Today we bring you another nonprofit fundraising Best Practice in Action from our weekly series. Each week, we’ll highlight an organization that has done an incredible job of promoting its online fundraising efforts with Firstgiving and show you how to do the same. This week’s nonprofit fundraising Best Practice is. . .
Give your fundraisers some ideas about how to ask for donations.
Our friends at AIDS Walk Kansas City wanted to make it as easy as possible for their walk participants to reach their fundraising goals. They took the bull by the horns and sent their fundraisers this quick list of ideas to raise $1,000:
Ten Easy Steps to $1,000
2. Ask 2 family members to sponsor you for $50
3. Ask 10 friends to contribute $20
4. Ask 5 co-workers to contribute $20
5. Ask 5 neighbors to contribute $20
6. Ask 5 people from your place of worship for $10
7. Ask 5 people you socialize with (yoga, book club, gym, dinner club) for $10
8. Ask your boss for a company donation of $50
9. Ask 5 businesses that your company works with to contribute $40
10. Ask 4 businesses that you frequent to donate $25
Check out their walk success–over $120,000 raised online!
We bet you can put together a creative list for your fundraisers with some of these ideas and some of your own. Empowering your fundraisers and giving them confidence to ask for donations translates to fundraising success for your nonprofit.
So, to recap:
Sometimes asking for donations can be daunting for fundraisers. With a fundraising goal in mind, give them some ideas to get started and take away the fear of asking. Remind them that asking for donations online makes the process easy!
Happy fundraising, and here’s to raising more money than you ever thought possible!
Share your own success stories of fundraising Best Practices in Action by sending an email to bestpractices@firstgiving.com.
