GIVE Foundation Fundraiser Toolkit
GIVE Fundraiser Supporters
Thank you
for your commitment to support GIVE’s host communities and projects abroad! Creating an individual fundraiser online is the best way to rally your friends and family to join you to empower people around the world.
More than 600 past volunteers have created individual fundraisers to support ongoing projects! These donations allow us to continue supporting education and sustainable projects in our host communities – how incredible is that!? And, by creating an individual fundraiser, while receiving donations to support our host communities around the world, you’ll also receive raffle tickets for a chance to win GIVE swag! Here are simple instructions on how to start your fundraiser.
How to have a successful fundraiser
CREATE YOUR PAGE
Create and personalize your fundraiser. Let the world know why you’re passionate about supporting GIVE’s people and projects!
Involve your community
Engage your friends and family to support your fundraiser! Invite them to your page, email your page, and share on social media!
Get creative
Share your fundraiser on social media, text, email, and other ways to spread the word and grab peoples’ attention! Always thank your supporters for their donations.
What You’re Fundraising For
You’re fundraising to support students and teachers you met on your trips and the continuation of important education initiatives in our host communities. This fundraiser supports increasing access to education for students and sustaining ongoing education year-round. This includes teacher salaries, student scholarships, women empowerment, transportation, literacy and computer science education. We are sincerely grateful for your involvement!
Click “show more” to learn more or head over to our main fundraiser page here.
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Expand education in GIVE’s host communities around the world.
Over the last 11 years, GIVE has engaged in education and community development projects in remote communities around the world. The GIVE Foundation is our not-for-profit arm that sustains these projects year-round. We focus on building human capital and opportunity through education, expanding educational opportunities, and employing local leaders and educators in our schools, who know their communities and environments best, to be the stewards of educational outcomes.
All donations to GIVE foundation and our causes go directly to our communities and are 100% tax deductible.
Create Your Individual Fundraiser
(you could also win GIVE swag!)
Your Fundraiser
Individual Fundraisers are hands-down the most effective way to support the communities we love! The power of collective action will keep the GIVE family thriving. Your fundraising page will only take 5 minutes to set up. Just follow these easy steps to launch your fundraiser! Your name will be entered in a drawing for a chance to win a GIVE swag for every $25 raised!
Step 1: Start your fundraiser!
Facebook: From your computer, start your Facebook Fundraiser here (you have to be logged into Facebook). From your phone, open the Facebook app and search “fundraiser” in the search bar. It will take you to the fundraiser tab, then click the +Create Fundraiser button (top left) and search for GIVE Foundation.
Instagram: You can also post on your feed and stories with a donation button! Add the button and search for the nonprofit “GIVE Foundation”
If you don’t have Facebook, create a GoFundMe here!
Click to Expand FAQs
- How much do you want to raise? We encourage you to start with a $100 goal! You can continue to raise your goal if you reach it before your fundraiser ends.
- Are there prizes? Yes! For every $25 raised, you’ll enter a raffle for GIVE swag!
- When should your fundraiser end? Set up your fundraiser to run for 7-10 days from the start date.
- Why are you raising money? To support education and educators in our host communities around the world. See below for a sample fundraiser description. We highly encourage you to tell your personal story and make this template your own!
Step 2: Personalize your fundraiser – Share your story and why you’re passionate – and add a cover photo from your trip. Select “create” to start your Fundraiser.
Click to Expand Example Text for your Fundraiser Description
Note: We highly encourage you to personalize this template so that it is heartfelt and coming from you. Make sure to open with a personal introduction about your GIVE experience and how these people and projects impacted your life.
Short:
Hello friends and family! Join me in supporting education for students through GIVE Foundation’s Students4Students campaign.
Not only has GIVE impacted my life in a positive way, but its mission strives to bridge the gap of inequality around the world, bringing sustainable change and community empowerment to all partnering locations. Students4Students raises funds to combat our greatest threat to global equity: access to education. Every penny makes a positive impact, directly supporting teacher salaries, student scholarships, nutritional programs, education supplies, and school maintenance projects in all of GIVE’s partnerships around the globe.
Please help me reach my goal by clicking the “Donate” button on this page. All donations at 100% tax deductible. Even trading in your morning coffee will directly provide better access to education worldwide. Thank you so much for your generous support! Feel free to share with other friends and family!
Longer:
Friends and family, Iʻm asking for your help with a fundraiser that means a great deal to me and so many others around the world.
In (year), I volunteered in (country) with GIVE Volunteers, an incredible organization that’s working to increase access to equitable education, preserve the environment, and empower local community leaders around the world. Throughout my trip, GIVE’s local guides and project coordinators were the heart and soul of the experience. They were the driving force behind our positive impact and the inspiration for my fellow volunteers and I to become more engaged global citizens. They have also inspired more than 8,000 past volunteers, like myself, with all they do for their communities.
These local leaders, teachers, and students that have all impacted me so much and are making great strides forward in the empowerment of their local communities are worth investing in. In honor of providing the most sustainable support to our partnering communities, each year we organize a Students4Students campaign that raises funds to combat our greatest threat to global equity: access to education. Your generous donations are specifically allocated to each of our partnering communities:
- Tanzania: Supporting year-round teacher salaries, transportation, and school maintenance at Skuli ya Kairo.
- Thailand: Year-round salary of Kru Amnuoy to be a full-time teacher and manage the nutritional school farm at Nong Bua School in Meaung Khong, Thailand.
- Laos: Fund secondary school scholarships for more than 60 students in the rural village of Sop Chem, Laos.
- Nicaragua: Fund teacher salaries and English education initiatives at the technical school in the rural fishing village of Jiquillio, Nicaragua.
