Powerful Online Fundraising Ideas
Online fundraising is slowly taking over as a powerful fundraising tool for numerous charities and non-profit groups. Using the internet to fundraise offers several advantages over traditional methods:
- Global reach – you are no longer restricted to friends and family.
- Cost – there are little or no setup or promotional costs.
- Content – with your own site you can make your case through audio, video and text…all on the same site or through email.
- Time – there are no time restrictions. Internet fundraising operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, tirelessly, without having to knock on any doors.
- Income – in some cases your group can earn residual income.
Online fundraising idea #1: Magazines
The old way: you order brochures for each one of your volunteers and they faithfully trudge through their respective neighborhoods, knocking on doors, looking for willing prospects to get as many orders as possible.
They write the orders by hand and collect the money on the spot.
The new way: all of your supporters collect email addresses of everyone they know and you send out a prewritten letter to everyone on the list in a matter of seconds.
Your subscribers buy, renew, or extend their magazine subscriptions all online. You don't fill out any orders or have to collect any money since it's all done through your own, FREE web page.
Plus, you can do this fundraiser in conjunction with any other fundraiser because it's FREE, is completely online and works 24/7, year 'round. What do you have to lose?
Go to efundraising for the nitty gritty.
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