Profitable Fundraisers For Individuals

There are many profitable fundraisers for individuals to be found and used... from sponsored challenges to innovative internet ideas.

But before we get into them we need to clear something up first, and that is...

There are two sides to individual fundraising...

• One side is where an individual is raising funds for a charity or a non-profit of some type. For example, doing a sponsored cycle for Cancer research. That is what this page is all about.
• The second side is where someone holds a personal fundraiser to raise funds for his own personal cause. Like I did to raise money for Film School.

  If that's you then please click here to read the Personal Fundraising page.

So now that that is cleared up, the next thing you need to realise about fundraisers for individuals is that you unfortunately don't have an official supporter's base like a church or school would have...

But if you think about it carefully, in a way you do have a supporter's base... All your friends and family!

And these are the people who you will firstly target with whatever fundraiser you hold!

Not just by getting them involved and supporting you, but by networking through them to all their friends and family!

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Let's get started...

Accepting Donations:

For a majority of the fundraisers for individuals most of your funds raised will come from donations. So the first thing you will need to do is set up a method for people to donate to you both online and offline.

Or you could use Supporter Walls App on your website. Just like RFI's Sponsor Wall. If you'd like exposure for your organization or cause consider sponsoring a block!

Through their site you can set up a profile page that has multiple (and very useful) functionalities. Your fundraising campaigns progress is visible through a type of fundraising thermometer and you are provided with some excellent tools for you and others to promote your campaign.

It is a truly remarkable website that you should use... BUT before you do I'd highly recommend that you read the Online Donations Fundraiser!

For another option, if you just want to accept general donations (not campaign specific donations), then an online company like PayPal provides a really simple and reliable method for anyone to accept donations online.

Offline donations will obviously just be people giving you cash and cheques. Consider putting up a few donations boxes at local stores/pubs/restaurants etc. (with permission of course).

A great idea would be to print off a whole lot of donations sheets you can hand out to friends and family who can then collect donations for you from their friends.

The donation sheets should take down info like name, email address and amount donated or vouched for.

Fundraisers For Individuals:

And please note: You should also read the Running Individual Fundraisers page. It's got some valuable advice for holding profitable individual fundraisers!

You should also consider looking into the Internet fundraising ideas to see if any could work for you. These online ideas can be very, very profitable fundraisers for individuals!

And please remember that any challenges you can think of can be turned into fundraisers for individuals... Just name the challenge and ask people to donate for you to do it!

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