New Feature: Matched Giving

Raisely is an online fundraising platform for ambitious charities across the world. We empower thousands of charities across the world to take control of their revenue and improve the wellbeing of people and our planet.

Matched giving isn't anything new. Charities have been doing it for appeals for ages. We've been doing it in Raisely for a while too, but it's always been an advanced feature. We've configured it on top of our API, really only available to those who thought to ask.

That's not how we like to operate though – and we wanted such an important tool to fuel appeals and peer-to-peer campaigns to be available to everyone. From today, it is!

It's tucked away under the "Settings" panel of your Raisely campaign. Despite being a little inconspicuous, Raisely's take on matched giving is packed with features.

Create matching periods

For each campaign you can create a "matching period". That's telling Raisely that from 12am to 5pm on the 30th of June, we're going to match donations up to $10,000.

For each match period, you set the limit, start time, end time, and how much should be matched. You can do a classic match (2x) or go big with 3 or 4x match donations.

You can also customise how matched donations show in your donation stream – so you can attribute them to a corporate sponsor or major donor!

Customise which donations get matched

Want to make sure your matched pool goes far enough? You can decide which donations should be automatically matched. Limit matching to a specific profile, cap the amount you'll match per donation, or only match donations under a certain amount.

Keep an eye on progress

When your match period is live, you can monitor the Raisely dashboard to see the progress of your campaign. We'll show you how much of the pool has been used, how many donations and how much has been raised. You can extend or pause the campaign at any time.

Want more? Check out our webinar on running successful matched giving days