How do successful fundraising campaigns communicate? What makes them effective and fundraising or not effective? After examining fundraising campaigns that have been successful, we’ve developed three categories of communication that they use: 1. Updates – This is commonly in the form of mass communication to your support base — usually email newsletters and blog posts. […]
Fundraising Page Tip: Interview with Rob Bradlee
The New England Nordic Ski Association (NENSA) is the Olympic development organization for cross-country skiing in New England as well as the umbrella for most organized Nordic skiing events in the region. They launched a fundraising campaign not too long ago. One of their fundraisers, Rob Bradlee, has raised $3100 by making the campaign personal. […]
How the SXSW community raised over $120,000
On March 11th 2011, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck the northeastern coast of Japan. The massive earthquake triggered a tsunami with waves as high as 77 feet that pushed as far as 6 miles inland. Tens of thousands of Japanese were reported dead or missing and hundreds of thousands were left homeless. That morning, CauseVox […]
8 Fundraising Page Tips
Supporters create fundraising pages to fundraise on your behalf. Here are some helpful tips to help your supporters get started: 1. Complete the setup of your page. It’ll say “100% Complete”. 2. Regularly send personal emails to everyone you know. Reminders work well. 3. Include your personal link everywhere — your email signature, Facebook, Twitter, […]
Tips for Personal Appeals on Fundraising Pages
In peer-to-peer or supporter-driven fundraising, supporters are the key to raising funds and awareness. Online, we use fundraising pages to make this happen. The supporter’s personal appeal on their fundraising page helps their friends and family to connect to the non-profit personally through the supporter. Here are tips, written for supporters, to help them craft […]
What is Supporter-Driven Fundraising?
Supporter-driven fundraising is a method of fundraising that enables a non-profit’s supporter to champion and raise funds on the non-profit’s behalf within each supporter’s personal networks. Synonyms include: peer-to-peer, distributed, and networked fundraising With supporter-driven fundraising. a non-profit’s support base is expanded past what is managed by the non-profit and into the new personal networks […]
