 Hi everyone. Thank you for taking the time today to join us for our first webinar for Give 828. I would love it if you could just let us know in the chat who you are, what organization you're representing today. We'll let it get started in a minute. Awesome. Thank you everyone for writing in the chat. I love just seeing you know where everyone is from. It's so fun having just a national kind of event and seeing just all the different locations is very cool. So thank you again for taking the time out of your day to join us for the Give 828 webinar one all about getting started. We have a bunch of stuff to cover today but I am going to first just pass it over to Neema who is with Young Black and Giving Back Institute to say hello and then we'll get going. So excited to see where everyone is from and to have you all here on our first webinar to kick start this year's Give 828. My name is Neema and I'm the program consultant with Young Black and Giving Back and I have been working on this event, this campaign for the last three years. So really excited for this year. We have some great prizes, some great incentives for donors and organizations and we expect it's going to be a really great event. So excited to have you all here and yeah happy to be here. Awesome. And so I am oh sorry I've been here. Hey yes just wanted to say hey to everybody. Thank you all for being here. We are so excited. This is indeed our sixth year doing this and so wait can you guys hear me? Sorry I think I lost Yes we can hear you. Okay yes I just want to say we are so excited and very grateful for each and every one of you being here. I know we have some return folks, we have some new folks but we hope that our intention for this day is so that we can raise the awareness about your mission and the work that you all do and you have 15 hours to celebrate yourself and be able to fundraise. The other fun thing about this year is that we are focusing on what happens after year 828 and so stay tuned for that but for right now time to get started. So thank you to our partners at Mighty Cod. Thank you to all of our partners this year that are going to be joining us. We look forward to having you and working with them and hope you all get to win some fun cash prizes. So I won't spoil all of the other things but I just want to wish you all best and tell you all that you are thankful and excited for you. Awesome and I am Sarah so I am the project manager for Give 828 this year and I'm with Mighty Cods and we are the platform provider for the event. So let's get started. So our agenda today is to pretty much go over kind of the Give 828 basics. If you're new we will let you know kind of how a giving day works. If it's brand new to you, if you're a repeat participant we'll let you know on the specifics for this year's event and then we'll go over kind of your organization profile. We're going to really focus on what it looks like when you have a completed profile and why it's so important when donors are deciding whether or not to give and then we'll go over some new features and resources that are available to you and then we'll finish with a Q&A. So if you do have questions please feel free to send them over on the Q&A button on Zoom. You can also send them through on chat but I am going to try to monitor as best I can so most likely we'll tend to them at the end of the presentation. So the basics for the event before we kind of get into the very specifics for this year's Give 828 I kind of wanted to talk briefly about giving days and just what they have to offer you. So essentially if you're new to giving days it's one day of just super charged philanthropy so we're basically bringing together nonprofits across the country and donors across the country to give during one day on August 28th. We hold it on an online platform so it's created for just high volume giving so a lot of online donations. Hopefully you know you're going to be able to reach new donors by having an online platform and presence and then we're working hard to you know secure prizes and have different kind of pieces of the event that make it very exciting for donors and for you to participate. So there's all sorts of prizes that are going to be kind of details really soon but basically you're using those prizes to create momentum to talk to your donors to come up with a strong campaign. What are you fundraising for? How can you utilize these prizes to kind of you know secure more funds during the day? And then it's also a great opportunity to engage sponsors. Maybe you've never worked you know with sponsors in the community before or talked to businesses on how they can support you. This is all you know a great talking point for you to start to kind of think about how you want your campaign to look and even to put up challenges for yourself. Maybe you've never done peer-to-peer fundraising before. This is a great opportunity for you to try that out. So I'm going to pass it over to Nema so she can go over the basics for this year. So Give Aid To Aid is a purely online campaign, fundraising campaign when we do all the fundraising on the Give Aid To Aid.org website and the Young Black and Giving Back Institute has been hosting Give Aid To Aid now for six years. So this is our sixth year and we've had different we've had different iterations of this event but for this year it will be a 15 hours of giving on August 28th online and early giving will start the Monday August 21st. So that means that donors can start donating from August 21st to contribute to the final giving day on August 28th. Registration is required to participate. This means that you have to register your organization on the Give Aid To Aid website and if you are approved meaning that you meet the eligibility requirements then you will proceed to fundraise on the platform and we'll talk a little bit about how to set up your page and how to actually fund raise on the platform. But in terms of if you haven't registered yet this is the first step to go on the Give Aid To Aid website. Registry organization once you've been approved proceed with the next steps and to be considered eligible you have to be a Black led and Black benefiting organization. This meaning that at least half of your staff and board has to be made up of individuals who identify as Black. As give as young Black and giving back as the host we