Tips

Tips to help you reach your fundraising goals!

1. Have a goal

• Challenge yourself to hit the next Miracle Milestone
• Raise $110 to be invited to OwlThon.

1. Donor Drive

• Customize your fundraising page.
• Include a picture.
  • Last year’s reveal
  • Picture from a previous OwlThon
  • Your team’s miracle child
• Include your WHY!
• Talk about how our money helps the kids at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital!
• Add the link owlthonatfau.org to find more information
• Ask for people to join you and help you reach your goal
• Save your Donor Drive link in your notes so you can easily access it
• Customize your Donor Drive Link
  • ( Ex. events.dancemarathon/participant/FirstName_LastName)

1. Be vulnerable

• Make people feel empowered and inspired
• Step outside your comfort zone
• Ask friends, family members, teachers, and co-workers to help you reach your goal
• Not everyone will donate, and that is ok! The important thing is that we spread awareness

1. Texting

• Challenge yourself to text 10 friends/family members asking for a $1-5 donation

1. Sell old things

• Sell old organization merch for big/lil or to new members
• Instead of Venmo, have your friends pay you back on your Donor Drive!
• Plato’s closet/ Poshmark
• Sell old textbooks

1. Incentives

• “If I raise $500, I will..”
• “For each donation I receive, the donor can choose from this list for me to do”
• Make challenges with your friends who go to another school with a Dance Marathon program
• Donate $1 for each question you got wrong on an exam
• Post an embarrassing picture of yourself for every $5 donation you receive
• Shave your head
• Crack eggs on your head for every donation
• Tell each donor what Disney character or song they remind you of
• Get a pair of jeans or shoes and let people sign them when they donate
• Wear a costume in public
• Sing out loud on campus
• Have a bake sale in the Breezeway
• Offer to swipe people into the Cafe for a donation
• Donate $1 every time you lose an item (phone/wallet/keys)
• Donate $1 every time you skip working out
• Donate $1 every time you’re late to class

1. Start a Change Jar

• You can always find change on the ground
• Donate loose change you get from paying with cash
• Ask your employer if you can start a donation jar  

1. Chores  

• Mow your neighbor’s lawn
• Wash cars
• Babysit
• Dog/cat sit
• Clean your friends’ rooms for a donation

1. Personal letters

• Handwrite a letter to make it more personal
• Ask for donations as a gift around the holidays or your birthday
• Provide an envelope and stamp for them to mail their donation to you
• Personal emails
• Ask family or friends to send out an email on your behalf to friends or co-workers
• Follow up with a phone call
• Keep it short and simple
• Use color and bold to emphasize important information

1. Social media

• Post Donor Drive Link in your bio
• Post your Donor Drive on Facebook/Twitter Etc.
• Tag your family members in your post so their friends also see the post
• Give shoutouts to people who have donated
• Ask your parents to post your donor drive link on their Facebook pages
• Tweet at celebrities
• Share your WHY! To make it more personal

1. Join together

• Organization/Team Bake sale
• Car wash
• Lemonade stand
• Have your team host a giveback night for OwlThon
• Ask your organization to host a dress down chapter and donate to your teams fundraising page

1. Use your talents

• Make personalized items and sell them (t-shirts, buttons, bracelets)
• Photography
• Paint
• Sing
• Dance
• Tutor

1. Miscellaneous

• Sponsor a RT on twitter (ex: Donate .10 for every RT, .25 for every Favorite)
• Donate one night of your tips at work
• Give up 1 Starbucks coffee a week
• Go Door to Door
• Make an announcement in class or email your class on Canvas

1. Use some math

• Think about your goal and divide it by 5
• That # is how many people you can ask for a $5 donation
• EX: goal =$110
• 110/5=22
  That’s only 22 friends who donate $5!!