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What if all the things about fundraising that you hated, went away and you could generate more funds, faster, with less work AND you and your fundraising teams didn’t have to guilt people into paying ridiculously inflated prices for stuff they usually don’t want or need?
I remember my first fundraiser as a kid. It was for our school. I was probably about 3rd grade. I will never forget it.
I was so awkward and it felt so weird. What made matters worse… at least from my perspective, was that my parents insisted that I walk in and introduce myself to the branch manager of the local bank in Crystal City, MO, a town of about 3,000 people about 30 miles south of St. Louis where I grew up. My parents told me to explain that I was selling chocolate bars to raise funds for our school and ask his permission to stand on the sidewalk in front of the bank entrance on Friday afternoons when everyone would be getting off work and coming in to cash their paychecks.
The bank manager was an older gentleman with gray hair, a blue sportcoat and a tie. His name was Al Hume and I remember him peering over the top of his black reading glasses whenever he was talking to me. He said it was OK, so I did it… on Friday afternoons… for several weeks.
While my parents sat in the car in the parking lot supervising from a safe distance, I got my first taste of fundraising. I knew it was for a good cause so I did it, but what DIDN’T feel good was asking people to buy a candy bar for $1. Even though I think around $.50 of each sale went to my school, I knew that these nice people could get a REGULAR chocolate bar at ANY local store for about 25-50 cents, literally 1/4 to 1/2 of what I was asking them to pay and even at that age, it didn’t seem right and it didn’t feel good.
Plus, I assure you that my parents didn’t enjoy sitting in the parking lot on Friday afternoons any more than I liked standing in front of the bank talking to strangers and collecting money.
Well, that was over 40 years ago and… people trying to raise funds for good causes are STILL having to offer things other people don’t really need or want.
On top of that, many of the the things offered today through fundraisers are STILL overpriced, everybody knows it and it STILL doesn’t feel good.
Good people promoting good causes don’t like “guilting” people into giving any more than the people giving like being “guilted into it”.
If approved as one of our fundraising allies, we’ll show and tell you how AND provide you with an “irresistible value proposition” you can either attach to your existing fundraisers OR use as a stand-alone.
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