Each time you make a donation during Big Day of Giving on May 7, your gifts can be boosted by prizes! The team behind Big Day of Giving at the Sacramento Region Community Foundation will award up to $100,000 on May 7, made possible by the continued support of our lead sponsor, Western Health Advantage, and other local partners.
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Booster Prizes
We'll randomly select hundreds of donations throughout Big Day of Giving to boost with extra love.
Every gift you make on May 7 has the chance to get a boost from $50 to $750, and one donation will win a
⭐ Mega Boost! ⭐
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Spread Generosity
Help your favorite causes win! Take a photo that illustrates your love for local nonprofits. Share it as a public post on social media by tagging @bigdayofgiving and using the hashtags #bdog2026 and #spreadgenerosity, then submit your entry on a form we'll add here in the days leading up to Big Day of Giving. Judges will select winners, who will award a prize to the nonprofits of their choice!
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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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+1 Prize
Give +1 in any of the following ways during Big Day of Giving, complete the donor survey, and your favorite cause can win a boost:
☝️ Give one more gift than in 2025
👯♀️ Invite a new donor to give
🆙 Give one more dollar than in 2025
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Hourly Donor Challenge
We'll award prizes every hour on May 7 to the nonprofit that had the most unique donors during that hour.
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Midnight Madness
Donations that are made within the first 10 minutes of Big Day of Giving (12-12:10 a.m. on May 1) and five within the last 10 minutes (11:50-11:59 p.m.) will be selected at random to receive boosts!
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Newbie Prize
Nonprofits that are participating in Big Day of Giving for the first time will be selected at random to receive boosts!
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100% Board Giving Challenge
We'll award prizes at random to ten organizations that receive gifts from 100% of the members of their Boards of Directors. Donations may be made anytime during the giving window, April 23 through May 7, and they can be either offline or online gifts. After you've received donations from all board members, submit them to a form we're share here.
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Get Engaged Prize
We'll award prizes at random to 10 organizations that had at least one representative attend at least four Big Day of Giving 2026 activities prior to April 23 — trainings, networking events, and more! The attended activities can be in person, virtual, or recordings of an event. Submit entries to a link we'll share here We trust that if you submit an entry for this prize, you've met all the required qualifications.
Prize Rules
If you have questions about the prize challenges that aren't answered below, please email us.
- Only gifts made at www.bigdayofgiving.org on Thursday, May 7 are eligible for prize challenges, unless otherwise noted in the prize description. Gifts made to organizations through Donor Advised Funds, offline gifts, and early gifts will reflect in leaderboard totals but do not count toward prize challenges unless otherwise noted.
- A unique donor is defined as one donation from one donor.
- Prize challenges are subject to change, and all announced prizes are subject to verification.