Set up and use Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

How Peer-to-Peer Fundraising works

Peer-to-Peer Fundraising is automatically incorporated into your Core Profile fundraising page, as well as any Campaign Pages your nonprofit uses to raise money.

To start a new Peer-to-Peer page, supporters simply visit your fundraising page and click "I Want To Fundraise For This." They are then directed to register, come up with a fundraising goal, and write a note to donors.

IMPORTANT: Supporters are only able to create one Give Lively user account per email address. Through that account, each supporter is limited to one personal fundraising page per nonprofit campaign, but can still support multiple campaigns of one nonprofit, as well as the campaigns of other nonprofits.

When someone donates using a Peer-to-Peer Fundraising page, you will see the donation in the Nonprofit Admin Portal and in Stripe. If the Peer-to-Peer Fundraising page is associated with one of your campaigns, all funds it raises will roll into your campaign's goal.

To see all of the Peer-to-Peer Fundraising pages supporting your nonprofit, go to the Nonprofit Admin Portal and click the "Peer-to-Peer Fundraising" link in the left-hand navigation bar.

Enable (or disable) Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

You do not have to do anything special to enable Peer-to-Peer Fundraising. It is automatically incorporated into your Core Profile fundraising page, as well as any Campaign Pages your nonprofit uses to raise money.

You can however turn it on and off. To do so, log in to the Nonprofit Admin Portal and click the"Core Profile" link in the left-hand navigation bar. Scroll to the bottom of the page and look for "Enable Peer to Peer Fundraisers" with the clickable box in front of it. A check mark in the box means Peer-to-Peer Fundraising is enabled. Click on the box to remove the check mark and disable it.

Of note: When enabled, Peer-to-Peer Fundraising pages associated with a Core Profile or Campaign Page inherit the settings chosen on that Core Profile or Campaign Page for the following features:

• giving anonymously
• dedicating donations in honor or in memory of someone. 

A note about payment forms

Give Lively has two generations of payment forms in use. Your choice of features will dictate which form appears. At present, Peer-to-Peer Fundraising is supported by both generations of payment forms. Activation of Peer-to-Peer Fundraising alongside the other items on this list may trigger the second-generation payment form. Any combination of features or products beyond those detailed on this list will continue to see use of the first-generation donation form.

IMPORTANT: Both generations of payment forms guide donors through very similar giving experiences and there is no reason a nonprofit should favor one payment form over the other. Over the next few months, the new payment form will become the standard for all Give Lively donation pages. Learn more here.

Share your nonprofit's Peer-to-Peer sign-up link with prospective fundraisers

Supporters need your Peer-to-Peer Fundraising sign-up link to get started raising money on your behalf. They can get the link two ways:

• directly from you via email or social media
• by visiting your primary or campaign fundraising pages and clicking the "I Want To Fundraise For This" button (see image below).

To send supporters the link:

1. Log in to the Nonprofit Admin Portal and click on the "Dashboard" link in the left-hand navigation bar.
2. Scroll down to "Recent Campaign Pages" and click the "Copy Link to Create P2P" button (see image below). This will copy the peer-to-peer sign-up link, which can be pasted into a social post or an email directed toward your biggest supporters.

Remove individual fundraisers from teams

Nonprofit admins have the ability to remove most individual peer-to-peer fundraisers from teams, even if those fundraisers have raised money through the team. Only the team leader can’t be removed. See instructions on how to remove a fundraiser from a team.

Delete a Peer-to-Peer Fundraising page

You are able to delete a Peer-To-Peer Fundraising page only if no online donation has been made through the page.

A deleted Peer-to-Peer Fundraising page is scrubbed from the internet: the page disappears, the link is no longer valid and it is impossible to receive donations through it (since it no longer exists). The page is also no longer visible in the Nonprofit Admin Portal.

To do this:

1. Log in to the Nonprofit Admin Portal and click the “Peer-to-Peer Fundraising” link in the left-hand navigation bar.
2. Here you will see a list of all fundraising pages associated with your nonprofit's campaigns.
3. To delete a page, click the "X" to the right of any Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Page. If a donation has already been made to that page, the "X" will be grayed out and you can no longer delete that page.

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