to really rally their own supporters on their own fundraising so you could say you know during this hour we have a most unique donors prize. We're trying to rally so reach out to your networks and do your thing you know reach out to family share your links. Because sometimes you know peer to peer fundraising. It can be overwhelming for some people. So just having you know an email plan or a schedule in place that people can look to to really know how to support your organization is going to be really helpful. Yeah. Yeah, and just going back to power hours last year for the first time we had these many leader boards to follow power our activity to see who were the top who are the leaders in it and I think we're going to be doing that again. So you're going to be able to see in real time where you are on that power hour and again, if you see you're real close to getting that first place but you're not quite there. That can be a message to send out with some urgency text messages or Facebook or Instagram stories or however you can reach your supporters with some versions that. All right. So we're bringing back an old favorite we haven't done in a couple of years this is the end of the night prize and I realized that. Depending where you are it's not necessarily the end of the night but it is the end of the event. So the very last online donation of the event that comes in and is received before the clock strikes midnight. The organization is going to win a $400 prize. The amount of the donation doesn't matter it doesn't matter if it's from someone who's already donated or unique donor, it's just the last donation that is registered for this event before it shuts down. And there's no real strategy here we have a little label but really it's just encouraging your donors to come back before the end and say help us win this one last prize. Close to midnight. It was exciting when we did this we haven't done I think in the past two years, but it is exciting to see all this last minute activity. Because it usually results also in some last minute shifting on the lead awards to this activity comes in. So just encourage people to come back right before midnight and five more dollars might help you win $400 prize. Okay, we need to talk about this one this is a new prize that we have created this is the most improved prize. There will be a $300 prize for each region. To be eligible organizations must have participated in last year's giving day for apes. And the prize is going to be look, looking at how many more unique donors your organization has received this year versus last year. So it doesn't necessarily mean you've raised the most money. It may not be a lot of new donors, you know, a lot more donors this year than last year it's just cool it's gotten had shown the most improvement. We're excited to see how this prize does this is our first time doing it. We created an information sheet, a listing of the number of online unique donors all the organizations had in 2022 is at the link on this slide and will publicize this as well. So you'll be able to see what your number was last year. And then you can look at the most unique donors leader board as it is live for this year's event and see where you are, and how many more unique donors that you've had. You know, again, the strategy is just engaging as many people as possible. These are numbers of donors so it doesn't mean they have to make large donations they can just be $5 donations, but it's engaging more people this year. We noted that will announce this October 4 just to give us a little time to confirm everything. But we hope that we that this gives some incentive to just really go up there and get more more people engaged to win that $300 prize. Anything else on this one because it is new. Yeah, so I'm very excited about this one, because essentially organizations, you are competing against yourself from last year. So it's not so much looking at, you know, what other organizations raised last year you're really just trying to out do yourself. And so that's kind of what we're looking at is ours, you know, comparing performance. So, yeah, I'm very excited to see how it does. All right. So just in summary on this. So where do prizes fit into your campaign. There's a lot of prizes and those may seem overwhelming. Go to the prize page on the giving day site it breaks it all down and again, there's a 24 hour schedule that you can download so you can really just focus on, okay, where are my power hours, where are the golden tickets I'm eligible to win. If you want to get comfortable with that, let us know if you have any questions about it. But not everyone is going to be able to win every prize. And you can really decide your strategy of what you want to reach for if you really don't think your organization is going to win a leaderboard prize focus on golden tickets focus on getting some matching grants focus on building your unique donors. Random prizes this year we've tried to build more opportunities for organizations of every size to win something. So, so do you want to kind of go through the rest of the slide. Yeah. So you said the rest of the slide. So like I was saying, considering which prizes from the list are prizes that you are going to try to rally your supporters to help you win. It's going to be really helpful. Don't get overwhelmed, you know, consider your goals. What kind of goals do you have for your campaign. Are you trying to raise obviously a certain dollar amount or a certain unique donor count or even just new donors. So use the prizes as talking points for your campaign and make sure they align with the goals and the milestones that you're trying to reach because those coinciding together just makes really powerful call to actions within emails, social media posts, or even a newsletter that you send out within, you know, August or September just letting people know. In general, here's the prizes we're trying to win. Here's how they fit into our campaign and here's the goals we have for the event. And within that you can then also create a timeline. As far as best times for your supporters to donate or share links to your pages or rally their own peer to peer supporters. Having a clear plan in place will make everybody feel much more in line and understanding of like when they can best support you. So come up with that timeline. Obviously the website with all the prizes highlight, you know, the ones that you are going to focus on. And then just reminders to supporters when the time to give is actually happening so let them know in a social media post with them know on Facebook, add the direct link to your organization page or to your donation button to make it super easy for somebody to give right away, right when you need them to. And just giving everyone you know the links that they need to be able to support or share your campaign to support when you need them to. And overall, giving