How do you interest someone in becoming a sponsor for a child in your program? How do you make your program more interesting to this potential sponsor than the tens of hundreds of other child-sponsor programs? How do you convince someone that the needs of your kids are great enough to warrant thei[...]
Posts Tagged ‘fundraising’
When it Comes to Fundraising, Be Persistent
I have been volunteering with the preschool classrooms at San Pablo la Laguna for two years, and with the Ayudame a Pintar Mi Futuro (APMF) project in San Pedro for over a year now. Every six months, I buy a lot of the work of local artisans and weavers and take it to my [...][...]
Organizing Fundraisers at Home and Abroad
Since September, my co-worker Lauren and I have been holding weekly fundraising events here in Cusco, and with just a month and a half left we’re also gearing up for events to be held back in the States. Here is a brief I outline of our fundraising endeavors from abroad and at home: I. Fundraisers[...]
How to Fundraise With No Funds
This week I was really impressed by another volunteer here at Tashirat. Some of us (myself included) are intimidated by fundraising events, by the thought of all the time, energy, and resources spent resulting in little or no money raised. And, being in a rural community in Mexico, one may think: If[...]
January 8th, 2010 - 9:51 pm § in Op Ed
New Appreciation for an Old Concept: The Case for Philanthropy
Travel writer Maureen Moore will forever be a California girl, but her global soul has lured her to climb the funiculares in Valparaíso while learning Spanish, dance salsa with habaneros in Cuba while working in tourism, speak Mexican street slang while serving chelas at a bar in Guanajuato, and mo[...]
Paying It Forward: Helping Locals Volunteer Abroad
So you come to Latin America to volunteer and you tell locals about what you are doing. In my case, when I tell Colombians I’ve met about what I’m giving my time to, a lot of them say, “Hey, I want to leave Colombia and help in a different country!” I try to help out as [..[...]
The Story of the Stove
I often say it takes many drops of water to fill a bucket. My story today – about how different people in a couple of countries came together to help fill a need for the Holy Cross feeding program – illustrates just that. Preparing and serving breakfast, a fruit snack and lunch everyday [...]
Panning for Gold: Plucking Out the Nonprofit Gems
I have to admit, when I first applied to be a volunteer at Common Hope, I was a little wary of a nonprofit that promoted individual sponsorships of children. Upon hearing “sponsorship,” my mind filled with grainy television images of a malnourished child standing in a desert plain while a boomin[...]