obviously work with mighty cause to create the platform and and make sure that all the resources are available but we also work with partners to have prizes on the day so we will announce more details about the prizes and then the different prizes will be available throughout the giving day but there will be prizes incentives for for your donors for your supporters but also for you know to encourage you as organizations to fundraise on the day and in the past you know prices have been leveraged from most dollars raised at a certain hour so kind of like incur and then you prizes were around anywhere between a hundred to five hundred dollars just encouraging organizations that have raised the most money during a certain time. We also have most unique donors so if you have you know different you have many donors but maybe not the most money raised in different incentives like that so we'll announce the full prizes but prizes are available and this year I don't know if I can say it yet but it could be anywhere up to 10,000 dollars available in prize money and other incentives from partners. Yeah I think that's it. Ebony do you have anything to add? Nope you let it all cover. Awesome sounds good so first things first what does your organization need to do in order to participate and have a successful giving event like Nemo was saying you need to be registered and approved to participate for give 828 by august 14th and then once you are registered you can start to go to your organization page you're going to fill out and update your profile so whether you are a brand new participant needing to add you know your logo and and your mission and all of that good stuff or if you are a recurring kind of previous participant and you need to come back and just refresh the content so make sure you know the dates are for 2023 and not you know last year's dates maybe you have you know a new campaign message new photos you basically want to refresh your page. You can also access the non-profit toolkit which has a ton of additional support materials there's templated emails there are social media resources we've done what we can to try to take some of the lift off of you because you have a lot to work on so definitely make sure you use those templates and then you'll want to start to really plan your campaign which you know our next webinar is on august 9th at 1 p.m eastern and that's going to be more focused on campaign strategy and tips but briefly here you're going to want to start to think about what are your goals what is your message you're going to want to start figuring out how you can broadcast that message using your communication networks your email your social media you'll also want to start to think about matching grants so if you're new to matching grants we have a ton of tools resources to help you learn about them but starting to think about who you can approach to provide a matching grant because these are very enticing to donors they encourage them to give and then you can also start thinking about how you're going to utilize peer-to-peer fundraising and just really overall be engaged have fun set goals for yourself giving events are a great opportunity for you to work on things that might be challenging to you you all are busy you know throughout the year so setting small goals whether that's hey we've never tried peer-to-peer fundraising I want to try that this year maybe you don't do matching grants and you focus on peer-to-peer because that's all the capacity you have so whatever that looks like for your organization start thinking about how you are going to best utilize the opportunity of participating in Give828 so accessing your page we're pretty much going to talk about how you log in and how you register to access your organization page you're going to go to the give828.org site and you're going to click login in the top right corner you can log in using google or facebook or the email address you used when you set up your account once logged in you're going to be able to see under your name there's a drop down menu of the organization or organizations you are managing if you are brand new and you don't have a user account you can create one or you can also just click register and by registering it will prompt you to create an account so it's kind of an all in one you know you're claiming admin you're setting up an account and you're registering your organization to participate which is really nice our mighty cause support team handles the review and approval of admin requests typically I would say two to three business day turnaround often it takes you know some time to approve admins in case you have like a gmail account or something often our team will ask for just you know some verification because you do have access to sensitive donor data so just FYI so you're aware but the registration process is incredibly easy it's a short form it'll prompt you to find your organization name you can use your EIN it's a very easy setup there is a participation fee of $25 per organization if you are a new participant like Nana was saying fill out the eligibility questionnaire first the young black giving back institute their team is going to be reviewing making sure you're eligible and then you can go ahead and submit the actual registration form on the site if you have previously participated in the past two years so 2022 or 2021 and you still meet the terms go ahead and register if you took a break you know and you haven't participated in the last time you participated was before 2021 you'll want to refill out the eligibility questionnaire so that the YBGB team can still review make sure you still qualify they will notify you and then you can go ahead and register your organization registration you'll want to be registered and approved to participate no later than august 14th all right so getting started once you have logged into your page on that slide I showed you how to log in and once you are approved as an admin for your organization that you can click your drop down name menu and you can go to your organization page on the giveaway site on the left hand side of your dashboard you're going to see a beautiful menu of lots of different tools you'll see your overview which includes your to-do list which I have right here these are kind of required steps you don't have to set up EFT we strongly encourage it