these are really just in the prizes themselves, the wonderful sponsors who donate these prizes. It's really a chance for you to just generate interest and build momentum for your campaign and give you talking points. And then doing your community come together all at the same time, supporting, you know, the cause, your mission. So all of these, even if you don't win anything, you've at the end of the day you've won, you know, supporters, you've won new donors, you won't you know generated more interest and hopefully, you know you continue those relationships with the donors outside of the community so that you can continue, you know, bringing in donors and supporting dollars for the work that you do throughout the year. So I just wanted to add we just this morning added a new document to the participant toolkit on the giving their website. It's a little planning guide worksheet that if you're not sure what where to start this year. You can do but you just want to put it all down in one place. It's a worksheet to kind of take you through your goals as Sarah said you might not win a prize. But there are other ways to be successful depending on what goals are realistic and what's going to be helpful for you. That could be increasing your donors getting your first matching grant, retaining donors from last year. So it takes you through that kind of thinking through who you can ask to help your campaign in different ways, and how you're going to put your story together and the kinds of images and texts that you want to use. So it's available to download. Take a look at it and hopefully it will be something that's helpful. So now I'm going to turn it over to Sarah to talk about matching grants. Thank you. Two fundraising tools that we're really going to highlight in this webinar are matching grants in detail and peer to peer fundraising. And how really to engage and activate your ambassadors so those are your supporters so we'll start with matching grants. So, securing a matching grant. It's a really great tool like we were saying throughout the prize conversation. It's a way to boost excitement and encourage donations, especially at a specific time or hours so this is going to be ideal. I say to have at any point during the event, but a really great idea is to have it during say a power hour when you need to try to rack up all those dollars or more donors. So to get started with a match. This is something that you are going to secure for your own organization. So you're going to want to talk to anybody you have, you know, members of your organization or big donors. I'll say a donor who gives you know in a large amount like 500 or 1000 or whatever they give, you can talk to them about, you know, changing that mindset of just doing a donation to becoming a match grantor to encourage more gifts from other donors and a lot of donors are very excited to take part in that because it just adds another level of impact for them. And it's very exciting. So think about who you could ask corporate sponsors, you know, community partners stuff like that. Communicate and learn so you're going to want to talk to them, figure out if that's something they're interested in talk to your major donors see if that's something they're interested in let them know how the process would work and what you would need for them. But you know at the end of the match you will follow up with them regarding the statistics, you know, everyone wants to know like well how many donors did I encourage to donate during that hour with my match. So coming up communicating learning having a follow up plan with your match or something you'll want to do, and then making the actual ask so once you felt it out, you know someone who is interested actually make the ask. And of course, start the process now you have plenty of time to try to secure a couple matches, or even just one match. We also have very flexible matching options. So you can work with your donor make it engaging and fun for them. You can pull up what the donation. Sorry with the match kind of form looks like which I believe is on my next slide and work with them and just create like a deeper relationship with that without grantors. And just remember matching grants don't mean to be enormous they don't mean to be $500 they can even just be $200. Because basically what you're doing is just offering up some funds for those who give during that special matching time. So also another thing to consider is that multiple people can go in on the match so you can pool like funds to create a larger matching grip and gift and you can say you can recognize the group so maybe the group has a fun name that they want to go by and you can put that in the match information. So this is what in live match actually looks like you're going to have a little sticker on your donate button so donors coming to your page can see that you have a live match. Mighty causes auto going to calculate how much of the match has been fulfilled. So once the match is closed, it'll let you or the donor email that you add it'll let them get notification that the match has been closed. And then there'll be a button if you do add their email letting them know that they can make their gift online they don't have to make their gift online. But for, you know, a gift to count towards a leaderboard all gifts need to be made online. But a summary block will also appear on your page listing all of the live matching grants and showing you how much is left which is very exciting. So this is what it looks like. As far as adding matching grant is super easy to set up it is found under your dashboard when you log in on the left hand side it's under fundraising tools matching grants. You'll pull up an entire match manager it'll have live matches past matches. It's kind of just the history of your match managing match management. And you'll click create at the top right and a pop up panel will show you all of the different settings so you can have a name of your match sponsor you can hide the name publicly if they want to be anonymous. You can have an image maybe it's a logo if it's a corporate sponsorship or community partner sponsor. If it's a group of employees maybe you just have a group picture of them. So it's fun to kind of play around with these different settings. You can set the date time that it'll be active you can choose what percentage of each donation most typical matches. I would say our one to one so your match and 100% of the gift so like $20 are going to get $20 someone donates $100 will get $100 one thing to keep in mind if you don't want your match to be eaten up super quickly. If you have you know a $500 match and somebody donates $500 well there you go your match has now ended they mean to some organizations opt to match up to a certain amount. So you can set that here as well match up to a maximum dollar amount per gift. So that helps to extend the time that your