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Video conferencing is a great technology that will allow your virtual Mini-THON to happen and bring your community together to participate in all of the different virtual activities you plan for your event. In order for your virtual Mini-THON to work you’ll need access to a Zoom Pro, Business or Education account. Alternatively, if your school uses Google you can also utilize Google Meet.

Zoom allows you to livestream via YouTube or any other streaming service. You can invite your community to participate in your opening and/ or closing and integrate your virtual event with DonorDrive Live Fundraising (more on that later). Livestreaming via one of these services helps to prevent people from disrupting your meeting.

To set up your event, livestream your opening and closing so that everyone can participate and learn more about Four Diamonds and what’s in store for the event. You can also ask for donations from the community in the lead up to your big reveal during your closing livestream.

For the different activities during your event, you can set up unique Zoom meeting rooms that your event participants can move through during their scheduled time. Remember to share the unique meeting codes for each room to all of your event participants so they can take part in all the fun you have planned.

 
Live Fundraising by DonorDrive provides a seamless, branded experience no matter where it’s being viewed. Fundraisers can start raising money immediately and quickly engage with their audience through their stream and our real-time Activity Feed. Supporters can give without missing a minute of the action, and your event can receive donations right away.

Live Fundraising is a great way to interact with your donors and spread Four Diamonds’ mission and build future awareness for your event within the community.  For example, you can easily broadcast a Zoom meeting via YouTube and connect your YouTube stream to your Mini-THON’s fundraising page by utilizing DonorDrive’s Live Fundraising tools.  This will allow you to broadcast an opening and closing with your entire community and not just your event participants.

COMING SOON!

Fundraising Milestones allow fundraisers to create mini-goals to inspire their donors.

Fundraising Incentives allow fundraisers to set up donation incentives to encourage donors and reward them for their support. Fundraisers may have giveaway items for certain donation amounts, or may be willing to do an over-the-top activity for a large donation amount.
  • Push-ups for a certain amount raised.
  • Eat a food you don’t like.
  • Change the song.


Make sure that you are being kind and courteous to one another.  Have members of your Mini-THON student leadership team monitor each of the rooms and ensure that proper behavior is happening online.  It would also be a good idea to ask teachers or parent volunteers to chaperone the virtual rooms and monitor appropriate behavior.  Do not extend access to your Zoom events to your general community or friends who don’t attend your school.  If you choose to stream through YouTube or another channel, you can share that link with those audiences.
 


1. You'll need a device to stream with (desktop or phone).

 2. Set up an account with a streaming service (Twitch, YouTube or Mixer).

3. Turn on streaming on Zoom by going to your Settings.
  • Click on In Meeting (Advanced)
  • Scroll down to Allow live streaming meetings  
  • At a minimum select YouTube, but you could also select Custom Live Streaming Service to stream via Twitch.

 4. Add your streaming username to your fundraising page and save – you're ready to go!  
  • Click Your Page in the top bar
  • Click the Settings tab on your page
  • Choose your service and enter your username  
    • Note: YouTube requires you to enter the full URL to the live video, not your YouTube username.
  • Click Save Changes
 5. Share the link to your fundraising page on social media channels, text messages and email to let people know when to tune in.

6. Launch your Zoom meeting and select the Stream to YouTube or Stream to Custom Live Streaming Service by clicking the three dots in the meeting. 


Below are some of the tools and options available to meeting hosts to minimize the potential for disruptions in Zoom, including:

Add a password: All users will require a password to enter the meeting.

Schedule meetings: Allow Zoom to create automatically generated meeting IDs instead of using a personal meeting ID for large or public meetings. Keep the meeting ID and/or password private.

Join before host: Deselect so the meeting will not launch until the host enters the meeting.

Waiting room: Select to require participants to enter a waiting room and admit individually or admit all.

Screen sharing: Select “Host Only” to prevent participants from sharing their screen. If screen sharing is enabled, the host also controls participants' access to:
  • Annotation: Deselect to prevent participants from annotating on shared screens.
  • Whiteboard: Deselect to prevent participants from sharing their whiteboard.
  • Virtual background: Deselect to prevent users from replacing their background with an image.
Mute all participants: Silence all microphones at once.
Put attendee on hold: This feature allows hosts to temporarily remove an attendee from a meeting.