Monday, 10 September 2018

Advices About School Unique Fundraising Events

By Joyce Price


Universities and colleges cannot depend on government subsidies and their student tuition fees alone to fund their operations. These institutions constantly need to develop the quality of their education and research, to maintain some things and/or to expand, all of these require substantial amounts of money. So Deans and Vice Chancellors are faced with the task of diversifying their institution s source of funding to keep them running efficiently. Organize unique fundraising events have been proven to work, but it is not an easy task to do.

Some organizations that need donations from the public have adopted the use of new technologies to make things easier for people who want to donate. An example is Amazon, it uses data analytics and statistics to improve their customer experience. That is what the institutions should do if they want people to continue donating to them, they should reduce the donor s efforts. If they don t, other organizations that do that will become their competition.

Hence, institutions have to adopt the use of data science, predictive modeling, statistics and etc. To build models which will help them identify people who are likely to donate money to their cause and individualize their marketing. Time and money should not be spent on marketing in the wrong direction.

Another important thing to look at is how the institutions connect to possible donors. Fortunately, in this age, messages can be passed around throughout the world in just a matter of seconds, but will it reach the right people? Over two billion people are on social channels like Facebook and Linkedin, so digital advertising and social media pages may be used to reach these people. For personalized marketing, institutions may go directly to sending emails to targeted donors.

People want to donate money when they want to and they want to decide for themselves how much they want to give away. If the fundraising projects doesn t give them that freedom, they some will withdraw from donating. So, the type of fundraising that tells people how much they should donate should be avoided.

To make people support you and donate money to help you achieve your goal, you should set your objectives clear to them. Tell them what you re planning to do with their money, make them see how they can benefit from this or how the world as a whole can benefit from your objectives.

One survey results revealed that people think when they donate to varsities, they are paying for students fees and that s why others are reluctant. But, if they know that that money may be used for researching a cure for cancer, they might understand that donating to university is just like donating to other charity organizations. In fact, it might produce a permanent solution for other charity organizations.

When the above-mentioned devices are followed and technology is used, higher education fundraising becomes a little easier for academic institutions.




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