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Starting a fundraising campaign can be a little intimidating. While you’re looking for fundraising ideas and methods to reach your goals, it might seem impossible to make a choice from those numerous options. The good news is that you don’t have to; nothing prevents you from using multiple fundraisers. In fact, a lot of our groups use FundScrip while doing other types of fundraising events like marathons, garage sales and more. Combining different fundraising methods can help you reach your goals faster.

FundScrip works very well for church fundraising because it allows for year-round, consistent participation. In order to help you succeed with your FundScrip campaign, here a few fundraising ideas to help you maximize your donations for your church.

Scouts from the 11th and 12th Cambridge Scout Group have raised $4,500 with FundScrip for all their adventures! Here is what Group Administrator Vanessa Chong had to say about her fundraiser.

If you’ve been running fundraising campaigns for some time now, you’ve probably heard of the term “Peer-to-Peer Fundraising” (P2P). What exactly is this type of fundraising, and does the FundScrip fundraising program fall under this category? In this article we’ll help you determine the difference between traditional fundraising programs and so-called peer-to-peer fundraising programs.

Glenview Presbyterian Church has been serving North Toronto for over 90 years, dedicated to outreach in its community and around the world. Glenview has been participating in the FundScrip gift card program for 5 years, raising nearly $15,000 in donations.

FundScrip is a very effective fundraising program, and at first glance you might get the impression that running a FundScrip campaign happens entirely online. However, the FundScrip groups who raise the most money are those who make the effort to engage with their supporters in person. One of the best ways to engage with your supporters, or potential supporters, is to set up a FundScrip table wherever your supporters will be congregating, and to help you succeed with your FundScrip information table, we put together a few simple tips to help you be prepared and reach as many supporters as possible.

Unlike most fundraising programs that ask you to peddle products of dubious value, with FundScrip, supporters simply need to buy gift cards for the stores they already visit. It’s simply a question of getting into the habit of changing their payment method. Despite the obvious advantages of using gift cards in this manner for fundraising, some people are still reluctant to embrace them. For that reason, we’ve compiled a list of the main reasons why everyone should use gift cards as their payment method!

Father's Day is almost here! To make it special for the DADS in your life, we made a special Gift Card Guide on our blog. Now that you have your gift cards, you need to give them out in a unique way, right? We searched all over Pinterest to find the best gift card DIYs out there for you to try! Here's what we found.

Summer is the best time to kick back, relax, and enjoy the beautiful weather. That means some of us take a little summer break, including our amazing and dedicated FundScrip group administrators! In order to help all you group administrators out there keep raising money for your groups throughout the summer, even if you’re taking a break, we’ve put together a few tips on how to raise more for the summer.