Make it work for you in less than 5 minutes
Quick - use this link to get images or html code to create a link on your website and then just let your volunteers get on with some brilliant fundraising.
Pop - your events on our calendar.
Now - read through our hints below, if you can't stop to do it all straight away, why not schedule a half-hour slot in your diary to start really getting the most out of this site...
The benefits to you are four fold:
- Encouraging new fundraising activity - the site provides a wealth of information on different ways to fundraise, how2guides are regularly added to encourage people to try something new
- Retaining volunteers – clear helpful advice that will inspire confidence and help ensuring that success breeds success
- Helping to manage risk for you and your volunteers - each how2guide offers clear information on the law and best practice
- Increasing the income generated – how2guides and know-how sheets share the secrets of successful fundraising, we don’t just focus on how to run great events we also look at how to turn them into generous donations
Co-branding, your own unique site
The fifth benefit – co-branding – a website that automatically promotes your brand and produces letters, sponsorship forms, posters and more with your chosen logo and text. Provide volunteers with a compelling alternative to cutting and pasting logos from your site, stay in control and maximise your brand awareness.
Make the site work for you
Co-branding is the optimum way to make the site work for you and is available to all organisational members of the Institute of Fundraising.
But if you are not yet members, then you can start making use of the site immediately. Simply create links through to the site wherever you encourage volunteer fundraisers to support you. Be creative, you can write your own A to Z list, linking each title through to the relevant how2guide, use our know-how sheets to expand on the summary information on your own site.
If you would like editorial for you newsletters and enews, just let us know and we will do our best to supply what you need. Here is a possible template article, but we are happy to write alternative material.
Templatepressreleaseforcharitymags.doc
And don’t forget to register your events on the events calendar!
We would be delighted if you created links using our logo as a button so we have provided our logo in a range of formats.
(While we enthusiastically encourage you to use our logo as a link button or in promotional material for the website, we ask you to check it out with us before using the logo for other purposes, see our terms)
The site provides volunteers with:
- How2guides- Step-by-step guides to running a range of fundraising activities with clear advice on the law and best practice relating to each
- Templates and tools– Letters, posters, sponsorship forma, auto-calculators for ticket prices and prizes and many more
- Know-how sheets– key fact sheet on a wide range of topics, from asking properly to risk assessments
- Information knowledge exchange - forums, 'my fundraising' and
- Events calendar – open to all to promote their fundraising activity and find out what is going on
- Directory of suppliers – find what you need
Why did the Institute build this site?
It is intended to help volunteer fundraisers be more successful; we want them to really enjoy what they are doing, raise more money and know the law and best practice.
The Institute sees it as a natural extension to its services, helping both volunteers and the professionals that support them to achieve the highest standards in fundraising practice and management. The FundRaising Standards Board welcomed it as an ideal way to guide volunteer fundraisers through the range of legislation that applies to many fundraising activities.
