First-time-donor competition between college groups

This article covers GiveCampus campaign administration. Available controls can vary between the classic and redesigned campaign interfaces.

An ordinary directed offer can select a designation group whose child funds qualify. That does not create a first-time-donor winner-takes-all competition. The WTA editor compares Donors or Dollars and does not expose a first-time-only ranking metric. For an award to the college with the most first-time donors, establish organizer-managed rules, reconcile exported gifts and first-time status against complete institutional giving history, group eligible donors by college and record the award appropriately. Do not assume the ordinary first-time restriction is available in WTA or treat one fund name as an entire college group.

Can a Winner Takes All challenge count only alumni or another affiliation?

No. Winner Takes All compares competing designations or designation groups; it does not offer a restriction that counts only donors with a selected affiliation. For example, you cannot automatically award the fund with the most alumni donors while excluding its parent or friend donors from that competition.

An affiliation entered in Donor Information identifies the challenge sponsor. It does not restrict who qualifies toward the competing funds. Affiliation restrictions available for ordinary matches or threshold challenges do not add that capability to Winner Takes All.

For an affiliation-specific competition, establish the rules separately and have your team review exported gifts for the relevant affiliation and competing funds before recording the approved award. Do not present this as an automatically enforced Winner Takes All setup.