so it is listed under required but basically setting up EFT allows you to get disbursements twice a month rather than once a month by check so there's your organization page which we're going to kind of go into more details this is the space where donors are going to see your page they're going to see your story your mission statement any photos you want this is going to be where you're going to want to really craft a strong message what are you fundraising for your campaign this year what do you want donors to do what do you want donors to know then you have your fundraising tools which includes all you know the fun tools like peer-to-peer campaign management setting up matching grants all that good stuff your reports are very robust we have you know a bunch of different reports that are available to you this is where you can find all the donor data after the event and if you previously participated this is also the section where you can pull retention reports which will be very useful for you those reports you'll be able to pull you'll be able to see who gave during your 2022 campaign who hasn't donated during the 2023 campaign so that'll be very valuable data your checkout this is where you can go to customize your checkout experience definitely check that out this is where you can you know add you know different kind of values for donors so you can say you know here you can optionally donate $25 and this is what it does for organization or if you'd optionally you know donate $100 here's what it does you can also customize your thank you message and we also have a settings section where you can add additional admins sign up your EFT just kind of review your general settings as well so getting into really kind of the goal today is talking about what a completed profile looks like the first thing you're going to want to do once you log in you can see this beautiful menu right here you're going to want to customize your page so you can see i'm scrolling through there's a bunch of beautiful sections a lot of opportunities for you to tell your story on your page you'll want to customize the look and feel make sure it stays on-brand with you you can choose colors you can set the color of your donate button so that it stays kind of true to your organization's brand you'll want to update upload your logo if you're brand new this is the logo that's going to show in the search give you a 28 website and it's also going to show up on the leaderboard so make sure you have your logo added you'll also want to upload a banner image your banner is a great opportunity i mean a strong image is going to really hook people into your page and kind of tell your story as well so find a strong image maybe it's volunteers doing work or maybe you know it's you know employees or your board members all cheering whatever kind of look you go for this is a great opportunity you can see the banner right behind the logo and if you don't have any images or you're overwhelmed you can go ahead and also just choose kind of pre-selected images that we have in the gallery for you um and just you know take the time to really fill out your page so this is an example of a completed profile um this is just the regular mighty con site but basically you can tell this is a very engaging organization page and having an engaging organization profile is going to definitely influence the donor's decision to give um you know having a strong you know your mission statement having video having images maybe the history of your organization um the more information you put on here the more complete your profile looks and the more engaged you are on the giveaway 20 and giving day um you probably have you know a bunch of donors who are already familiar with your organization but by participating in the giveaway 20 and giving day you have the ability to connect with brand new donors as well um donors who might be you know donors of other organizations but they're looking to support someone new they're able to find and search and filter uh and find new organizations to give to so this is pretty much your you know your resume your linkedin profile type of thing this is where you get to say what you want and kind of convey to a donor why they should give to your organization so we always encourage you know headlines adding additional texts you know breaking up the flow of information is really important because you have a lot that you do um and often it's challenging to decide what's important so when you're considering building out your profile think of it as if you were a donor what information is the most important to convey to them and at the quickest you know in the quickest most simplest format pictures and videos definitely going to help um you can also see that there's a featured campaign section so if you have you know a featured you know peer-to-peer campaign that you want to highlight you can also just show all the peer-to-peer campaigns um you can also enable a gallery of images on your page one thing that's really cool that we did have last year but I want to kind of emphasize again you have the ability to have an additional tab on your organization profile page so this one the about is the first landing page but there is a lovely little tab this for example says giving Tuesday um so donors can click between the two pages so it's a great way to break up your content um your you know additional custom tab can be used to uh you know talk about specific give 828 fundraising goals um your about can be more about who you are as an organization so that you can highlight the goals on the second tab um this also is helpful because if you use the give 828 site year around what you're able to do that way you don't have to completely refresh your entire organization page every time you go into event mode so this is an idea and then of course also adding metrics at the top you have the option to decide what this bar looks like we always recommend adding a goal bar so this is the example with the filled out goal bar um you can see the goal for the event how many dollars have come in how many donors have given so you can customize how you want that flow to look as well um your fundraise button is also very important this is the actual button people will click when they want to peer to peer fund raise for you uh you have the option to toggle that on and off um I