Gamify your Peer-to-Peer Events…
GiveSignup’s platform allows you to do more than just register participants for your peer-to-peer event. We are also here with free technology to help you creatively support and engage with your fundraisers, encouraging them to raise more.
Key Features for Gamification
Milestones & Badges for Fundraising
Send encouragement to fundraising teams and individuals as they make progress towards their overall fundraising goals. Actively support fundraisers along their entire fundraising journey.
- Show fundraisers’ progress at every stage of the fundraising challenge. Create a unique badge for every $10, $50, or $300 raised!
- Congratulate fundraisers for different types of milestones like number of donors, amount raised, Facebook Fundraiser connected
- Create specific badges for individual fundraisers and team fundraisers
- Recognize your fundraisers with an automatic trophy case to display milestones reached and badges earned.
Fundraising Refunds
Reward fundraisers with refunds or swag as they reach a specified milestone.
- Create a badge for when the refund threshold is made
- Set an ensured registration balance
- Choose to apply a unique refund amount for each event
5 Simple Ways to Include Gamification in Your Fundraising Plan
Fundraising used to be straightforward: hear the cause, make your donations, and go about your day. Now that the world of fundraising has changed, how do we even get people to listen to the cause, stay interested, get engaged, and donate?
Customize your Fundraising Milestone & Badges
Keep fundraisers engaged by customizing your milestones and badges to be unique to your event and your event only.
- Upload custom badge designs, create unique badges with free online tools like Canva.
- Get creative with your milestone marks. Is it your event’s 25th anniversary? Make an extra special milestone for the first $25 raised.
- Input unique badge names that align with your event’s theme. For a Star Wars themed event, fundraisers leveled up from a Youngling to a Grand Master Jedi!
Fundraising Leaderboards
Reward top fundraisers with the recognition they deserve through leaderboards. Top individual fundraisers and team fundraisers will automatically be displayed in dynamic leaderboards.
- Encourage friendly competition with leaderboards.
- Showcase top individual fundraisers and team fundraisers in a real-time leaderboard that automatically updates as fundraising totals change.
- Showcase your leaderboard on your cover page under the data content block.
- Have charities or different funds set up for people to donate to? Encourage competition and reward the top charity with a special shoutout.
Does your Peer-to-Peer event have a virtual challenge component?
Learn how you can include milestone and badges in your virtual challenge to encourage fundraisers as they progress in running, biking, hiking, reading and more. When you set up a virtual challenge, you can send additional email notifications to congratulate participants for reaching milestones.
Dive Into Milestones and Badges
Customer Spotlight
Bfit Challenge
The Bfit Challenge powered by National Guard features a run, walk, step challenge that invites first responders and anyone else to join together, raise awareness around health and fitness, and support first responder charities. This one-of-a-kind community event is organized by the Boston Bruins Foundation (BBF) and takes place at TD Stadium in downtown Boston.
66% increase in registration
1,106 Individual Fundraisers
$360,000 Raised
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