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Hello...   I was just wondering if anyone has tried to build a team/ get some members.... using fund raising?   I was wondering about aproaching my local PTA and donate a site, assuming the monthly fee myself and market it as a business that would give the funds from that site to my local schools and allow the teachers & parents to possibly build a business or just to have a great product? Of course I have more to think about with this idea but was just hoping for some feedback and comments    :o     Is it even allowed?

Linda,

It is a GREAT idea.. I have thought about targeting schools, daycares, etc..

NOW if you think about it... If a PTA or whatever decides and the ORG decides
to sign up.. can you imagine the unlimited money they can make.. OMG $1 a month
for every website.. more value than selling one candy bar at $1.. MORE uselful..

THIS could honestly be something very good!!!  What I did for my kids sites..
Kyler.ws and Angalynn.ws   IS I put the links on their sites of where they like to
go.. SAVED their website onto the computer.. SO I am controlling their online
atmosphere...

PLUS think about this.. I believe a lot of schools are teaching internet/website stuff..
I think.. this coudl be a great way for them to have something of their own... CREATE
their own identity..  USE it as a school life journal.. etc..

There is a lot of possibility where I feel an ORG would look at it as a way of helping
kids with their own websites while increasing the monthly revenue for the school..
$10/month with hundreds of families involved over years to come.. could be
very profitable to a school.

Stacy Perez

Does anyone have a good sample flyer to send to schools, churches, mosques and nonprofit organization?

Thank you

I don't but I think we should do some..lol
MAYBE people can create them and maybe
allow us to upload them somewhere so we
can share.. that would be an awesome idea..

I think most of us have great ideas.. and to
be able to share is a great idea..

Chip what do you think?

Stacy Perez

I encourage anyone that has focused on organizations to Post their comments and methods.

Fundraising is a huge marketing opportunity, to wit, .WS offers a 21st Century product that is unique and residual.

Pizzas, cookie dough, candles, candies, etc., are one-time and need to be done over and over again.

A .WS fundraiser compounds returns so, each year, they are enhancing a long-term annuity.

Oh, the power of networking!

Chip

I don't mean to discourage anyone, but I have come to the conclusion from 2 orgs that I have approached, that they want the entire 10, not 10%. I'm not giving up on them though. I will visit others and hope they see the light!

By the way, non profits can put their EIN instead of a social, can't they?

Gina

Advertising Thought Regarding FR Posts Here:

Run an ad that says:


Three Local Area Organizations with 100 plus members to test market brand new and powerful fund raiser concept.   Potential for Great Profits paid to your organization monthly, now and for years to come!    Contact G. Smith, GDI Fund Raiser Sales Affiliate  Phone  Number

WHY "three" wanted?   Heck 300 can call me, that's okay!  But stating "three" in your ad creates an urgency, hopefully, so that some WILL CALL quickly!  They want to be one of the first three to find out more info.   

Hopeful In Texas

Very COOL everyone...   I think this weekends project will be working on the proposal, or at least starting it....   I was thinking about funding the monthly fee so the school has nothing to lose and everything to gain!  YES! YES!  imaging the hundreds of prosepcts...  Thanks for all the feed back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Another thought was that the domain that starts the fundraising cold be a total fundraising website for the school/organization...  The pTA in my schools do the normal candy & flowers but they also do tupperware & other stuff... so it could be for all fundraising for the schools...        September can't come soon enough!  (both to get the kids back to school & to pitch my ideas   ::)  )

Hi Linda,

Are you thinking about building a fund raising website for the school and offer it to them with the subscription? That would be a great idea. I was thinking aboutoffering them 3 prepaid months.
that's only going to cost me  $27 and I think it's enough time to get a good number of refferals.
Any other suggestions??

If you go to this link http://www.melissadata.com/Lookups/np.asp
and put in your zip code you can find all the non-profit org's in your zip code area.
You may have to sign up with MelissaData first but it is free.

I plan on sending out letters next week!

Hope this helps.
Kerry

I am really excited about utilizing all the ideas you have all shared here. Thanks to each one of you.
I hope you will each share your results as well.

