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This update is the fourth in a series of blog posts adapted from the FlashPoint Top Ten Fundraising Tools and Tips first presented to the Marshall County Firefighters Association in June 2011.
10. Your personal support launches the credibility of your department's fundraising forward by leaps and bounds. 100% member giving at any level significantly builds credibility. No one knows better than you do how careful your department is with any funds entrusted to it and how worthwhile an investment in your department is!
If you don't believe enough in what you're doing to make a financial investment in it, why should anyone else invest? Your volunteer time is critical. Making a regular financial commitment to any organization you are so closely connected to builds on your incredible gift of time and enhances your mission in an equally critical way.
If you're fundraising campaign involves face to face asks, which represent the most effective form of fundraising, you will leave a strong impact on your prospect when you ask him or her to join you in making a commitment to your project.
If you're looking for guidance on how much to give to your department, you are encouraged to give at a level at which you care how your investment is spent.
One Iowa Fire department experienced great results when they mentioned in their annual community appeal letter that each member believed in that year's proposed project enough to personally contribute $100 a person to it.
10. Your personal support launches the credibility of your department's fundraising forward by leaps and bounds. 100% member giving at any level significantly builds credibility. No one knows better than you do how careful your department is with any funds entrusted to it and how worthwhile an investment in your department is!
If you don't believe enough in what you're doing to make a financial investment in it, why should anyone else invest? Your volunteer time is critical. Making a regular financial commitment to any organization you are so closely connected to builds on your incredible gift of time and enhances your mission in an equally critical way.
If you're fundraising campaign involves face to face asks, which represent the most effective form of fundraising, you will leave a strong impact on your prospect when you ask him or her to join you in making a commitment to your project.
If you're looking for guidance on how much to give to your department, you are encouraged to give at a level at which you care how your investment is spent.
One Iowa Fire department experienced great results when they mentioned in their annual community appeal letter that each member believed in that year's proposed project enough to personally contribute $100 a person to it.
For more information on how to communicate the impact of your volunteer efforts in your fundraising communications, click here.
For more information on FlashPoint strategic planning facilitation and/or custom fundraising training for your department, click here.
What stories of member giving would you like to share from your department?
What stories of member giving would you like to share from your department?
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