Friends Asking Friends - Thon in Sphere Events is designed to support your walkathon and other “team” fundraising events. Your organization can quickly and easily launch an online fundraising site complete with Friends Asking Friends® (FAF) e-mail capabilities, configurable individual and team pages, donation support, pledging and comprehensive reporting and bookkeeping services. Event participants can utilize the intuitive front end tools to set up, manage and monitor a personal fundraising page, as well as to e-mail personalized solicitations to friends and family inviting them back to make a donation or become a participant. This adds to your event’s success by empowering your participants to become fundraisers and recruiters on behalf of your organization, facilitating exponential growth in donations and participation levels.
Event Web Sites
Promote thon-based and other team-fundraising events online by using our intuitive user interface to design and launch your event site.
Event Administration
Use a full set of tools to manage your event supporting online and offline participant, donor, volunteer, and sponsor activities.
Personalized Fundraising Pages
Enable constituents to create their own personal fundraising page, email their family and friends and get gadgets for their social networking homepage.
Event Registration
Site visitors can register as an individual, join a team, start a team, and register a family. They can also register themselves, their friends, family or co-workers all at one time through a single credit card transaction.
Participant Address Books
Allow participants to import personal email address books and create personalized email solicitations.
Participant Headquarters
Give participants access to donation and email communication reports detailing activity on their personal fundraising page. Automatically load participants personal email address book, email history and donation history in future events.
FeedRaiser
FeedRaiser allows event participants to update their Facebook® friends directly from their Participant Headquarters and automatically includes a shortened URL link back to their personal fundraising page. FeedRaiser’s built-in best practices enable your event participants to be more effective in their peer-to-peer fundraising efforts.
SnapCMS
SnapCMS is a comprehensive event-based fundraising integration between Facebook® and Blackbaud Sphere. It automates the updating of event participants and their friends on Facebook® and allows them to add a fundraising badge to their Facebook® profile.
Bookkeeping
Track, record and administer all of your event’s registrations, donations, and sponsorships with single and batch entry forms.
Extended Involvement
Allow supporters to participant further in various online activities such as polls, quizzes, bulletin boards, Coach’s Corner, stores, online auctions, and gadgets.
Sponsorship Promotion
Create corporate sponsorship opportunities on the Web site which includes a sponsor box with rotating sponsor logos.
Event Volunteer Management
Track and manage volunteer positions for the event.
Thon Event Reporting
Access a full set of highly customizable event-specific reports showing communication, registrant, donation, and sponsorship data.
Thon eCommerce
Build a simple online store to sell event merchandise.
Corporate Team Pyramids
Provide a third-level of team participation where teams can be grouped under individual or national corporations.
The above list does not apply to all Sphere eMarketing product packages. For a more in-depth description, please refer to the Sphere Product Detail Sheet.
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