Bluegrass Gives 2026 Getting Started Webinar

Hi everyone, welcome. We'll give folks about two or three more minutes as they're trickling in. Um, if you want to put your name and the name of your organization in the chat, we would love to see who's joining us today. Hi Marty, welcome. All right, as folks continue to come in, um we're letting folks join for one or two more minutes just to make sure everybody has a chance. Um, if you want to put your name and the name of your organization in the chat so we can see who's joining us, that would be great. I know we're in webinar format today, so we can't see everyone's lovely smiling faces, but um, everybody can see that chat. So, go ahead and throw that in there. This is exciting. We have a lot of lot of good groups in the chat. Seen a lot of familiar names and organizations. So, I can go ahead and introduce myself. I'm Lauren Parsons. I'm with Bluegrass Community Foundation. I'm the VP of communications and I get to work on Bluegrass Gives every year. Actually, it's a year-round fun project that we work on. And we are on a new giving platform this year. we have migrated over to Mighty Cause and so that's why we are here today with Emily who is our project manager for Mighty Cause and she is going to share a lot of really helpful information that will get you familiar with the platform and ready for a great campaign this year. >> Yes. All right. Well, we can jump in and get started. Um, so yes, hello everyone. My name is Emily. I'm the project manager with Mighty Cause, which is the software fundraising platform that Bluegrass Gives is going to be hosted on this year. Um, it's so great to see so much representation from different nonprofits around your region. Um, and before we get started, I wanted to go over a couple of housekeeping items. So, today's webinar will be recorded and it'll be posted on the Bluegrass Gives website in the next couple of days by the end of the week. So if you um want to rewatch or if you have anyone on your team who's not able to join today, they will have that as a resource. Um in addition, uh we will have time for questions at the end of this webinar. So we'll have about 45 minutes of presentation today where I'll go over um registration as well as a platform walkthrough to help make sure that you know how to navigate the platform since it's new this year. Um and then the last 15 minutes or so will be for Q&A. But if you have any burning questions and you don't want to forget them, um, feel free to throw those into the chat and we'll either answer them right on the spot or come back to them in the Q&A portion. Okay, with that, I will get started. And since I have a couple different monitors, I'm going to turn off my camera. Okay, so here's a look at today's agenda. We'll be going over some giving day basics which will include walking through how to customize your organization page, how to edit your pages and some other functionalities and then we'll review some friendly reminders because I know I'm going to be throwing a lot of content over at you and then we'll finish up with that Q&A. Okay. So, as far as giving day basics, for those of you who have not participated before, a giving day itself is an online fundraising marathon that aims to bring people together to support a specific community, cause or space. The giving day host, in this case, Bluegrass Community Foundation, organizes the event and rallies organizations to raise funds for their causes. Participating nonprofits will utilize the resources provided by that host to reach out to their supporters to solicit donations, secure fundraisers, and work on growing their networks. This annual online giving day is a really powerful call to action, and Bluegrass Gives encourages our neighbors to invest in the local nonprofits that make its community thrive. So, the Bluegrass Gives team believes in sparking and growing local philanthropy. So by powering this bluegrass gives giving day, the bluegrass community foundation pro really does provide a vital platform that not only raises unrestricted funds for hundreds of organizations but also builds their long-term sustainability and encourages deeper civic engagement across the region. Okay, so now that we've covered like at a high level why bluegrass gives is important, let's go into details for this next giving event. So in 2026, registration will is open right now and will close September 4th. So if you haven't registered yet, we encourage you to do so as soon as possible. And then early giving will begin November 24th. So early giving is the period where donors can u make gifts, but the actual giving day itself will be Tuesday, December 1st from 6:00 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. Um, so again, I'll just emphasize that we encourage you to register now so your organization has ample time to build your page, which we'll go into during the platform walkthrough. Um, and just make sure that you feel comfortable with the platform. Okay, so let's cover a couple of the requirements to participate. So, organizations must be verified 501c3 charitable nonprofits or fiscally sponsored by an organization that is a 501c3 in good standing with the IRS. Organizations also must be physically located in one of the Bluegrass Community Foundation service areas that's pictured here. and organizations must be registered to solicit funds with the K Kentucky attorney general. So if you have any questions about that, we have ample information on the Bluegrass Gives website. Um lastly, organizations must be recognized on GlideStar with