What is Group Giving?

Group Giving is a tool on the Mightycause platform that can be used for employee giving, or any group of individuals that want to come together to support charitable causes. At this time, it is exclusively available for giving days and giving events. Service and volunteer organizations like Rotary Clubs can use the Group Giving tool as well.

Group Giving allows you to create a central page where members of the group can easily find and make donations to charitable organizations. And you can even set up matching grants to help drive donations!

How can I set up a group Giving page?

The initial step may vary depending on the Giving Event that you are supporting. If the giving event you are supporting offers the Group Giving tool, you’ll find the opportunity to create a group giving page on the Business or Corporate Toolkit. Within the toolkit, you should see a link that will begin theGroup Giving creation process. If you are having trouble finding this link, please contact support@mightycause.com.

Once you select the link, a modal will pop up asking you to enter your group name, ie “Salesforce Employee Giving Group"

After you have entered your Group Name and selected "Continue," you will be sent to your Group Giving Page:

Customizing your Group Giving Page

The pencil icons and plus sign icons on your page will provide all of the editing tools for your page.

Title: Your title will be filled out on the page based on the name you entered when you created your Group Giving page, but clicking the pencil icon to the right of the title will allow you to make any necessary updates: 

Group Logo: Click on the pencil icon in the top right hand corner of the logo box as seen below. Your logo should be a 1:1 aspect ratio (square image), and you’ll have the opportunity to upload from your computer, dropbox, and more. 

Background image: You have the opportunity to further customize the look and feel of your page with an overlay color and a background image for the header. Both of these options can be opened via the icon on the top right side of the header. 

You can then add your theme color by clicking the top option in the pop-up box: 

After choosing your overlay color, clicking on the icon below will allow you to upload a background image, and if you don’t have a background image you can select one from the gallery available. The aspect ratio is 355:88. Images should be at least 1920 x 1080 pixels (which is also a common size for desktop wallpaper). This will also ensure that your team page is optimized for larger screens. 

Metrics: You can update the metrics that are shown on your page as well as add a fundraising goal by choosing the pencil icon in the corner of the metrics box below the name of the page: 

Once selected, you will see the ability to edit your metrics calculation dates, a fundraising goal, and what metrics are displayed:

Featured Causes: Clicking on the “+ Featured causes list” button will open up another optional feature of your group giving page.

This allows you to share a curated list of causes for your employees to donate to. Click the '+ Cause' button to search for and add causes, select the pencil icon next to 'Donate to a Featured Cause' to edit the title of this section, and click the pencil icon in the top right hand corner of the whole section to hide the whole section. 

Once your selected causes are added, you can remove them by clicking the trash icon to the right of the cause, or drag and drop their position with the icon in the left of the cause. 

Browse All: You can also add a button to your page to have your employees browse all causes that are participating in the Giving Event. To add this, click the '+ Browse button.'

Story: In the story section, you will have an in-line text editor that allows you to share information about why your group is giving as a part of the Giving Day, or any other information you’d like to share. 

Managing your Group Giving Page

After you’ve completed editing your page, you can navigate through the items on the lefthand dashboard to access donation reports, add a matching grant or update the page settings. 

Donations Report

Clicking on the “Reports” icon of the dashboard will open up your Donation Report where you can access and download donor data in real-time for all donations that are made through your group giving page. 

You can export any of the donations report views as a Spreadsheet by clicking the download icon at the top of the report:

Matching Grants

The reports section of your dashboard will also include an area called Matching Grants.

The "Match Manager" is a display and reporting tool for any matching grants your organization receives.

Say for example, your company is willing to match employee donations up to $5,000 during the Giving Day, this feature will allow you to add a matching grant to your group giving page to display and track this incentive. Learn more about setting up a matching grant here.

Settings

The final item within your dashboard will allow you to edit and customize certain page settings, from customizing the end of the page url or the social sharing settings, to adding an additional member of your team to serve as an administrator of the page. 

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 make sure it’s relevant to your page.

Metrics Calculation

This is another place where you can update when your page metrics will start calculating:

Discoverability

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

Visitor Redirect

If your page is no longer relevant or active and you'd like to point visitors to a newer page instead, you can use this feature to display a redirect suggestion to all visitors. To do so, simply add in the new url within the text-box.

Group Admins

If there are additional individuals you would like to add as administrators to your page, you can simply add those individuals by selecting the plus icon (+) below the "Group Admins" area.

If you have any further questions about your Group Giving page, please contact support@mightycause.com