Fundraising & Activity Challenges

Create friendly competition and build community 

 

 

Fundraising & Activity Challenges enable participants to connect and compete with fellow fundraisers in a challenge designed by you. Challenges are a great way to get participants fundraising earlier and build community throughout your campaign.

 

How It Works

 

1. Define Your Challenge Timeframe: Challenges are time-bound, so think about when you want to engage participants and how long you’d like your challenge to run.

 

2. Determine Your Challenge Fundraising Goal: How much do you want participants to raise during the challenge window?

 

3. Decide on Challenge Activities: Choose which activities “count” for your challenge, and decide whether you’ll measure activities by points, steps, or distance traveled.

 

4. Choose a prize: Will challenge completers receive a special incentive prize or recognition? Will you recognize everyone who completes the challenge or just those on the leaderboard? Work with corporate partners to sponsor a challenge prize or matching gift.

 

5. Promote Your Challenge: Let participants know about the challenge in the month leading up. Encourage them to get the app and get ready to log their activities and start fundraising.

 

6. Provide Updates & Recognize Challenge Winners: Send emails or text messages to challenge participants with periodic leaderboard updates. At the end of the challenge, congratulate those who have completed the challenge and provide them with their prize or special recognition.

 

Participant Experience

 

1. Join a Challenge: Head to the Challenges screen in the app to see which challenges are available—and join one that excites you!

 

2. Log Activities & Fundraise: Connect your fitness tracker or manually add activities during the challenge window. Track your progress—both activity and fundraising—right on the Challenge screen.

 

3. Share Your Progress: Share updates with friends and family via text, email, or social media. It’s an easy way to spread the word and gain support for your efforts!

 

4. Check the Leaderboards: See how you stack up! The Top 10 Individuals and Top Teams are featured on the leaderboard to spark friendly competition.

 

👉 For more information on fundraising and activity challenges, check out this handy guide: Fundraising and Activity Challenges

 

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