Online Fundraising

Are you tired of selling candy bars or cookie dough door to door for your school, youth or sports team? Stop eating your fundraising profits and start raising more money fundraising online. Are you a parent that is tired of writing checks for all of the items you son or daughter didn't sell?

Online fundraising is an awesome and profitable alternative.

Some of the benefits include:

• There is no product to sell
• There are no upfront costs
• There is no money to collect
• There are no orders to tally
• There is no delivery day

Now, if all that sounds too good to be true, think again. This is how most national non-profit organizations set up their volunteers to raise money.

Volunteers are encouraged to use online fundraising, often gaining access to easy-to-use website templates. With some simple personalization, their fundraising pages look professional and ready to send out to family, friends and co-workers.

In fact, I bet you have contributed to someone's efforts this way. Maybe they were running a marathon or a 5K and sent you a link to their donation page. It's fun to see their fundraising thermometer grow with each donation!

Let's face it, millions of dollars are raised every year this way. And it's great, because all the donations are made typically using a secure source like PayPal. Most people can give a little bit more money if they can use their credit or debit card. If your like most people, you probably rarely carry cash or checks any more. And who wants the hassle of having to go back and deliver product and collect money?

Think about it...have you ever seen a professional fundraiser selling candy bars?

Probably not!

You can imagine how pleased I was to find that I can help my son's band and my daughter's photography club, raise money online, for free, just like the national charities do!

All we had to do was add a photo of our group, information about our fundraiser and why it is important to raise this money.

Hint: People don't want to know you need the money, rather, they want to know why you need the money.

Make sure the information you include on your personalized online fundraising website includes how their donation will impact the groups education, experience or potential to impact others in a meaningful way.

So, stop raising your money one dollar at a time with candy bar fundraisers and help your kids raise money like the professionals.

Your school, club or group will thank you for it, and so will your waistline!