Our new COVID-19 fundraising templates

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.

We need charities strong now, more than ever. As COVID-19 causes lockdowns across the world, with economic shutdowns and widespread social distancing, our social sector needs to ensure no one gets left behind.

Fundraising during these times is hard, but we know the community stands ready to help – they've already shown that in remarkable ways.

So you can keep fundraising, Raisely has put together two new templates to give charities a head-start on new, digital-only campaigns. We've created two new templates, one for virtual fitness events and another for emergency COVID-19 appeals.

Here's the run-down on each.

Virtual Fitness Events

Virtual challenges that are completed individually are a great way to keep people connected and fundraising during COVID-19. They've started to take off before this pandemic, and now is a great opportunity to trial a new virtual fundraiser which works while people are social distancing.

Virtual events ask your supporter to commit to a challenge, for example "I will run 100km over 30 days". They set up their fundraising page and ask friends and family to sponsor them. Over the 30 days, they log the distance they've run (or walked, swum, climbed, ridden, wheelchaired) on Strava or manually and show it on their page.

Our virtual events template covers all this functionality, and we've fleshed out layouts for an about and challenge page. It just needs your copy, images and branding to be ready to launch.

Emergency Appeals

People want to help, and charities should continue to ask. We've created a variation of our usual appeals template to use during this crisis.

The template is a complete design, with room to promote an incentive like matched giving, space to tell your story and also give people key information on the pandemic when appropriate.

Like our virtual event, we've set it up so it can go live with just changed copy, images and branding.

These templates are both available now. If you're already using Raisely, just hit the "New Campaign" button in your admin panel. If you're new, you can pick one of these templates when you sign up.

We're offering extended support for organisations affected by COVID-19. You can read more about that here.

We're all here to help, this is a challenging time but together we can keep our sector strong.