Now there’s an easier way to source, review, and publish ideas from your community right from within GC Social Fundraising.The new Idea Submission feature (formerly Campaign Guidelines) is designed to encourage collaboration, streamline campaign development, and elevate your crowdfunding program. Before diving into the technical details, you can explore this high-level overview to see how it can empower your community and boost your fundraising efforts.If you’re ready to get started, visit your online giving dashboard (present icon) and navigate to Idea Submission. NOTE: only Superadmins and Crowdfunding Admins will have access to this menu option."
From here, you’ll start by creating your first Idea Submission Form.
Fill up the Form Details section with a title, header, and instructions. The header and instructions will be publicly visible. Use the Form Builder to add, remove, and reorder custom fields. You can also mark fields as required or optional using the STAR icon.
(NOTE: The First Name, Last Name, Email, and Title fields are required on every form and cannot be removed or reordered)
Click on View Form in the top-right corner to see what your form looks like. Now, your Idea Submission Form is ready to share with the public. After clicking View Form, copy the URL and share it with as many people as you’d like! Or, even better, share this form, highlighted in it's own section, with members of your community on a School Page!
Someone submitted an idea - now what?
Crowdfunding administrators for your school will receive an email notification:
Subject: Action Requested: New Idea Submitted on GiveCampus
Jane Doe just submitted a fundraising idea: Women’s Soccer Fundraiser. Review and approve or reject the fundraising idea here.
Happy fundraising!
GiveCampus team
The idea will now show in the list of Submitted Ideas for your school.
To see more details, click on the title of the submitted idea.
Responding to an Idea Submission
You can either click Respond in the Submitted Ideas list, or Respond to Submission if viewing more details by having clicked the title of the submitted idea.
If you’re choosing to reject the idea, you can include an optional message for the idea submitter.
When you click Submit, the idea submitter will receive an email informing them of your rejection.
Approvals
If approving a fundraising idea, you can choose to create a Tier 1 Social Fundraising campaign or a Tier 2 landing page and enter more information about your campaign and its goals.You also have the option to allow the submitter to build out this page themselves and to include an optional message with the approval email.
If you allow the submitter to build the page on their own, they will be granted administrator access limited to the new page. If they don’t have a GiveCampus account, they must create one by following the link in their email.
After creating an account (or logging in), the idea submitter will be able to populate details, goals, and branding but cannot publish or launch the page on their own.
Instead, they will see the option to Request to Publish their page once it has been built.
You will receive an email when the submitter requests that their campaign be published.
When you’re ready to launch the campaign, click Launch Immediately. Your new fundraising campaign will now be live to the public.
FAQ
No, you can create unlimited forms!
You'll want to create an Idea Submission form and then head to your School Pages section > edit the page with the description "Default page for [school name]" > Page layout > edit the Idea Submission CTA page and add your new form to your default School Page!
Not at this time. All submitted ideas will be viewable in the Submitted Ideas section of Idea Submission.
Any admins that are Superadmins or Crowdfunding Admins will get notifications when an idea is submitted. Additionally, if there are other admins that you'd like to get notified of ideas you can add them to receive notifications in Administrators > Notifications.