Fundraising object (building, equipment, campus map)
The fundraising object can be left as a single item (such as an entire building or piece of equipment, segmented into sections (slices of the object), or segmented into subject areas such as walls, floors, computer labs, parking lots (any infrastructure item). The method used is determined by your specific fundraising strategy needs. In our library example we chose to segment into subject areas – walls, floors, books, and computer/multi-media. We could have just as easily sliced the building and fundraised for each slice until complete.
Designated fundraising segments chosen for the UA Library system:

$800,000	$30,000	$300,000	$35,000	$25,000

Donations
Donations can go into a general fund, or if you have chosen to segment the fundraising object into slices or subject areas, then the donations can be designated towards specific items. As each donation comes in there is immediate feedback to the donor in 3 ways: the bar graph for the object increments, the object itself appears more completed, and the donor’s name immediately appears on the donor list.

Alumni and Corporate Challenges
Since Alumni and Corporate Challenges are an integral part of fundraising, we have included both in iBuild. If an Alumni Challenge is setup for your iBuild system, you can divide your donors into categories determined by Faculty (or any other method you devise). Consider a Challenge where each group is trying to be the first to raise $50,000. When each member of a group donates, the donation increments their group’s position in the Challenge with immediate graphical feedback as described above. In addition, if a group’s total moves them past another contender, then the group’s position is also updated, and their ranking is not only displayed numerically but graphically as well.