a gold seal of transparency or higher. So if you meet all of these criteria, you just have to register and complete the whole registration process. Um, so right now we already have 62 organizations fully registered and ready to participate, which is fantastic. If you have not gotten on that list of 62 orgs yet, make sure you do. So, let's go through the platform walkthrough next. So, we're going to switch gears a little bit. I'll stop sharing this screen and move over to our platform itself. All right, there we go. So, um, let's go through the registration process. If you have not yet registered, here's the process for doing so. It is a two-part process. You'll start out here on the Bluegrass Gives website. So, bgs.org and then in the top right hand corner, I'm already logged in, but you'll click log in. Um, and at that point, you'll be prompted to create a password. You'll click forgot password the first time that you log in. And if you were already an administrator for your organization previously, you will automatically be an admin for your organization on Mighty Cause as long as you use the same email. So, the email is really important. um if you're using a separate one, it will not make the link between you being an admin previously. So, um you'll start out here pretty much every time that you log into your site. Now that I am logged in, I can click on my name and see all of the different organizations that I'm managing. I can click on um Mighty Cause Foundation, for instance, and say I did that. Then it'll take me to the organization page. So once you're on the organization page, it'll plop you into this overview section where at the top it'll show you your registration status and it'll also give you these helpful prompts um to help navigate the platform for those first couple of uses. So at the top you can see that this organization which is a test organization. So any information you see on here is um false. Um you can see that your organization setup is incomplete and you have to see the to-do list. So the first um step to completing registration is getting access to the platform completing this to-do list which is here um in the top leftand corner and you have to have a blue check mark by all of these items. So you can see that this organization has completed the organization page because of that blue check mark and they've completed the thank you page, but they still need to complete EFT setup. So if you have questions about what that EFT setup is, you can click on that item that's underlined and it'll take you directly to where you need to set that up. So, um, EFT, while we're on the subject, is very important because, um, that's how your donations that are made through the mighty cause platform are going to be distributed to your organization. So, we do require EFT setup, which is direct deposit rather than check by mail. So, you can just ignore that because it's required for registration. The second part to registering, if we go back to this Bluegrass Gibbs website, is clicking the register here. So, we have a couple details about registration on this page. And if you scroll down, you can fill out the registration form. So, um you will type in your organization name or EIN. In this case, I'll just click Mighty Cause Foundation so we can see a sample. and it'll take you to this registration form which is required to be submitted um in order to participate in the giving day. So, you'll have to complete this as the first step, this registration form as well as that to-do list that we mentioned um in the top left. That'll all have to be complete. And if you have questions about your registration status, you can go back to that overview page which is navigated um to on the left. And then up here in the top, if you are approved, um it'll say that. So if you have any questions about your registration status, go to the overview page and it'll direct you to what you still need to complete. Okay, so enough about the registration process itself. Now, let's do a walkthrough of the organization page. So the organization page is really the hub of your activity for Bluegrass Gives. So each organization will have a page like this with a customizable banner at the top and a customizable um logo. So this is where you're going to be directing supporters. If we toggle on edit mode in the top right hand corner, you can see that that turns blue, the little toggle, and then you can go through and make edits. Um, if you have the edit mode toggled off, that previews what any supporter that visits this page is going to be able to see. So, if we toggle that edit mode on, um, we can go through and edit. So, this really is the face of your organization. So, we want to make sure that you're, um, making sure that this is detail oriented. If you go look at this top link, this is what you're going to be sharing out to supporters. Um, so you can direct supporters back to this page and make donations for Bluegrass Gives. And as I mentioned, the to-do list also helps you walk through editing this organization page. So, we can go through and change your theme colors, your logo. Um, you can upload media to your gallery. You can also edit this text with our inline text editor. um as well as adding images, links, and videos. So, customize this to share about your mission, um any success stories that your organization has recently had, etc. As we scroll through, you can see that this organization page has call to action buttons, um, a nice video, as well as featured campaigns, um, which are peer-to-peer fundraisers and giving activity. So, you