How library readers participate in a reading fundraiser on the web

Once a library reading fundraiser is published, all readers are able to preview and pre-register from their challenge homepage. After the fundraiser goes live, readers can begin logging their reading, completing activities, and gathering donations to earn the fundraiser’s badges until its end date.

Note: The fundraiser cannot accept donations before its start date or after its end date. So encourage readers to share their donation page widely and often during the readathon so that their loved ones can follow their progress and root them on!

While viewing a fundraiser, family, friends, and community members can click the “View My Donation Page” link to:

• See the reader’s progress
• Learn about the readathon
• Donate straight to the reader and their library
• Share the page with other people

Donations through this page will be linked to that reader and help them earn donation badges and any attached prizes.

To personalize their individual donation page, readers can update their profile image to a custom photo or avatar by clicking their reader name in the top right corner of the screen and then clicking the pencil icon under their default initial image.

Back on their reading fundraiser challenge page, they can scroll down to see their library’s overall progress toward the fundraising goal, share or copy the link to their fundraising page, and view their individual progress in the readathon. They can scroll back up and click any of the challenge headers to view more details about those challenge components.

Below are steps you can take to participate in your library’s fundraiser:

• Within “Badges,” readers can see all their earned and unearned badges. They earn donation badges based on the number of donations they gather, logging badges based on the number of minutes they log, and activity badges based on the fundraising activities they complete. Any badge may also have a prize associated with it, which readers unlock when they earn the badge. They can read any prizes’ redemption instructions in their “Prizes” tab.
• In the “Donations” tab, readers can see a list of the donations, donors, and donation messages that have been contributed toward their readathon progress. And the “Challenge Log” tab shows the reading time and titles they’ve logged during the reading fundraiser, and gives them the option to print a list view of all their readathon reading sessions.