- Nepal: Fund teacher salaries and educational supplies for the primary education of more than 30 students in the rural community of Paslang, Nepal.
I humbly ask you to support this campaign that’s very near and dear to me and so many others. Every penny directly impacts teachers and students around the world. From our GIVE family across the globe – tupo pamoja from Tanzania, ruam mer gun from Thailand, puak hao from Laos, sabai sangai jahnae from Nepal, estamos juntos from Nicaragua, and he waʻa he moku; he moke he waʻa from Hawaiʻi. Weʻre all in this together.
Thank you so much for your support!
Step 3: Share away! Invite friends and family to your fundraiser, post on social media and email it to your network. Read below on how to make your fundraiser a success!
Ensure Your Fundraiser is a Success
Tips & Strategies
Once your Fundraiser is launched…
Tips to make your fundraiser a success!
- Invite ALL your Facebook friends to join your fundraiser and/or text your fundraiser link to everyone you know
- Reshare your fundraiser! Share frequently across your social media! Here are SM templates to share. You can also email and text your fundraiser link.
- Update your supporters!
- Share your progress with your community as you gain donations
- Thank your donors! Be sure to comment a “thank you” on their donation.
- Email your network with your fundraiser link (Email template link)
Instagram, TikTok & Other SM Strategy
We can’t leave Instagram and other social media out of the equation, can we??
- Download these Instagram templates to share on Instagram stories (it’s the last 3 images in the album)!
Watch this Instagram Tutorial
for how to add your own photo on the template! - Post photos from your trip on your feed and stories. Share how these communities impacted you and why you believe it’s important to provide support. Tag @givevolunteers to be featured on our Instagram!
- Share your Facebook Fundraiser on your Instagram Stories and Feed for people to donate & help you reach your goal (from Facebook, tap the “share” arrow at the top)
- Post stories with the “donation” button – search and select “GIVEVolunteers” for people to easily donate from your story
- Add your fundraiser link or https://www.givevolunteers.org/donate your bio. In your posts, always direct people to your link in bio or include a link to donate.
- Help us gain exposure to provide more support to the communities we love!
- Like, comment, and share GIVE’s posts related to this fundraiser.
- Repost GIVE’s posts to your story to share about the fundraiser.
Daily Fundraiser Template Posts
After inviting ALL your friends and family to join your fundraiser, the single most effective way to ensure your fundraiser is a success is to post every day about the incredible people and projects you’re supporting. We’ve created daily posts you can share in your fundraiser and on your social media with your fundraiser link, but it’s also important to post photos and stories from your own trip to personalize your message. You can find post templates here or scroll down to the resources section!
It’s pretty simple – the more often you post and engage your supporters, the more people you will reach, the more donations you will receive, and the greater impact you will have on our host communities.
Email & outreach strategies
It’s refreshing, personal, and very effective to also connect with your network off social media (especially with family friends)!
- Emailing your friends and family goes a long way! Here is an email template you can download and use.
- Texting and calling is really effective! Share your GIVE experience, ask if they’d considered donating, and send them the link to your fundraiser (or if they don’t have Facebook, include our fundraiser page or Venmo @GIVEfoundation).
No social media? No problem!
First, create an individual fundraiser with GoFundMe here (you can find instructions on setting up your fundraiser here). Then, share your fundraiser with your network!
- Emailing your friends and family goes a long way! Here is an email template you can download and use.
- Texting and calling is really effective! Share your experience, ask if they’d considered donating, and send them the link to your fundraiser (or, donations can be made through our main fundraiser page here or Venmo @GIVEfoundation).
Donation matching!
Your work can get involved too — Double your efforts with employer donation matching! Most companies have corporate matching programs that you, your family, and your friends can utilize! Corporate matching is a type of philanthropy in which companies financially match donations that their employees make to nonprofit organizations – it’s free and multiplies your efforts!
Contact your employer’s HR or community giving department to see if they have a corporate matching program or search your company here. See if they can match what your fundraiser accumulated or any individual contributions. Remember to ask your friends and family if their company matches donations to nonprofits! Employers can find GIVE Foundation on Guidestar.org – we’re happy to provide any info needed!
Resources
Photos, Templates & One Time Donations
Daily Fundraiser Social Media Posts/Captions:
We’ve created daily templates to post in your fundraiser to keep your supporters engage (and across your social media!). We encourage you to share your photos to tell your story as much as possible during your fundraiser. We’ve also compiled additional photos in the section below.
Photos and Social Media templates to share:
We encourage you to share your photos to tell your story and support your fundraiser! We’ve also compiled photos for you to post on your Instagram, Facebook, and across the board! Want a cool social media story template to share about your fundraiser? Click the button below to find our Instagram Story Template to share (it’s the last few photos in the album). Watch this video to see how to add images as well!
Personalized Instagram story/post:
Share these Instagram Story Templates to share with your own personal photos (the last 3 images in the album)! Watch this video to see how to add images as well!
Email your network!
No problem at all. You can still leverage your network in a variety of ways.
- Emailing your close friends and family can go a long way. Here is an email template for you to use. Try directly emailing people rather than one email with a huge list of recipients. It will take longer but is much more effective!
- Texting and calling really works! Start by sharing your story about your GIVE trip and communities you worked with hand-in-hand, then ask if they’d be interested in learning more about GIVE’s Fundraiser in response to the pandemic. Add that it would mean a lot to you if they consider donating! You can direct them to the main fundraising page here or Venmo @GIVEfoundation if that’s easier.
One Time or Recurring Donations
Tax-deductible, one-time or recurring donations can be made on our website here or to our Venmo account @GIVEfoundation
This fundraiser could not be successful without the help of our dedicated GIVE fam. We appreciate you helping us do whatever you can to spread the word and gain all the momentum needed to uplift Team Human worldwide.