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Nonprofit Resources

Everything you need to support your nonprofit's success on GivingEdge during Big Day of Giving and year-round ! If you have questions, please contact the Sacramento Region Community Foundation at bdog@sacregcf.org.

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The Nonprofit User Guide is your GivingEdge and Big Day of Giving encyclopedia, an in-depth resource that's regularly updated.

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Plan Your BDOG Campaign

Calendar

Deadlines, Events, and Tips

Planning for Big Day of Giving is easy with these simple recommendations. This calendar highlights key dates, deadlines, and tips to help you keep your campaign on track.

Worksheets

Sketch Your BDOG Campaign

Assess which Big Day of Giving strategies are right for your organization — and get started!

Campaign Planning 101: Strategize, plan your storytelling, and more.

Matching Funds 101: Everything you need to know about Matching Funds and how to get them.

Fundraising Pages 101: Guidance on Peer-to-Peer Fundraising and how to leverage your network to engage your organization's dedicated supporters.

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Strengthen Your Strategy

Dive into the tools available on GivingEdge to enhance your Big Day of Giving campaign.

Get to Know GivingEdge

GivingEdge is the Foundation’s giving website and nonprofit database, on which Big Day of Giving is hosted. During Big Day of Giving, it's your organization's home base for donations, storytelling, and more. GivingEdge profiles are optimized for giving, featuring donation buttons and storytelling tools that make it easy for donors to support your mission. 

In this video, you'll learn how to:

  • Update your nonprofit's GivingEdge profile
  • Navigate the Nonprofit Dashboard, including finding donation details and donor reports.
  • Receiving donations from GivingEdge
  • Promoting events and volunteer opportunities on GivingEdge

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Multiply Donor Gifts with Matching Funds

Matching Funds are dollars pledged ahead of Big Day of Giving by a sponsor—such as your board, a business, or a community partner—to match gifts your donors make during BDOG. They help motivate giving, double donors’ impact, and give you a meaningful way to involve major supporters early in your campaign. 

In this training video, learn how to:

  • Add matching funds to your GivingEdge profile
  • Manage and schedule matching funds

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Turn Supporters into Fundraisers with Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

Peer-to-peer fundraising — also called P2P or campaign fundraising — empowers your supporters to raise money for your nonprofit by sharing your cause with their own networks during Big Day of Giving. It helps you reach new donors, build excitement, and grow support through people who already believe in your work.

In this video training, you'll learn how to:

  • Invite your supporters to set up peer-to-peer pages on GivingEdge
  • Manage peer-to-peer pages on GivingEdge
  • Create a fundraising page template

Get Assistance + Join the Conversation

If you have questions that aren't answered in the BDOG User Guide or one of the resources below, please reach out to us at bdog@sacregcf.org.

Ask a BDOG Mentor

Mentors are Big Day of Giving experts who make themselves available to help other nonprofit representatives! They are available from January to May. We recommend that new organizations and Team Captains connect with a Mentor at least once.

Ask the Community

The BDOG Learning Community is a space for you to ask questions, and get tips and updates, about Big Day of Giving from others who are participating!

Ask Mightycause

Big Day of Giving and GivingEdge are run on the Mightycause technology platform. If you have questions about the functionality of fundraising tools available to you, a good place to refer is their team's Support Library.

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Get the Bark E-Newsletter

We send regular updates about Big Day of Giving through the Bark e-newsletter. Sign up for information about upcoming BDOG events hosted by the Foundation, important deadlines, helpful resources, and more. The Bark newsletter is your best resource to stay up to date on all things Big Day of Giving!

Get Nonprofit News + Share Your Own

The Nonprofit Roundup newsletter is the Foundation's GivingEdge email where we share community resources, grant alerts, event announcements, and inspiring nonprofit stories. Anyone interested in nonprofit resources can receive it and organizations with GivingEdge profiles can share news!

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Frequently Asked BDOG + GivingEdge Questions

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Additional Tools + Resources

The Sacramento Region Community Foundation has many resources for nonprofits outside of Big Day of Giving, including grant opportunities, events, and the opportunity to open a Nonprofit Fund for your organization.

  • The Chronicle of Philanthropy connects the nonprofit world with news, jobs and ideas.
  • CompassPoint helps leaders, nonprofit organizations, and movements committed to social justice realize their full power.
  • The National Council on Nonprofits serves as a central coordinator and mobilizer to help nonprofits achieve greater collective impact in local communities across the country.
  • The StrongNonprofits Toolkit offers resources to strengthen your nonprofit financial management.
  • Propel Nonprofits provides consulting and coaching designed to equip your organization with financial tools and resources that provide insight and ultimately empower nonprofit boards and staff to make decisions with confidence.
  • NonprofitReady.org partners with experts in nonprofit management and online learning to make the best professional development resources available to you anywhere, anytime, at no cost.
  • Placer Community Foundation’s Nonprofit Initiative helps local nonprofit agencies establish infrastructure, governance and capacity building best practices through trainings featuring a diverse lineup of regionally and nationally recognized presenters.
  • Stanford Social Innovation Review is a magazine and website that covers cross-sector solutions to global problems.
  • Yolo NEON/NPLA gives nonprofits the tools and support they need to strengthen their day-to-day operations by providing expert-led trainings, a resource library, and support from experts in their field to help organizations enhance key operational areas. These areas include legal and operational issues related to human resources, finance and accounting, and information technology. Sign up for Yolo Community Foundation’s mailing list to be notified of upcoming trainings.

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These resources are created or curated by the Sacramento Region Community Foundation for the benefit of GivingEdge nonprofits.

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Create a GivingEdge Profile

Building a profile on the Sacramento region's nonprofit knowledgebase, GivingEdge, gives your organization an "edge" in educating our community on the impact you make, offers donors the option to support your work by making gifts, and provides you access to top-of-the-line donor engagement tools and functionality year-round.

GivingEdge is the backbone of the Sacramento region's annual giving day, Big Day of Giving, and all nonprofits that participate in Big Day of Giving must have updated GivingEdge profiles. In fact, building a GivingEdge profile is part of the Big Day of Giving registration process from mid-October through December of each year. Note that creating a profile does not register your organization for Big Day of Giving. Registration for Big Day of Giving is currently closed.

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Eligibility Criteria

To create a profile on GivingEdge, your nonprofit must meet the following criteria:

  • Be a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit organization in good standing with the IRS, the California Secretary of State, the California Department of Justice, and the Franchise Tax Board. Learn more about our compliance requirements with these entities.
  • Be headquartered or have a branch in the four-county capital region of El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, or Yolo counties, and provide services to one or more of these counties. If your organization is physically located outside of this region, but a significant amount of your work takes place in the four-county area, you are eligible to participate; however, you will be asked to provide additional documentation.
  • Not currently under any federal, state, or local investigation or regulatory-related inquiry (including violations and citations) related to any aspect of your operation.
  • Nonprofit organizations that currently have a fund at Sacramento Region Community Foundation are eligible to participate regardless of location. All other criteria listed above must be met.

Ineligible

We do not accept requests from the following types of organizations (barring exceptions stated):

  • Schools, houses of worship, or government organizations, except we will accept organizations or foundations that are fiscally sponsored by a school or church. Further, organizations or foundations created to support churches, schools, or government organizations are eligible if eligibility requirements are met.
  • School groups such as PTAs, sport teams, band boosters, or other school affinity groups; Private foundations (filing a 990PF); Supporting organizations (charity status of 509(a)(3)); Public safety organizations (charity status of 509(a)(4)).

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Contact Us

Connect with our team.

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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