All my best,
Norma  :o

IT'S FUNNY YOU MENTION FUNDRAISER, THAT WAS THE FIRST THING THAT POPPED IN MY HEAD, WHEN I HAVE JOIN GDI. BECAUSE I  DO FUNDRAISING FOR ANOTHER COMPANY . ACTUALLY I HAVE CALLED MY FUNDRAISER THE "THE ULTIMATE  FUNDRAISER". I HAVE  CONTACTED A FEW ORGANIZATIONS, BUT THEY SEEMED THAT IS NOT RIGHT FOR THEM DOING A FUNDRAISER ON THE INTERNET. I STILL HAVE TO WORK WITH  THESE PEOPLE A LITTLE MORE. TO CONVINCE THEM, THAT THIS IS ACTUALLY THE MOST EASIEST FUNDRAISER THEY WILL EVER HAVE TO DO.

TAKE CARE AND DON'T GIVE UP.

.WS=WebSite provides an incredible 21st Century Fundraising format.

Forget the pizzas, cookie dough, candies, etc., where the organization
has to go back year after year. Let's educate the WORLD on how one
sale=automatic renewal, for life.

I note a thread on Fundraising ideas which I have merged above this Post
and NOW, request everyone POST, not only ideas but, their ACTION steps.

Whether it is Fraternal, Church, Sports, Civic, Association and on & on...
any group that is Member-based is a natural for .WS.

Let's make WebSites, which offer so much more, the next generation to basic email.

Chip

Yup this is a good idea and should work well. The residual income aspect is a big bonus.

I like it!! Definetely a fresh idea! Very nice! Boy I can see a tremendous downline building from one PTA signup!!

I've been working on using fund raising as well, but have had no luck so far.  Does anyone have a sample email that they use when contacting orgs?

I am confused as usual how would the fundraising work and benefit my business?  I am obviously a real novice looking for direction.  Please help.

I hate to throw a wet blanket on this discussion but I was wondering if maybe this might nullify their non-profit status if they did this business.

Anyone checked this out yet?

Tom

Barbara and Tom,

Let me see if I can help.

For a non profit organization to raise funds they usually do so through auctions, photo shoots, candy sales, cookie sales, and other means to generate cash through the sale of a product that people conceive have a value.

If they choose to offer a program like GDI then people can get the benefits offered through the use of our product whether for personal or business reasons BUT with one main difference.  They would be setting themselves up for repeating contributions (commissions) which would be like having a cookie sale every month.  Therefore over the long haul they win because they save time and effort in pllanning for the next event to raise funds.  Note that since they receive money through several (5) levels of participation in our program they are receiving "donations" from people they may otherwise never have been able to reach.

As for the legal issue, I am not a lawyer or profess to be one but when I was in the MLM nutrition business we had a minister who used his leveraged downline as an ongoing way to guarantee money to his ministry.  He eventually developed an income of over $5000 per month of which 90% was used for the "Fund Raising" effort of the church.

Hope this answers some of your questions and give you something to think about in helping grow your business.  Just think; you would be helping a Non Profit Organization get what they want (Money for their cause or causes) and in so doing you would get what you want - a substantilal income.

Your Partner In Success,
Marvin Drobes

Well stated, Marvin!

Chip

A key element, is to have YOUR site up and potentially a 2nd site templated to be an example.  Or have YOUR site with a few concept pages of examples.  And promote your link initially.  Have a solid email, concise enough to pull them in.  Though I still think asking someone these two simple questions is strong sales technique w/out coming across as pushy: 1) Have you ever thought of having your own website? 2) Is 10.00 alot of money?   

Something I'm missing now, but will fix once my site is completely ready would be to have a duplicatable site with a tutorial on how to tweak it for new person's use.

The ferrari flyer is powerful.  As a past boyscout (almost eagle), how easy it would be for me to knock on a door, give my pitch using such a flyer.

I work in the Real Estate field as an assistant.   Literally, 100's of realtors, title company reps, inspectors (pest, roof, etc) and many other affiliates DO NOT have their own site.  Sites can be nothing more than just a RESOURCE of info.

Sincerely,

Leon Aldrich

I have curious of the methods to use to get youth groups or other organizations or the best ws. to use

This is a very intriguing topic.

Has anyone tried, AND, as important, has anyone "discovered" any potentially "discouraging" legal aspects for, using GDI as a fundraiser?

I know of more than a handful of "struggling" parochial schools in my geographic area that I am very tempted to contact . . . .

Charlie K

How about Churches??? People usually give $10.00's every Sunday.

Hmmmmm...this would be really good...can we do this???

Kathy*

Greetings from a hot and summery Cape Town!

