No, with GivenGain's latest event page functionality, a charity needn't first create a page on their charity profile, to be used with event fundraising.
An event page, such as created by a sporting event organiser, will now automatically create a page on the charity profile on behalf of the charity, when
- that charity is linked to the event page by the event organiser, or
- when a fundraiser selects that charity on the event page (for events that are open to any charity), thus linking the charity to the event.
The new logic has the following advantages:
- It saves the charity the effort of having to create a page on their charity profile first, then having to contact the event organiser to add the charity page to the event.
- It ensures that an event is not linked to the incorrect charity page.
- It ensures all projects that should form part of the event will automatically be linked as intended.
- Charities are still able to edit the auto-created charity page as needed.