Internet Fundraising with Online Donations

It should also be a simple and easy process for your supporters to follow when they want to donate to you.

This means...

1. That firstly your donation button or link should be easily found on your website or social media promotions...

   If a possible donor has to search around your site to try and find where to donate, they'll probably get irritated, lose interest and leave without donating. So consider having a link on each page.

2. And secondly that you should have a reliable and easy to use third party company to solicit your online donations for you!

Accepting Donations For Campaigns & Specific Fundraisers:

I would highly recommend that you use a website called Micro Giving to do this for all your specific campaigns and fundraisers.

Micro Giving is a "Social Media Site meets Fundraising Tool" that helps fundraisers/causes and donors find each other.

The functionality and tools to promote your fundraiser amongst the donors that are already members on the site, as well as to other potential donors and supporters off the site, are brilliant!

It is a website (or platform, or service; however you want to look at it) that I am so excited about.

I think that Micro Giving is going to make such a positive difference to so many organizations and causes, especially when it comes to online fundraising.

Please make sure you read the Online Donations Fundraiser though before you run a fundraiser on Micro-Giving!

You have the potential to have such a hugely successful fundraiser through them. So make sure you run it properly by reading all the advice on those two fundraiser pages!

Accepting General Donations:

The most popular online payment company at the moment that I would recommend you use for this is PayPal .

With them you can place a simple yet effective donation button on your website like this...

If you feel that the fundraising advice and ideas on Rewarding-Fundraising-Ideas.com has been beneficial to you then please feel free to donate an amount.

I have personally used PayPal for my general internet donations and have found them very reliable and efficient. Many people will also already have accounts with them which will make the donation process a lot shorter and simpler!

Other Donation Services:

If you want to look into a few other companies that you could possibly use I would suggest looking at other charity websites and seeing who they use. Email the charities also and see if they are happy with their company.

Some other companies that you could use to accept online donations are...

• EBay's giving works programme has a section for accepting donations and it's not a bad option to look at. EBay also has some great ways for you to fundraise. Check out the 'Fundraising using eBay' page to find out more.
• Networkforgood.com

Online Fundraising Donation Thermometer:

A cool tool you could use with your donations is a donations booster or a fundraising thermometer.

It's a great tool to have on your website showing how well specific fundraising campaigns are going! It might even encourage people to donate more!

If you use Micro Giving you will find that you are provided with a automated Fundraising Thermometer on your campaign page. It's pretty cool tool and another great function that Micro Giving provides.

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