The Fundraising Goal Category is an overall goal which can be a combination of several activities. For example, you could have a Fundraising Goal Category called "Golf" that captures revenue from a golf tournament event, an online auction, and a fundraising drive appealing to the golfers that happens after the event.
The Fundraising Goal Category is usually associated with a Goal Progress Widget, like a thermometer, donut, or bar chart showing how much has been raised towards your overall goal. You can assign a Fundraising Goal Category to any transaction.
On some donation, event, auction, or peer-to-peer campaign pages, you may see the field labeled simply "Goal Category." When a page is set up to display a goal progress widget, the information that populates that widget comes from transactions that are assigned to the same Fundraising Goal Category. This way, even offline transactions that are assigned to the same Fundraising Goal Category can be included in your goal progress.
You can also create stand alone graphics to display on your website. You can learn more about this feature in this article: "Can I have a stand alone fundraising graphic?"
You can assign transactions to the the Fundraising Goal Category three ways:
1. Automatically for any transactions processed through your donation, event, auction or peer-to-peer campaign pages where the Fundraising Goal Category is assigned on the page or level.
2. You can manually select it when entering or editing a gift.
3. You can also use the Batch Update feature from the Gifts grid if you need to update many records at once.
The options for this list can be edited from any gift record by clicking on the New/Edit at the top of the list. Dropdown lists can also be edited in the Account Settings > Options. You can learn more about editing these lists in this article "How do I manage picklists or dropdown lists?"
