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One thing is for sure: fundraising isn't begging. Asking for financial help, telling your woes, and scaring people of consequences don’t inject anything creative to make people like you. By being too absorbed about your needs, your cause, your campaign, you shoo away prospects that could have helped you. Want to boost your fundraising potentials? Here’s an Allied Grant Writers’ review on effective ways to raise the funds you need: 1. Fun events A fun run isn't fun without anything new infused to it. Why not make it a chasing game or a run in a race track with some hidden prizes? A feeding program isn't so enthusing because it’s already common. Why not put up an eating contest or some entertaining food games for the hungry fellows? Hosting events isn't as easy as a cookie cutter. You need to conceptualize things that benefit other people. You need to think of ways to give back when they fund you. You don’t have to put up events just to get the financial aid. Sometimes you have to put it up for the goodness of enjoying the event with your funders. 2. Exchange a promise for funds “Did you know that thousands of people die because of AIDS? Help save lives by contributing $5 to our anti-AIDS campaign.” Boiler plate, isn’t it? How about: “Yeah bud, I’ll take a picture of your crush for $5. Then I’ll bank the bucks to our campaign against AIDS.” It doesn’t take a second guess to tell which will sell better. If you believe in the concept of reciprocity, then you’ll know that people want to get something in return no matter what simple consolation it is. Promise some help or entertainment. It lets people know that you’re not just some blind zealot asking for money from woeful sinners.It lets them know that you also care about their interests. 3. Crowd funding Crowd funding is such a powerful vehicle for marketers and nonprofits. However, it would only work for people who think like entrepreneur. If you could put up a cool or fun reward for your funders, then you just found a goldmine. The Internet technology has been growing tremendously, and with just one really slick post in a crowd funding site, you could get all the financial help you needed in a matter of hours.It’s campaign on steroids, only you have to think of a really good proposal to the crowd. 4. Professional services If your beneficiaries got some talent and practical skills, you could use those to leverage your fundraising power. For example, if the kids in your orphanage are good at playing with colors, then buy some paint.Let them do abstract expressionistic paintings, and ask them if they wanted to sell some artworks. Allied Grant Writers reviews that organizations could never run out of funds as long as they have creative ideas.
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