have the option to have this giving activity live donation tracker, which will show the donor name as well as donation amount. And um we'll go to the checkout form and you can see how you can make those anonymous and how donors can make anonymous gifts as well. As we scroll to the bottom, you can see this media gallery and any active matching grants which we'll also get to as well. Um these are opportunities. So, we'll talk about that more in depth, but these are events like um in-person events or volunteer opportunities for your supporters that you can post here on the site as well. Okay, so let's go back up here. Okay, so if we look here on the left, um this is our navigating panel. So, we have the different tabs for overview, organization page, and let's jump to fundraising tools. So, within the fundraising tools section, you'll be able to review any peer-to-peer fundraisers that have been created for your organization. Um, these are like basically mini fundraising pages that organization or sorry that your supporters like board members or volunteers can create on your organization's behalf. and um help fund raise on your behalf. So, all donations made through this page will go directly to your organization and we try to make that as easy as possible to create which we'll get to a little bit later. On this fundraising tools page, you can also see those opportunities. So, again, those opportunities could be for volunteering or just an in-person event that you're inviting the public to. So, for instance, like a 5K or um dog yoga, a dog yoga fundraiser. So, you'll also see matching grants, which we'll go into depth later, but these are opportunities for sponsors to match the gifts that your supporters are already making. Okay. So, below that, we'll close fundraising tools and go to reports. Um, and we're just going to do a highle overview now and then go back in detail um, through all of these different features. So, in the reports tab, we can see that we have a donations report. Um, and this donations report has all of the gifts made to your organization page in real time. We also have a reoccurring donations report, a retention report to see who's given in the past and given again, and a dispersement report to see um all of the gifts made to your organization page and how they've been distributed to your organization's bank account. Um so a quick overview of checkout. You can customize your donation form here where donors will go to make their gifts. You can also look at the thank you page that will automatically show when someone makes a gift and the receipt which will be automatically emailed to the donor um when they make a gift along with the official receipt including tax information. Um, and then under settings, you're able to manage URL customization, um, alternate search names for your organization, if there are nicknames that the public calls your organization. Um, you can manage social sharing as well as administrative control. Okay. So now let's go into depth through these features. Okay. Um so first let's start with fundraising tools. So going back to fundraising tools um talking a little bit more about campaigns. I just want to highlight that we are going to be having another webinar on September 13th um specifically on peer-to-peer fundraisers and how to strategize surrounding them, how to set up the pages, etc. So make sure that you're registered for that webinar. Um, registration is on the website and I'm sure Lauren will follow up with a registration um, link as well. Um, okay. So, if we go next to reports, I want to focus on this quite a bit for this webinar. So, as you can see, you can access all of these different reports. Um, but if we go into the donations report in a little bit more depth in real time, you can see information like donor name, email, donation amount, and you'll also be able to see which page each donor donated on, which is really nice, and you could use that to strategize around. Um, please note that as soon as you go into this donations report, it is always going to default to the last 30 days. So, you'll usually need to update this time period up here at the top um to show the information with the date range that you're looking for. I'll also highlight that if you have participated in bluegrass gives um you can just adjust um oh sorry if you have participated in the past we also did import information from your last giving day platform. So you can uh make a custom report for like 2025 um and look at that information. So I'm not sure if we have that information in here right now for our test site, but let's try it. Okay, so if you enter in a date range of 2025, you can also look at gifts that were made last year on the platform. Um, but I'll just note that the donation report tops out at um, one year. So, if you want to pull a report, for instance, of all of 2025 gifts and 2026 gifts, you will have to pull two separate reports and then compare those um, that data. Um, okay. But we have a preview of this information on this donations report page. And then you can also download this for a more comprehensive CV CSV file. So you can download this up here at the top with the download button and that will provide you with a lot more information than is showed here. This will provide you all of the information that's gathered on the checkout form which we'll talk about in a little bit. But if you have any custom questions um and are looking for the answers to those, you'll just have to download this report to get that information. Okay, so now looking at dispersements. Okay, so