If you’ve been running fundraising campaigns for some time now, you’ve probably heard of the term “Peer-to-Peer Fundraising” (P2P). What exactly is this type of fundraising, and does the FundScrip fundraising program fall under this category? In this article we’ll help you determine the difference between traditional fundraising programs and so-called peer-to-peer fundraising programs.
Glenview Presbyterian Church has been serving North Toronto for over 90 years, dedicated to outreach in its community and around the world. Glenview has been participating in the FundScrip gift card program for 5 years, raising nearly $15,000 in donations.
FundScrip is a very effective fundraising program, and at first glance you might get the impression that running a FundScrip campaign happens entirely online. However, the FundScrip groups who raise the most money are those who make the effort to engage with their supporters in person. One of the best ways to engage with your supporters, or potential supporters, is to set up a FundScrip table wherever your supporters will be congregating, and to help you succeed with your FundScrip information table, we put together a few simple tips to help you be prepared and reach as many supporters as possible.
Unlike most fundraising programs that ask you to peddle products of dubious value, with FundScrip, supporters simply need to buy gift cards for the stores they already visit. It’s simply a question of getting into the habit of changing their payment method. Despite the obvious advantages of using gift cards in this manner for fundraising, some people are still reluctant to embrace them. For that reason, we’ve compiled a list of the main reasons why everyone should use gift cards as their payment method!
Father's Day is almost here! To make it special for the DADS in your life, we made a special Gift Card Guide on our blog. Now that you have your gift cards, you need to give them out in a unique way, right? We searched all over Pinterest to find the best gift card DIYs out there for you to try! Here's what we found.
Summer is the best time to kick back, relax, and enjoy the beautiful weather. That means some of us take a little summer break, including our amazing and dedicated FundScrip group administrators! In order to help all you group administrators out there keep raising money for your groups throughout the summer, even if you’re taking a break, we’ve put together a few tips on how to raise more for the summer.
The Duffield Devils Select Hockey Team has 16 members and in only four paper order campaigns over two seasons, they have raised over $3,000 in funds. Money raised from this fundraising effort goes towards offsetting ice costs, tournaments and travel expenses. The administrator Katy Fortuna found it to be a great program that was easy to run and the participants really liked the idea of fundraising for their hockey team with their everyday shopping.
The Social Science program at Cegep Beauce-Appalaches has raised more than $20,000 for educational trips. Even though this is their 15th trip, they only started using FundScrip in November 2013. "FundScrip has also become the most effective way to finance our trips, especially by doing it long term " said FundScrip group administrator Jonathan Roy Marois. These educational trips are organized in conjunction with the Integrative Seminar course which gives the students the opportunity to put into practice some of the social science methods that they’ve learned, with the goal of tackling various issues that exist at their destination.
Mother's Day is almost here! To make it special for the MOMS in your life, we made a special Gift Card Guide on our blog. Now that you have your gift cards, you need to give them out in a unique way, right? We searched all over Pinterest to find the best gift card DIYs out there for you to try! Here's what we found.