Church Fundraising: Ideas to Increase Your Donations Online

Most churches need to fundraise for specific events or assist with charitable causes without using it’s member contributions, or offerings. This is where church fundraising comes into play. By holding a church fundraiser, you can raise money by selling or auctioning off goods that have been donated to your church from other supporters.

So what type of church fundraisers should you have? Quality and faith are necessary components in determining what is best for your congregation and the recipient of the money that will be brought in. A quality fundraising event with quality products will bring, not only more people, but bigger spenders. And faith in what the event is supporting will show buyers that you support the cause and make it easier for them to spend their money with an end goal of helping others.

Quick church fundraisers are fine, but make sure your product is of excellent quality. However, church fundraising online is probably the most convenient way to hold this type of fundraising event. With the massive popularity of social networks, the word can get out to massive amounts of people very quickly, as the web's social communities will allow your chruch to transcend space, time, and geographical boundaries that may limit your chruch's fundraising efforts. And usually this is the most cost effective route to follow.

What is great about using online fundraising platforms to host and promote church fundraisers is the fact that a lack of finances will not keep you from moving forward. Specifically, you don’t necessarily have to have a product to give in exchange for monies. Church fundraising efforts could be aimed more towards a donation model. However, it is always nice for those donating their hard earned money to get something in return.

By promoting your church fundraisers online with your online fundraising platform via email, facebook, and twitter - in that order of importance, in terms of reach, highest conversions on average by your contacts, etc. You will be on your way to minimizing your time and effort that goes into fundraising for your church, while raising the money you need to gain from your community. Share, share, share, and then share some more! Encourage your community to share the links to your church fundraiser with their own social networks and you will succeed with your church's fundraising goals.

So if you do choose to go with an online church fundraising platform and want to provide a quality product in return, then it is easy to have your brochure available for buyers to browse and pledge their purchases. But it is also easy to set up church fundraisers to except donations online. Or perhaps you want to be able to do both. Some may prefer to get a product while other may simply just want to donate to your church. However, most people would not want to feel pressured into buying something, especially if they have no need or use for it, yet would prefer to just give money to the causes they care about. And always, just a little bit of recognition goes a long way for those that do give.