Whether you're hosting an event for the first time or you're well into planning your 50th anniversary annual event, we understand your goal is to increase as much engagement and funds as possible! 🙌

Providing your donors the ability to engage & give in multiple ways increases the opportunity for you to receive funds and build relationships with new donors.

Check out our NEW Events & Tickets feature just launched September 2022! ⭐🤩

HARNESS EVENT FUNDRAISING OPTIONS:
Tutorial Video

Sponsorship Sales
Ticket Sales
Raffle Ticket Sales
Free Registrations

HARNESS EVENT FUNDRAISING TOOLS:

Events & Tickets
Campaigns
Giving Forms
Impact Amounts
Text-to-Give Keyword *Premier & Advanced ONLY

GENERAL DONATIONS

How To 🚧

Create a campaign
From Campaigns > + Add New. This is the "funding bucket" that allows you to easily track/distinguish donations received during/because of this event vs other campaigns/unrestricted funds.
Create a giving form
From Fundraising > Giving Forms create a NEW giving form (we recommend you title it the same name as your campaign for easy internal reference). Actions > Edit > Donation > Campaigns > toggle OFF "All Campaigns" & toggle ON only this campaign you want to appear.
Create impact amounts
From Giving Forms > Impact Amounts, create the impacts for each gift amount & type. (Example: $50 = provides safe shelter for 1 night.) Return to your giving form & turn ON these impacts - Actions > Edit > Donation > One-Time/Monthly toggle ON the impacts you want to appear for that giving form > Save.
Connect campaign + checkout
From Campaigns > identify the campaign. Options > Edit > Advanced Options > Checkout > Choose the correct/corresponding checkout > Save.
Share your campaign
Simply copy & paste either your campaign page link (Campaigns > Options > Campaign Page) or giving form page link (Fundraise > Giving Forms > Select the correct giving form) into your emails, social media posts, etc. so donors can click & give! 💪

AUCTION

As Harness does not currently offer any live or silent auction functionality, we recommend considering Qtego (Greg, [email protected]) as they have a robust list of event offerings.

PLEDGES

We're excited to help you acquire donations TODAY! As pledges are "promised payments" for the future (that can be delayed, downgraded, or unfulfilled altogether), we recommend you encourage your donors to give a gift TODAY in lieu of a promised gift in the future.

For example, if a donor wants to pledge a one-time, $1,200 gift, we recommend they give $100/mo instead. **PRO TIP: Monthly donors have a lifetime value 5x GREATER than a one-time donor.