ROAR Day URL Creator
Active 2024 - Contributors: Adrian Edwards
The ROAR Day URL creator is a small web project built to help ROAR Day ambassadors more easily create donation links to send to their communities during RIT ROAR Day 2024.
Prior to the existence of this tool, RIT was using a spreadsheet to store a list of individual links that would automatically pre-fill an organization, department, or club in the ROAR day giving form on the GiveCampus page when clicked. Ambassadors/advocates were then supposed to manually append their unique ID to these URL’s so their advocacy was credited to them.
This URL creator is a simple tool built to essentially automate this process for people to make it far more user-friendly. By pulling the list of organizations from the spreadsheet using the google sheets API, the site is able to allow much faster, easier generation of these URLs.
This project was done in collaboration with, and with the support of Victor Santiago from University Advancement and was eventually set as the target of a redirect from https://rit.edu/ROARDayURLCreator
Future plans
While there currently aren’t too many plans to expand the project, there does seem to be a strong value potentially extend this project to also help cover other RIT advancement campaigns and fundraising efforts.