the dispersement section of your report shows which donations were included in a dispersement to your bank. um as well as a summary of the total amount, the total associated fees and the net amount included in that dispersement. So all donations that are on the site that are processed by the mighty cause foundation which is a donor advised fund will be shown here. So your organization can sign up and is required to sign up for that electronic fund transfer or EFT which is the recommended method. Um, anyway, because there are a couple downsides with checks. So, a couple other noteworthy points. Admins will receive emails when a donation is made, and you can update that in your account settings, which is down here. Um, and then let's talk about a couple different nuances with offline donations. So, if your organization um is going to off import an offline donation, you can do that here in the donations report. Um, and then click off add offline donation up here in the top right. But I will note that offline donations do not count for matches or prizes. Um, but they do count for the overall total of the event. And organizations are allowed to enter those offline donations between November 24th when early giving opens all the way through December 15th. Um, and I will just note that offline donations are subject to audit. So, please be sure to like double and triple check all the information as you add those offline gifts. All right, so now let's go to checkout. I'll close these tabs. So, if we go to the donation form, this is again the checkout flow that donors will experience when they make a donation to your organization. So, this is really important to make sure that it's detailed and um reflects um your organization actively and in a positive light. So, you can get you can set up custom suggested donation amounts like you see here with descriptions to help tie those amounts to items or services that your organization provides. So, as you can see here, um, an example might include that $10 would pay one month of flee and tick prevention medicine for the Black Cat Society. So, descriptions like these can help strengthen your appeal to donate to donors. Um, giving the dollars a tangible effect. Um, but I will say that all of the money gathered through these uh, donation forms and through Mighty Cause is unrestricted. So these are just descriptions of what that money could go towards um just to make it more tangible for donors, but it is all unrestricted. So within the donation form, Mighty Cause automatically collects email and physical address for donors and you can also add up to two custom questions to collect additional information if you would like. So to do that you can just click add a section and then new section and then add the question or prompt as well as answer options. After that you would just click save and publish. So this could include um questions to gather data about donors such as like are you interested in volunteering? So based on that information, once donors complete that, if they say they are yes, interested in volunteer opportunities, you could email a segment of all of those donors that answered in that specific way with upcoming volunteer opportunities um just to make the donation process and the relationship building more personalized. Uh just keep in mind that you won't want to make the donation form too long as it deters supporters from completing it. So, we do want to make sure um that it's not too cumbersome. And similarly to the organization page up here at the top of the checkout form, um you can click edit mode. So, this is already in edit mode because this is blue and toggled on. But with that, you can go in and click on all of these different pencil icons to make edits and then click save. So, we like to think that this is pretty intuitive as you go through. Um, if you see something that looks clickable, it probably is. And then it'll give you more information about what is needed. Um, and if you want to preview what that donation form is going to look like for donors, you can toggle off edit mode um, and scroll through without all of those editing icons. You can also copy a direct donation link if you think that would be helpful. So if someone um is asking like I want to make a donation and maybe they're getting a little bit confused being directed to the organization page, you can copy this link just by clicking this um copy direct donate link in the top right and then send them that link. So they're taken directly to this form. All right. So now let's talk about the thank you page. So this section is found under checkout on the left and you can add text to this links, videos, um anything that you would like because this is going to show up right after someone makes a new gift. You can also add a call to action or CTA button down here at the top. For instance, to view our page to tell donors where you want them to go next. So, um, for example, you could also use this to direct donors to subscribe to your newsletter if you have one or sign up for a volunteer shift or register for an upcoming event. And if you would like to preview this page, um, you can do that in the top right, view this page. So, this shows you without any of those editing icons what it will look like for supporters. You can also customize your organization's donation receipt. So, we'll click that under checkout on the left. This will automatically be emailed to a donor after they make a gift above the taxdeductible donation receipt. So, if you'd like to test this out, um again, it has similar