We love following the Weighty Matters blog where Ottawa-based physician, professor, and author, Yoni Freedhoff, takes a look at nutrition, health, diet, science, fitness, and other excellent health advice and interesting musings. One of the topics that has been regularly highlighted on the blog are the various junk food fundraisers that are often promoted, ironically, in conjunction with ostensibly healthy activities.
A few months ago, we launched a new feature called Public Campaign Pages that allows your group to easily share its story with prospective supporters. As part of that launch, we ran a little contest and chose the 10 best Public Campaign Pages that have were published before September 6th, 2019. Here are the winning Public Campaign Pages!
Fall is in full swing, and retailers are rolling out their seasonal collections, and with the cold temperatures that are coming, we’re happy they are! To appreciate and take advantage of this fall season, and to also maximize the use of gift cards, let yourself be tempted by these fall suggestions from our retailers.
As a parent, it’s normal to wish your children to develop through sport. Exchanging, working together, sharing... so many values around a common passion. But at some point you have to face the fact that this passion for sports comes with a cost. In many cases, you’ll consider obvious expenses such as equipment or registration fees. But there are also training camps, tournaments, travels, fuel and meal expenses. A family can easily spend more than $5,000 a year to support their children's activities. What solutions can you adopt to support your children through sport, while controlling your budget?
The summer season is unfortunately winding down, but religious group community meetings are ongoing. Many religious institutions take the opportunity to unite their congregations to enjoy the last days of sunshine and good weather. Whether you are part of a church, synagogue, mosque, temple or other religious institution, now is the time to optimize your FundScrip fundraising campaign!
It’s already back to school time! Why not taking advantage of the time of year to promote your fundraising campaign to your current and potential supporters?
Nowadays, most people have an account on the most popular social media platform, Facebook. Even though it's amusing to like and share cat videos, Facebook also has an amazing potential for businesses and organizations, by helping them to reach out to their actual clients, fans, or supporters, and potential ones as well. It’s also true that this social network can be an excellent channel to promote your group’s activities, such as your fundraising campaigns. Here are 4 ways to use Facebook to help you with your fundraising campaign.
More and more, gift cards are making the holiday season and birthdays easier. No need to struggle to find the perfect present among all the gadgets around us! Leaving the choice to his or her loved one to find something useful they like, lifts the burden of researching, and potential disappointment. Now imagine if you could plan all your gifts in advance? How? Start by making a list of events that you could celebrate with a gift card!
More and more provinces are promoting healthy fundraising, like the Ontario government, who are encouraging consuming local products and healthy eating.. Yet, we all remember the schoolchildren knocking on our door, hoping that we would buy one, two or all of the chocolate bars from the box, this approach is now losing ground to healthy and local choices.