Managing Your Team On Mightycause

As team organizer, you have the ability to change your team’s goal, track offline donations, manage your leaderboard and message team members directly. We’ll walk through those steps here.

But first, how do you access your team page once it’s been created? Easy! Just login at mightycause.com/login and click your name in the top right-hand corner. Then, click "My Campaigns" on your user account. You’ll see any teams you’ve organized listed here.

Click "Manage" on the team fundraiser you are interested in working on.

Once you’re on your team fundraiser’s page, it’s time to review the tools to success to manage your team effectively. You will use your team page’s dashboard to toggle between these tools.

Members

Click on “Members” on the left-hand sidebar menu to get started. This is the central location for most of the engagement opportunities for your team members. You can also track team member’s progress and data from here, and communicate with your team about their progress!

Invite New Team Members

Once you’ve set up your fundraiser template (see more on that below!), it’s time to invite your team members.

To invite team members, simply click “Members” from the left-hand sidebar. Then, just click “Invite Team Members” and add the emails you’d like to invite, separating them with a comma. Then, you’ll get a message letting you know who you have invited and asking if you’d like to add anyone else:

You can invite new team members at any time!

You’ll know a fundraiser has started to create their fundraiser by clicking “Members” on the left-hand sidebar at any time. Here, you’ll be able to see all team members who have joined, and the status of their fundraiser:

This is a great way to track if any fundraisers get “stuck” during the setup process so you can email them to ask if they need help and let them know they must be published to show up on the leaderboard and join the competition! With Member management made simple on Mightycause, teams have an average of 7 more fundraisers on their team over May 2016.

This is also a place to see the most recent activity on each fundraiser on your team. This is a great tool to also be able to see their most recent activity, so feel free to use this to follow up and encourage fundraisers that haven’t seen a lot of action to their page recently.

Download Member List

Looking to capture all the team’s data to add to your CRM? Simply click on the Members section on the left-hand sidebar and click “Download Member List” — this will export your fundraiser’s data, like name, email, data joined, etc. into an Excel spreadsheet for you so you can easily track their information. Here are some other things you can do in the Members section of your team page:

Remove A Fundraiser From The Leaderboard

Did a team member create duplicate fundraisers? Did someone decide to drop out of the team? You can also remove fundraisers in the “Members” section. Simply click the grey “x”, show in the screenshot above, to remove them from the leaderboard. This will not delete their fundraiser, but will remove them and any donations they received from the competition!

Message Team Members

It’s down to the wire, and your team is this close to hitting their goal. What should you do?

Message your team and motivate them with some tips to continue raising funds!

You can do this from the Members section on your left-hand sidebar menu — simply click “Members” and then click the blue “Message All Members” button. Then, add a subject line and a note, and click “Send Message” to send the note to all the fundraisers on your team.

This tool is a great way to keep up engagement and keep those competitive juices flowing. Use this feature to remind fundraisers who’s on top of the leaderboard, why it’s important for your team to hit their goal, and any other milestones along the way!

Donation Report

With team fundraising on Mightycause, you can now track your donation information by individual fundraiser, or for the team as a whole. Simply click “Donation Report” on the left-hand sidebar menu.

Then, just choose which fundraiser you’d like to view donation information for from the dropdown menu, and select the timeframe:

You can export any of the donations report views as a Spreadsheet by clicking “Get detailed report for this range” in the lower right-hand corner of the report.

You can also filter your team by General Fund, or view all fundraisers.

Adding Offline Donations

As the team organizer, you may want fundraisers to include checks and cash (or money from sponsorships) into your team’s total on the display counter. You can add offline donations to general funds or allow fundraisers to include them on their own fundraisers by following these steps:

To add an offline donation to your team’s total (this might be a check or cash from sponsors or hosts), click “Donation Report” on the left-hand sidebar. Then, click the grey “Add Offline Donation” button:

Add the details of your offline donation here:

Then, just select if you want to add it to your General Fund (remember: this won’t show on your leaderboard, but will show on the team’s display total):

Fundraiser Template

One of the best first steps to take to manage your team on Mightycause is to first set up a template to make it easy for new fundraisers to get setup in just a few clicks.

To set up your fundraiser template, click “Fundraiser Template” on the left-hand sidebar. Then, just fill out the following sections and click “Save”:

• Suggested Fundraiser Title — this will be used as the default name fundraisers that join your team
• Funding Goal — how much do you want each fundraiser to raise?
• Fundraiser Image — this is a default image for fundraisers who don’t want to personalize their page
• Short Story — use this as a brief, one-sentence preview of the fundraiser
• Story — provide more details about the fundraiser, the organization and the team!

Don’t forget to click the blue “Create template” button below where you type the Story to save your template!

When fundraisers create their fundraiser, they’ll be prompted to choose to use the template or to personalize their own page.

Settings

Discoverability

Turning off Discoverability will hide your fundraiser so only supporters with a direct link can access your page, and it won’t show up in our Search. 

Social Sharing

Customize the image and text social media networks use when someone shares your page.

Custom URL

When you create your page, your page will automatically be given a URL. It’s a boring series of letters and numbers. But you can jazz things up and make your page more memorable, customized, and shareable by giving it a Custom URL. Keep it short and obviously make sure it’s relevant to your page.

Your General Fund

Donors have the ability to give to the “General Fund” — this is a great option for donors who want to support the organization, but aren’t familiar with a person or a fundraiser listed on the leaderboard.

When donors click the “Donate” button below the display counter on your team page, they’ll be prompted to choose which fundraiser they’d like to donate to:

To turn off the option to donate to a General Fund, simply visit your “Settings” and scroll to the section titled “General Fund” — then just toggle it on or off:

Donations to the general fund will not be counted towards the leaderboard (although they will show on on your display total). This option is available only for teams that support certified charities on Mightycause, and is not available for teams that support personal fundraisers.

Offline Donation Tracking

As the team organizer, you may want fundraisers to include checks and cash into your team’s total on the display counter. To allow fundraisers to add their own offline donations, click “Settings.” Then, scroll to “Offline Donation Tracking” and choose to ignore or include offline donations that fundraisers add to their own pages:

This is helpful for teams that want to encourage fundraisers to only fundraise online, or for teams with a lot of fundraisers where it may be difficult to track cash and check donations. If you allow offline donation tracking, that fundraiser’s offline donations will be included on their total on the leaderboard.

Please note, if you are a part of an event, you will not be able change this area. Only the Event organizer can.

Progress Calculation

You might have had some eager fundraisers that started collecting funds a bit too early. In this case, you might want to start tracking donations made to fundraisers before your team started. To do this, just visit “Settings” and scroll to the section titled “Metrics” — then just change the start date to whatever you’d like!

This is also a great option for teams who plan to use the same team page year over year. You can change your metrics to only include this year’s funds raised. This is an easy way to ensure you’re not “reinventing the wheel” each year, and fundraisers will only need to update their information, rather than creating a whole new page!

Event Status

If your team fundraiser is part of an event, you will see that here. If you need to connect your team fundraiser to an event, simply add the url of the event to blank space and select "Continue."

Delete Team

Finally, you may want to delete your team fundraiser if you start a new one next year. This will ensure that donors aren’t confused and donate to the wrong team. To delete your team, just scroll to the Settings section titled “Delete Team” — then just click the blue button and your team fundraiser will be deleted. Please note: This will not affect the fundraisers on your leaderboard — fundraisers must delete their own page by clicking “Delete Fundraiser” in the Settings on the left-hand sidebar of their fundraiser.

Do you have further questions on your team fundraiser? Our support team is here to help Monday through Friday, 9 -5 pm EST! Email them at support@mightycause.com