Noam Kostucki

Hello Everyone!

I have just joined this group and saw you were asking about how Social Networking helps with fundraising. I work for a charity called Save the Family that supports homeless families and we have a twitter site maintained by one of our lovely fundraising assistants. We have found it to extremely helpful but not so much with raising funds as it is with raising support, interest and putting out appeals.

This month we needed to get turkeys for our families to have for Christmas Dinner.

We sent out an appeal on Twitter and within 24 hours we had secured 60 Turkeys from a generous donor! They not only delivered them to us but we

also put together a press release from this donation, are going to be featured in a farming magazine and have developed a relationship with the hope that we will be able to replicate this donation next year and hopefully for years to come.

Its hard to get actual funds from Twitter, but if you need help getting volunteers, donation or support then its a really efficient way to communicate needs and its great to have people approach you who want to help rather than you always having to convince people of a worthy cause.

To find us look for "Save the Family UK", Emily Ghazarian

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• Wikipedia: 181 SNS• Mashable: 350+ SNS• Ning: 2,000,000 SNS

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“To avoid the hassle of paperwork”£50K+, 60-64,

“Just for cash flow reasons” £50K+, 75-79,

“Can make it an equivalent to a larger donation”£15K-£20K, 35-39,

“At that level once a year is easier, just one lump sum”£10K-£15K, 65-69,

“I think it seemed more practical and we thought that from the organisation’s point of view it was better to have that lump sum and to get all the interest from it over the years”Undisclosed, 75-79,

“I would forget if it was spread out; I’d rather just pay it. It gives you a chance to reconsider at the end of the year”£10-£15K, 55-59,

For those who preferred to contribute more often, convenience was also a theme, but also allowing for unplanned giving/requests and perhaps as a (conscious) tactic to inflate the total amount contributed.“Money raised from the trips goes to the gallery” £25K-£30K, 30-34,

“Mainly because I was asked by [fundraiser] – [...] depending on what it is for I sometimes say yes [...] I am very encouraged by what I see [at the theatre] so I am very happy to give”Undisclosed, 75-79,

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