My church is raising funds for a major building programme and I was thinking of something along the lines of http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ - but selling bricks in a wall (onscreen graphic, not physical), with each brick linked to the donor's site (personal or business). Now if I go the GDI route, I'd be more than happy to sponsor the main site selling the 'bricks'.
Donors could just buy a brick for a fixed one-off donation. The brick could either have their name (unless they choose to remain anonymous) or it could link to their website. (The link or name would be on one of those mini-popups that appear when you hover a cursor over the brick - the bricks themselves could be tiny.)

And if they don't have a website? Funny you should ask ... - they can simply sign up for one and automatically support the church every month. (And me too!)

I guess the one-off bricks (without GDI site) would need to have a time limit, say 6 months or a year, so that the wall could remain a dynamic source of both income and information about members of the community and parish.  If I'm looking for a plumber or computer boffin, I'd much rather search my church's fundraising site for a suitable person than the newspaper.  And a family could buy a brick and link it to its family site, online photo album or blog - so we could all get to know each other better by browsing the fundraising wall!

I have no connection with milliondollarhomepage.com, just think it's an excellent idea that can be adapted in many ways.  I don't have the technical know-how to set this up, but no doubt it can be done. Can anyone tell me whether the 100 MB available on GDI will be enough?

Any further ideas before I approach the minister?

 ::)
Lets share ideas and flyers regarding fundraisers.....plenty for all
Scott Richards

 :) Thanks Kerry S. for that website for organizations. It will be great to use. Which one of the ws. websites would you use? I would the one with the car and the couple speaking. Thanks again! Linda R.

Hello all,

My Career, here in the U.K
I work with disadvantaged Young People in Schools, Youth Groups etc.. It's my job to......

What I actually do is irrelevant to my point.. Here in the U.K these types of Organisations do not have access to the correct payment processors, nor is it permitted to run such enterprises...  BTW I work both Public and Private Sector and it just isn't an option here.. Churches and some groups maybe, but certainly nothing to do with Under 18 would really be possible.. If it was we would Have our own YOUTH CLUB SITE.. As it stands I am not even permitted to discuss such matters with clients because it is against my Professional Code to personally profit.

I know the MIGHTY U.K have different LAWS to the U.S but I suspect many of the constraints will be the same..
Regards,
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Hi GDIers

I was reading this thread and I can imagine that organizations like churches might have a problem if one individual (you as a GDI affliate) will have financial benefits from all the members that buy into the website that you provided for them for free.  Hope I understood the idea about this correctly.  But I think with Sportsclubs you have a different situation.  I was especially thinking about gholf clubs.  Gholf clubs tend to generate the perception in a community that they are financially well off.  Therefor the idea of them generating residual income might fit them better than NPO's   

Hey y'all. This is my first week in GDI and my first post on the forum. This particular topic is near and dear to me. I've worked with non-profits both in the US and abroad for 12 years and currently serve a small, struggling urban Native American parish in the upper midwest.

I think the fund raising option certainly deserves more consideration. Bill Shore, founder of Share Our Strength, has argued for years that it is essential for all non-profits to create profit centers within their organizations. This is truer today than it was when Shore first started proposing the idea. Look at your community directory of non-profits, they are all fighting for shrinking slices of the charity pie. You have a low cost option with the potential to reap huge benefits for them. See who on their board of directors might be interested in the program and make your pitch. Don't know how to do that? Volunteer at the homeless shelter or serve on the food line at the soup kitchen, you'll make the right contact.

To those that think Churches will be offended by how you might profit from their efforts. Believe me, resource development is a huge business within the church world and you're offering a much lower cost item that can potentially bring in thousands of dollars (translate that into "blessings"). You might want to offer to buy half the DVDs for the church campaign if you're feeling guilty about benefiting from a church or non-profit. But believe me, there are professional fund raisers who will be charging much more and delivering much less.

If I were to approach the church market, I would first want to approach some of the less formal denonminations, maybe a non-denominational congregation with a pastor open to "prosperity theology". Assembly of Gods might also be a field worth mining.

This is something I must do as I've just found out that my mission board is cutting funding even further, my parisioner's pensions are not meeting their basis needs which translates into less money in the collection plate, and I've got to find $10000 for a new boiler in the church basement between now and next winter. You can bet I'm ready to work this non-profit market.

Go get em!

Wow, I love the sites. This is more than a great idea. Parents Worldwide should be doing this. You really have something here. Where did you get the graphics for the sites?

