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A Mega Doação: Captação de recursos pela internet
Temos certeza de que muitos captadores de recursos vão achar que é difícil acreditar que, para alguns doadores, em particular os principais doadores, pode ser difícil encontrar uma organização de confiança, e de doadores amigáveis para dar o seu dinheiro. The Big Give é uma inovação que atende ambas às necessidades de doadores e captadores de recursos. Para instituições de caridade, o site é uma oportunidade fantástica e grátis, para mostrar seus projetos, o trabalho real e relevante que grande parte do público deixa de ver, ou perceber as necessidades financeiras.
The first ever major donor dinner – c. 970 BC
With a clear target, a list of major prospects, an inspirational lead gift and a fantastic end result, the only thing that’s not ‘state of the art’ about this event is that it happened 3,000 years ago.
Paul the apostle motivates his church’s donors – c. 56 AD
This could be the first ever appeal for regular, committed donors. In the early days of the Christian church the missionary Paul asked his supporters in the city of Corinth to set aside a small portion of their income regularly, to sustain victims of a famine and then later to support good works generally.
Moses raises funds for the tabernacle – c. 1,500 BC
This is now the oldest exhibit on SOFII (and will be, until you tell us different). It’s also a surprisingly instructive fundraising case history. If you look at the detailed notes it becomes quite clear that the prophet Moses was an accomplished fundraiser who both understood his audience and appreciated the nuances of his fundraising proposition and how it would be received.
Longstowe Church, Cambridgeshire, UK: restoration appeal
‘Recession? What recession? It all goes to show that good fundraising still works, recession or not.’ How a tiny congregation in rural England raised the huge sum needed to restore their splendid church.
The atheist bus campaign
This is a perfect match between a brilliant idea that generates real public interest and the technology that can make it easily happen.
The Chilean Bible Society: mobile phone texting campaign
SOFII’s first exhibit from Chile. This is a very clever use of text messaging with an intriguing involvement device built in, in the form of a Bible knowledge quiz. Each text generates a small donation and increases the sender’s bible knowledge, which must suit the Chilean Bible Society very well.
Albert Street Methodist Sunday School, from the 1930s: the foot of pennies
A small yet colourful part of England’s fundraising heritage had been discovered in a Methodist chapel about to be demolished. As their finder explains, these fun feet of pennies are engagement devices designed to make collecting for charity easy and so to hook neophytes into the habit of giving.
St Paul’s letter to the Corinthians
Is this the world’s earliest ever recorded mention of fundraising? Or do you know different?
Eihei Dogen fundraising letter: from 1235
Sent in the year 1235, this may be the oldest fundraising letter on record. It is also an extraordinarily competent appeal that identifies the different types of people that the writer wishes to address.
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