Tired of selling pizzas? Try fundraising with candles. They’re a great gift idea for the holidays, mothers day, easter, or any time. Mia Bella candles offer a great fundraising opportunity. In addition, your organization can sell Mia Bella candles year round as a Mia Bella candle distributor.
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Tired of selling Pizzas and baked goods? Check your local area for a company willing to sell you product wholesale. You can sell anything from cookies from a local bakery to wine (if it’s legal in your state). Explain the charity to the business and that you’ll be placing an order for the goods. Perhaps they can offer you a wide range of their current product line, or perhaps you need to “sell” so many to fill a minimum order quantity. However, it’s a great way to bring a unique idea to your clients.
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Forget going door to door or sending mailers to collect monitary donations. Try collecting emails and soliciting for donations via emails. For pennies or less per email, you can send thousands of emails.
Quick Tip - collect emails on your website as well as via any paperwork or forms that you may have your charity volunteers or participants fill out, so that you can build a larger email list. Also, the more frequent your emails are, the more people will remember you. Remind them of upcoming events, and other dates for their calendar.
Important Note - there are specific rules for sending out mass emails. They aren’t complicated, but you must follow them. CANN SPAM is the official nomenclature. Check it out.
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Many non-profits host their websites through a local hosting provider. Did you know that you can cut your costs by up to $10 or more per month or more by switching to a national provider? Some of this is because just 5-10 years go, websites were expensive, with domain registration costing up to $100 a year, and hosting costing $20-50 a month.
Some non-profit charities haven’t shopped around for the best rates and are still paying someone locally a premium to host their website.
Is local website hosting better? No, not really. You’re not going to be able to drive down the street and take your website home with you if something bad happens anyway, so in my experience a 24/7 customer service center at a large hosting company is typically more efficient than most smaller hosting companies, and your output cost is much less. The only exception to this rule is if you’re doing something strange with your website.
Here are my favorite hosting services. I’ve used all of them and recommend them with two thumbs up.
Non profits on a shoe string budget are often looking for ways to save money. If you’re not familiar with “open source software”, it’s a great way to make your buck go further. Open source software, including firefox / mozilla, open office, and linux are all free alternatives to software packages, including Microsoft Office / Microsoft XP. Google words like “freeware, open source” or best free software fro Microsoft. And, if you haven’t already be there, be sure to check out Techsoup.com to see what kind of discounts you can qualify for on software updates and purcahses.
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Don’t want to build your own “affiliate” shopping mall to collect donations. Sign up with aGoodCause.com and you can start getting donations without the hassle of a website.
Wish you could earn donations any time someone searches the internet? Now you can! Just register your charity or nonprofit through www.goodsearch.com and few cents will be deposited into your account every time you, someone in your office, your friends, or anyone else who loves your cause. So, sign up today, spread the word, and start earning those pennies!!!
Ever think of having a cel phone drive? Maybe you want to find a home for those old ipods, computers or other gadgets lying around the house. You can earn cash for your non-profit through a company called Gazelle.com
There’s more than one recycling program out there, but we recommend Gazelle. Try it today!
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The website for your non-profit is your online image. So as tempting as it is to have it run by teenage volunteers, or building it yourself, think again.
Many web-design firms will build your website for non-profits at a discount rate, or for free, for their portfolio. Be prepared however, to pay hosting and domain fees. You can off-set these costs in many ways, including having Google Adsense advertising on your site.
I’ve worked with several non-profits who forgot that their website was a valuable marketing tool, and left it fall out of date. Remember that your donors are using the internet, looking for information and resources. If you can appeal to them, and get them to click on you, you can capture their check as well as their click.
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Did you know that you can accept donations right on your website via paypal? This is an easy way to encourage people visiting your website to make a quick donation in your favor.
Visit Paypal.com Today and set up your very own donation buttons.
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