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Personal Fundraisers

Are you an individual looking for personal fundraisers for your own personal cause?

Do you need to raise funds to attend university or to pay for a serious operation for a family member or yourself?

Maybe you need funds to do your school project or you're an aspiring scientist who needs funding for his/her experiments...

Whatever the case is, take comfort in knowing that there are some great ways of fundraising for a personal cause.

After all, a large amount of my fundraising experience came from personal fundraisers I held to raise funds for film school!

Before we get started though I want you to do two things... Firstly read the running personal fundraisers page. It's got some really valuable advice and tips on holding individual fundraising campaigns.

And secondly realise that most of your support will come from friends and family... And this is who you will firstly target when holding a fundraiser.

Just DON'T overuse them... But DO... network through them to all their friends and family.

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Personal Fundraiser Ideas:

Donations – The first and most obvious way of raising funds is through donations. Ex. "Please donate a small amount to me to help me raise funds to pay for university!" It will also be the main way of fundraising with a lot of the personal fundraisers below.

You should set up a way for people to donate to you online, as well as collect offline cash donations...

Your best way of running a donations fundraiser online will be through Micro Giving.

It is a phenomenal fundraising platform where you can set up a campaign page, accept donations, track your donations, and it provides you with brilliant tools to help promote your fundraiser.

But before you run a fundraiser through Micro-Giving I'd highly suggest that you read the Online Donations Fundraiser to find out how to run a successful online fundraiser through them.

Do not run a online donations fundraiser until you have read that page!

If you just want to accept general donations off your website for no specific campaign then an online company like PayPal provides a really simple and reliable method for anyone to receive donations through them.

Read the online donations page for more info on accepting donations online.

A great idea for offline donations 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.

Internet Fundraising Ideas:

Online Donations Through Crowdfunding - This is the best personal fundraiser that you could use!

Make sure you read all of both part 1 and part 2 of this online donation fundriaser.

Unique Fundraising Idea; A Content Website - This is a fundraising idea that I would highly recommend! It is a long term fundraiser though that will bring in a sustainable income of funds.

Webmaster Affiliates - A great fundraiser that creates a residual/recurring income!

Get Paid Per Click Contextual Advertising - If you own a website or are building one you should be using this fundraising idea!

Affiliate Fundraising – One of the best ways of Fundraising... And anyone (organisations or individuals) can do it!!!

Magazine Fundraising – Another super online fundraising method! In fact it is one of my most recommended Fundraiser!

Get Paid Online Guide - A guide to raising funds through completing online surveys, receiving marketing emails and using other simple online methods. Definitely worth considering for personal fundraising!

Fundraising using eBay and SSA Online Apparel – Fundraising by selling through these two great online stores can be a really rewarding way of raising funds. It might suite you perfectly!

Offline Fundraising Ideas and Challenges:

T Shirt Fundraisers - Very popular and rewarding fundraising idea!

Sponsored Cycle – This is one of the most successful fundraisers I've held. For maximum fundraising and exposure make sure it's a decent challenge... A friend and I rode 300 miles in 26 hours! It had the WOW factor that made it so successful!

Personal Fundraisers - DIY Sponsored Cycle

Golf day Fundraiser – This one will take a good deal of work to organise but if you have enough help it’ll be an amazingly profitable fundraiser!

Taking to the Streets – A free, unique and innovative Fundraising idea!

Calendar Fundraiser – If you're artistic at all you could consider adapting this fundraiser to a solo fundraiser.

Tenpin Bowling Fundraiser - A fun sports fundraiser that will work for any individual fundraising for a personal cause.

Photo Fundraisers - Although this fundraising idea is written for organizations, if you are a talented or aspiring photographer you may just be able to adapt it to become a profitable individual fundraiser.

A Lollipop Fundraiser - I don't really recommend sales fundraisers for individuals.

But this fundraising product is so cheap, popular and easy to fundraise with, that you can definitely consider adding it to your personal fundraising.

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

Recommended Resources:

Fast Track Fundraising - This quality fundraising supplier offers a wide range of quality fundraisers like the excellent online magazine subscription fundraiser . Click here to order their FREE info kit .

Fundraiser Buzz Newsletter - I am always coming up with new and innovative fundraising ideas, and with the Fundraiser Buzz newsletter you can stay up to date with all the new ideas, tips, and techniques!

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