With the amount of famous stars doing their piece for charity, it is a little harder to benefit a worthy cause when you are average Jo Blogs without a huge following of fans. To help you develop some ideas I thought I would write a few points to help you on the path to setting up a fundraiser of your own.
Firstly what are you attempting to do, are you trying to raise understanding or raise funds. Heightening understanding is often achieved by teaching the people that are your focus group this can be done in several ways be it written information, local radio, TV, an event that you do that promotes conversation or has the media showing an interest in following the specific event, the internet or organised meetings.
Fund raising on the other hand is asking someone to part with their cash to support your chosen subject, once again part of this is teaching people about what your fundraiser is but the other part is offering the people that are giving you something with something in return. Shock, Horror you could initially think but people want to leave feeling like they have helped someone or something. If within this you can present an individual with something that is of value to them, or makes them feel good, all the better.
After you understand what you are attempting to get to consider where you are about to hold the fundraiser. If it is a village hall fundraising event or a Church fundraising event talk to people in the area about having access to village or church hall as a base or if it’s about School fundraising talk to the school itself and find out if you can have the use of their village hall to carry out your fundraising. On the other hand if you are about to jump out of an airplane or run Twenty miles it could be of use to have an area to work out from.
What are you going to do to raise understanding or fund raise. There are several businesses out there that can help you organise a useful fundraiser. What a few of these businesses do is set up an event such as a bungee jump or a Fashion show fundraising where they will show you just what you have to do and support you to achieve your goal.
With bungee jumps this means you can get out there and get sponsorship from people for your certain stunt and also means that you should be able to rope in others that might like to try a bungee jump for more sponsorship. Whereas a fashion show fundraiser you sell by the fact that people can see clothes worn by your models and then purchase them at largely reduced prices. A good evening out and clothes shopping at the same instance.
Whatever you do ensure that you get the greatest amount of media coverage as you really can, ahead of the event so that people can view what you are doing and for who so that you can produce as much awareness as possible for your fundraising event.
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