Quick Guide About Affiliates

Groups can affiliate with one another to share events and promote opportunities with one another.

This article covers the following sections:

• Affiliates Defined
• How to Affiliate with Another Group
• Subgroup Affiliations
• Manage Affiliations
• Toggle Affiliate Sharing for Specific Events
• Manage Affiliations YouTube Tutorial

Affiliates Defined

An affiliation (or community partner) is when one group displays all or some of its events on another group's page. For example, if you are a school or company and you want local non-profits to list all of their events on your page so that your students/employees can find good quality events that you trust, you can request that they be affiliates of your organization. This is a great way to build a community between your organization and other local organizations. 

Note: You may always remove or deselect specific events and opportunities even when they are approved to display all their events on your group page.

How to Affiliate with Another Group

There are two ways to affiliate with other groups on GivePulse

Option 1: Affiliate from the Admin Dashboard

Navigate to your admin dashboard and select Network > Manage Affiliations. 

On the new page, select Actions > Add Affiliation in the top-right corner.

Search for the group you want to affiliate with. You can also filter by city and state. Once you find a group to affiliate with, click Affiliate next to the group.

If the group you want to affiliate with does not exist on GivePulse, you can create a new group for them on GivePulse to affiliate with. To do this, click the Can't Find Them tab near the top of the page. 

Option 2: Affiliate from the Community Partner's Page

If you are an admin of the group you are trying to affiliate with, you can go onto the page of the group you are trying to affiliate to and click the Affiliate button next to the group profile photo, above the description, and next to the group title. You will be brought to a page where you will select which group you want to affiliate with the group's page you are on now (if you are an admin of multiple pages).

New View: 

Classic View:

In both cases, you will then answer two questions:

1. Display Options: Toggle whose events are shown on whose page through the affiliate.
2. Allow Affiliate Privileges: Choose to allow if the primary admin of the other group can have administrative privileges on your group. 

A request will be submitted with any of these options and you will be notified of its approval or decline. In addition, admins can add specific affiliate request questions for you to answer as well. To learn more about customizing affiliation requests, click here.  

Subgroups Affiliations

In addition to the parent group, subgroups can also have their unique affiliates as well. Since affiliations are specific to groups, affiliated events will only be displayed on the groups for which an affiliate connection is made. Affiliations at a subgroup do not roll up to the parent hierarchy, nor do affiliations at the parent group roll down to subgroups. 

To affiliate a subgroup with another group, follow the same steps listed in the section above.

Manage Affiliations

To manage affiliations, you must be an admin of the group. From the admin dashboard, click Network > Manage Affiliations to navigate to the Manage Affiliates grid. Here you can see your affiliations, what information each party is displaying, who requested the relationship, who approved the relationship, and communication action items. 

Using the action dropdown to the far right of each affiliate, you can toggle which group hides/shows events, view the group's page, and cancel the affiliation. If you are the admin of the affiliate group, you can also manage the affiliate group from this drop-down. 

If another group has requested to affiliate with you, a banner at the top of the page will inform you to review a pending affiliation application. You can approve or reject these affiliations from the Actions dropdown menu as well. 

Toggle Affiliate Sharing for Specific Events

You can choose to show, hide, or promote certain events from your affiliates. Click here to learn more.

Manage Affiliations YouTube Tutorial

For more information on affiliations, view the video below: