Jordan and Pippen. Laverne and Shirley. Jobs and Wozniak. Moe, Larry and Curly. Ernie and Bert. Vladdy and Springer (obligatory PB&J reference for you Toronto Blue Jays fans out there).
Some teams are just too powerful for a single leader, and peer-to-peer fundraising is no different.
Team captains help spearhead your peer-to-peer fundraising efforts, creating a sense of shared purpose among the friends, family and colleagues that they’ve welcomed to your cause, and set an example for others on how to fundraise.
In raisin, Peer-to-Peer events support teams, team of teams, member management, team page personalization, team tagging, team leaderboards and more. By default, there’s been a maximum of one captain per P2P fundraising team (Note: it is possible for a team to have no captains).
But, like so many things in life, for some teams, two – or more – captains is better than one, and helps to amplify the fundraising efforts of the team in their community.
That’s why we’re introducing Team Co-Captains.
Now, your peer-to-peer fundraising teams can have multiple leaders championing your cause. Because when great leaders join forces, amazing things happen.
Elevate team leadership
Once promoted to captain status, Co-Captains get full captain powers. They’ll update team pages, track progress, receive captain notifications and thank team donors.
Be they family members, sports teammates or office pals, with multiple captains at the helm, your peer-to-peer fundraising teams move faster and achieve more… and your events team does, too.
Spotlight and celebrate your champions
Co-Captains earn coveted “Team Captain” badges and stand out on their team’s fundraising page. Nothing builds pride or momentum like publicly celebrating those who step up to lead – it’s the badge of honour that shows the whole community who’s committed to your cause.
How it works
Promoting Co-Captains is simple.
With the flip of a switch in your Peer-to-Peer fundraising campaigns on raisin, existing team captains have the ability to designate teammates as Co-Captains directly from their Fundraising Portal.
Just the same, your fundraising event staff can promote any event participant to become a Co-Captain directly from the team management interface. There’s no limit to how many Co-Captains a team can have – whether it’s two, three, or more – the team decides what works best for their fundraising.
All Co-Captains have equal access to:
- Team page editing and personalization
- Member management and communications
- Donation tracking and team donor thank-you messages
- Captain-specific notifications and updates
Co-Captains appear with their Captain fundraising badge on the team fundraising page.
Ready to name your captains?
- Team Co-Captains is available now for single location or multi-location peer-to-peer events with our P2P+ Package
- Check out our Help Centre guide to learn how to make your peer-to-peer participants co-captains
- Not part of the raisin team yet? Book a discovery to find out more about our P2P plays.
Fundraising in 2024 is both art and science.
On one hand, the reasons that people donate are deeply personal and intuitive. As a fundraiser, you bring real-world meaning to your supporters’ gifts – through stewardship that brings a smile, events that crystalize community or a real-world action that saves a life.
These generous acts can’t necessarily be quantified (not to mention, they’re the reason we do what we do!), but the value of “data and numbers” in understanding your supporters and their motivations is hard to overlook – especially now.
Consumers expect greater personalization, giving patterns are shifting, and there’s a whole generation of young donors seeking more diverse ways to get involved with your cause.
Responding to these trends relies on meaningful data. And as an industry, truthfully, we haven’t done a great job in getting this data to causes like yours.
Throughout the course of developing raisin Analytics, we heard from so many organizations – learning not only about the metrics that drive their success – but also the often-complex processes that get them to these key results: Old-school daily progress reports, generating the same report multiple times a day, complex third-party BI tools, personal alchemies of formulas and macros, “head in hands” moments waiting for aging data to percolate into another siloed system, and of course, lots of spreadsheets.
All of this takes time, takes effort and takes you away from the fundraising work you’re doing on the ground.
Which bring us to raisin Analytics, our new reporting and supporter intelligence platform.
Analytics gives you greater insight in less time, so that you can be a more effective fundraiser. Here’s how:
Spot-on insights available on the spot
Analytics brings all of your campaigns together in one powerful place. Dynamic, pre-built fundraising dashboards visualize the most meaningful fundraising metrics, making it easy for you to monitor progress, celebrate wins, and spot opportunities as they happen.
Yes, gone are the days of juggling campaign spreadsheets and waiting for information to make its way into a siloed, third-party tool.
Interact with your data in-app and in real-time
There are so many ways to engage with your fundraising data – explore chart drill-downs, apply filters on almost any dimension, re-order and re-label columns, and much more.
Find answers to the fundraising questions keeping you up at night… without spending all night combing through spreadsheets.
Personalized to your unique reporting needs
It was clear from our research and discovery that no one cause, business group or fundraiser handles data the same way. It makes sense: responding to the unique needs of your supporters requires equally unique reporting regimens.
In Analytics, no matter if you’re dropping in new insights into your fundraising dashboards from our library of charts, rearranging them for a better flow, or choosing different visuals to better illustrate your achievements, it will always work the way you do.
Action your analysis
Broadcast your newly-discovered insights up, down and even outside of your organization. With eyes on the right metrics, presented in the right way, your team is empowered to make informed decisions quickly and confidently.
Reporting shouldn’t have to be a mad science. Meaningful data informs and enrichs the connections you build, giving you the freedom to explore the art of fundraising.
Analytics is the first step towards a new supporter experience on raisin. Let us know what you think! 💡