If you live in the TN area (or Atlanta, or another close city), I’ll be presenting the 2.5 hour “Adopt Without Debt Workshop” for Candies Creek Church in Chattanooga.
The AWD workshop is Friday, September 27th from 6:30-9:00 p.m. and is followed Saturday by the “If You Were Mine” workshop.
For more info, visit the Candies Creek website.
Hope to see you there!
If you want to do a t-shirt fundraiser without the risk and the design work, you may want to look into Chrome Buffalo.
Each quarter (January, April, July & October) the designers at Chrome Buffalo come up with four new designs. You pick which design you’d like to offer your supporters and set up your 10-day “Drive” or campaign.
For every t-shirt sold, you earn $11. That’s a pretty darn good return.
At the end of your 10-day Drive, Chrome Buffal0 will ship out your orders and send you your money.
You can only run one Drive at a time, but you can come back and do it again and again.
This current design would be perfect for an adoption fundraiser.
If you’ve used Chrome Buffalo, I’d love to hear about it.
About a year ago via a few blogs and Twitter, I began to hear about PureCharity.com.
Pure Charity gives “power shopping” new meaning. By creating a Pure Charity account and installing a simple browser plug-in, you can earn “Rewards” each time you shop at a Pure Charity partner. Partners include companies like Walmart, Old Navy, Target, Apple, Expedia…the list goes on and on.
It’s fun to see my little Pure Charity icon pop up when I’m shopping. A quick click and I’m earning money to go into my own Rewards Network. Then I can browse the hundreds of projects registered with Pure Charity and choose where that money goes.
Some of my favorite charities like Mercy House Kenya & Help One Now have used Pure Charity to raise funds for projects.
Last fall at Together for Adoption I asked one of the Pure Charity staff, “What about adoptions?” I knew there was huge potential!
I was ecstatic when I heard from Mike Rusch, COO of Pure Charity, that they were indeed rolling out a platform for adoption fundraisers. I even got a sneak peak before they launched it at CAFO Summit 9 🙂
Their first adoptive family (their beta testers) has already met their $8,000 funding goal!!
I walked through the process myself, setting up a fundraiser for my brother’s family. It was super simple and only took me about 15-20 minutes. Pure Charity has tons of videos to walk you through the process but the instructions are pretty clear. You can upload pictures, videos – whatever helps you tell your story.
When you’re done, embed their widget on your blog and use their social media sharing tools to spread the word. Invite ALL your friends to join Pure Charity. They make it super simple with Facebook integration and a personalized link. When someone joins your “Advocate Network” you also earn rewards off their purchases. This goes 10 levels down. So ask your friends to invite their friends, etc. It all adds up!
Your friends and family can also make straight tax-deductible donations into your fund!
Couple things you should know:
Of course when your adoption is complete, you’ll still be earning Pure Charity rewards you can give generously to one of the 600+ projects on the site.
Also, Pure Charity’s Mike Rusch and successful Adoption Fundraiser, Jenny Marrs are conducting a webinar to share tips on how to best use the Pure Charity platform to make your fundraiser successful!
Date: June 4th, 2013
Time: 12:00-1:00 CST
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/296800303
