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To enroll in the Charter Community Connection™ program contact your local Charter Community Connection Representative and start earning money for your organization!
I'm signed up for Charter Community Connection™…. And now what?
You just signed up to a great program that will help you raise unlimited funds for your organization – but how do you actually do that?
These are a few easy steps that you can follow that will help you on your way to a successful fundraising program.
Six Steps for Successful Fundraising
1. Set a Fundraising Goal
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How much money does your organization need to raise create a goal.
Example: Goal is to raise $3,000 for uniforms.
2. Create a Plan
- Create a plan on how to meet your fundraising goal.
- Identify how many people you need to sign up to reach your stated goal.
- For further details on customer referral payout and examples click here to go to “Referral Payment”.
- Divide the total number of subscriptions needed among your team. Each person has an individual goal of X number of referral subscriptions in order for the organization to reach its combined goal.
- Decide the best way to promote your fundraiser and/or create or go to an event where you can promote the fundraiser.
Example:
Identify referral subscriptions needed:
To raise $3,000 as an organization, we need 40 new Charter customers to order (1) one qualifying Charter service.
Pay out for the first service ordered by a new Charter Customer is $75.
$75 x 40 (new Charter Customers) = $3,000.Divide the total number of subscriptions needed among your team:
Our fundraising team/organization consists of 40 members.
Each member needs to sign up one new Charter customer who orders (1) one qualifying service.
3. Know Your Key Message
- Know your message and cause that you are going to communicate when you talk to potential supporters.
- People are more likely to give, if they can sympathize and understand your cause.
- You don’t have to be an expert on Charter services either, ensure your potential supporters that they can speak to a friendly Charter specialist by calling the hotline.
- Let your potential supporter know the following:
- Your fundraising goal
- What the funds will be used for and the importance of your cause
- And ask them if they would like to support your cause/objective by subscribing to one of the qualifying Charter services.
- Provide them with your organization Charter Community Connection handout
- Let them know if they want further information about Charter services, they should call the specific Charter Community Connection order hotline and a friendly representative will be able to answer all their questions.
- And always say “Thank you”.
4. Spread the Word
- Spread the word in any way you can, let everyone you know be aware that you are fundraising and the importance of the cause.
- Talk to as many people and use all your resources possible.
- You will see that how much you talk about your fundraiser will affects your results, so promote, promote and promote!
5. Manage Your Fundraiser
- It is important to properly manage your fundraising
- Make sure that your fundraising team/organization has the tools and materials to succeed (flyers, etc.)
- Track your success; your team will enjoy the feeling of pride and accomplishment as they see the results of their efforts.
6. Create Excitement/Motivate Your Team
- Create enthusiasm about the potential funds your organization can raise!
- Promote team spirit and encourage focus on the goal and motivation towards success.
- Acknowledge everyone’s effort, accomplishments.
- Reinforce the importance of their participation in meeting the organizations goals.
- Create a fundraising prize program, offer incentives and rewards to your team members for their achievement.
- Encourage, encourage, encourage!