Paris Hilton Can Do It, So Can You.
With the quantity of celebrity people doing their bit for charity, it is a bit harder to benefit a worthy cause when you are average Jo Blogs without a huge following of fans. To help you develop some things I thought I would write a few points to help you on the road to organising a fundraiser of your own.
1st what are you attempting to achieve, are you trying to raise awareness or raise funds. Heightening awareness is normally achieved by educating the individuals that are your target area this can be achieved in a number of ways be it leaflets, local radio, TV, a thing that you do that promotes conversation or has the media showing an interest in covering the specific event, the internet or structured meetings.
Fund raising on the other hand is asking someone to part with their money to fund your chosen issue, once again part of this is educating individuals about what your fundraiser is but the other bit is offering the individuals that are giving you something with something in return. Shock, Horror you might first think but individuals need to leave feeling like they have helped someone or something. If within this you can present a person with a thing that is of interest to them, or makes them feel good, all the better.
After you know what you are attempting to get to consider where you are about to stage the fundraiser. If it is a village hall fundraising project or a Church fundraising event talk to people in the region 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 stage your fundraising. Obviously if you are about to throw yourself out of an airplane or run Twenty miles it might be useful to have a base to go out from.
What are you going to do to raise awareness or fund raise. There are a few businesses out there that can help you organise a useful fundraiser. What many of these businesses do is set up an event such as a parachute jump or a Fashion show fundraising where they will tell you exactly what you have to do and support you to achieve your goal.
With parachute jumps this means you can get out there and get sponsorship from individuals for your particular stunt and also means that you should be able to bring in others that want to try a parachute jump for more sponsorship. Whereas a fashion show fundraiser you sell by the simple reason that individuals can see clothes worn by your models and then purchase them at largely reduced prices. A good evening out and fashion shopping at the same instance.
Whatever you do ensure that you get the greatest amount of media coverage as you possibly can, before the event so that individuals can view what you are achieving and for who so that you can generate as much awareness as possible for your fundraising event.
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