HOW TO GET STARTED
Preparing Your Campaign
Welcome to Every Penny Fundraising! We have designed our platform to take very little of your time. We do all of the work and can usually have you raising within 24 hours.
Decide How Your Participants Will Be Set Up
There are two ways in setting up your donation pages – the choice is yours:
A. Participants Sign Up Themselves
We provide you with a registration link, which you share with your participants. Once they’ve registered, their custom donation page is available immediately.
Pro: The participant provides their own information during registration, which means their pages will be highly personalized (photo, video and bio).
Con: Since you are relying on your participants to create their page in order to get started, some may take longer to do so or may not do it at all, resulting in missed opportunities for donations.
Heads Up: If you prefer this option, make sure your participants can reach https://everypenny.fund from their devices on your org’s network. Some organizations may restrict access to certain websites.
B. We Setup on Your Behalf
You provide us with a list of your participant’s name and email address – that’s it! We will email the participant with their login information and their donation page, usually within 24 hours.
File Requirements:
- CSV or Excel file format
- At a minimum, your file must include your participant’s first & last name and email address.
- Optional/recommended columns to include:
A specific detail about the participant, such as their grade, an instrument they play, their baseball position or whatever makes them unique. We will use this to build a unique bio about each participant.
Their cell number – we will text them their profile page when ready
Pro: You aren’t relying on your participants to register themselves when they get around to it, so you can start raising funds quicker. We pre-fill their bio with meaningful info about your campaign based on any additional info you provide (such as what you’re raising funds for, the music instrument the participant plays, their football team and position, etc.
Con: Since we are registering everyone, their pages will be missing their personalized photo. They can always log in and add their photo and video or customize their bio later.
During Your Campaign
This is the best part! Your participants will share their donation page with friends and family on their social media or directly via texts and email. Donations will start coming in immediately.
As the leader, you will have 24/7 access to your fundraiser’s progress, including daily totals, who is (and isn’t) participating, your top producers, and more. See a demo here.
Closing Your Campaign
At the end of your campaign we will send you a check. If you need to know how much each participant raised, you can find that breakdown on your dashboard, and export it to share with others if needed.
The duration of your campaign is completely up to you, but we recommend at least 1 month.