If you're the one who is responsible for coordinating your non-profit's fundraising campaign, be certain to include the latest online strategies and tools available that are affordable, powerful and very easy to use.
New online fundraising capabilities enhance existing organizational websites with elements like personal fundraising pages, online silent auctions and sponsors pages.
Best used with any fundraiser event, your event website will save you time, resources, and enable you to raise more money than you ever thought possible.
Your event website should act as your fundraiser's communications hub, incorporating a full suite of online fundraising tools.
In addition to event ticket sales and donation collections directly from your website, new functionality extends team members' reach with personal fundraising pages and broadens revenue sources with sponsors pages and silent auctions.
If properly used, these exciting new features will multiply your present fundraising efforts many times over.
Everything will combine seamlessly with your offline efforts to provide users with maximum outreach and organization.
Allowing donors to contribute online to your cause with a credit card provides the convenience they've come to expect.
You should be able to effortlessly accept credit card payments and donations online without a merchant account.
Personal fundraising pages Provide personal fundraising pages to each member of your team.
Invite supporters of your cause to join-in on campaigns as individual fundraisers - each receiving their own unique webpage.
To date, this functionality has only been available to very large organizations with big-budgets.
Now, you should expect this functionality to be woven directly into your fundraising event website package.
Online silent auctions Online silent auctions are a new spin on an old event fundraiser.
You can run your silent auction before or after the fundraising event, or do it all year-long on your fundraising website.
Donors can submit items for your auction directly on the website and users can choose from bidding options such as a 'buy-it-now' opportunity.
You can even accept payment by credit card right on your fundraising website for items that have been auctioned off.
A sponsors' page A sponsors' page is another new interactive tool where advertisers and supporters can pay for ads and upload artwork that will be used for the fundraising event.
Frequently referred to as an 'ad book', ads and articles are usually printed as a magazine and distributed at the fundraising event.
The sponsor's page makes it easy on the organizer to collect payment and artwork for the advertisements that go in the ad-book or at the event in the form of banners or signs.
This saves valuable time, resources and postage costs.
Individually or in combination with each other, these easy-to-use tools will bring your fundraising efforts to the next level.