Why YOU Should Donate to Charity Organizations

    Giving Money to Charities and People In Need   For those of us that have stable financial and living situations, disaster is frightening but ultimately manageable. However, for those less fortunate a similar scenario threatens to put them in life threatening situations. After a flood, tornado or other major disaster, less fortunate individuals […]

Environmental Fundraising Ideas That Are Practical & Effective

Topics: Fundraising and Crowdfunding  Green Fundraising Ideas For Environmental Projects.   Most people value the environment and are concerned about the damage that occurs to the environment each year. However, that concern doesn’t always lead to personal action. Often people don’t know how to help with environmental issues in a practical way. If you have […]

Raising money and getting volunteers for environmental projects

Topics: Fundraising and Environmental Health  Environmental Community Service Ideas   Most people value the environment and are concerned about the damage that occurs to their backyard each year. However, that concern doesn’t always lead to personal action. Often people don’t know how to help with environmental issues in a practical way. If you have planned […]

Online Fundraising Sites: A Growing Trend On The Rise

  Topics: Ways to help the environment and Online Fundraising Efforts   Online fundraising sites have become some of the fastest growing philanthropy platforms available for people who are interested in raising money for just about anything here in the U.S. and it continues to rise, according to Blackbaud’s Online Giving Report. Online Fundraising Websites […]

Easy Fundraising Ideas Using Affiliate Marketing and Creeklife

  We’re all familiar with fund raising that involves selling cookies, chocolate bars, and so forth, where the proceeds go toward a cause. The items that are sold are either purchased in bulk and sold at relatively high prices, or were made at home in the case of cookies or even lemon-aid. This would work […]

Use Email To Raise Money For A Fundraiser Online

Email is one of the best ways to raise money for a cause online. However, soliciting with email is often associated with spammers. There is a right way and a wrong way to use email. The wrong way violates the can spam act of 2003. The spam act is a set of requirements about your […]

Online Fundraising for Events

If you are going to raise money for a cause online, there are a number of things that can be learned from marketers. As you know, marketers are in the business of selling products and services. While selling things isn’t what you are trying to do, you are in a sense selling your cause. Donating […]

How to Raise Money for an Environmental Project by Recycling Scrap Metal

So, you’ve almost done it all: you raised the money for those contractor-sized trash bags through your Creeklife campaign, you wrangled all the volunteers you could find in coffee shops around town, you got your hip waders on, and you got all of that trash out of your watershed and into the bed of your […]

Use Blogging & Social Media to Raise Money for the Environment

Graphic via Personal Excellence. Dreaming big is expensive, once you start to realize those dreams. Luckily, money for helping the environment is definitely out there. In order to convince people that they should contribute to your ecofriendly cause, it’s good to have every advantage. We can’t help with everything, but we do have one amazing […]

How to Raise Money for a Environmental Project Online

We’ve talked about environmental crowdfunding before. This is a more in-depth look at the process. Photo by 401(K) 2012 (Flickr). Raising money for an environmental project can be a project all by itself. Luckily, once someone figures out how to raise money to clean up a local creek (for example), they will then have the […]