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Fundraisers are beginning to tap into the potential Twitter has to offer by connecting with people and developing relationships that matter.  Fundraisers can converse with potential donors, exchange ideas, listen to feedback and change the way they approach fundraising.  Twitter is a real-time people driven information network that connects you to the latest information about what you find relevant and interesting: a tool vital to fundraisers that want to raise money fast and effectively.

Before Twitter fundraising and social media, connecting with a global donor base was next to impossible, unless you had unlimited access to capital, or you were Michael Jackson.  Now, Twitter can bring your cause to a global audience all for free.  

Twitter creates an environment similar to your local neighborhood.  Next-door neighbors chat about the weather, politics; issues that matter to them.  The same conversations form naturally on Twitter.  It acts as a forum of ideas and promotes intimacy amongst people who would never have met.  A follower can respond to a tweet by a favorite musician and develop a dialogue with someone he’s admired for years.

Before social media a picture of Twitter on the street might look something like this: Type 140 characters, in large font, on a sandwich board and place it over your shoulders.  Pick a busy area like Times Square in New York – which doesn’t even come close to the numbers of people on Twitter today – and walk around with the hope that someone will read your message and choose to engage the guy walking around Times Square with the sandwich board on his chest.

Now that the sandwich board is virtual, the possibilities are considerable: ask questions, connect with interesting people, promote causes and websites, share links, swap news stories, raise donor awareness and recruit volunteers.  Twitter fundraisers give non-profit, political and community fundraisers instant access to all of these tools in the few minutes it takes to sign up.

You can use tools like TwitterFeed to automatically broadcast your blog posts over Twitter updating your followers automatically.  If a follower likes your post they can retweet your posts.  Tweeting and retweeting become infectious as others promote your cause.

In conjunction with Twitter, online fundraising platforms have developed to maximize the potential of a connected world.  People using social media are most often found on more than one platform.  Twitter users have accounts with Facebook and LinkedIn and engage in Internet forums, weblogs, social blogs, microblogging, wikis, and podcasts.  Online fundraising platforms create fundraising campaigns that connect all the different forms of social media.  And like Twitter, it’s all for free.

Twitter can help your cause further by:

  • People across the globe can be informed of your cause with a click of the mouse
  • Twitter is succinct, people voice their opinions keeping you up to date about what they are thinking
  • Follow other fundraisers to share ideas and receive real-time advice
  • Twitter gives you the tools to promote your website and cause

Virtual communities are developing every second and the world of interconnectedness positions the smart fundraiser to capitalize on its unlimited potential.  Twitter and online fundraising platforms are bringing the world to your doorstep and many in the world, are interested in social good.  Try connecting today.

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Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:48:00 -0700 Community Fundraising Online Helps Communities Fundraise Quickly http://fundraisingonline.posterous.com/community-fundraising-online-helps-communitie http://fundraisingonline.posterous.com/community-fundraising-online-helps-communitie

Community fundraisers have become a mainstay of living in suburbia. These well-known institutions try to raise money for any number of causes, both big and small. However, they usually champion something that will benefit the entire community rather than something that will benefit only one or a few individuals. This could range in any number of things from something like a new playground for the children of the neighborhood, to trying to raise money for some sort of school trip that the children want to partake in. All of these are great causes for community fundraisers, which traditionally can take the form of bakes sales, raffles, Christmas cards, wrapping paper and things of that nature.

These community fundraisers all serve a very good and well-known purpose to provide a discount for people in the community who would like change but don’t want to necessarily dip out of their own pockets for it. Which is understandable, not everyone has a ton of money. The one thing that community fundraisers could do though is to broaden their advertisement base, which would help them increase their sales.

However, some of the best community fundraising campaigns that have proved excellent fundraising results has been the work that has been accomplished via fundraising online. To raise money online, community groups really need to be cognizant of the audience that you wish to reach out to and raise money from. Now, this audience may not just be limited to the people in your city or town. It may be a cause that affects people across the entire world and therefore it would be a good idea to broaden the search for donators to the entire world rather than just your own city or town. To do this you will want to try to use larger medium to raise money online.

These mediums will most likely include websites, blogs, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. You may be familiar with one or even all of these mediums; however they can be used to great effect in raising money for your community, no matter where you are. With these, someone around the world from you can hear your message and understand the group that you are trying to raise money online for. These mediums can help you to reach across the world and broaden your exposure to people and places that you would not be able to on a regular basis. Community fundraisers typically use some or all of these programs in their quest to raise money over the Internet and the world.

Community fundraisers may be happening right now in your own town. Go and check your local paper or news site, and you would be hard pressed to find an issue that some sort of community group was not trying to raise money for some sort of charity or group. Community fundraising online should be considered the next time you try to either raise money for a community or when you may think about giving back to a community fundraiser. These community fundraisers seek to help people do things that they could not do before hand and better the entire community together.

