I need your brain... fundraising ideas for $5000 by June?!
It's for the Hope to Haiti project, run by Random Acts. The Youtube video for it is here, if you want more details:
Basically, if I'm one of the first forty people to get $5,000 donated to the charity, I'll get to accompany Misha Collins (my role model!) and Matt Cohen (another cool actor) and 39 others to Haiti to build a community centre and a fishpond in Haiti, this June.
The recent and tragic earthquake in Japan has reminded us all that there's still death and destruction out there, and conditions in Haiti are still deplorable. Over a million people are still displaced in refugee camps, disease is rampant, and rape by armed gangs is common.
I'll find some way to fund my own travel expenses -- the $5,000 goes directly to helping Haiti, not to me.
So with that said... I need ideas for how to utilize my skills and connections to get that $5K without seeming like I'm begging. :p I want it to be a win-win-win -- charity benefits, I get to go to Haiti and help, and the donator gets some kind of special deal or thank you gift.
A quick list of brainstormed ideas and points...
- Start a WSO and sell articles for a minimum $10 donation to the charity (big discount on my usual rates and for charity, that would be okay for a WSO, right? (Probably simplest upfront but requires the most work!))
- Write ebooks for charity? Fewer people might buy, but more profit per ebook written... $5 per formatted page? $10? What's a reasonable -- cheaper than normal but not slave-labour -- price?
- Release some kind of an information product with the proceeds going to charity, by donation ($10 minimum) -- about what? Hmm...
- Reach people who wouldn't otherwise buy articles... maybe give away some kind of training for writers who donate?
- Hey, I can build blogs. "Get your portfolio put up for you in exchange for $X"? (What's X?)
- Create some kind of personal connection... donate $10 and get your name thanked, $25 and you get a postcard, $50 and you get a personalized video, etc...? Not sure how to set this up, but I can do it somehow!
- The charity website it's on has an incentive program where you can donate a specific amount to any charity on the site before a specific date and be entered to win a prize... this can't go on freebie sites, but maybe I can create a followup email list to let people know about new giveaways? "Donate another $12 to maybe win an X"?
- Offline promotion? QR codes on a poster that charge them an amount as a donation and automatically sign them up to win something? (Donate $12, chance to win an X?)
Please, share any ideas at all you might have. Nothing's too insane. I'll get pied in the face to earn money for this.
I'm off to search the forum for similar past threads, so I may edit this post with what I find. :p
Thank you so much.
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