The In and Outs of Facebook Giving Pages
What are Facebook giving pages? 
Facebook giving pages are a part of the DonorsChoose community that are run by volunteers, they are a way to get your project featured, gain the attention of potential donors, and easily find projects to support. Some pages feature projects for a particular purpose like music, geographical location, or other specific criteria like projects under a certain amount. You need to check with each page regarding their criteria.

Who are the giving page admins? 

Giving page admins are volunteers who operate giving pages. They include teachers, retired teachers, citizen donors, and organizations. Some admins are listed on the page, others prefer to work anonymously. In general, they are simply people who want to support the team effort of providing students with the learning resources they need. All admins are volunteers; they do not get paid in any way.

How can I get my project added to a page? 

Each page has their own method(s) for selecting projects. Each page does require you to become a partner by liking and supporting their page, sharing your project with their challenge id, donating to projects on their page, sharing the contests/events that page is sponsoring, etc. Please do not post your links on the pages and/or email with your links asking to be added especially if you have never supported that page. If you have questions about adding a project, please contact the page admin through their page.

How can I get my project noticed? 

One way to make sure an admin sees your project is to have donations go through their giving page. This means you will need to change the project’s URL to include the challenge id of the page in question. (See Directions Below) Every donation made this way will generate an email to the admin letting him/her know of the donation. Seeing that a teacher is actively promoting through the page lets the admin know the project exists, that the teacher is helping, and helps increase exposure for the project, teacher, and page. Remember to share the giving page link for your project on social media, email, etc.
Admins also look to see if individual donors to your project are being thanked. After a donor donates you will see a reply button where you can construct a personalized thank you to that donor.

How can I donate to a project through the page if it is not featured on the page? 

After the project number/ change to “?challengeid=” and add the id number for the giving page. Example: donorschoose. org/ProjectTitle/ProjectNumber/?challengeid=123456 (you may have to refresh the page). When you go to check out you should see the name of the giving page with your donation.  If you have trouble with this, message the page’s admin and ask for help.

Does having my project on a giving page guarantee that my project will fund? 

Giving pages are here to help. They are here to partner with you. Admins are volunteers who donate their time, effort, and money to help projects fund for teachers and their students. The giving pages won’t usually be able to guarantee funding.The giving pages are not parking spots where you park your project and leave. It’s a partnership. You need to share the project’s link with the giving page’s id, share contests/events, etc. You are still responsible for promoting your project and rallying support for your students. Admins take note of those that park and leave which may hurt any further help with your projects. While a few pages may guarantee funding, it may still take a while. Please be patient (and kind) because it really does matter. If you are unsure if a page guarantees funding, please check with the page admin. Remember: Giving pages are here to help, but they can’t do it alone, a partnership is a must.

Do you have more questions? 

Please reach out to a giving page admin if you have additional questions. You will generally receive a response in a short period of time. Please remember that most admins have jobs and families, so please be patient if you don’t hear back right away. If it takes more than two days, please send a (polite) private message. They could be working, spending time with family, or taking care of other responsibilities. It is also possible the original message was not seen for some reason. Remember: YOUR ADMINS ARE VOLUNTEERS. They want to partner with you, but they also have to balance families, jobs, and self-care.

Current Active Facebook Giving Pages

The following are the Facebook giving pages that are currently active, some have taken a break, but will be back. Their page will be added when they do. Choose the page(s) that meet your needs, you do not have to support every page. All of the pages have the same goal of partnering with teachers to help gain resources for their classrooms and students. Click on the page name to go directly to their Facebook page.

The complete list of all the Communities pages can be found on https://www.donorschoose.org/communities .

Kindness Rocks Project Requirements

We add projects of any size and any type to our giving page. We will sometimes specify page add dollar amount during our weekly Friday Funding Frenzy contests when doing a random live drawing. All projects must be mutually agreed upon by the Kindness Rocks admin and please claim all donations and prizes within 10 days of winning. We GUARANTEE funding for all projects added to our page, but we count on your partnership to make your project come to life. We expect teachers that have projects on our page to share their projects weekly (at minimum) so that we can help as many teachers as possible. When you donate to enter any contests/events you are to donate to other projects listed on the page other than your own. Donations must go through our page in order for us to see it, so make sure at checkout you see “In support of Kindness Rocks.” Please message us if you have any questions. Thank you for supporting our page.