Hi! For our challenges, it really varies by how the Drive is pacing, and how much challenge money we have available. We have found the most inspiring challenges to be a dollar-for-dollar match. We never ask our major donors (who provie the funds for challenges) for their gift until the the challenge is met–just their comittment–so that we are honest with them about it truly being a challenge. A couple of times, we didn’t meet the terms of the challenge (not a matching challenge–we always meet those), and we let the donors know. The major donors were kind enough to complete their pledges anyhow, and apprecaited our integrity and honesty with them about it. We pre-plan what we would like to do with our challenges during our Drives, but always remain flexible enough to change it up if we see that things are slow, or pacing behind. Also, we do try to front-load out Drives with challemges a bit early on.
