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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Spread Generosity
Help your favorite causes win, with a photo!
Step 1: Take a photo or video of one of the following: a selfie or group photo doing heart hands OR your decorated porch, lawn, car, office, or other space celebrating BDOG and generosity.
Step 2. Share it as a public post on social media. Tag @bigdayofgiving, #bdog2026, and #spreadgenerosity.
Step 3. Submit your entry to this form. Winners will award a prize to the nonprofits of their choice!
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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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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 7) 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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Business Partnership Challenge
We'll award prizes to organizations with the strongest Big Day of Giving business partnerships! The partnership must be between a participating nonprofit and a for-profit business, and the partnership should be related to the nonprofit's BDOG2026 participation! Submit your entry to this form by 11:59 p.m. on May 6.
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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 your entry to this form by 11:59 p.m. on May 7.
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Partners Celebration Prize
To help propel Big Day of Giving to success in 2026, attendees of our annual Partners Celebration share why they give — and we randomly award 5 prizes to their favorite local organizations.
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916 Prize
Sponsored by our partners at Sacramento Republic FC, the 916 Prize honors 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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As the Crowe Flies Prize
Sponsored by our partners at Crowe LLP, a public accounting and tax consulting firm, the As the Crowe Flies Prize provides a fun reminder about Tax Day on April 15! We'll randomly select two organizations at 4:15 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. during Big Day of Giving to win $500 each.
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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.