The Hidden Costs of Online Fundraising
The hidden costs of online fundraising can catch you off guard if you have neglected to do the full comparison between percentage and flat fee based charges. If your bank was to charge you a percentage for every dollar you deposited, you would probably say wait a minute, but why is it okay when donors offer their pledges to your organization. For many charitable and non-profit organizations every dollar raised is valuable, in fact, it can be life or death for many simple based organizations. Although, I understand why Online Pledge Platform companies prefer percentage based solutions, to...
Read MoreTurn your Fans and Supporters into Online Fundraisers
Turn your fans and supporters into Online Fundraisers. Each of our non-profits, charities, and sporting organizations all have an endless list of fans and supporters. Utilize this and get your fans and supporters spreading the word and fundraising for your organization. All of our organizations are businesses and we need to think like business leaders. Customers are your biggest asset. This holds true for any of our non-profits, charities, and sporting organizations and how we look at fundraising. Social Media has allowed us to reach out to the masses. Whether it be for personal...
Read MoreEffective Fundraising Online for Your Organization
Non-Profits, Charitable, Sporting, and School Organizations need to examine how they can effectively fundraise online. It’s absolutely easy to understand that the future is through peer-to-peer online pledge fundraising, fundraising through mobile devices, and farming out your cause to those who are looking to adopt an organization. The challenge is that so many organizations have been scrutinized for how they fundraise. So many organizations due to staffing, and the belief that it is more efficient to farm out their fundraising to third party....
Read MoreNon-Profits Take Advantage of Online Pledge Fundraising Tool
Utilizing programs like RaiseAThon’s Online Fundraising tool, www.ontarioswimathon.ca , enables non-profits, and like organizations, to take advantage of raising money online by reaching out through social media. This is where the future lies, just like the Presidental Campaigns of Obama and Romney. www.npengage.com/online-fundraising-lessons-from-the-obama-and-romney-campaigns. Camp Trillium, a non profit organization who sends children with cancer and their families to camp all year long in order to provide them with hope and a reprieve from their day-t0-day sufferings, has learned...
Read MoreBenefits of Online Fundraising for School Fundraising
School Fundraising has become a hot topic over the years. The government has advised that School Councils should not be raising monies for the basics like textbooks, pencils, and basic classroom supplies. Frankly, none of it should be falling back on Schools and School Councils to be raising monies for items that are necessary for student engagement and learning. Unfortunately, the tax payer pays and then the parents and community pay again. There are so many discussions on this issue, you can check out http://discuss.peopleforeducation.ca/forum?pageSize=500 to hear more about...
Read MoreFundraising for your Sports Team
It doesn’t matter what sports club or organization your child is involved in, they all seem to have additional fundraising obligations linked to them. The shame is that while they are involved in a sport, they are required to sell chocolate almonds, candy, cookie dough, etc to raise insubstantial funds for the organization. With Raiseathon’s Online Pledge Fundraising Tool the game changes. www.ontarioswimathon.ca Simply create an ‘A-Thon Online Fundraising program related or unrelated to your sporting organization. i.e. Soccer Online Fundraising...
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