If you have been following the news about the floods all over England you’re probably aware of the misery and suffering of people who have lost their homes and livelihoods in this extreme weather.
You can help make a difference to the flood victims by supporting the South Yorkshire Community Foundation’s Flood Relief fundraising page, or the British Red Cross’s official donation page.
photo credit: REUTERS/Darren Staples
The Justgiving Facebook app has arrived!
We are in your profile
What does it do?
The Justgiving app, built by us, adds a dynamic progress bar to your profile, which references a fundraising page on Justgiving.
This could be your own fundraising page, one of your friends, a big appeal page or belong to a complete stranger.
The profile view looks like this:
As you can see it pulls in the image from your page, your progress, what you’re doing and the charity you’re raising funds for. Tidy.
In the application view you get something a bit more like this:
You can add the pages you’re supporting, see the most recent contributions (including comments!), and you can see who out of your Facebook friends is supporting that page too. It’s a great way to get all your sponsors to show their support via their profiles too.
Where do I get it?
You can add the application at http://apps.facebook.com/justgiving
You’ll need to have a Facebook account and to log-in to get this working.
It will tell you what the most popular pages are on Facebook right now, so if you’ve got nobody to support, why not pick one of them?
Let us know what you think, we hope you have as much fun using it as we had building it.
Hello!
Thought it was time to check in and tell you about a few more of our fab homepage stars. In the ‘traditional fundraising’ ring there’s Rob, who, according to my calculations, should be somewhere in Wisconsin as I write, as part of his cross-country USA cycle ride. 4200 miles for Cancer Research UK - now that’s what I call using your summer break!
Moving on, we’ve got two new groups of stars who have found some more unusual ways to raise lots of dosh for good causes.
First up is four lads from Deepcut barracks, who are planning to climb to the height of Mt. Everest’s base camp (that’s higher than most mountains in the world ever) on their step machines at the gym to raise money for Hope for Children. The challenge is over 24 hours, which means each fella’s got 12 hours on the steppers. Wow. Good luck to them.
And finally, there’s the Urban Ironing Collective, who will come and iron anyplace in London for you for a donation of £15 to Cancer Research UK. So far they’ve ironed outside Buckingham Palace, on the central reservation in Oxford Circus, down Horseguards Parade, In St. James Park, outside the Ritz, and pretty much everywhere else in London. You can see all in their Flickr group here. I never thought I’d say this but yay ironing!
Anyways, if you too want to join these fabulous stars on our homepage here’s how…
Yesterday’s top tip gave you instructions on how to subscribe to page creation email alerts, but if you want to report on pages created during any date range, this is how you do it:
You first need to log-in to your Charity Account, go to the Fundraising and Donations section and click on the Event Fundraising link. Once there, you should click on the Create a detailed report link as below (click to enlarge):
On the next screen, you should select the Quick Reports option and click on the orange Start Creating Report button:
You can then choose whether you want to report on pages created, with an event date, or expiring within your required date range:
Once you have selected the option you require, you can type in the date range or use the calendar to select – in the example below I would create a report on pages created in the last month.
Once you click on Continue, you can then select the columns to include in your report and choose the format for the download (Excel or CSV).
As you can see, these directions can help you report on pages expiring within a desired date range, and also on pages with a specific event date. More info on creating the event date type report can be found in the charity account help section here.
One of the most crucial aspects of fundraising on Justgiving is knowing who is fundraising for you so you can offer them support, and knowing when their page is closed so you can thank them for raising money for you. You also need to know how much you’ve raised!
To help you do this, charities can subscribe to three email alerts: one sent whenever someone creates a fundraising page, one sent every Monday morning to tell you of expired fundraising pages in the last week and another for when a payment report is ready to download.
To subscribe to one or all of these alerts, you need to log-in to your Charity Account at; www.justgiving.com/charityaccount
and go to the Account management tab.
On that screen, you can select the Email alerts and subscriptions link on the left to get to the screen below so you can subscribe (click on image to enlarge):
You can also subscribe to our monthly newsletter which will update you about any important news and interesting charity stories.
These alerts can only be set up for the email address used to log-in, so if others need to receive these alerts, you should add a new user to your account in the same section or contact us at charities@justgiving.com
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