1. Making use of Images and Videos
Pictures and videos can always leave a deep impression. Take pictures or make videos to tell your story, to show what and how you are doing to help people. Your hard work and effort put in to help someone can touch their heart, and you never know, they may come forward to make donations and promote your event to raise funds.

2. Photo Tagging
Whenever you upload a photo about your event on Facebook, don’t forget to TAG. Recognise your event attendees, volunteers, sponsors, donors and everyone who are part of your event, tag them in the photos. They will feel really nice about it. It will be even great if you can add a line thanking them for their contributions.

3. Involve your Sponsors and Team
The more your posts and tweets get shared, it’s better for your fundraising event to get noticed. Apart from you doing your promotional activity, bring in your sponsors and the team involved with the event to help your posts reach far and wide. Prepare attractive videos, images, GIFs, or blogs so that they can readily send it across to their friends and followers. They will be able to show how actively they are involved and it may, in turn, earn them more followers.

4. It’s Trending
Almost everywhere on the internet, you can see ‘what’s trending’. So, why not make one of your ideas clicked and get it spread like wildfire. All you have to do is widen your scope of imagination and come up with something creative and unique to set a trend. Whatever idea you think of, it should be easy. People should be able to perform it without any hassle. Create a clear and distinctive hashtag of your challenge and attach it to every posts and tweets. If the challenge is engaging enough, it could encourage people to participate, and will definitely be trending.

5. Thanking your Donor
Let your donors know how much you are grateful to them for their contributions. You can do this by mentioning them in a special thanksgiving post or tweet highlighting their active involvement and generosity. You can select a nominee every week and appreciate them for always standing up for a good cause. The idea is not to lose such loyal frequent donors; but yes, before doing so, take their permission.

So, make your charity event a successful one using these simple tips

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In order to ensure that your charity event is off to a great start, we must understand the many factors that contribute to its success. In this blog, we will share a charity event survey report and discuss some of the major determining factors for achieving success.

Event Timing:
Among survey respondents, most people attend up to 9 events per year and most attendees prefer to attend these events on weekday evenings (especially on Thursday) between 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM. However, while Thursday nights between 7 and 10 p.m. are likely to draw the greatest crowd, you should ensure that there is no other charitable event that day whose constituency and cause are similar to yours.

Attracting Attendees/Donors:
According to the survey, the leading motivating factor for people attending a charity event is a personal connection to the cause that your event represents.

Hence, conducting thorough research to identify a target group that is somehow connected to your cause and customizing your event to that group is critical.

A portion of ticket price applied to charity:
Charity event attendees do know that a portion of the ticket price is going to fund the event.  However, a highly motivating factor for driving donors to the event is an awareness that a significant portion of the ticket price is getting directly applied toward advancing the goals of the charity. According to the survey, structuring your event so that 50%-75% of the ticket revenue goes to charity is an ideal target. Of course, the percentage ultimately depends on cost factors such as food and beverage offering and entertainment. Nevertheless, it is critical not to lose sight of your attendees’ expectations.

Event Promotion:
In today’s world, most event goers are connected to the internet for their daily work, information, news, and entertainment. According to the survey, e-mail is the most effective method for promoting your charity event. Furthermore, it’s a cost-efficient means of quickly communicating with a large constituency. Nevertheless, a critical point to keep in mind is that when it comes to charity events and social causes, people still prefer human contact over email and social networking.

In sum, these are some of the major factors to consider for maximizing the success of any charity event.  And if you are able to manage these factors properly, your chances for success increase dramatically.

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