Experiences of Effective Workplace and Social Fundraising [Innovations in Fundraising]

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====== Experiences of Effective Workplace and Social Fundraising ======

===== Discussion of Fundraising and Experience =====

Have you tried to organise a fundraiser for an effective charity in your place of work, community organization (church, school etc), or tried to convince individuals, groups, and organizations to support or endorse an effective charity?

If so, please add your experiences to the discussion section, or fill in our survey [[https://airtable.com/shrTrTL3aUsNYu3FS|here]]. Below, you'll find some questions which may help you to give a useful narrative. Feel free to share publicly, or anonymously.

1. Have you tried to organise a fundraiser at your company or a community organisation? How successful was it?\\
2. What barriers have you come up against and (how) have you been able to overcome these?\\
3. How did you get your colleagues, peers and/or powerful influential people on board?\\
4. Who really makes decisions at your workplace or organisation about fundraising, partnering with charities, and employee giving benefits and schemes?\\
5. Have you tried to convince them to choose a different charity? How did you make this argument and how was it received?\\
6. How does your firm/org choose the 'preferred charity'?\\
7. How have you connected and networked with people trying to achieve similar goals?

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===== Fundraising events organised for effective charities =====

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===== Lobbying for an effective charity =====

|**Name (or anon); position; date** |**"Target" org** |**Sector** |**Means of communication** |**Key decision maker** |**Charity; asking for…** |**Argument/approach** |**Success?; Describe outcome** |**Other comments** |**Classifications, keywords ** (or leave blank)|
|   \\ Mr. SAMPLE entry; Active lay congregant; Sept 2016|Fictional Synagogue, Chapel Hill MD (and congregants)|Religious org|Sent out an email to the entire congregation listserve, spoke with Rabbi and synagogue president|Synagogue president|Sightsavers; asked to devote half of the high-holidays special appeal towards Sightsavers international|   \\ Both in email (linked content [HERE]) and conversations: \\   \\ 1. Presented basic argument about the great impact we can have as a congregation, and the importance of helping those outside of our community, tied to the writings of Jewish scholar (link here) \\  \\ 2. Summarized the material presented by Sightsavers [[https://www.sightsavers.org/protecting-sight/|here]] (protecting sight), including picture \\   \\  3. Related this to our last year's appeal, honoring an optician who founded our synagogue|Yes; Charity adopted as part of special appeal (along with local second charity). $1642 raised.|Some suggested they would have preferred… Children were influential in convincing president as they had raised for this charity in school.|(we may add a classification here)|
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