Whatever it is – a death in the family, a threatened home or livelihood, a theft, a fire – I’m so sorry it’s happened. Let’s start by acknowledging that things suck:
#PAYPAL DONATE BUTTON ON TUMBLR PROFESSIONAL#
This isn’t meant to be any kind of professional essay on the art of fundraising and it’s not really meant for organizations, but I hope that it may be helpful to individuals and small orgs who have an immediate need and maybe need a voice of reason and order in a life that has suddenly become unreasonable and chaotic. Not just inexperience in raising funds, but inexperience in the kind of thing I deal with every Sunday night when I assemble Radio Free Monday: reading a ton of fundraising efforts and trying to discern the goal and needs of each.īecause of all this, I wanted to bang together a guide to asking for money for people who don’t usually ask for money. Some of the problem is that we are a community of storytellers, and some of it is that when you’re trying to raise money after a disaster in your life, you’re just not feeling super coherent. Sometimes I see a pitch on YouCaring or GoFundMe or other fundraising sites, or even just in a tumblr post, and I wince, because I know that the pitch isn’t as effective as it could be, but also that now is not the time to give the person a lesson in fundraising technique. As the curator of Radio Free Monday, I see a lot of fundraising pitches every week, and as someone who also works in fundraising, I see a lot of information about giving cross my desk each day.
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