Saturday, December 18, 2010

Tips To Make Your Dance Fundraiser Click

Fundraising Tips To Apply On Your Dance Fundraiser

            Are you currently thinking about setting up a dance fundraiser? Is this going to be your first time to hold a fundraising campaign? Then, you need to arm yourself with as much fundraising tips as possible so that you can prepare you and your volunteers well for the challenges up ahead. The tips that I will be providing in this article for you will serve as your navigational tools so that you can have a sense of direction when set the sails of your fundraiser campaign.

            The first tip that you need to apply for your dance fundraiser is identifying the needs that you need to attend and setting fundraising goals based on those needs. It is pretty much obvious that if you know the things that you need or the problem that you want to solve, you can easily find the steps and strategies necessary to solve them. By needs, I am referring to the reason or reasons why you and your group need to build up funds in the first place. When you determine these reasons, you need to have an estimate of the amount of money that you are going to need to properly address them. For instance, if you plan on buying school supplies for the least favored students in your school, you need to do some canvassing on the different items that you plan on handing out. In this way, you can have an estimate of the funds that you must raise. Once you get your estimate, you can now move on to setting your fundraising goals. Base your goals and objectives on your financial needs.

            The next tip is choosing a good leader who will serve as the captain of your fundraising boat. Your leader needs to be responsible and he should be enthusiastic about your campaign. Remember that if the person who’s leading you is someone who’s witty and energetic, your members will most likely be in the same condition as well. Your leader should be your greatest motivator so he needs to be lively and energetic as much as possible. Next to choosing a good leader is organizing the workload of the fundraising campaign. You need to have a list of the different tasks that you need to accomplish even before the start of your fundraiser. By having a list of tasks, you can easily designate these to your members during one of your meetings. Keep in mind that you need to orient your volunteers well with regards to the tasks that they need to attend to. Organizing your tasks well will help you prevent lapses, errors, misunderstandings, confusions, oversights, and duplications later on. All of these need to be prevented as much as possible because they will kill your campaign as well as the profits that you get to raise later on. Lastly, try to do some role plays in front of your sales volunteers. This will let them know the proper way of offering products to customers so that they can be effective at convincing people to buy your products.



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