Gift Intake Form: Creating a new fund gift agreement

Summary

This article outlines the steps for creating a new gift agreement using the Launchpad Gift Intake form that will be processed by Advancement & Partnerships approvers until the gift agreement draft is ready for donor review.

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Overview

Requestors complete a gift intake form from Gift Central that will create a gift agreement to establish a new fund, amend an existing fund, and establish special terms in the gift commitment.

Steps to complete the gift intake form:

Navigate to Gift Central from Advancement & Partnerships homepage

Click Learn More in the Gift Agreements panel to access the GA landing page

Click the Gift Agreement in Launchpad link found in Step 1 of the landing page or from the Quick Links panel

Fill in all applicable fields in the Gift Intake form. Here is a description of each field:

  1. Donor Lookup ID: from Apollo
  1. Select Donor: from Apollo
  1. Donor Type: individual or corporate
  1. Donor Name: populates signature line; if an organization/corp, Signer Full Name field will appear in signature line
  1. Donor First Name: populates first line of gift agreement
  1. Donor Grad Year: appears on agreement if alumni
  1. Total Commitment Amount: straight number input will display dollar format in output to confirm amount
  1. Scholarship?: “Y” automatic DE review
  1. Anonymous?: select from dropdown
    • Anonymous for publications & Comms/Mktg material. Mass email to approvers/proxies in workflow steps will contain identifiers. For full anonymity, process a manual Gift Agreement -- not in Launchpad.
  1. Naming Opportunity?: automatic PD review
  1. Amendment?: requires additional documentation
  1. New Fund?: requires Request for New Gift form
  1. Fund ID: Designation in Apollo. Needed if “no” to “Is New Fund?”
  2. Fund is Athletics?: notifies Athletics Advancement and Partnerships team

  3. Split Gift?: if gift split between multiple funds

  4. Supported College: not a required field and can use acronyms

  5. College Business Unit: required field. Appears as entered in signature line (no acronyms)

  6. Search Dean: Dean will be notified when gift agreement is signed

  7. Payment Schedule: frequency may not exceed 5 years unless approved by Advancement & Partnerships SVP

  8. Gift Agreement End Date: read instructions

  9. Method of Transfer – Is this a planned gift?: follow instructions on Planned Gift landing page in Gift Central

  10. Fund Purpose: Detailed narrative

  11. Special Conditions: As requested by donor. May need approval

  12. Add Contacts: populates the “Notify” list in Launchpad

  13. Attachments: 10 files max; 4mb max

  14. Click checkbox when ready to submit gift agreement

Click Submit agreement. Once submitted, Launchpad email notifications will be sent through the Gift Intake workflow to approvers until a gift agreement draft is created that is ready for donor review.

See the Donor Review Workflow KB article for more information on that process.

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Article ID: 23
Created
Thu 4/9/26 12:04 PM
Modified
Thu 4/9/26 4:46 PM

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