Dabney Schmitt, a board member of Children of Vietnam, was thrilled to raise over $56,000 to benefit homeless and poor children in Vietnam. To her great surprise over half of their 450 donors were new to Children of Vietnam! Let’s hear more about her story now.
Well, Children of Vietnam is dedicated to working towards alleviating child poverty in Vietnam. We wanted to increase funding for specific programs such as education, good nutrition, and safe shelter. These are essential to fighting poverty.
A few examples of how we plan to use the money is to begin more early education – such as Kindergarten! We’ve had great success with building Kindergartens in Vietnam, but we want to do more. In many cases, this requires not only securing a building for the school, but hiring the teacher, and buying the desks.
We were looking for a platform that had the functionality and capacity for fundraising teams, which is how we already approach fundraising. We also wanted to have a seamless donation site—one that looked as if the donations were going to Children of Vietnam—and not to the host platform. CauseVox had all of this and more!
Yours (CauseVox’s fundraising platform) jumped out of the crowd! Your pricing strategy really was fabulous for those of us who are small 501c3s without huge endowments. It gave us a running start to be able to raise the first $5000 without monthly fees, and that’s terrific for a startup.
Sure. We basically had three to four ideas that we knew we were going to use.
We had over 450 donors and most of the 450 donors are new! That is awe-inspiring. It was a wonderful surprise. In a way, it encouraged us. It’s as if every donation said, “Keep on doing the good work you’re doing!”
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