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Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:53:00 -0700 Community Fundraising Events: Building a Relationship with Your Donors Online http://fundraisingonline.posterous.com/community-fundraising-events-building-a-relat http://fundraisingonline.posterous.com/community-fundraising-events-building-a-relat

It is wonderful to belong to a community where each one is willing to lend a hand to be able to do something good for their community’s welfare.  However, it could be difficult to invite all members of a particular community to join and be involved.  There are those who have jobs and those who are busy with house work.  No matter how we convince them to gain enough manpower, there would always be someone who could not join. 

Planning a community fundraising event within your community can be very frustrating and disappointing especially if things are not going according to planned.  You can plan a Dance-for-a-Cause event or a bake sale but if the members in the community are unresponsive, these community fundraising ideas might not work accordingly.  This is why you should find a way to get each member involved without demanding too much of their time and effort.

Everyone is so into the internet nowadays.  Who would not?  Everything is so user-friendly and interesting.  Even grandma could easily surf if she wants to.  So why not take advantage of this technology to make a difference in your community?  The internet is the best place to invite donors to support your community’s projects.  But you can not just go ahead and post your good intentions online.  You have to do this properly if you want people to take you seriously.  This may seem difficult but it is not.  At least Piryx does not make this difficult for anyone.

Piryx is an online fundraising platform that can help you put your community fundraising ideas to life.  This is so easy to use.  It will guide in setting up your account.  It provides innovative tools that you can use to personalize and customize your community fundraising page according to your preferences.  There are various designs and layouts that you can choose from.  Make your fundraising page as attractive as you could be able to catch the attention of anyone who comes across it.  If you wish to change anything after creating your page, you can easily edit and adjust whatever you have set.

Once you have created your fundraising page, you can now post this online.  You can post it on any social networks like Facebook, twitter, or MySpace, wherever you can.  You can also post it on your personal blog site.  You can send it through email.  The great thing about Piryx is that your page can be seen easily because almost everyone has an account with the social networks mentioned earlier.  Compared to other community fundraising ideas, this is the most visible of its kind.  You barely have to promote it.  Posting it alone can invite donors and supporters.   Even the people in your community can easily join and support your fundraising efforts from the comfort of their own homes or offices.  Of all the community fundraising ideas, this is the only one that lets you and your community unite online.  You can easily build a relationship with your donors as well as your supporters with just a click of a button.

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Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:47:00 -0700 Set Up Your Community Fundraising Event the Easy Way http://fundraisingonline.posterous.com/set-up-your-community-fundraising-event-the-e http://fundraisingonline.posterous.com/set-up-your-community-fundraising-event-the-e
A lot of communities nowadays are not that dependent anymore on their community, city or government officials. This means that they do not rely solely on the budget that is given to their community for the expenses that they need to pay for, or the financial assistance that the city or the government provides their community. The reason for this is that because with all the budget cuts that the government needs to do, if a community will be overly dependent on that budget, their community programs will not function because of the lack of budget. This is why they hold community fundraising events that go a long way to add security to the community’s finances.

A fundraising event is a process wherein a group of people or even an individual sometimes, provides their own manual labor and physical effort to collect donations and contributions for a cause. So when it comes to community fundraisers, the people of the community help one another out with what they can to be able to get donations and contributions from other people. This financial assistance will then be used to pay off expenses, and make other community programs function well.

Traditionally, community fundraising programs were done by holding events such as fundraising campaigns wherein people from the community will offer services like car washes, cold calling, door to door canvassing, selling baked goodies, other food and snacks, and holding event dinners. Most often, these traditional ways have worked, but you can never remove the fact that these ways of the traditional community fundraising events are sometimes intrusive, and are very time consuming.

The traditional fundraiser events held and done during a community fundraising program such as selling baked goodies, selling food and snacks, car washes and the door to door canvassing require a lot of time, effort, and of course the manual and physical labor that a person needs to make. Baked goodies and other food need to be prepared and made, and the serving should be done in a nice manner. Car washes require muscle strength, and door to door canvassing consumes energy, not to mention that you will be walking directly under the sun’s heat.

However, because science has brought so many advancements in technology, the need for events or face-to-face solicitations that are the traditional ways of community fundraisers has come to pass. With the invention of the Internet, your efforts do not need to be directed to these time-consuming works that requires all your energy and physical labor. With all the tools that you can now use for your community fundraising programs, holding the fundraising event online will surely result to better news.

Online community fundraisers are now becoming very popular and more and more people choose this modern way because we all know that a very big percentage of the world’s population uses the Internet and the World Wide Web. By setting up your own website, uploading graphics and other photos, plus posting a comment or a status message on any networking site, you can now easily call the attention of a lot of people to the cause you have for your community fundraising event, without the need to put so much effort with all those labor work needed for the traditional way.

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