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Fundraising Tips.

Here are some fundraising tips to get you started.

How one person can raise $250

Ask yourself! Start by making your own donation of $25 $25
Ask 2 family members to sponsor you for $25 each $50
Ask a business you frequent to donate $25 $25
Ask 2 co-workers for $20 each $40
Ask 5 people you know from your club or school for $10 each $50
Ask 3 friends for $20 each $60
TOTAL $250

Use your Profile Page

Be sure you encourage every one on your team to use online fundraising. It’s free and it’s easy. And it’s a great way to raise funds. Just sign up and your Profile Page will be created for you to start fundraising. You can add your own photos, messages, comments and blog; then email all your contacts and watch the dollars roll in!

Online fundraising makes your job as Team Captain easier because it means you’ll have less paperwork, less banking to do and your team members can manage their own Profile Page.

Do your own internal fundraising

Help build team spirit and raise more money with ‘wrap-around’ events. These are fun and all add to your total. Here are some examples, but don’t limit yourself to this… be creative!

Casual Fridays: Ask employees to have a casual day and pay $5 towards your team’s fundraising. For a change you could try a shorts day, or formal wear day.

Food, glorious food: everyone has to eat so hold a cake stall, put on a BBQ or bring a plate in return for donations.

Collection tins: place collecting tins in common areas to encourage impulse donations.

Fundraising breakfast, morning tea or lunch: provide the food and show our DVD to motivate your workmates. You can raise funds from donations and recruit some new members to your team.

Make sure you communicate

A great way for team members to raise big bucks is to write letters or send emails to everyone they know. Download suggested messages from our website, and add bits of your own.

Investigate matching funds

Check with the boss to arrange for your company to match the dollars raised by your team. Any team members who work somewhere else should ask their company to dollar match also.

Downloads

The following samples are a useful starting point to help you with your fundraising. Click to download the letters in MS Word 97 format ready for you to alter as required.

Recruitment message from Team Captain
(29kb, MS Word)

Letter from top level management to employees
(23kb, MS Word)

Letter to ask for donations from a person
(29kb, MS Word)

Letter to ask for donations from a company
(25kb, MS Word)

Other useful downloads

Memory jogger – list of people to ask
(64kb, PDF)

List of ideas for fundraising events
(28kb, PDF)

Download useful stuff

We have a selection of suggestions for letters and emails you can send to your firneds to help us spread the word about Light the Night. There are pictures to put in emails or post on facebook.

If you are fundraising, download our guides and tips.

Downloads