recommend keeping it on just so that people know that they can fundraise and that you're open to having peer to peer fundraisers during the event um so getting into really telling your story when you're thinking about kind of what information you want to add to your about section or your custom tab uh as you're preparing for give 828 think about your I'm going to say it over and over but what are your goals for participation do you have a dollar goal do you have a goal that's non-monetary um like uh you know do you want to get 20 new donors during this year's event think about all the goals and what messaging you want to add to this page um and also in a nutshell why should somebody support you what or what do you do for the community um let them know exactly what you do and why they should support you editing is super simple it's all in line editing so you can bold things you can color code things you can add images all directly on the page and you can see it in real time so you'll know exactly what the donors use because you're seeing it as you create it um add images add video we all know images are so engaging uh people really love to see I mean obviously these are kittens people want to see what you do they want to see you know behind the scenes they want to see what it takes to operate your organization um also like I was saying custom tab what could you do here you could put project areas um you could talk about your fundraising goals you could break down what it takes to run uh your you know your organization during the year you could also add testimonials those are incredibly helpful when it comes to donors they like to see that other people already support you um and I'm sure you have people who support you you could have testimonials from your board members from your volunteers maybe you you know one day when you're at the office or something you can ask people if they could do a 30-second video with you just so that you can start to create this content for your page and then of course just make a strong appeal um why people should support you um on your organization page there's just a bunch of other optional sections you can include such as featured campaigns so you can highlight a specific peer-to-peer campaign you can also toggle on your giving activity that is new this year actually which is very exciting so you can toggle on that feed and it will show in real time donors who are giving to your organization it adds kind of you know an engagement element to your page it'll honor whatever the donor has required within the checkout process as far as um being anonymous so if they choose to hide their donation value it'll say you know just their name if they choose to be anonymous but show their value it'll say anonymous gave you know 50-25 dollars um so you can toggle that on that's a manual toggle on your end um and you can also add supporting campaigns which is really nice um so you can if you have a bunch of peer-to-peer fundraisers uh this year then you can showcase them uh and hopefully you know encourage support to their pages as well because we'll kind of talk about this more at the second webinar but peer-to-peer campaigns that just helps you raise more and helps you reach more donors everything your peer-to-peer pages are raising goes directly to your organization and gets directly added to your lead awards um a couple other new additional sections we added programs and governance this year for you all um so programs is a really cool way to highlight different areas of work that you do for your organization so this is example is continuing on the animal humane society but they do a kitten kids and kittens day camp what kind of you know programs do you do do you go to work in schools do you have um you know volunteer programs that people can participate in this is just a great way to add additional content additional engagement to your page um and then we also have a governance section where you can add data about your board members um so two optional sections that you can add but the more information that you add to be your page the more complete it feels the more engaged you look during the giving event which is going to then you know tell the donor that you're uh you mean business pretty much and they want to support you um once your page is set up so a couple other things to start to think about obviously filling out your organization page is going to be the first key thing to do um but then you'll want to start to think about the actual fundraising process so you want to think about the fundraising tools and on the mighty cause platform we offer a bunch of different fundraising tools so a couple here matching grants um peer-to-peer fundraising and widgets um matching grants um I'll get to that in a second but uh we'll actually keep going so then you'll also want to customize your checkout flow and then you can review your reporting we have disbursements reports to you for you um which you you know clues all your donor data so you can do follow-ups thank yous stuff like that and then also retention reports so if you're a previous participant you can go in uh and you can pull that information who has given last year who hasn't given this year you want to work that into your strategy especially on the live event um and we'll get to that in a second and then there's additional settings so editing your checkout flow this once your page is set up head straight to your checkout flow uh this is where you can really customize it so that it reflects like your organization so you're able to add different levels um suggested donations um and show the impact of each value which is really helpful especially when it comes to donors who one might not know what it takes to do certain things so they haven't totally figured out like what's valuable to you what amount they should give also it can easily sway a donor who might think oh i'm gonna give you know 10 bucks oh wait I can you know vaccinate two rescue dogs i'm gonna give 30 that sounds so cool um so definitely take the time to customize these fields we recommend between four and six options uh nothing too overwhelming for the donor sometimes too many options actually you know makes people you know not really know what to do so definitely between four and six is the best meat spot um and then you can also customize your thank you page um and