Methods Of Collecting Donations For Fundraising Jamaica

By Walter Stone


Fund raising is a method to acquire voluntary donations through requesting from charitable foundations, businesses, individuals or governmental agencies. This could be either financial or in kind such as clothes, equipment, services and food. It is done traditionally by visiting houses or asking people at the streets but online forms are recently becoming popular.

Organizations are raising funds to support their charity programs and their operating expenses in different ways. These programs have various purposes which depends on the mission of their group such as fundraising Jamaica. The following are some of their ways in collecting these contributions from others who wants to help them achieve their goals.

Fundraising events or fundraisers which primarily aim to raise money for a non profit organizations, charity, or a cause. Samples of these are walkathons, benefit concerts, or formal dinners that is used in increasing the visibility and support for the group. The event could include activities which encourage participation from members such as performances and speakers.

Donor cultivation is dividing the donors into categories depending on their gifts annually such as mid level, minor or major ones. This is done through showing appreciations to their benefactors and demonstrate their donations have impacted on their group. Although retaining the patrons of these organizations is becoming harder year after year.

Capital campaigns are the effort made for raising a specific amount of money within a set time period to achieve their various asset buildings requirements. These assets include expansion, renovation or construction of facilities and acquiring or improving equipment, land and others. It has two types with first being considered done only once because of their goal being to ambitious.

The second is a comprehensive, total or integrated development campaign which plans a longer program to raise funds. This type can use their projects, operating expenses and endowment as a purpose using various activities. This includes the annual gift drives being considered slower and lacking in intensity than the traditionally used ones.

The accountability fundraising would show donors of these non profit organizations how their efforts directly makes an impact. They do this by letting them decide on which charity or program specifically they want their money will go to. A group is even there that lets benefactors keep track their donations using their website anytime they would want to.

Other organizations are hiring professional fundraisers for their services which are either paid with a fixed fee or based on the percentage of the raised funds. Though the latter method is forbidden by the association of these professionals. These fundraisers are usually employed by the group and gets a salary just like other employees.

Professional fundraiser is a term used in describing those third party people or firms that offers this kind of service to those needing it. While fundraising professionals is a term used in describing those hired by groups as an employee. They are sometimes called development officers to avoid confusing the two terms with one another. These individuals could become certified executives if they were employed for sixty months.




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