Sunday, May 13, 2012

Fundraising Online Brings Great Success to Causes Who Fundraise

For the last hundred years or so, fundraising has played an integral part of many different charities. These charities have sought to better other people, animals, places, and other causes via a variety of different means, however fundraising has become one of the chief methods by which charities earn their money.
You may be familiar with some sort of fundraising that you have done during you life at some point. Everyone has eaten Girl Scout cookies during the spring or summer depending upon where you live. Girl Scouts sell these cookies as a fundraiser for different charities that they give to each year. This is one of the easiest examples of fundraising in America or the world today.

However, there are really two different types of fundraising today; fundraising online and fundraising offline. Offline fundraising, which is how fundraising was traditionally done by a number of ways. Fundraisers could be done for example by the girl scouts and them selling cookies for charity. Or it could be people trying to sell raffle tickets for any number of charities that they are trying to raise money for. All of these are great examples of fundraising and how it was traditionally done in years past.

Flash forward, during this more modern day and age these are an easier way to go about fundraising. Fundraising online has become the new medium for raising money either close to home or around the world. It makes a fair bit of sense when you sit down and thing about it. Traditional methods of fundraising only would encompass the number of people that they could either see or solicit in a set amount of time, which although good did not cover a lot of people pending on the location.

Fundraising online on the other hand really gives unlimited possibilities of touching millions to billions of people around the world. If you add in other mediums that you can use for fundraising purposes then you really have a great tool to start fundraising online. These mediums could include things like Facebook or YouTube. Either of these two sites are both watched and monitored by thousands if not millions of people every day. This allows the fundraisers to have a lot of exposure to people who may not be near you geographically who are interested in your fundraising efforts.

A good example of fundraising online is the causes of both Haiti and Japan that are still ongoing right now. Every time you see a large world catastrophe you see an ad campaign afterward usually looking for donations for some sort of a fundraiser to try and help the citizens of that country. These may be massive undertakings, but how many ads did you see on Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube during the last catastrophe?
Most likely, you saw many and it would be a good idea that the next time that you think of trying to fundraise either offline or online, it would be a good idea to take a hard look at the ideas that were set down in this article to help get your fundraising campaign off the ground and in higher probability of raising a lot of money with minimal time and effort.

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