match is available helping more donors get excited and more donors take advantage of the match. And that means you could match up to say $50 of every gift so if someone makes $50 gift you'll match $50 if someone makes $100 gift they're still only going to match up to $50. So that's something to consider as well as your setting up your match. As well as a couple other settings you can add an email for the person who's going to get notified. If you don't want your grantor notified and you want to handle the communications you don't have to put your grantor's email there. One question that sometimes comes up is whether or not to include match value and page metrics. This is going to signify basically that the total raised on from a match is going to be reflected in your organization page totals. So, typically what we recommend. If your grantor is going to fulfill the match online disable this option. If that allows your grantor when they make their online gift, then the lump sum of the match will be reflected in the organization total and reflect on the leaderboard. If your grantor is going to fill their match offline, then you can choose to either keep it enabled or disabled. One thing to keep in mind is that if your page total is not reflecting accurately, and there's a discrepancy between how much you've actually raised. Most likely that you are accidentally double counting your match. So all you would need to do is just go to your match manager and click the little eyeball icon to hide the matching funds. Because most likely they're being duplicated. So, hopefully that makes sense sometimes there's confusion if you are confused on the day of the event and your totals are looking funny and you had a match and you think something might be up just let our support team know. They deal with matches, probably at least once a day if not multiple times a day. And they can easily take a look and help you out. And you can email them. Yeah, go ahead Jackie. No, I was just going to add them there sometimes is a discrepancy if an organization has added an offline donation. And we encourage you to do that to show your total, but offline donations are not going to be included in leaderboard totals because that's only for online donations. Yes. A couple other settings, like I mentioned you can add a match notification email so if you want your grantor to get notified when the match is closed so that they can click the button to make their online gift. You can add their email there. If, if instead you want to be handling it you've already maybe gotten a check from your grantor and you plan to add that as an offline gift during the event you don't have to put an email here. Or you can put your own organizations email here so that you get notified when the match ends, totally up to you. And if at any point you need to edit your match while it is still live, you can just go back to your matching grants management area and select the pencil icon to make any edits. One thing to note is that once your match has closed, we're no longer able to edit it. And then if at any time you need to review your matches, you can always do that and check out your past history, you can see kind of the settings that you had. You can download the full report for each match so if you had a grantor who wants to know like okay well how many people used my match, how many people benefited from it you can download the report and you can deliver those statistics, the stats to your grantor you can say well 20 people took advantage of your match this is so awesome look how much we raised. And that is very enticing to the grantor to want to do this again. So kind of having a plan in place to close out and I have a slide on that as well to make sure you are taking care of your grantor giving them the information they need all of that is accessible to you in your matches reports. And this is also where if you're seeing you know confusion or discrepancy and our support team needs to take a look this is where you can hide the funds from your page so that they're not accidentally duplicated for any reason. Another fundraising tip is to activate your ambassadors so your ambassadors are your supporters so this is kind of a larger picture term. As far as people who are supporting your organization that's people who are fundraising for you people who are sharing links for you people who are just word of mouth talking about your campaign. So why should you engage your ambassadors. They help you reach and acquire new donors, they are people who want to share their own impact stories they want to share with people that they know and care about like hey, here's this organization. This is the work they're doing and it really means a lot to me. They help you amplify your outreach to help you raise more money by being engaged and sharing links. In general what can they do they can do anything from just sharing a link to your page talking about your campaign resharing social media posts you can ask them to click reshare to their you know stories on Instagram. They can even forward an email that you sent them to somebody else that they know. So you can just make it really easy for them by talking to these different supporters and letting them know like here's different ways you can help support us and this is a really good email to come up with prior to your campaign, letting people know like here's 10 ways to support us. And maybe it's not just, you know, sending us, you know, a donation here's, you know, five or six non monetary ways to support our campaign to help us win prizes and do better. One of these ways to help you is of course peer to peer fundraising, people to ask to be a peer to peer fundraising supporter, maybe you have, you know, volunteers or staff or friends or family, or community partners. You can provide them resources tips, you can create a template for them through your organization page that kind of pre fills the content and we talked a little bit about that in the last webinar. So I think it's super easy for them to try to help you that's kind of the goal, make it as easy as possible for somebody to help you during your campaign. As far as how to get started with peer to peer fundraising. So all your supporter your ambassador would need to do is to go to your page and click the fundraise button next to donate. So when they click that fundraise button, and they will be prompted to create their own individual fundraising page. They can set up which we always recommend they can enable that template. And that gives them kind of a jumping off point they'll be able to, of course make any edits they can adjust the goal that you've set for them they can add their own pictures they can add their own testimonials. But just a really easy way to try to get them off the ground is to just set up that template for them. And then your ambassador your fundraiser can then share that URL of their fundraising