People are quick to like the causes they care about on social media. They’ll dole out the likes, shares, and retweets with abandon, but getting your followers to step up and support your cause with their hard-earned money requires more work. The good news is that if they’re already engaging with you on social media, they’re more likely to donate. …
Making Sponsorship Work for Your Crowdfunding Campaign
Sponsorship provides an opportunity for brands to spread the word about their company while rewarding your donors. For example, Restaurant.com sponsorship is available for FundRazr campaigns based in the United States.
Embedding Campaigns in News Stories: Why It Matters and How to Do It
I’m willing to bet this has happened to you or someone you know – let us know if you’ve heard this one before. You see an article online on a news website about a family, nonprofit, or project that needs help. The article says that the cause has raised a certain amount of their goal, and names the website that …
Aprons for Gloves 2016
Aprons for Gloves uses FundRazr’s sub-campaigns to easily track who’s raising money for the cause while making it as easy as possible for contenders to engage their audiences with Aprons for Gloves-branded content.
Getting Creative with Sub Campaigns for Influencer and Affiliate Marketing
With sub-campaigns you enable influencers and affiliates to use the content from your master campaign (images, videos, your brand story) and put their own spin on it with their own content and perks, allowing you to track exactly which campaign your contributions are coming from.
Why Nicolle Hodges dropped everything to help refugees in Greece
STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY: Nicolle Hodges – I woke up from a dream, and in it I was drowning. When my eyes opened, I wasn’t drenched in sweat or gasping for air. I was simply lying on my back, looking up at the beige, cracked ceiling of my West End apartment. There was nothing special about the moment that indicated something …
3 Free Places to Promote Your FundRazr Campaign You Hadn’t Thought of Before
Promotion is one of the most important aspects of any crowdfunding campaign, regardless of whether its philanthropic or entrepreneurial. Here are three places you can promote your FundRazr campaign that you likely hadn’t thought of before.
Teenaged ‘Cheetah Girls’ Share how They’re Raising Breast Cancer Awareness in China
Teenagers Jemima and Imogen know a thing or two about crowdfunding success from their project to raise money for breast cancer awareness in China.
One Woman’s Foray into Fundraising for the Rare Disease Foundation
This guest post was written by Allison Jones on behalf of the Rare Disease Foundation in support of Rare Disease Day on February 29th. I never would have thought that I would be involved in fundraising but after having my second child, who is now five, things just kind of took off… in particular in the past year! Life changes …
February’s Top Technologically Innovative Crowdfunding Campaigns
We love seeing technological innovators in action, and 2016 has really started with a bang. We love supporting the innovators and game changers of the world to make a difference in the way we live – whether it’s in road safety or healthy living. This month we’ve helped some very exciting technology get off the ground that we wanted to …