Building on the momentum from the previous year, GivingToHoosDay 2017 showcases a refined user interface, revamped frontend JavaScript, and a completely redesigned administrator backend. New interactive features, including maps, provide users with engaging ways to visualize incoming gifts during the University of Virginia'''s 24-hour giving event
The site operates entirely on callbacks, effectively eliminating the need for users to manually refresh their browsers. Visual representations of donations, including totals, leaderboards, and maps, are updated incrementally. Newly updated content areas are rendered using HandlebarsJS
GivingToHoosDay 2017 also introduces new templates for UVA schools and programs to showcase their sections on the official site. This allowed forty-three individual units to easily customize their pages and engage with their audience.
The 2017 site relies on a newly introduced ReSTful API to retrieve up-to-date giving information. Similar to the 2016 version of the site, the API delivers data from our caching system, ensuring secure transmission, encryption, and storage of donation information.
GivingToHoosDay 2017 raised over three million dollars and 7,000 gifts: nearly one million dollars and more than 1,200 gifts more than GivingToHoosDay 2016. In addition, our website was the winner of the District III Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Grand Award, the top award for a category, for Fundraising Website or Microsite.
