How to Become a Online Fundraiser

A fundraiser for a nonprofit organization raises funds through many methods. Methods usually asking people for donations of products, services, or monetary donations. However, the home based fundraiser usually work with various auction sites selling products that have been donated and running campaigns to get more donations. A home based fundraiser usually makes 5 to 10 percent of the profit of the campaign.

Things You'll Need

• Outgoing personality.
• Experience in customer service and sells.

Instructions

1. Research various ways of funding nonprofit organizations through non government funding sources.

2. Read up on the field on fundraising through books and web sites like aafrc.org.

3. If you lack experience in eBay or other online auction sites that let non-profits use their sites for free consider listing some of your own unneeded items to get experience.

4. Start you fundraising career by finding local non-profit organizations that are seeking funds but have use the internet resources to the full extent. Look through the non profit sector of phone book listings or start with organization you know. Contact them to set a time to introduce to them ways they can raise funds online. Bring with you solid information on the research you have done. The first few you do you will want to offer you initial services free, then only bill 5 to 10 percent of the funds you raise.

5. After you have a couple success stories you will find word of mouth will give you most of your business.

Tips & Warnings

• You will get most of you products to auction through promotion of free advertisements through the news, new paper, and radio announcements.

• After you name is more well known in the fundraising industry you may contact campaigns of famous sports teams/players and movie actresses to get donations to auction off. You will want to focus on people that have connections or a history with the cause or community you are working with (do not expect to do this from day one).

• If your main goal is to sell on eBay you can look through pre-approved charities at missionfish.com and start setting up your business in less then a few hours (guidelines and rules are a little different so make sure to look read the small print).

• Fundraising can be easy start out in, but it takes work and time to earn enough to make a living off.