Come along to explore the key principles of fundraising from the local community. Learn how to use volunteer networks as a resource to develop a holistic management model approach to community fundraising.
The training was delivered as part of the fundraising fair at the Directory of Social Change.
29. General: business, music, blogging, videos 130,000,000
Friends and family 500,000,000
Live updates: general 160,000,000
Sharing videos: 6,300,000,000 videos
3rd
most visited
website in world
Free calls, video calls and audio conferences 11,000,000
Professional social network 80,000,000
Sharing photos: 4,000,000,000 pictures 32,000,000
£53 billion = sector
50% from individuals
ROI for community fundraising = £2.79 : £1
Kiva started in 2005
Payback rate of 97.88%
Feel there’s untapped potential?
Want to raise lots of money for your charity? Wrong: strategy is not to patch leaking bucket!! Money’s only a way to get something done, focus is on what you do…
You want to solve a problem!! Want to do good that’s the most important to remember!
Greenpeace is a master at using volunteers… in 5 years increased by 1.4 million supporters in 18 countries! They help you achieve your purpose… how do we achieve the purpose better and energise them? I’ve got 2 methods. One takes 1 step, the other one 5… so here’s the easier method:
This is the method I’d suggest everyone who wants a quick fix. For the others, I’ve got the “not so easy method” in 5 steps
1. What’s stopping you? What are the barriers you’re facing?
2. Who’s in your network? You’re looking for the champions…
You might be surprised what you find when you start looking around!
Then you might also have a kid like charlie simpson who at 7 raised £210,000 for haiti!!
3. What are their motivations?
So what motivates people then?
AIESEC size: 40,000 active members, 110 countries, >99% of volunteers and rotation of leadership = 1 year
AIESEC Ahmadabad Consulting: refused paid jobs to volunteer for personal growth
Management = 20th Century invention… like TV, doesn’t mean it’s gonna work for ever
Traditional management = Great for compliance
Engagement (what charities want!) => Self direction
Few times a year > Tell engineers work on anything you want, as long as not regular job
“Have to deliver over night”
Autonomy over time, tasks and techniques
At Google +/- half of all new products / services during that 20% time > Gmail, Google Ads, Orkut, Google News
Make it easy to help!
Pennsylvania: volunteer for clinton and did paper work (process), then Obama and asked about passion… personal interest: Star Trek > talk about Obama at conventions and forums
Microsoft, mid 90s… lots resources: expert, money, management, structure, marketing, etc
New model: fun, no professionals, no money
No sober economist would have predicted what happened…
14 million articles
350 million edits
May 2009… stopped Encarta.
Encyclopedia Britanica… THE reference… 184x less hits than Wiki, and now try to copy their strategy
5. Enable >> by giving people ownership: the big issue understood this very well!
This is how you help people do what they dream of doing but can’t… and they’ll be thankful to you so they’ll want to do more!