With the Lent and Easter season right around the corner, you may be contemplating new ideas for your parishioners and visitors. By leveraging the available tools in your ParishSOFT Giving program you can create and update second collection funds and forms specific to your holiday donation initiatives,
In your preparation, we want to remind you to ensure that your Second Collections feature is activated and configured in your ParishSOFT Giving program. Learn more here.
What Are Second Collections?
Second collection are specialized collections that occur annually to help support national and global Catholic charities outside of your parish-based collections.
Examples include donations for Churches in Central and Eastern Europe, Catholic Relief collections, and the World Mission Sunday collection.
With ParishSOFT Giving you can:
- Control the date that your donations process. What this means, they can be active for an entire year, but they will not process until the date that you choose!
- Create unlimited second collection funds!
- Design a second collections form that can be added to your website.
- Convert a current fund into a second collection.
- Edit and update your existing second collection funds.
To learn how to create a second collection fund and giving form click here.
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