just overall preview the whole checkout flow what's really nice on muddy cause is that what you see is what the donor sees in real time so you can kind of experience what the donor is experiencing uh which helps you make a stronger design um your post checkout is going to be important their thank you page is what people are going to see as soon as they click donate to your organization so once they've completed their gift this page is going to pop up on the site um and this is your chance to quickly thank them immediately so you can add video you can add photos you can you know have a message from your board maybe they all you know one of their meetings they can all record a thank you message they definitely add something here and add a little personal touch to it you also have the opportunity to add a button so if you wanted to add uh offer them the opportunity to get added to your email list they could do that um or just direct them you know to your website for more information um matching grants very easy to set up um there's a lot of different options when it comes to it but definitely add this to your list of things to start to consider um you can secure you're going to secure your own matching grant for the event if you want to um and you can display all of the details you can set it up so that it's timed to do like a certain hour maybe you have a lunchtime grant um but it's very easy set up it's found under your fundraising tools matching grants um this match is going to show on your donate button when it's live so you can see donate one match live uh and you'll also donors will be able to find and search for organizations that have live matches during the event by just going to the search and filtering by live matches um so if you have any questions on setup for that we will go into more details on the next webinar um and then the other kind of key feature tool I want to highlight is peer-to-peer fundraising so peer-to-peer fundraising very very valuable and useful during the giving event this is the opportunity for you to rally your supporters um board members great people to ask to peer-to-peer fundraise for you uh but the setup is found under your fundraising tools as well uh campaigns this one is going to show you all the campaigns if you participated last year go to your campaigns see if they're still relevant you can also hide uh toggle discoverability on campaigns that are no longer being used so you can kind of clean up whatever campaigns you have for this year's search um and then fundraiser templates definitely fill out fundraiser template especially if you are going to be doing peer-to-peer fundraising this you know helps people who are your supporters uh it provides them basically a template to start from and templates just it's so much easier to start from a template than looking at a blank page you can add a goal for your organization for your supporters to fundraise um you can kind of streamline the naming process so if you want all your peer-to-peer fundraisers to look the same you can do that uh you can add images you can add your logo you can also add your mission statement um so whatever information you find useful on the peer-to-peer fundraiser page definitely add that your supporters will be very thankful that they don't have to start from complete scratch um and then your reports is going to be a key area uh you'll also be in and out of reports all the time um any admins for your organization are going to receive email notifications when a donation is made so if you don't want to get notifications every time you receive a gift you can always update that within your settings on your user account but it is critical to also make sure somebody is receiving those notifications because you'll want somebody to be doing outreach if not on the day of thanking donors definitely after so you can pull your full donor report after the event or if you want to see you know who gave to you last year or during early giving you can pull this report at any time but it's going to show you donor data in real time you can download the full details um name email that type of thing uh if you want to collect phone numbers you're going to want to make sure you add an additional section to your checkout process to collect that data um we do not automatically collect phone numbers so definitely add that section if your organization prefers to do more calls for thank yous um and then let's see uh funds disbursement um i'm going to talk about disbursements probably later but this section is also available to you um when you start to get disbursements you're going to start to be able to click in and see the full information within that disbursement um you'll get disbursements twice monthly if you're set up for eft which is why we put it under the required slash highly recommended um or you'll get it once monthly if via check and checks also incur a five dollar fee so just be aware of that um and you can you know download all details uh from there retention reports is also available i've said it a couple times but this is going to be very important um to work into your strategy uh if you were a previous participant so you can see who gave who hasn't gave this year that's going to be a very important set of data set of emails you can send out during the live event um something as simple as hey there's you know five hours left of give eight twenty eight you donated to our campaign last year here's what we're trying to accomplish this year donate now um retention report you can easily filter by the exact giving day so you can filter by give eight twenty eight twenty twenty two or even give eight twenty twenty one if you wanted to pull that data set as well um additional settings you can add or remove admins um if somebody used to work on your campaign and there's no longer there you can remove them um you can update your legal address set up your efts and also customize your social share and your url so if you're brand new um most likely if you've previously participated you've already updated url um but if you're new you can still do that uh and then of course customize your social share you'll want to let them know maybe you have you know a twenty twenty three picture that you want to be added when someone clicks to social to share your page to socials so you can update that here as well and then i wanted to