editing capabilities with this inline text editor. You can just go in um and start typing and then click save. And then you can also add links etc. So if you want to send that test receipt, you can click this send test receipt in the top right. Um enter the email address that you want the test sent to and then click send. So that'll show you exactly um what it will look like in your email inbox. But you also get this preview over here on the right side as well. Okay. Um, so I am just going to check the chat really quick to see if there are any um pressing questions that are relevant right now. Okay, here we go. So, okay. So, you are able to update your email address on your Mighty Cause account. So, if you're talking about specifically your administrative email, um you'll go here to settings and then admins and it will show you all of the active admins. So, um, if someone has access to your administrative side of things of your organization page, which is shown here, they can go in and edit the email. Just click these three dots on the right hand side and then click edit. Um, and then if no one has access to your organization page, you'll have to write into support.com and claim your organization basically. So you can do that by going to um Bluegrass Gives. So if we start out on this homepage, go to register here, scroll down and instead of um typing in your organization name um you can click create it now and then that will give you information um to enter so you can claim your organization. Okay. And then we'll answer probably one more of these and then keep the rest for the Q&A. But the next one, what constitutes an offline donation? That's a great question. So offline donations are considered um cash that you receive or checks. Um so those will be entered into the site manually. And then all other donations should be able to be entered by the donor um through the checkout form which we'll get to in a second. Okay. So, let's go to Dominique's question in the Q&A. Um we'll start back up there, but I think those are kind of bigger questions that we'll go back to answering. Okay. So, now let's talk about matching grants. Matching grants can be found. Oh, we're on the fundraiser page. I'll exit out of that. So, once you're here on the organization page, organization dashboard, you can go to fundraising tools over here on the left and then click matching grants. And as I'm sure many of you know, having a matching grant can go a really long way in driving donations because a matching grant is something your organization secures and sets up on your own. um with a sponsor's help. So, as you can see, this organization has one matching grant active right now um up here at the top under live matches and then they have a handful of past matches. So, what this looks like on the front end of things and what supporters will see is that on the organization page on this donate button, you can see that there's one match live. So, if someone um you know doesn't know what that mean or has means or has questions about that match, they can click on that tile and it'll take them down to the information for any live matches. So, this is a really nice helpful tool on that organization page that you as an organization could like screenshot this information about the match and then post it on social media or email it to supporters or something to that effect so that they know that in this case if they donate $100 there's a onetoone match. So, this matching grant will donate $100 as well for a total impact of $200. So, going back to the match and grants tool, what it looks like on the back end of the organization dashboard. Um, a lot of matches are onetoone. So, that's what this one is. It's 100% per donation. Let's go into what it would look like to create a new match. So, again, a lot of one:1 matches are common. So, if someone gives $5, their donation is matched by $5 for a total impact of $10. But our matching grant tool also has the capabilities to match two 2:1 so 200% or 3 one um etc. The the world is your oyster. But if you wanted to do a 2:1 match, that means that if someone donated $10, the match would donate $20 for a total impact of $30. Um, so basically our matching grants tool does the match or does the math for you. So all you have to do is choose how you want to structure it here on the back end. As you create a new match, you can type in the name of the sponsor, the match value. So if you have a $1,000 match, you could type that in here. um the title, an image, um as well as the specific date and time that you want the match to start and end at. Um okay, so going down here to the different types of matches, you can also match a percentage. So that's the one:1 match. Um and you can choose a maximum dollar amount per donation to be matched. So, if for instance, your organization is very very lucky and gets a lot of $1,000 matches and you have a $2,000 match, but you don't want that match to be, you know, eaten up by all of those $1,000 gifts really really fast, you could say that only $10 of each pe each person's gift is going to be matched. So, that's totally up to you if you want to strategize around that. You also have the option instead of doing a percentage match for instance like a onetoone match you could do a cumulative threshold match. So that means that once your organization has basically crowdfunded let's say for instance $1,000 um that total of the match um once it's unlocked when $1,000 has been crowdfunded will be unlocked. So once you've crowdfunded $1,000, that match will be unlocked and added to your