page. They'll share the link directly with their own friends and family directly on their own social media. They can switch out their link and bio to their peer to peer fundraising page. And these are all kind of tips that you can come up with an email and send to them to try to explain to them how to actually use their peer to peer fundraising page. As I said, very easy to manage very easy to set up. You can find your peer to peer campaigns for your own organization under your fundraising tools on your dashboard campaigns is going to show you pretty much a whole library of peer to peer campaigns. These are, you know, campaigns that someone might have set up last year for your event. Your campaign is no longer active, you are able to toggle discoverability so you can hide any out of date campaigns so that everything that's being fundraised for is active this year. And pro tip, you can share your fundraise button directly as a link and any emails that you are sending asking people to be a peer to peer fundraiser for you. You can create a social media post and you can say looking for a way to support us during giving day for apes consider creating a peer to peer fundraising page and you can add that direct link fundraise button to your posts. And then very important, as far as strategy, you might not think this has anything to do with your campaign this year but it definitely does and it definitely has an impact on how you're going to do with your campaign next year. So closing the loop is something that you need to work into your plan. This means basically letting people know how you did during this year's event letting them know, did you hit any goals, and then also saying thank you. So a speedy personal sincere thank you is going to be so helpful in making sure you know everyone who donated and campaigned for you had a really positive experience, which will make them want to do it again and that's the goal. It is hard to get people to, you know, peer to peer fund raise it's something new they haven't done it before but once you get somebody who says okay I'm going to do this and they do it, you want to definitely pay special attention to them. So thank them publicly thank them if they are into that personally thank them. Just let them know how important and helpful that was to your campaign, and they will most likely do it again for you. If they're an anonymous grantor. If they don't want to be publicly things you can always just make a very general. Thank you so much to our grand tour for our 2pm power hour matching power hour type of thing. And then make sure all your supporters know the data, let them know how you did after the event. Their donations contributed to that data so they're going to want to know did you reach any goals. Did you get any prizes. Let them know the impact that their gifts had on your events. And the same thing like I was saying for your match matching grantors. Let them know the data it goes so far and just letting them know like here's the actual number impact that you had on our event. And it's going to encourage that donor or that community partner to want to make a match again. And of course, work into your strategy, giving special attention to first time donors. So if you had a lot of peer to peer supporters, working on fundraising for you, and you've got, you know, 10 new donors have a plan in place to welcome them and onboard them and let them thank you so much. We're so happy for your gift and for taking the time to check out our organization. Send them, you know, a newsletter. Send them a welcome packet if you're able to, or a sticker or something like that that just lets them know that they've been seen and they're appreciated. And hopefully you can continue to retain them as donors year over year. And thinking more about that year round stewardship and communication with donors. Giving doesn't stop after giving day for apes. You are going to want to use these tools and these, you know, different things that you're learning throughout the year to try to elevate and lift up your organization. Fundraising happens year round. So think about how you're going to take these tools and these donors with you throughout the year. I just wanted to add to this Jackie. That's just such an important message because, you know, again, this is not giving day for apes is not just about raising money one day, but it is getting new supporters that will hopefully be helping you year round and we talk about storytelling for giving day for apes and what are you going to say the funds are for. It's great to be able to follow up with the donors for giving day and kind of tell them the next step in that story and things. If you were raising money to, I don't know, buy a new piece of equipment to send that thank you email saying thanks to you and overgiving day supporters we were able to do this or share a picture of it or something like that. So just closing the loop is showing them the impact that they made on giving day and hopefully that will help them to continue donating to you. Last few slides so we just want to reiterate the support and resources that you have available as you prepare your campaign. Just as Jackie said we have a new kind of. What's the word for Jackie. New document that we've added. The planning guide. Yes we have a wonderful new worksheet planning that you can download and start to fill in different goals to check that out we just added it this morning to the toolkit. And then there's just a bunch of timelines tips and then templates that definitely take advantage of the templates. These are for you know, social media posts and emails and stuff like that to just try to make your participation as easy as possible. I guess I forgot to remove that third webinar. This is the third webinar, but if you want to revisit any of the webinars that we've already recorded you can do that. That's on the asset library and this third webinar is also going to be downloaded and uploaded to the asset library so you can review the slides. You can, you know, relist into all of the prizes information. Thanks for the check for new announcements when you sign into organization page on your overview dashboard there will be a little pop ups we're going to add a couple new ones. So you can just check those out. And of course, our mighty cause support team is here to help you throughout the event. Send them an email for any questions that you might have any donor questions you might have any technical questions you might have our support team is awesome and they are happy to help you kind of troubleshoot anything that might come up. And also if you have any questions about any of the prizes you're not clear on the schedule or any of the rules. Let us know we're happy to explain that further. And that's we're really close to early giving so good luck to everybody. I'm excited to see everyone's campaigns this year. Thank you, everyone.