Prizes

Give donations a boost!

Each time you make a donation today, your gifts can be boosted by prizes! The team behind Big Day of Giving at the Sacramento Region Community Foundation awards hundreds of bonus prizes on May 1, all made possible by the continued support of our lead sponsor, Western Health Advantage.

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Booster Prizes

Every gift you make today has the chance to get a random boost from $50 to $750 ... and one random donation will receive a

⭐ $5,000 Mega Boost! ⭐

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Hourly Donor Challenge 

$500 is awarded every hour to the nonprofit that has the most unique donors during that hour.

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Midnight Madness

Five donations that are made within the first 10 minutes of Big Day of Giving and five within the last 10 minutes are selected at random to receive $500 boosts!

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+1 Prize

We'll award 10 prizes to boost the gifts of donors who gave one more gift than in 2024 or brought a new donor into giving through GivingEdge.

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Newbie Prize

Five nonprofits participating in Big Day of Giving for the first time are randomly selected to receive boosts!

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Spread Generosity

Awarded by community members who decorated their front windows, yard, or porch to promote generosity.

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916 Prize

Honoring one of the primary area codes in the Sacramento region! At 9:16 a.m. and 9:16 p.m., we'll randomly award $916 prizes to boost donors' gifts.

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Partners Celebration Prize

To help propel Big Day of Giving to success in 2025, we invited attendees of our annual Partners Celebration to share why they give β€” and randomly awarded 5 prizes to their favorite local organizations.

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Best Business Partnership

Three prizes awarded to organizations with the strongest Big Day of Giving business partnerships, as determined by our judges.

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100% Board Giving

$1,000 awarded at random to ten organizations that receive gifts from 100% of the members of their Boards of Directors. Submit your organization for entry here.

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Get Engaged Prize

Awarded 10 randomly selected organizations that had representatives attend at least four Big Day of Giving 2025 activities.

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Employee Giving Prize

At 5 p.m., when many workdays end, we'll award five prizes to boost the gifts made through the Giving Pages of local businesses!

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Nonprofit Showcase

Introducing a new initiative to amplify the voices of local nonprofit organizations in our community β€” find out how you can partner with CapRadio and tell your story to over 375,000 listeners a week! 

Prize Rules

If you have questions about the prize challenges that aren't answered below, please email us.

  1. Only gifts made with a credit card or through a bank account at www.bigdayofgiving.org on Thursday, May 1 are eligible for prize challenges, unless otherwise noted in the prize description. Gifts made to organizations through Donor Advised Funds at the Sacramento Region Community Foundation and/or Yolo Community Foundation, offline gifts, and early gifts will reflect in leaderboard totals but do not count toward prize challenges unless otherwise noted.
  2. A unique donor is defined as one donation from one donor.
  3. Prize challenges are subject to change, and all announced prizes are subject to verification. 

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Have questions about GivingEdge, Big Day of Giving, the Sacramento Region Community Foundation, opening a charitable fund to support your philanthropic giving, or another piece of our work? Please connect with our team, who are always happy to assist.

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