You can request assistance from the Events Team if you are raising funds for an official registered charity.
Utherverse Fundraisers / Charity Policies
Due to the overwhelming amount of requests for assistance with fundraising efforts within Utherverse, the following procedures/polices have been implemented. If you would like the assistance of Utherverse in hosting/holding an event to support a charity or fundraiser please email [email protected] a detailed proposal 4-6 weeks prior to the event date.
Please understand that Utherverse will ONLY assist and not host or throw the event on your behalf.
100% of the proceeds MUST go to the charity if Utherverse is to be involved in assisting with your event. We DO NOT engage in the splitting of percentages between charities, charity organizers, volunteers or users.
Fundraisers are restricted to one Fundraiser per month. All Fundraisers have to use exclusively the UVDonates Profile for collection of donations.
Before requesting for assistance from Utherverse for your fundraising event, the following qualitifications must be met:
- The charity you are fundraising for must be a reputable, registered charity that can issue tax receipts
- The Charity must be verified by Utherverse as a registered charity.
- Event requester must also provide all pertinent information for the charity.
- 100% of the processd must be donated to the charity. Any sort of Raffles or other games that have any split where a portion of the Rays are kept as profit or given out as win are not allowed. Any ticket fees or cover charges for the event must be donated.
- Any ticket fees / cover charges for the event/venue have to be transferred directly to UVDonates
- A transfer copy has to then be shown to the official Utherverse/RLC Host
- Auctions are permitted but have to be accomplished as follows:
- The rays for the goods have to be transferred directly to UVDonates by the auctionwinner
- A transfer copy has to be shown to the designated Utherverse/RLC Host of the auction to recieve the item
Fundraiser Support Levels
All Donations must be made using the UVDonates Profile, which will be updated with the cause of the Fundraiser.
Level 1
Due to limited resources, Level 1 assistance is restricted to a maximum of 3 times per year during the following periods: Jan-April, May-Aug, or Sep-Dec. Fundraising for International Natural Disasters may take precedence over other causes, should a disaster fall during a specified time period. The Events Team however, will continuously welcome suggestions for charitable causes for consideration throughout the year.
Level 1 support includes:
- Promotional use of the UVDonates profile to help spread the word about the charity/event:
- Users can send donations to this profile which will be managed in house by Utherverse Staff.
- Full support of Events Team and staff. Teams will circulate bulletins and promote event at regular events (i.e. regular tweets, forum posting, bulletins)
- Free Street Advertising in 3 main ad centers (ex. located on the transport wall, and Century Theater walls in RLC).
- Domain Broadcast day of event and in the days leading up to event (case dependant).
- Creation of web gift to send to all donors.
- Message of the day on login screen for the virtual world.
- VWW of the day (dependent upon availability). Please book VWW of the day over the events Calendar
- Some assistance in prop editing (case dependant).
- Assistance and guidance on approaching sponsors.
- Assistance with creative (posters, graphics) within and dependant on available resources.
- Use of the Utherverse® logo and disclaimer ‘World event is authorized and supported by Utherverse®”
Utherverse will receive donated Rays and exchange them at the marketplace. We will then issue an official letter to the charity notifying them of the donation, along with a check for the USD$ equivalent of the Rays donated. All correspondence with charities will be transparent.
Level 2
Due to limited resources, Level 2 assistance is restricted to once per month to a maximum of 6 times per year
Level 2 support includes:
- Promotional use of the UVDonates profile to help spread the word about the charity/event:
- Users can send donations to this profile which will be managed in house by Utherverse Staff.
- Free Street Advertising in 3 main ad centers (ex. located on the transport wall, and Century Theater walls in RLC).
- VWW of the day (dependent upon availability). Please book VWW of the day over the events Calendar
- Use of the Utherverse ® logo and disclaimer that this is a ‘World event is authorized and supported by Utherverse®”.
Utherverse will exchange the rays at the marketplace. We will then issue an official letter to the charity notifying them of the donation. All correspondence with charities will be transparent.
Level 3
Level 3 fundraisers are run independantly, however if approved by the Events Team, may use the Utherverse ® logo and disclaimer: "World event is authorized and supported by Utherverse®”
Independent Fundraisers have to explicitly state this is not an Utherverse sponsored Fundraiser.
Utherverse will exchange the rays at the marketplace. We will then issue an official letter to the charity notifying them of the donation. All correspondence with charities will be transparent.
If there is another similar charity event around the time of your independent event, the official event will take precedence.