If you enjoy helping others then you can become a fundraising consultant. The biggest advantage to choosing a career as a consultant is the fact that you can help other people and earn money.
One of the first things you will learn if you are looking to get into the fundraising business is that many nonprofit companies find that fundraising is not as easy as they thought. The good news for these companies is that there are trained professionals who can help them.
Keep Records
First, make sure that you keep a record of all contact information so that you can contact them for future projects.
A Fund Raising Software
The next key for you to consider is the right type of tracking software to use for keeping your records. Once you know the type of software you will use this can be an added bonus for you to use when seeking independent employment.
Connect With the Right People
The final key to establishing yourself as a powerful consultant is your connections with the local community leaders. If you have a good relationship with the various foundations and philanthropist in your area then you can be a huge success.
How to Create a Successful Fund Raising
People do things more willingly if they “get something out” of what they are doing even if it is just a little recognition. This is especially true when it comes to raising funds.
Now imagine if instead of just giving people a “supportive thank you” you were in a position to actually ‘pay’ people to help raise money for their favorite charity or group trying to fundraise?
Well, this is possible with the use of the Internet and taking advantage of all those Networking or multi-level-marketing businesses. There are hundreds of reputable companies using this system to market their goods or services to the public.
Businesses that have been using this method successfully have been doing so now for almost a century.
The Concept
To explain this concept in a very simple way businesses pay people to introduce others to their products or services and in turn pay those people who were introduced to do the same thing. This payment method goes down several levels and therefore the one who is on the top level gets a cut of all the work or income generated by those under them.
Say a group of three people were in a committee wanting to raise funds for their children’s schools cooking classes. A Fundraising with this idea would be very simple. One would simply source a business related to cooking, dining out for example.
A network business or MLM club that offered advice and a newsletter on any of these subjects and had a small subscription fee attached to becoming a member would suit the purpose.
The group of people would enroll their Fundraising committee in the club and pay its membership fees to start with. Then each of the committee members would join under the committee’s account or affiliation.
Now the committee starts to earn income from its three original members to cover future subscriptions and the members themselves can do the same. It’s not a big step to get the students and their parents involved too.
You have created a ‘win-win’ situation for everyone involved in this Fund Raising project!
Did you know that just having three people contact three others every day and having them do the same it is possible to contact over a billion people in less than 20 days?
Now think about it for a moment. No matter what kind of funds you are trying to raise – be it for a local animal shelter, children shelters, your children’s school, etc.
There are many people that interested in these kinds of activities on the Internet. This could be an effective Fund Raising project!
As you see it’s easy to create a successful fundraising. You need a business plan and the knowledge of How-To.