National Philanthropy Day

The National Philanthropy Day is a very special day set aside each year to recognize the great contributions of philanthropy as well as those who are active in the philanthropic community, to the enrichment of our world.

National Philanthropy Day® provides an opportunity to reflect on the meaning of giving and all that it has made possible. First held in 1986, NPD celebrates the endless daily contributions individuals and organizations across the world make to countless causes and missions. Last year, more than 100 AFP chapters held NPD events and activities across North America.

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The Association of Fundraising Professionals, Manitoba chapter

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1. Log on to your Partner website and click on <Edit / Preview Events>

2. Find the Edit Menus Link on the page

3. Click on the Crayon Icon to edit any of your custom pages.

WARNING: Do not click on the Garbage Can beside

If you have already seen our online presentation, you probably understood that DR*Pledge is more than just a run software or a walk software.
There are a number of advantages when it comes to using a great run or walk software for your event.

A simple but solid walk software and run software will contribute greatly to solidify your brand and will create not only a better client experience but also a stronger community. There are multiple resources available online who talks about the importance of building a strong community around your product or service:

Whishlist PResident talks about the importantce of a strong community
Video 2; The 5 keys to build a striving community
How to build a comunity by Saul Colt
8 reasons to build a community
The Basics of your Walk software

Sharing pictures and stories on the walk software personal page already start that relationship building. The participants are competing with each other online to raise more donations and this makes them feel like they know each the day of the event comes and the meet for the first time in person.

Why is it important for your run or walk software to offer online registration? Here are just a few benefits for your consideration:

- It Builds automatically your clients database (personal information, which run or walk they prefer)
- Your clients can use their account for every event without having to re-enter their personal information every time.
- You can track your clients’ run and walk participation history
- You can track how much each runner and walker had collected in pledges over time
- Report on who from previous events have not been contacted for the upcoming event
- Save countless hours on registration phone calls
- Reduces greatly manual work
- It help you avoid embarrassing spelling mistakes on walkers’ or runners’ name
- Money is deposited directly into your account
- Easy export for personalized letters or 3rd party donor database
- It helps creating a more prestigious a brand around your event
- Is adds credibility to the event which attracts better and larger sponsors
- It is very simple to set-up, all you have to do if to add a link to your website and your visitors will be able to access directly your run and your walk software.

It is virtually free with very little upfront investment

Run Software, Walk software link

How should you be linking to your walk software?
Ideally, you need your visitors to recognize the logo of your event and what we like to call “the flavor” of the event. Per example, a small charity could post a picture such as this one on the main home page.  Clicking on this link should take you directly to the run, walk software or in this case, a bike tour website.  This image should match your brochure and other marketing material and should be visible from the main home page and ideally, under the side menu where it is always visible form anywhere on your site.
Once your client had been redirected to your run or walk software, it need to be obvious that we are at the right place. Upload a header that matches the event branding.  Your organization logo is secondary.  The most important thing is the flavor of the event.

RUN SOFTWARE, WALK SOFTWARE MAIN WEBSITE

When one of your client lands on the Paypal page to proceed with a credit card payment, Paypal does not always make it obvious that your options are a) pay by credit card and b) Use Paypal to make a payment.  The most obvious option is almost alway to Login to Paypal or to create a paypal account.  However, 99% of your clients are not interested in going through the process of creating an account, they just want to pay!

For that reason, we recommend adding further instruction on your website prior to re-directing to Paypal.  Within our fundraising software, we took care of that for you.

If we take per example DR*Pledge fundraising software, we took really good care of adding a small text as well as a screenshot of what they may see after being redirecting.  Example:

Right above the Proceed button, DR*Pledge Fundraising Software explains to the donors that they will be re-directed for security reasons and it shows them clearly where to click.  Versions of this landing page changes constantly. After clicking on “Continue with check out” the next page is the credit cards screen (below). Unfortunately, we have no control over what version of the page your clients will land on.  We chose this particular version for our screenshot because their most confusing version. If you look at it more closely, it says “Sign up for a Paypal account and continue with checkout.”

Ideally, if one of your donor has never logged on to Paypal from their computer, the screen they would normally land to would be the credit card page below.

All versions of DR*Pledge will allow you to do the following:
-Post the event home page (content provided by you)
-Post a contact-us page (content provided by you)
-Post other information pages such as sponsorship opportunities
-Upload a picture or a logo in both , home page and contact us page
-Register participants online and accept payment
-Option to add questions to your registration form
-Accept online donations eith by cheques cash of live credit card processing
-Each participant gets a personal page to collect pledges.
-Goal tracking
-Fell a friend feature
-Facebook script
-Admin report

Branding upgrades
The majority of our clients understand the importance of branding an event. It is proven that a better branding increases participant retention and a striking event website will attract better and bigger sponsors. By keeping your DR*Pledge event website consistent with your posters, brochures and other marketing material, you are on the right track to create stronger brand recognition for your event.

We offer 2 branding levels:
1) Color matching of your poster and custom upload of your header & footer ($249.99, allow 2 business days)
2) Complete customization with flash introduction page for only ($1,499.99, allow 10 to 15 business days)

Other proprietary options are also available to you such as:

- Custom design automatic tax receipt
- Thermometer script
- Image gallery
- Google map (great for bike rides)
- and more.

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This is a clean, family-friendly comedy event featuring Ken Davis. This event is made possible through the generous support of our sponsors and partners as listed below.

You can register online today using perfectevent builder.com online registration software.

Welcome to the 2010 Greater Ottawa Kingfish SWIMATHON!

Visit GO Kingfish Fundraising website

Our 2010 SWIMATHON goals:

100% participation - Wouldn’t it be great to have every swimmer with GO participate?

$15 000 Club Goal - Your support is important to GO. Money from our SWIMATHON helps GO keep costs down. GO uses this money to help pay for pool time, coaching fees, special courses needed by our coaches, our year end banquet and to purchase the equipment we need to make the GO Kingfish Swim Club the best Swim Club in Canada.

We at Camp Arnes believe that to live a life of growth, we need to share, love and give back! Clean and Green gives us all an opportunity to grow ourselves by “paying it forward”.

This year our new website design allowed us to introduce the TEAM aspect for the personal challenge. Outside of our normal camper canvassing, we’re giving the opportunity to challenge companies or families to join in the cause to: “Green” our planet, Give back to Winnipeg and to make a difference in a child’s life. Through the team challenge, you will be responsible for a large stretch of Winnipeg to pick up garbage and to “green” your environment.

Every year Camp Arnes puts on a Clean & Green fundraising event. Clean & Green is a great way for campers to lower their camp fees.

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