Fundraising 101
Learn to use your Fundraising Hub
Fundraising online is a great way to track your efforts and keep your sponsors up to date on your progress. Register at www.habitatgv.ca/stepup and you will automatically receive a personal page and access to your fundraising hub. Your fundraising hub allows you to customize your personal page, collect donations securely online, enter donations that were collected offline (cash, cheque or a written down credit card number) and the opportunity to win cool prizes.
The fundraising hub allows you to:
1. Send out fundraising emails, and send thank you emails to donors, make sure you BCC.
2. Customize your personal and team page
3. Set your personal and team fundraising goal
4. Get your personal page link for sharing
5. And much more!
Customize your Personal Page and Team Page
Once registered you'll receive a personal page that you can customize by uploading photos into your scrolling gallery, accept donations, view your thermometer and view your personal message centre.
If you're a part of team, you'll also have a team page. The team page has a lot of the same functionality as your personal page, the team captain will be able to upload team photos, accept donations, view the teams fundraising progress, write a team message and view all of the team sponsors and their messages of support.
You can customize with your personal or team page through the fundraising hub.
Send Emails through your Fundraising Hub
Anyone in your contact book is a potential donor. Upload your contacts to your fundraising hub and ask for donations early and often. Our successful participants have said they've received donations from the least expected people! Here are some groups to keep in mind: family, friends, colleagues, alumni, neighbors, church groups, doctors and local businesses.
1. Login and click on the Fundraising tab in the left navigation pane
2. Click on Get Sponsors in the left navigation pane
3. Upload all your email addresses at once by clicking on the brown address book, or enter them manually (200 email max)
4. Customize your personal message and then click Send Email
Use your social networks to ask for support
Think about this: if each one of your 200 Facebook friends gave you $5, you would have already raised your minimum fundraising goal for the Step-Up Challenge! Post often to your social networks, share training updates, pictures and encourage your network to share your message.
On the day of, you could do a FB Live video and post showing you doing the challenge and climbing the stairs!
You will have two weeks after the event to still fundraise and let people know you did this challenge. If you have any questions about fundraising, email Jay at jlundgren@habitatgv.ca.
Please expect emails of encouragement from time to time, leading up to the Step-Up Challenge event.