Does anyone have any experience with fundraising? When I search Google, I just find sites about buying their stuff and reselling it, which doesn’t seem like it would be very useful for just one person.
One thing I’ve considered is simply begging for donations, getting permission to stand outside a store and pass out flyers on the weekend. If printing 1 flyer costs $0.50, it wouldn’t be that hard to make back my costs. I’m told I look a lot younger than I am, so there’s a chance I could get mistaken for a high schooler, and get the ‘oh, that’s adoralbe’ effect going for me. Also, by going to a different store in a different area each time, I can repeat it for quite awhile without anyone seeing me too much that I’m just old and familiar.
Another thing I’ve considered is doing a thing for money, but I’m not really sure how this would work. Let’s say, to be specific, that I want to run 100 miles in 1 month to raise money for SCI. Why would me running 100 miles make anyone more likely to donate, and how do I get them to do so? I’ve considered asking a gym to let me put up a poster or something. Would it be better to ask other people to run, to just say what I’m doing a put a link to the donation page? Would asking the gym itself to sponsor me work? I’m not sure how it would benefit them at all, though.
Or, since somehow people can raise money through playing video games together, maybe somehow monetizing getting a group together to rigorously work through, say The Art of Computer Programming with full solutions and explanations to all problems. That seems unrealistic, for reasons I’m not sure of. Maybe the ‘too good to be true’ heuristic. But I don’t really have enough experience with this sort of thing to trust my intuition in any way.
Does anyone have any experience with fundraising? When I search Google, I just find sites about buying their stuff and reselling it, which doesn’t seem like it would be very useful for just one person.
There are likely good resources online about how to do sponsored runs. These can raise a lot.
Does anyone have any experience with fundraising? When I search Google, I just find sites about buying their stuff and reselling it, which doesn’t seem like it would be very useful for just one person.
One thing I’ve considered is simply begging for donations, getting permission to stand outside a store and pass out flyers on the weekend. If printing 1 flyer costs $0.50, it wouldn’t be that hard to make back my costs. I’m told I look a lot younger than I am, so there’s a chance I could get mistaken for a high schooler, and get the ‘oh, that’s adoralbe’ effect going for me. Also, by going to a different store in a different area each time, I can repeat it for quite awhile without anyone seeing me too much that I’m just old and familiar.
Another thing I’ve considered is doing a thing for money, but I’m not really sure how this would work. Let’s say, to be specific, that I want to run 100 miles in 1 month to raise money for SCI. Why would me running 100 miles make anyone more likely to donate, and how do I get them to do so? I’ve considered asking a gym to let me put up a poster or something. Would it be better to ask other people to run, to just say what I’m doing a put a link to the donation page? Would asking the gym itself to sponsor me work? I’m not sure how it would benefit them at all, though.
Or, since somehow people can raise money through playing video games together, maybe somehow monetizing getting a group together to rigorously work through, say The Art of Computer Programming with full solutions and explanations to all problems. That seems unrealistic, for reasons I’m not sure of. Maybe the ‘too good to be true’ heuristic. But I don’t really have enough experience with this sort of thing to trust my intuition in any way.
There are likely good resources online about how to do sponsored runs. These can raise a lot.