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Understand Parent Giving Dashboard Widgets

Explore Parent Giving Dashboard widgets for tracking donors, donations, fundraising revenue, and gift designations. Customize views to support leadership reporting and fundraising strategy.

The Parent Giving Dashboard gives you a more powerful way to understand and showcase family giving performance. You can now track parent giving performance, year-over-year trends, and key fundraising metrics at a glance with a customizable dashboard. You can also see which gifts are attributed to CampusESP efforts to better understand and demonstrate the impact of your family engagement efforts.

Widgets can be added, removed, and customized to highlight the data that matters most to your institution. You can filter reports by fiscal year, adjust date ranges, and build dashboard views that support leadership reporting, ROI discussions, and fundraising strategy.

All Parent Giving customers can take advantage of the enhanced Parent Giving Dashboard, new targeting criteria, and CampusESP gift attribution functionality by providing CampusESP with a second file containing gift data.

Gift data can be provided in one of two ways:

  • Raiser’s Edge API Integration: Gift data is automatically imported nightly, keeping dashboard and targeting data up to date.

  • SFTP: Customers can provide an updated gifts file to CampusESP on a regular basis.

The gifts file should include:

  • User ID

  • Gift designation

  • Gift date

  • Gift amount (optional)

To learn more about setting up your Parent Giving Dashboard and gift data feed, contact support@campusesp.com.

Below, you’ll find an overview of each available widget and the ways you can customize them.


Total Donors

Using the Total Donors widget, you can track the cumulative number of unique donors over a selected period of time. This widget helps you understand donor growth throughout the year and identify trends in donor participation.

By default, the widget displays data from the last 52 weeks.

For this widget, you can edit:

  • The widget title

  • The date range displayed

Total Donors YoY

Using the Total Donors YoY widget, you can compare the number of unique donors across multiple fiscal years. Each bar represents the total number of donors within a specific fiscal year, making it easy to evaluate year-over-year donor participation.

By default, the widget displays the current fiscal year and the previous fiscal year.

For this widget, you can edit:

  • The widget title

  • The number of fiscal years displayed

Total Donations

Using the Total Donations widget, you can track the cumulative number of gifts received over a selected period of time. This widget helps you monitor giving activity throughout the year.

By default, the widget displays data from the last 52 weeks.

For this widget, you can edit:

  • The widget title

  • The date range displayed

  • An attribution of which gifts came from CampusESP efforts

NOTE: CampusESP-attributed gifts are tracked when a family member clicks on a giving link shared through a CampusESP communication and then completes a gift within the attribution window.

To ensure gifts are tracked correctly, the link must be configured as a Parent Giving link when added to a post, text message, or email call-to-action block.

By default, a gift is attributed to CampusESP if it is made within 7 days of a user clicking the giving link. The attribution window can be customized based on your institution's preferences.

Total Donations YoY

Using the Total Donations YoY widget, you can compare the total number of gifts received across multiple fiscal years. Each bar represents the total number of donations made during that fiscal year.

By default, the widget displays the current fiscal year and the previous fiscal year.

For this widget, you can edit:

  • The widget title

  • Which fiscal years are displayed

  • An attribution of which gifts came from CampusESP communications

NOTE: CampusESP-attributed gifts are tracked when a family member clicks on a giving link shared through a CampusESP communication and then makes a gift within the attribution window (7 days by default).

To ensure gifts are tracked correctly, the link must be configured as a Parent Giving link when added to a post, text message, or email call-to-action block.

Dollars Raised

Using the Dollars Raised widget, you can track the cumulative amount of dollars raised over a selected period of time. This widget provides visibility into fundraising progress and overall giving performance throughout the year.

By default, the widget displays data from the last 52 weeks.

For this widget, you can edit:

  • The widget title

  • The date range displayed

NOTE: This widget requires gift amount data to be sent. If your institution is not currently providing gift amount data, the widget will still appear in the widget library but will not display fundraising totals until gift amounts are sent to CampusESP.

Total Raised YoY

Using the Dollars Raised YoY widget, you can compare total fundraising revenue across multiple fiscal years. Each bar represents the total dollars raised during a specific fiscal year.

By default, the widget displays the current fiscal year and the previous fiscal year.

For this widget, you can edit:

  • The widget title

  • Which fiscal years are displayed

NOTE: This widget requires gift amount data to be sent. If your institution is not currently providing gift amount data, the widget will still appear in the widget library but will not display fundraising totals until gift amounts are sent to CampusESP.

Donation Designations

Using the Donation Designations widget, you can view how donations are distributed across various funds and designation categories. This can help your team understand which areas of the institution are receiving the most support from families.

By default, the widget displays data by Gift Count. For institutions providing gift amount data, you can also view designation performance by Gift Amount.

For this widget, you can edit:

  • The widget title

  • The date range displayed

  • Whether data is displayed by Gift Count or Gift Amount

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