touch on all of the wonderful resources and the support that you have access to um give eight twenty eight we have a bunch of resources within the non-profit toolkit you can see all the training webinars from last year um which is you know obviously the dates and the information is is different this year um but you can still definitely pull valuable bits of campaign strategies tips and tools and tricks out of those uh we also have a donor toolkit which is really exciting this is something that you can also share for your supporters um so if you have an email going out to supporters especially if you're asking them to peer-to-peer fundraise for you some of the donor toolkit it comes with their own toolkit filled with um you know social media kind of templates and stuff like that the more you can provide to your supporters for peer-to-peer fundraising the easier time they're going to have which hopefully will result in more dollars and more donors for you and then of course make sure you sign up for our webinar trainings the next one that we have coming up is all about campaign strategy we'll provide tips for you um and we're also going to talk about how uh you can kind of curate a strong message so it's always going to come back to what is the message you're trying to deliver the stronger the better donors need to have clear concise messaging to know what you want from them uh but that's on august ninth at one p.m eastern you can register under training webinars um and of course review the FAQs this is a bunch of stuff that you can just copy and paste into any emails if people are asking you questions if your board is asking you questions definitely use those we also have great support resources in the mighty cause support libraries we also have blog posts we have on demand webinars we have one all about just matching grants so if that's a goal for you this year check out that webinar at the resource center that's under mightycause.com slash guide and then of course you are welcome to always email the mighty cause support team if you have any questions if you want to set up a matching grant but you are confused about the settings reach out to our team they're available to you monday to friday nine to five eastern um and i also will mention uh i didn't add it here but we are going to start sending out weekly emails to those organizations that are registered and approved for the event you get one email a week um and it's going to have different tips and strategies and to do lists for you to make sure that you stay um you know set to a timeline so that you can make sure you're prepared for giveaway 28 this year um but let's see if we have any questions if you do have questions you can start to send them through i'm seeing a couple uh let's see uh yes we are going to be recording this is recorded so we are going to be sharing it um in the toolkit that you can access on the giveaway 28 website and share directly with whoever you would like we have a question can this be done in addition to a fundraiser we are already doing i will say that depends um so giveaway 28 uses its own website giveaway 28.org so all fundraising really needs to happen on giveaway 28 especially if you want to be eligible for prizes um gifts raised on other platforms wouldn't count towards those prizes um there's no questions questions but if you all want to take a second um you can start to send those over um i see a question i was asking will anyone else be promoting gift 828 besides us meaning the nonprofits we will be um as a team as a YBGV team we are doing um heavy promotion we're doing a lot of it on instagram um we have a wonderful uh intern um i'm sorry social media strategist uh has definitely been a wonderful job they just um started the tiktok channel for us um but largely we are doing our promotion um through our partners um as well as instagram we do post every nine again on facebook um and also using linkedin but we do and we also have our internal listserv that goes to about um almost three thousand subscribers so we do a great bit of promoting the day we don't promote individual organizations per se we sometimes we're doing like random highlights of those who are registered so if you're registered you may randomly select your organization um and then we have some organizations that have participated um previously for a number of years um that we um that we've asked sort of share their experience to kind of help some of the newer organizations so to answer your question yes you will be promoting the day i will be leaving it up to you all just to be able to share and promote your individual organizations um i didn't see any other questions but i do want to give everyone time to think um so if there's anything else you want to add to it ebony let me know uh no i um alluded to this a little bit earlier um our focus this year um while you know the day is is wonderful and it's great too to fundraise um we have um noticed that a lot of our organizations may not engage with their pick back up with their donors and that's not um unusual for a lot of organizations especially smaller ones so we thought a lot about donor retention and being able to provide you all with uh with the skills um to help retain some of the donors and engage with them after gig 828 so with one of the webinars that we have coming up we'll be talking about we'll be talking about that um in my my day job i actually um i do non-profit um education at the University of Maryland um and i also do consulting so um again realizing that engagement or like thereof sometimes with um giving days uh can be um short-sighted we want to make sure that uh that we set you all up and provide you with those two tools um to get strategy started to be able to engage beyond the day two more questions one probably for you ebony it says can we newbies hear from some of the organizations that have already participated or see who would be willing to mentor new art organizations yeah so um i don't know if um um i don't see Sidney on here from i fly um she's one of our our regulars um i don't recognize all of the names on here but do we have any organizations that have participated for more than let's say two years i wouldn't know i need to pull up a list oh no i'm just looking at the participants so if you if you participated and given 828 for more than two years just throw yourself in