organization's total. Um, you can also add a couple more match conditions, which are optional, but could be used to strategize as well. So you can set a minimum per donation amount before the match is applied. So, for instance, if your organization gets a lot of $10 donations and you want to encourage uh donors to give a little bit more, you could set the minimum donation amount at $15. So, only gifts uh with a minimum value of $15 will be matched just to get that little bit of increase um from donors. And then you can um you will need to uncheck this include offline donations because we will not be including offline donations and matches. Um and then you have the option to include organization fundraisers in the match. So those organization fundraisers are the peer-to-peer fundraisers which we'll talk about a lot more in our next webinar. You can also have the option to apply the match once per donor. um if you think that would be helpful. Lastly, uh this email section is where you would type in the email of the person you want notified when the match is completed. Um, so once like if you have a $1,000 match, once $1,000 has been crowdfunded, um, this person, preferably someone on your staff, would be emailed, um, so that you know and that you don't have to, you know, keep staring at your organization page all day to keep track of when exactly it's going to be matched. So with that, you could be notified and then post on social media or share with your supporters that, hey, we did it. we fulfilled our whole entire match. Um, you also have the option to email your um, matching grant sponsor directly. So, if your matching grant sponsor wants to know exactly when that match has been fulfilled, you can type in their email here. But we would recommend that you um just default to entering an email address of someone on your staff team. Um and then from there going and emailing the matching grant sponsor directly. So once you have that you can click create match and then they will populate here on this page. Okay. So, I know I threw a lot of of information at you about matches, but keep in mind that again, this is your first year on the platform, so we really encourage you to keep it simple this year. Um, unless you're, you know, really gung-ho about everything and have have had matching grances a matching grants a couple of times, um, the easiest thing to do is just set up a onetoone match. Uh that way it's easier to communicate to donors that you know your match will be double or sorry your donation will be doubled um and it's easier to set up in the platform as well. And you can also get creative with it. So, if you have multiple board members, for instance, that are willing to chip in um like $100 each, if you have five board members, you could have a $500 match. And that would still be a really great way to drive more donations because if a donor sees that their money, even if they're donating um $10, is going to be doubled, um they'll know that their money is going further. They'll be able to, you know, feel better about that and know that their gift is making a difference. Okay. So, the last section that we're going to talk a little bit about is settings. So, um I mentioned this a little bit with admins, but if you click on settings, you can go in and update your um your URL. So, I would encourage you to do that. So, if you go to excuse me, settings and then general settings up here at the top, we have the URL customization section and in this custom URL box, you can type in whatever you want the end of your your URL to be. So, we would encourage you to make that something um fairly simple. Uh but sometimes Mighty Cause defaults to making this a string of letters um and numbers. So, I would encourage you to double check that to see what your the end of your URL is. Um, and then click save. And just know that we only allow um URLs to be unique. So, if anyone else any other organization on the Mighty Cause platform has the same URL that you're trying to use, it will not let you save it. So, you might have to alter it a little bit. But, um, if it's saved and you can come back here and see that it's updated, uh, that will be saved forever until you change it. So, um, you can also go in here and update your alternate search names, which I mentioned earlier. So, like for Black Cat Society, if you sometimes use the acronym BCS, you could type this in as an alternate search name, so it makes it easier for folks to find you. You can also update your social sharing um, and your organization info. If we go over to that tab on the left, you can update your address and legal information and check that that's all up to date. Okay. So, let's go to questions. Well, I'll I'll talk about support resources first and then we'll switch over to questions. So before we finish up, um I do want to again flag that our next webinar that's going to be going in more depth about peer-to-peer fundraising and matching grants is going to be on September 13th. Um we'll do a deeper dive on both of those features because um they're they can get pretty in-depth and we want to make sure that you feel comfortable with them and use them to the best of your ability. Um okay, so that concludes the platform webinar portion. So, I will stop sharing this screen and go back to our PowerPoint for a couple resources to share. Okay. So, if you have any questions throughout the registration, preparation, or giving day process, know that you really do have a team of people ready to help. Um, you can find readily available trainings and marketing material on the