Fundraiser goals

Where: Donations → Fundraiser Goals

Targets for the event and for individual participants, and the progress shown against them.

Fundraising goal

The money target, shown on progress bars across the public site.

Set it somewhere genuinely reachable. A progress bar sitting near zero is actively discouraging — donors give to a total that is visibly moving, and a target far beyond reach reads as a lost cause. A target you pass early is not a problem; passing it is good news you can publicise.

Distance goal

A collective distance target, shown alongside the fundraising total.

Useful when the activity is the story and the money follows it. It also gives participants who are not fundraising something to contribute to.

Deadlines

The goal deadline can follow a date you already set, or be fixed:

• Event end date — follows your event automatically.
• Fundraising end date — follows your fundraising period automatically.
• Custom date — a fixed date you enter.

Prefer one of the automatic options. A custom date is one more thing to remember to change when your event dates move, and it will be the one you forget.

The goal prompt

Participants can be prompted to set their own fundraising goal, through a modal with its own Modal title, Intro description, Helper text and Notice template.

This is worth switching on. Participants who set a personal goal raise noticeably more than those who do not — a target makes the ask concrete, both for them and for the people they ask.

Keep the copy short and encouraging. Suggest a figure rather than leaving the field blank; most people anchor on whatever you propose.

Presets

Goal amounts can be offered as preset chips rather than a blank field, for the same reason suggested donation amounts work: most people choose rather than type.

Progress on the public site

Totals appear on the funds-raised bar, in the header stats and on participant and team pages, all drawn from the live figures.

A stalled total is usually a date problem

If donations are arriving but the public total is not moving, check the fundraising period covers today, and that the donations landed against the recipient you expect. See given versus received.