Very new here in my first couple of hours to be exact.  Just wondering if the school idea that began this thread ever made it to fruitation?  It seems like a nice concept but like all things worthwhile perhaps it had a few hurdles.  So did anyone try this idea and what obstacles did you encounter?

Hi Group:

I am a licensed event planner and work with non-profits on fundraisers periodically.

The rules may be different in other countries and vary from state to state in the US.

Here's my take on these conversations about fundraising using GDI.... in the US..... 1. Check with the local government because some fundraising activities need to be registered.  2. Have the organization register the activity.  3.  If it is a small club they will need to go to the bank and open a seperate account using the documents from the corporation division.  4.  If it is a large organization they will sign up in GDI as a business so no individual in the organization is profiting from the endeavor.

Lynette Barber, Pres.
Our Marketing, LLC.

Just a suggestion.  If you are going to approach schools it is better to work from the bottom - up. Approach the kids first ( best if it's someone you know) to see their response. Grab the enthusiastic, ( at least two kids. Gives more credibilty and reinforcement when they are talking to the person in charge) walk them through the program until they are comfortable. Provide them with the tools; business card, flyers...
Have them approach the band, cheerleaders, et;. These activity direcors need to see it is something that as a whole everybody can do with the no trepidation and feel good about presenting it.

Real important is to let them know that this will tie in well with their other programs. You do not want to down play what they are already doing. The idea is to make them feel what they have done is important; yet what they can look forward to in the future is fun-draising in the 21st century. 

Maybe you could say to the activity directors ..Wouldn't it be nice if the congress gave us some of the money they waste on pork barreling and they had to  "throw bake sales".

I too am extremely interested and excited about this topic! I love the ad by GSmith! AWESOME....I really think you've got something here! I am wondering if anybody could take the time to go over "the approach" with such an organization with me? I really want to give this a whirl but am not quite sure how to give the presentation once someone was to reply to such an ad. I'll take ANY advise anyone is willing to give!!

Thanks,
Teresa Hulkovich.....my friends call me Terri  ;)

I have an idea to raise money for my Iraq veterans charity, and I wonder what ya'll think.  I would sell .ws packages (web address, website, e-mail, forwarding, etc), and the proceeds would go to the charity.  Participants in fundraiser could use the products however they wish, but my selling point would be for them to point the address at their online, personal profile (like I have RickAllison.info pointed at my MySpace profile).

I was going to do this through Network Solutions or GoDaddy.com, but there is no residual revenue from doing that.  I would only get a small commission off of the first sale, and that would not serve to finane the veterans charity each month in the long term.

Another question: do we all have just one .ws website, or is there more than one? 

Please respond directly to me as well as here on the message board.  

"Rick in Amarillo"

Hi, I am pretty much a newbie to GDI, I have been with it for a little while but am really just now starting to use it.  Anyway, I want to use GDI to make money for churches, or other not-for-profit organizations.  So I am wondering what is the best way approach organizations to raise money for them with GDI?  Thanks for the help!

I've thought about using .ws as a fundraiser for my veterans' charity (VetFund.com) that will help wounded Iraq and Afghanistan veterans to retrain for new careers.  It is a way that people inside of GDI can support these wounded warriors, too, but I would also promote .ws products to people outside the company as a way to promote their personal (web profile) sites or business sites, too.

If you and your team would be interested in helping veterans through the GDI program, please send me a PM.

I'm not sure I could sell .ws as a fundraiser to other non-profits, but I think it could work for my company's long term financing needs.

Live long and prosper,

"Rick in Amarillo"
Great Site
VET Fund, Inc.

 :)very encouraging and positive! this is my first day really reading in the forum. i was nervous but your insight helped me alot!

Wondering if anyone has gone further with the fundraising as it relates to church organizations? I had been mulling this over in my brain for a couple of weeks when I drove by one of the many, many churches in my area and noticed that their website (listed on the sign in front of the church, you know, the one where lots of churches put scriptures that change each week?) anyway, their website is actually a .WS site! I poured over it looking for some sign that they were using it to raise money but couldn't find anything.

I really love the idea in the post a couple of years back of using the main organization's site to host 'bricks' that would link to sites of individual members...

Also, for a church community, even a medium sized one like my own, I think one way is to literally just 'do the math' in a one-on-one meeting with the decision maker. So, say there are 1000 families enrolled in a church, parish, etc., and they were able to get somewhere in the range of 20-50% participation in the fundraiser.