Bluegrass Gives nonprofit toolkit page. And for technical questions about the Mighty Cause platform, um, you can reach out to support mightycaus.com via email. They're available year round, Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. uh to 5:00 p p.m. Eastern. Um and then for all other inquiries, you can check on the frequently asked questions page of Bluegrass Gives site. Um or if you have very very specific questions about the event, you can reach out to Lauren. Okay, let's talk questions. Let me pull up the chat. Okay. So, we're starting with Dominique's question and I will turn back on my camera. Okay. So, if a person pledges to mail you a check offline, can you include this in the total even if it comes in after the event? So, you can only Well, I might let Lauren um answer this one just because we have the offline gift entry process open from November 24th through December 15th. Um what do you think about this? If they have a pledge from someone that they can really count on, um they know the money is coming. What do you think? Um, I would say I mean this is kind of the first year that we're offering this even so we're kind of like maybe learning to fly, you know, what is the phrase with the wheels? I don't know. You know what I mean? We're figuring out as we go. Um, but I would say if it comes within that time frame, that's okay. That that um time frame that Emily just mentioned. Can you repeat that? >> Yeah, November 24th when early giving opens to December 15th. So remember the giving day itself is December 1st. Um so we are giving some leeway like about two weeks after that giving event. So we I think that's plenty of time to make sure that it's received. I know the post office is can be a little unreliable. So we totally understand that. But just make sure you're communicating with donors if they're planning on sending in a check um or just pledging an offline gift in general to get it in within those windows so it can count for bluegrass gives. Okay. Um can you explain how monthly giving works outside of the giving day? Yeah, I'm happy to do that. So after the giving day itself, we are going to be leaving on gifts. Um, so donors still can make gifts through the website. Um, and you can update your organization page a little bit, but you'll be sharing that same link. But monthly donors uh can just go to the checkout form and then as we have like a one-time gift option, they can switch over to the tab here. I'll share my screen that says monthly gifts and those will automatically be processed. um once a month as long as credit card information is up to date. So, let me open that up. Okay, so once you're on the checkout form, um it does default to onetime donation just because we don't want anyone making a monthly gift on accident. But if you just click this monthly donation portion, it switches you over to that. Um, so instead of making a $10 onetime donation, donors could make a $10 monthly donation. And if they're entering um credit card information, their credit card will just automatically be charged once a month. Um, and they can go in and update that at any time. So if they change credit cards or if they want to cancel it for any reason, they can go in and do that. But um we have seen a lot of success with other giving days and other organizations making um a lot of revenue that's a lot more reliable throughout the year because you can count on even just $10 a month from one donor. So uh we do highly encourage that and we'll talk a little bit more about how we can try to incentivize monthly donors in our next webinar as well. Um, okay. So, yes, the receipt is automatically emailed to whichever email that a donor um enters into the checkout flow. So, yes, you asked um Ben if um the donor's name is automatically pulled. Yes. So, as you're setting up that donation receipt, you can also use um like what are they called? Custom fields. Excuse me. Custom fields. So, um if you want to say thank you like donor first name, you have the option to do that. And like you donated x amount, you have the option to do that. so you can make it a little bit more personalized. And then at the bottom of that thank you uh email that's sent out automatically is the donation receipt with all tax information. So um you should not be sending donors like additional tax information um because we already sent it. And if any donor says they, you know, can't find the email in their inbox, it went to spam or what have you, um you can go in and resend that email so they have the information. So, I know especially before tax season, you might get a lot of those questions. Um, you can go in and do that. Okay. So, Emily, just real quick, sometimes um donors will like mistype their email address maybe in that checkout field. Are the nonprofits able to go in and like resend that receipt to a different email? Does that make sense? >> Yep. >> Okay. Yes, they're able to do that and update the email for the donor and then the donor is also able to go in and do that as well. Um, I would encourage you if you have questions about that to write into support because they can help walk you through that. Um, we also have I believe we have an FAQ on that on the website as well. And if we don't, I'll add it. Um, >> thank you. >> I would say that's the biggest cause of donors not getting a receipt is either it's in their spam or they mistype their email address. So, >> Okay. Thank you. Um, so Tommy asked, "Are we able to run reports if we have multiple sponsors who have set times to determine what those doubled amounts look like per