the chat and let's see um we do have um some promotional um videos that we're going to share uh from similar organizations that have participated a number of times um and we have a series that it's getting ready to start um an instagram live series where we're going to have some of our organizations and i participated before um to be able to talk about their experiences so um you know we're going to do the best that we can to make sure that the new folks that's also my two-year-old um to be able to welcome you all uh and engage uh and make the day the best that it that it can be but if you have specific questions um you know i'm happy to answer them the best that i can um and then yes if you are having um you know any troubles with the platform getting logos to show banner images anything like that reach out to support at mightycalls.com they can help you uh get it sorted out um i see that um hey maybe um know the name but nice to be i'm nice to meet you um again and she says that she's participated for years um is it possible to perhaps maybe promote her to a panelist if there's anything that specifically that you might want to share with our newbies about your experience? What is the name of this? Vicky guy. Okay okay you're out of Vicky. Hey Vicky thank you so much um yeah can you just share with some of our new folks what your experience has been maybe maybe one of two best practices what has worked for you all? Sure um the organization has done you know the MHI has done Give 8 to 8 for many years um last year was my first year doing it personally um and i noticed um you know one of the most helpful things i would say is not to be afraid to pick up the phone and ask your local um organizations for assistance i mean mighty cause was great they have a lot of wonderful tools on there and i think really using the recommended timeline um was effective in making sure that you're continuing to message throughout the month and building up that momentum but even the follow-up afterwards um because there's an additional fundraising period after the main event um that allows you to promote you know your event and how you participated in 8 to 8 um so some of the helpful tips i would recommend is making sure the biggest challenge that we face was making sure that our profile was up to date um it's very important to make sure that your profile is up to date and approved because if it's not people aren't going to be able to find your organization to give you donations um so while like initially when we first started out when we were advertising people would go on to the Give 8 to 8 and they couldn't find our organizational profile and we couldn't figure out why so we picked up the phone and we called our representatives and we had found out that we needed to update our profile um the person that normally had done that within our organization had passed away so that's kind of why um it was a learning curve for us um but i would say that that was um a major point make sure your profiles are up to date and then to not be afraid to use the materials because you guys have if you go to Give8to8.org even um that you guys make it pretty easy i find even coming from an advertising background you guys provide a lot of the creative stuff already so instead of reinventing the wheel i would recommend others to you know think outside the box be creative how can you be different and use what they have and don't be afraid to customize it to make it your own to you know use the things but um those are the things that i found the most helpful thank you um thank you Vicky we are actually um gonna have a ad hoc session about um social media engagement and creative and marketing um but what Vicky is referring to specifically about the creatives is when you go on to Give8to8 under resources there's a social media toolkit in that toolkit um are evergreen messages that you can copy and paste and use and make them your own but we also include um external um graphics right and those graphics are created uh blank intentionally so that you can download them or upload them we recommend using a platform like Canva to be able to um manipulate it however you want so if you download it and then upload it to a platform like Canva or you know any platform that you all might use to sort of design then once you upload it then you can add in your photos you can add in your logo you can add in whatever it is that you want and to be able to make it your own so you can add you know pictures and things like that so there are three different versions this year our theme is it's giving um you know so like the kids like to say you know it's given fashion it's giving all the things so this year it's um it's giving and so it's a play on that so you all can sort of use that to kind of plug and play however it looks for you and your organization and also using the hashtag right um we use that we post and share uh with the folks on Instagram the the closer we get to the date the more robust it becomes so um you know that is also an outlet so thank you for for those two good spiky that is um greatly appreciative anyone else let's see um yeah so let's see someone um this no thank you no thank you this um this webinar is reported so you can always go back to our anonymous friend that is um that's asked it's your first year don't be nervous it's fun um if you have your profile up to date and you're hearing um just you know just follow along literally everything is provided for you um we'll talk I think the next webinar um Sarah if i'm not mistaken we talk about um cash prizes and how to make the day um you know how to make the most of the day but really it's it's a time for you to be able to share all the good things that your organization is doing so don't be nervous it's fun we don't want this to be stressful we want it to be um you know low hanging fruit and so um don't be noticed awesome I'm not seeing any other questions if anyone does have additional questions feel free to let us know or if you have just you know specific platform related questions reach out to our support team um they will help you out so thank you everyone again for taking time out of your day to join us for our first webinar okay thank you all so much we look forward to engaging and we have at least three more webinars where we'll hopefully talk to all of you again okay bye everyone all right