I literally hate watching the news, but I do it anyway so that I can stay tuned to what is going on in the world. Over the past 2 years, people around the world have suffered from floods, oil spills, hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis, and it is so important to donate to charities that help countries and communities struck by natural and man-made disasters.
While many organizations respond to crises as they hit, these organizations depend on the generosity of personal fundraisers and the masses in order to provide aid to these areas. That’s right: the volunteer community that makes relief projects possible needs us!
That is why me and me and my girlfriends are lunching a new fundraising project to raise money online to support the efforts overseas. We’ve been brain storming all week to figure out what organizations we want to fundraise for and how to get the word out about our new charity fundraising campaign. We’re even thinking about giving away prizes to those who donate to charities or just visit our Internet fundraising pages.
The money that we raise online will go directly to the charities so that they can send the money to their relief programs. More importantly, my rich aunt even says that she is going to match all the donations that are made on the day our Internet donation pages go live.
My friends and me can’t wait to get our online fund raiser started and to really make an impact in those areas in the world that require immediate relief.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
I'm convinced. Anyone can do this.
It’s official. I’m a fundraising junky. I just love to give back and love the causes that I support. Yesterday, I saw on tv that there was a 10 year old girl who gave up her b-day so that she could donate that money that would have been spent to charity. She had started a whole fundraising campaign online and had people make online pledge pages for her b-day, and apparently, she was able to raise 20,000 dollars for this conservation charity working in South America. I know I wasn’t thinking about that when I was her age. I just wanted all the presents I could get.
As you can see from my other posts, I think this whole fundraising online internet thing is really cool because this means that you, an individual, a human limited by their local concerns and obligations and community, can make a monumental impact through personal internet fundraising campaigns. If a 10 year old girl from Georgia can do it, why can’t everyone in America pick up the slack and really move to make a difference in our neighborhoods and beyond.
I was telling all of this to my mom and she said that she would give it a try too. So I’m going to help her set up a profile and some fundraising pages like mine. She is really bad with technology so I’m wondering how she will do, but she is definitely excited to help out and get involved. So, if my mom and a little girl can raise money online, really I think anyone in the world can do it.
As you can see from my other posts, I think this whole fundraising online internet thing is really cool because this means that you, an individual, a human limited by their local concerns and obligations and community, can make a monumental impact through personal internet fundraising campaigns. If a 10 year old girl from Georgia can do it, why can’t everyone in America pick up the slack and really move to make a difference in our neighborhoods and beyond.
I was telling all of this to my mom and she said that she would give it a try too. So I’m going to help her set up a profile and some fundraising pages like mine. She is really bad with technology so I’m wondering how she will do, but she is definitely excited to help out and get involved. So, if my mom and a little girl can raise money online, really I think anyone in the world can do it.
Global Causes
The sweetest thing about online fundraising is that you can support global causes and projects all over the world. One person can fundraise online for numerous projects, supporting numerous charity fundraising campaigns.
For instance, I just started two new projects on Crowdrise. One is supporting an animal shelter down the street from my house and the other is supporting a Charity: Water and their work in Honduras. These online fundraising pages are both on my profile page so they are super easy to get to and you can just click on them and donate.
In the past, a person was limited to the amount of fundraising projects they could take on and fundraising involved so much work. If you were raising the donations offline, you had to figure out how to not only get people to write checks, but also figure out how to get the money to the charity. Now, one person can be in as many fundraising communities as they want, supporting projects all over the place.
So, I just thought that that was a really cool and there are some really good ways to raise money online if you want to give back and support, but just don’t have the time to do it.
For instance, I just started two new projects on Crowdrise. One is supporting an animal shelter down the street from my house and the other is supporting a Charity: Water and their work in Honduras. These online fundraising pages are both on my profile page so they are super easy to get to and you can just click on them and donate.
In the past, a person was limited to the amount of fundraising projects they could take on and fundraising involved so much work. If you were raising the donations offline, you had to figure out how to not only get people to write checks, but also figure out how to get the money to the charity. Now, one person can be in as many fundraising communities as they want, supporting projects all over the place.
So, I just thought that that was a really cool and there are some really good ways to raise money online if you want to give back and support, but just don’t have the time to do it.
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