What You Can Do
- Individuals
- Companies
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Fundraise Online
Set up a fundraising page
- So you're all ready to go: you've chosen your event and now need to start raising donations. Setting up a fundraising page on mycharity.ie couldn't be easier.
- With your own fundraising page on mycharity your friends and family can visit your page to see what you are doing and - most importantly - make online donations. It's quick and simple, and even makes the whole process of gathering your sponsorship money a lot easier.
- All you have to do is go to mycharity.ie.
- Once there, you can just follow the simple instructions and in no time at all, you'll have your own online fundraising page.
- Click here to see an example of a mycharity fundraising page
Making the most out of your Fundraising Page
- Make your online fundraising page as compelling as possible by adding your own photograph and text. Make sure your page communicates the reason you have chosen to raise money, and why you believe your chosen charity deserves support. Be creative and remember that enthusiasm is contagious.
- Contact everyone you know, email your page address to everyone in your address book, so that even your friends overseas can show their support. But remember to email the generous supporters first and don't feel bad for following these up if they haven't donated a couple of times during your fundraising plan, as people often mean to donate but just simply forget.
- Again be persistent. It will take more than one round of emails to reach your target. Encourage people to re-visit your page by regularly updating it. Change your picture, post updates on your progress. Let supporters know how much you've raised so far. An email update is interesting for those who've already supported you and a nudge for those who haven't. You know what it's like - people mean to donate, but sometimes they don't quite get round to it on the first request.
- Don't just rely on email. A simple poster asking people to visit your fundraising page can reach people whose email address you don't have. You might also consider printing some flyers to hand out to people when you see them.
- When you create your page, you have the opportunity to personalise the thank-you message each donor automatically receives. In addition to expressing your thanks, use this opportunity to ask supporters to pass on your web address to anyone else who might be interested in sponsoring you.
- Many mycharity donations come in after people have completed their fundraising event. So don't stop fundraising once you've cross the finish line. Update your page and e-mail your supporters with news of your success. Remind those who haven't yet donated to do so, and ask others to donate again in recognition of your achievement.
Benefits to you the fundraiser
- Minimal effort for fundraisers - 5 minutes to set up your fundraising page on the mycharity.ie website and send out the e-mail with the link to your fundraising page to all your friends, family and work colleagues.
- Reach most if not all of your potential sponsors in one go rather than contacting them all individually.
- No sponsorship cards to walk around with and fill in.
- No counting cash.
- No chasing cash from sponsors.
- No storing cash.
- No lodging cash.
- Ability to reach sponsors overseas.
- Sponsors can still respond to your fundraising drive even after the event via your fundraising page which will still be open.
Benefits to us the charity
- Funds raised come directly to us.
- The funds raised are transferred to us in a shorter time than they would be via traditional methods of fundraising, so we have use of your valuable fundraising monies earlier.
- Your ability to over achieve on your fundraising target. Your fundraising page will remain open for a period after your event has taken place, so potential sponsors can still sponsor you even after your fundraising drive has ended.
- Overhead savings in the management of fundraising and fundraising events.
Thank you!
