Tracking progress and comparing performance on Leaderboards are a great way to bring everyone together to achieve a goal.

The “big number” is highlighted at the top of the page while the leaderboard creates a little healthy competition between the 20% of your fundraisers who raise 80% of the funds.

While using a Rise board to track the score is an awesome use case and we’ve seen this work many times. In this post though I want to ask, are there are other innovative ways to use the technology?

Here are five ideas you might want to try next time you’re planning a digital fundraising campaign:

1. Use leaderboards as part of an open charity auction – set a time limit and allow bidders to keep adding new bids until the clock runs out when the highest bidder gets the prize.
2. Everyone-gives charity auction – in this variant all bidders donate and the highest single donation gets the prize.
3. Mileometer – who can walk / cycle the most miles (assuming they have agreed they will get sponsorship for each mile they walk). Like a fitbit wall chart showing progress on, a leaderboard can encourage walkers to get out of bed a little earlier, just to outwalk their neighbours, all raising that extra bit of sponsorship.
4. Fundraiser league tables – running league tables of fundraisers can be great fun, be sure to put fundraisers in a division with peers – its unfair to put the people raising funds from high net worths or companies in the same bracket as those trying to encourage online donations
5. Fundraiser teams – split your fundraisers into teams and see which team can raise the most money. If you’re a school why not split alumni into their houses and maintain old pupils association with not only the school but their house. Griffindor versus Slytherin anyone?

If you’re interested in how Rise’s success tracking technology can supercharge your fundraising efforts, then please do request a fundraisers online product tour via hello@rise.global.