How can I make my fund raising page more effective?

[Nat]

Any tips or pointers of how I could re work or anything that might help me out?

https://www.raise2give.com/ghana-2013/nathaniel-hawley

Thank you

[Hayley]

Promote yourself on facebook (pay for promoted post) and ask your friends to put share the page on their facebook too and ask them to ask their friends to share it too and so on and so forth. You can also pay to advertise on google if you have enough money, and on facebook, you may be able to post it on gumtree or craigs list.

It is just a case of making your friends passionate enought to help. Have a load of flyers printed and ask people to deliver them to people, put them up at bus stops and on trees etc.

Email all of your contacts the link and a proper description, and I like your sly marketing here. I don't have any money though I am afrad.

[noisypie138]

As it's your page, are you able to ask for more details about the donation from Success Photography at the bottom, as there doesn't appear to be an active link to any further info?

If they have, as it appears to suggest, done business for a night in order to raise funds for your project, then that would be a good example not only for your project to highlight, but potentially for also showing to some of this countries service providers, who are currently facing the austerity circumstances that we are all aware of. I'm sure that, at that level of donation the photography firm could also have got a salary or professional fee out of the evening as well, so that their fundraising was done on an employment rather than volunteering basis.

As your project is also about creating education opportunities abroad, you would also then be able to show your students about the trading activity that led to their chance being given. That means you then have a potential non-donation funding and service model that could be used around the world, without the risk of creating any feelings of dependency, and it would be wise to highlight and market this to as many people in the third sector as you possibly can.

The initial stages to do this (if the donation was what it appears to be) would include putting your above weblink on your profile page on here and on any other social media you use, pointing out the benefits of this kind of trade on your page and the fact that you welcome these kind of donations, showing that you then include this in the things you teach to the African youngsters, and then joining up with some of the third sector online communities to discuss where to take it further.

Many charities prefer not to engage with trading activities because of a perceived risk to the basis for donation. However, given that there are probably less potential donations around at the moment, and the world can no longer afford to continue creating dependency on the donation activities of the wealthy, it is inspiring to see a project being funded from a surplus generating trading activity.

Please pass on my kind regards to Success Photography, and well done with your efforts so far
Live long and prosper (socially of course) \\//_
PE