So Much Time, Too Much Online Fundraising? Think it Through.
I work but I don’t have a husband or kids. I have time to fundraise. The best platform I’ve found so far for online fundraising is Crowdrise.com because it’s easy, hip, fun and cool. Mostly, easy. You can set up your online fundraising page in a second. Well, maybe thirty seconds, but it’s super easy and efficient. Not just to set up, but to keep going, and going, and going. Ok, that’s the last time I’ll say going.
But when do you stop.
I started with one major online fundraising project and in two weeks, the online fundraising donations piled in, earning more than $3,000 for the charity. I was amazed. I was hardly working now, because I was non-stop checking on my online fundraising page on Crowdrise. It was no work, no play, all Crowdrise, all fundraising.
When we hit our goal and started to put the fundraising dollars to real use, I wanted to do more. I started another online fundraising page. But I hit a road block. Could I ask again? With my first online fundraiser, I asked all my friends, family, and co-workers. Most of them made donations, ranging from $10 to $100. I was thanking them for their donations like crazy. But what I found so interesting was that they were doing most of the thanking. They felt so great about being able to contribute to an amazing cause.
While I felt equally passionate about my second online fundraiser, I felt reluctant to do a second “ask.” I emailed Crowdrise. They were so helpful in answering my questions honestly. No auto-replies. It was a live person from Crowdrise talking to me real time about how soon I could do another online fundraiser, asking the very same people for donations.
They made me think about whether I had another select set of people to ask for donations for this online fundraiser. Maybe the first time I could have stuck to family and friends and the second fundraiser, I could have stuck to co-workers, depending on the cause. Maybe I could wait four months. Maybe I could hit up the bigger donors. Maybe family wouldn’t care. Maybe the people who were thanking me would feel like I was on an online fundraising war path and I was doing another good deed.
The moral is that if you’re going to be passionate about online fundraising, you have to stop and think about whether you’re going to do one bold fundraiser, or whether you’re going to be relentless about it. The person who contributes to a project to kids in Africa who need desks might just give a little donation one time and give another if you’re running another fundraiser for a marathon. They’ll see you’re getting out, doing good. But be careful about the over ask and think it through. And email Crowdrise, they’ll know what to do. They’re online fundraising guru’s.
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