Gaels Give Advocacy Toolkit and Templates
You can make an impact with peer-peer fundraising. Help us spread the word by becoming an Advocate:
Offer a match or challenge gift to rally others to give.
Offering a Match means that you’ll give a number of dollars for each dollar or donor that the campaign receives up to your specified maximum gift amount. Offering a Challenge means that you’ll give a gift only if the campaign receives a certain number of donors or dollars after you set up the Challenge. You can restrict both Matches and Challenges to apply to donors from a group affiliation i.e. Faculty/Staff, your class year, to the fund of your choice, or to specific people.
Create a Personal Plea video and upload it to the campaign.
A Personal Plea is a short video in which you share why you’re excited about the campaign, and why you want others to get involved. Shooting a short video on your cell phone is all you need to do to add your story to the campaign! After recording your video, head to the Advocates section on the campaign page to upload your Personal Plea.
#GaelsGive on Giving Tuesday
Share the campaign link via social media, text, or email with friends and colleagues. Tag your posts with #GaelsGive.
Example sharing message: "I'm proud to join in Giving Tuesday 2024 by making a gift to Scholarships. Want to join too? Make a gift now to Saint Mary's on Giving Tuesday. #GaelsGive"
You must use your unique advocate link in order to track your fundraising activity and earn your incentive! Visit the campaign advocacy page and create/log into a GiveCampus, then use the sharing buttons (near the video and in the 'Advocates' section) to share the campaign via Facebook, X, LinkedIn, text message, and/or email. When you use these buttons to share the campaign while logged into your GiveCampus user account, the number of gifts and dollars generated by your sharing will be tracked next to your name on the Advocates tab. Generate ten gifts and get your Gaels Give t-shirt to proudly wear after the campaign!