If you show them exactly how to achieve the fabulous bonus offered by GDI (i.e. make sure they sign their members up in groups of 5), at 20% participation, they will bring in $4,000 in bonus money right away, plus the ongoing $200 a month...at 50% participation, it's $10,000 in bonus money, plus the $500 a month residual. WOW.

Yet another wow - how about a fundraiser that allows people who participate to start generating their own income from it, while helping the organization even more? Show me a Sally Foster or Scrip or candy bar sale that can do that!

-Amy

I am looking for information on how to set GDI up as a fundraiser. Any help that anyone could offer would be most appreciated.  Thanks!

I see that this thread started back in 2005.  It's got some great ideas in it.  I'd appreciate any updates on the progress of any of these ideas.  Especially the one about running an add in the paper requesting 3 non-profits to test run fundraising concept.  I'd like to know if anyone has had any success with churches also. 

Hello, everyone.

I am a real newbie in GDI; I just started yesterday.  I have been thinking about GDI-based fundraising for charitable causes (funding for Christian Education).

I was thinking about forming a foundation or similar organization that is funded by GDI yet are independent from churches, nonprofits, etc.  Then, the foundation or similar organization could make contributions or make funds to be available to churches, nonprofits, etc.  That way, GDI Affiliates would NOT be profiting from or appear to be profiting from churches, nonprofits, etc. At the same time, churches, nonprofits, etc. would not be at risk of losing their nonprofit status by a GDI business.  What are your thoughts?  Thanks for your feedback.  :D

David S. Battle 

This is my first week also in GDI. Yay me!

One of the first options that came to mind was fundraising. This is an excellent option!

I am a member of a non denominational chuch and I grew up in Church of God in Christ. I believe that all organizations and denominations will be open to fundraising with GDI. They really wouldn't be concerned with you the GDI rep benefitting from it, that's how the candy and cookie companies profit as well. It's all in your approach. You know that you are going to benefit from it, however, show them how they "will" benefit from it.

In all efforts remain positive, and cancel out the negative with ACTION. There's a first time for everything and no then doesn't mean no always.

I am going for it and I will continue to come back with updates on my efforts. There's a yes out there with my name on it.

spread love.

Hello Brandi,
Welcome to GDI. I am also offering the GDI opportunity to church members for the cheap website along. They can not beat the price and the church will benefits from the affiliates, as well as the 10% tiding from the affiliates once they start making a profit. All is needed is someone in the church to update the church news on the website.
Good luck in GDI and may God bless you!
Charlie

Hi All,

I read with great interest on this topic of fund-raising with GDI.

I am a missionary, and I am considering to use GDI to help raise fund so I can stay active in the ministry.  I am still not sure how I can approach it so that people I know will understand the benefit of this form of fund-raising effort.

If some one has already successfully started a fund-raising project with GDI, I would like to hear from you.

David

Hello Everyone,

I just wanted to share a revelation that I just had sitting at home. I was thinking about the Webinar from 2 weeks ago and how we are suppose to be contacting groups for fundraising. I have contacted a couple of churches and sports team groups and set up appointments. My partner and I wanted to get a dog so we visited the shelter to look and I thought that it would be and AWESOME idea to approach the humane society with the fund-raising aspect. But then, I couldn't think how the shelter would utilize the service offered, but then tonight it hit me! They could offer to sign your pet up for its own website! That way you could show off your new friend not only at home, but on the internet as well and it would profit the shelter! Now thats using GDI to its best extent! I have a meeting next week with the shelter and I can't wait to pitch the idea!

I think the best way to go about the fund raiser idea is to talk with the teacher over that particular area. Introduce them to your presentation, let them view it and then explain how the school and they can benefit from it. That's my opinion.  Glenn Holland (International Domain Solutions)

thatsounds like a great idea! just have them go  to freemunnie.com and click the sign up now button to get started. haha jk but i had to say it sorry

Of course this is an older thread. However, I am reading through Talk.WS and learning everything I can. What an awesome idea to use GDI to help non-profit organizations fund-raise! This could be a true win-win-win...a WIN for the non-profit organization that gets to create another income stream, a WIN for the GDI affiliate who grows his or her income stream, and a WIN for the patrons of the organization who also signup to GDI.

There are a tremendous number of non-profit organizations in my area. I might have to give this cool idea a shot! :)