Creating collective challenges

Collective challenges let participants work toward a shared points goal instead of completing a challenge on their own. Your company can choose to make a commitment if the collective goal is reached (for example, a corporate donation, match, or other reward). Use admin reporting to track progress toward the collective goal and to see when it is complete. After completion, you can follow through on any corporate commitments made.

Permissions

Anyone with the challenges admin user role can create a collective challenge.

Choosing the challenge type

1. Go to Content > Manage Challenges in the Employee Engagement admin to open the challenges area.
2. Select Create challenge.
3. Choose the challenge type at the top of the creation page:
   • Individual: Each participant completes the challenge on their own.
   • Collective: Everyone works toward one shared points goal.
4. Select Collective to open the collective challenge form.

Filling out the collective challenge form

Complete the same core fields as for an individual challenge, plus the collective-specific settings.

Basic content

• Title, Subtitle, Preview text: How the challenge appears in lists and previews. Descriptions for collective challenges mention the shared goal where relevant.
• Cover image: Image for the challenge card. Accepted formats and size limits are shown next to the upload area.
• Alt text: Short description of the cover image for accessibility.
• Description: Full challenge description. Explain the shared goal and, if your company is offering a commitment when the goal is reached, state that clearly in plain language.
• Did you know: Optional. Extra tip or context for participants.

Collective-specific settings (Collective challenge setup)

In the Collective challenge setup section you will see:

• Collective points goal: The total number of points the group must reach together. Enter the target that all participants' combined progress must meet for the challenge to be considered achieved. Pick a number that fits your company, how many people you expect to take part, and how ambitious you want the challenge to be. If the goal is far out of step with those realities, the challenge can feel too easy to matter or too hard to reach.
• Individual points reward: The points each participant earns for their own actions while working toward the collective goal. This value should never match the collective points goal.

Other settings

• Validate anytime: Whether participants can complete actions any time during the challenge period.
• Allow this challenge to be repeated: Challenges are repeatable by default. Uncheck the Repeatable checkbox to make this a one-time challenge.
• Category and Duration: Same as for individual challenges.
• CO2 saved and Water saved: Optional environmental impact fields.
• Effort level: How much effort the challenge requires.
• Giving Opportunity (if available): Turn on the toggle to Link to giving opportunity, then select an existing giving opportunity (for example, a campaign or cause).

When all required fields are valid, use the action button and the dropdown next to it to choose Save Draft, Schedule, or Publish. A read-only summary of the challenge details is shown. For collective challenges this includes:

• The collective points goal.
• The optional giving opportunity (if you linked one).
• All other fields you filled in (title, description, image, category, duration, etc.).

Review the summary and confirm using the same button, or select Close to go back and make changes. After the challenge is created, you can edit it from the challenges list or details view.

Adding collective challenges from the catalog

You can add a Collective challenge from the Benevity catalog to your client catalog as follows:

1. Go to Content > Manage Challenges to open the challenges area.
2. Open the Benevity Catalog tab and locate a Collective challenge.
3. Select the challenge using the checkbox on its row.
4. Select Assign to My Catalog (the button shows the number of selected challenges).
5. Read the message in the pop-up, then select Publish to My Catalogue or Save As Draft to my catalog.

Tracking progress

When a participant completes their part of the challenge, they validate it in the platform. When they mark it as complete, their points are added to the collective total. When the total points needed are reached across all participants, the collective challenge is marked as complete.

Use admin reporting to see which collective challenges reached their goal. Any separate company commitment you offer is still yours to monitor and deliver. Reporting shows challenge completion, but it does not automate the delivery of those promises.