sponsor?" Um, okay. Let me read that question again. I think you're talking about multiple sponsors for multiple matching grants, which you can have multiple matching grants um running at the same time if that is your question. Um, so to do that, you would just schedule two matching grants to run at the same time. You can have different criteria with that. Um, you would have to set up set it up in a certain way so that like they wouldn't be double counted like gifts wouldn't be double matched. So I I might encourage you to set up cued matches which again we'll talk about in our next webinar. But just at a high level, you can set up one match and then another one can be like triggered once the first match is completed. So that might be a better way if you have multiple matching grant sponsors, which is a fantastic, you know, problem to have. Um, uh, you can set those up in such a way that they'll be sequential instead of running at the same time. If you do want them running at the same time, that's also possible, but maybe write into support or um Lauren and I can reach out and make sure they're set up correctly just so they're running properly and um you don't have any issues. Um, but as for running reports, you can see in the donations report, um, you know, which gifts were matched, um, and it'll show which which matching grant sponsor or which matching grant it was matched by as well. Um, yes, this presentation will be recorded and it'll be posted on the website uh in the next couple of days by the end of the week. And we do have a lot of resources such as like support articles and stuff on these specific topics that we've covered as well um on the website. So make sure to check out all the resources available because there's quite a bit. Um okay, do we have to add our nonprofit tax info into the donor receipt section or will it pull from the organization page? That will already pull. So, um yeah, don't worry about the tax information on the portion of the receipt cuz that's autogenerated um by Mighty Cause using all the legal information that we've, you know, pulled from the IRS to verify your organization as well as what you've also confirmed with your EFT setup. Um, how do we create campaigns? So, Rose, you might need to clarify for me. So, with campaign, do you mean a peer-to-peer fundraiser? And if so, we're going to go Okay. So, we're going to go in depth to that um and on September 13th just because it's so expansive um and there are a handful of steps with that. But if you want to get started and start poking around the tool, you can go to fundraising tools campaigns and click create new campaign. Um, but in our next webinar, we'll talk about that in depth about how to create a template to help um to help fundraisers, the people creating peer-to-peer fundraisers make those, help standardize them, and help make it a little bit easier. So, if you can hold off until then, um, yeah, that'll be great. Okay, perfect. And that webinar will also be recorded. So, if you're not able to attend, um, which we highly encourage you to do in case you have real-time questions since this is all new, but that will be recorded as well and posted. Okay, we have a couple more minutes left. Are there any other questions or any questions that I answered but you want more clarification on? Okay. Well, I'll just continue plugging our next webinar um because yeah, we'll focus a lot on peer-to-peer fundraisers as well as matching grants because those are probably two of the most robust tools that are available to you all um and can help drive revenue the most, which of course is all of our goals. So, we'll have that upcoming. And um I will just go back to our friendly reminders really quick. if I can find that tab. Okay. So, as a reminder, offline gifts, which are checks or cash, um are allowed, but there are some stipulations with that, like um they're not going to count for prizes or matches, but they will count towards overall totals. Also, um, as you're creating your fundraising strategy, remember that you cannot give donors tangible goods or services in exchange for them donating. So, we can't offer, um, raffle prizes or anything to that effect because of how the gifts are being processed through Mighty Cause Charitable Foundation, which is um, a donor advised fund. So, there are some tax regulations and um, if we see that, we will flag it and you'll have to take it down. So, just be cognizant of that and save the date for September 13th at 11:00 a.m. Okay. And then Lauren answered in the chat, but someone asked, should Give 828 Lexington show up on the platform if the organization is registered. So, yes, it's on the community page if anyone is participating in that. Um, and then going over text to give, that is also going to be covered in our next webinar just because we're short on time today. Um, but there are a few new well a few features that were available for extra purchase and now are available for free for all of you. So, we have a lot of content to cover and if we're not able to fit that into the next webinar, we'll cover it in in another one. Um, but I will make sure that the website with the nonprofit toolkit has information on text to give in case anyone wants to get that going a little bit early. Okay. Well, thank you so much for joining us. We really appreciate it. Um, if you haven't registered, remember you have to do that by September 4th or you'll have um a $300 fee instead of $250. So, um, make sure to get that finished. All right. Well, thank you all. Um, we appreciate your questions and engagement. Thank you.