Prepare your emails in advance of the Alive and Learning challenge start on 15th July and you will be on the way with a smooth fundraising campaign.
You can use the sample emails below to send to your supporters, friends, family and constituents. Just add your details in and make any amendments you like. These examples are here to give you a head start!
1. First Week Email
Dear [DONOR NAME/FRIEND]
Thank you for your continued support and interest in [ORGANISATION NAME].
We wanted to let you know that [ORGANISATION NAME] is participating in GlobalGiving.co.uk’s Alive and Learning challenge, a fundraising opportunity for health and education projects helping communities worldwide.
Projects that raise £2000 or more will receive prominent marketing on GlobalGiving.co.uk, the internationally recognised marketplace for philanthropy that connects individual donors to the causes they care most about, and promote our project to GlobalGiving UK’s national partners as well as be in the running for one of the top bonus cash prizes, which would help [ORGANISATION NAME] achieve so much more.
Every donation helps, and no donation is too small. You can show your support for [ORGANISATION NAME] for as little as £5 and make a big impact to our project. If you’re ready to donate now, please visit our project page on GlobalGiving.co.uk: [LINK TO YOUR PROJECT PAGE].
[ORGANISATION NAME] is very excited about this opportunity to highlight our work for [education/health] in [COUNTRY OF PROJECT] and raise fund and awareness for [YOUR PROJECT'S MISSION]. Help us achieve our goal of £2000 by August 14th 2009 by making a donation to [ORGANIZATION NAME] on GlobalGiving.co.uk [LINK TO YOUR PROJECT PAGE]. Please share this email and our project link with your friends and family and ask them to help us too.
Thank you for your support,
[YOUR NAME]
2. Email introducing fundraising ideas
Dear [SUPPORTER NAME/FRIEND]
Thank you for your continued support and interest in [ORGANISATION NAME].
We would like to thank you for your continued support and interest in [ORGANISATION NAME] and particularly for your support in this month’s Alive and Learning challenge that [ORGANISATION NAME] is participating in.
Your donations are greatly appreciated and even a small donation of £5 can make such a huge difference to our work. If you would like to donate and help us to reach our target of £2000 by August 14th 2009, please visit our project page on GlobalGiving.co.uk: [PROJECT PAGE LINK]
You can do even more to help support our project with the Giving Tools available on GlobalGiving.co.uk including personalized fundraiser pages and giving group pages. You could hold a fundraising event for [ORGANISATION NAME] and ask for sponsorship from your family and friends. Perhaps hold a dinner for your friends and ask everyone to donate to our project whilst they are there, or you ask people to sponsor you to completing a run, walk, cycle or other fitness challenge. Or if you are part of a group that would like to support [ORGANISATION NAME] you can set up a giving group page that will track your donations to our project.
To set up a page and start fundraising, click here (http://www.globalgiving.co.uk/giftsandfundraising/) and make sure to add our project to your personalised fundraising page [LINK TO YOUR PROJECT].
All donations raised on GlobalGiving.co.uk for our project until August 14th 2009 will count towards our target of £2000 for the Alive and Learning challenge on GlobalGiving. By supporting [ORGANISATION NAME] now, you could help us raise enough to be in with a chance of winning one of three cash bonus prizes of between £1000 and £250!
Thank you for your support,
[YOUR NAME]
