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Need help raising money for children with disabilities...

by Krishna876
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A friend of mine is a Behavior Therapist for a special needs school in Jamaica. Because of Jamaica's economic problems, the school has recently stopped getting govt subsidies, and is now looking for other ways to raise money.

She called me today to see if there was anything I could do to help out with getting donations. They are on the brink of closing their doors.

I'm looking for ideas on how we could raise some money using the internet.

All they have right now is sculptures from a well known artist in Jamaica that they're trying to sell. She said they are asking $500 each but I figure it would be better to frame it as a 'free gift' for contributors.

All suggestions are welcomed. Thanks in advance...

Btw - here is the school's website mccamcentre.com
#children #disabilities #money #raising
  • Profile picture of the author juangarciamtl
    maybe sell tickets to win the sculpture for 10 bucks and sell to the people around there
    after you put the tickets into a container and put a date where you pick a winner form the container
    i know maybe you need time for that but you can get money from there
    other think would be trying to sell the sculptures on ebay, kijiji, craiglist
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  • Profile picture of the author HarrieB
    If the website gets some decent traffic, they can have a tie up with other universities offering some educational offers.

    Whenever someone fills in the form, the school gets paid.

    They should also tie up with Local NGO'S to have some co-curricular programs where everyone is invited.

    They can then expect some donations.

    They can also advertise in newspapers or put some press releases for help and in return, the people who help are given those sculptures and all.
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    • Profile picture of the author TheRivetDaddy
      Fundraising is not an easy thing - I know that as I run a charity in my time around work, and it takes a lot of work.

      First thing I would do as a short term tactic is to find people I know in my network who might be up for fundraising through cake sales, selling their services, doing a sponsored event, having dinner parties (there are some restaurants who will do you a charity deal, while diners pay full price and the charity gets the difference). The internet is not as immediate as offline contacts.

      Then I would get a Facebook page going. Use all the FB standard techniques to build up a membership. News stories about kids in Jamaica (set up a daily Google search and post the most interesting one that comes up every day) on the page, especially ones with viral ability (which usually means an impactful photo, and I see that your friend has lots of great photos on the site). If you're ready to invest a little to get some back, advertise for the FB page (target people who are members of interest groups that would be useful, Jamaican expats perhaps, but you'd know the community better than I would). This will drive membership. Then every so often between the other FB posts, ask for people who are prepared to fundraise. My results on this is that I spent about £400 and got to 30,000 likes on our page, which turned into about £30,000 of funds raised by people who liked the page. It's a slow burner, but it works quite well.

      I see she has a donate button on the site. Perhaps also a [Fundraise] link with ideas for fundraising for those people who have more money than time. Again, she'd need to drive traffic to that page though for it to be effective, and FB and Twitter might be good ways to do that. People tend to be more accommodating on FB and Twitter of good causes, because it also makes them look and feel good. Use that to drive followers, and then drive them to the fundraising page.

      One we've not used yet, but are going to try, is to use an online crowdfunding site. Some sites such as indiegogo, helpfund.us and kickstarter have had successful charity projects. The key thing is to have a defined project (people prefer to donate to a specific thing they can touch and see than to an ongoing capability), so define the need in those terms. Pictures, stories, and specifics. Then again drive traffic to it and use the tools within each of those platforms to raise the project's visibility.

      Just some ideas from the hip... Good luck.
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