24 Mar 2009 No Comments
Fundraising webinars on web marketing and letter writing coming up
If you’ve been reading this blog for more than a week or so, you probably know that Team Firstgiving presents free fundraising webinars for our clients and the general public. You can see the full schedule and recordings of past webinars on our webinar page any time, but here’s a quick reminder of what’s coming up:
Tomorrow! Wednesday, March 25 at 3:30pm Eastern, Nine ways to promote your personal fundraising page – and 99 online places to do it in which we’ll talk all about how individual fundraisers can promote their pages online and offline. Whether you work at an NPO or are just a regular person who cares about a cause, this session is for you.
New, Premium Webinar series! We’ve whipped up a trio of specialized webinars for our premium account clients, but blog readers are welcome too. The first one is on Thursday, April 16 at 3:30pm Eastern and it’s called Best practices in website promotion and is all about how nonprofit organizations can promote their Firstgiving pages using web assets already at hand. The other two sessions, in May and June, will focus on Facebook and Search Engine Optimization.
Writing successful fundraising emails and letters is April’s second webinar, on the 22nd at 3:30pm, and you can not only watch it, you can be part of it. All the fancy design and social media won’t matter if your fundraising letter is weark. Whether it’s paper or electronic, there are some things you can do to make your asking letters better. In this webinar, we’ll discuss general principles of fundraising letter writing and critque some actual solicitation letters. If you would like your fundraising letter to be considered for discussion during the webinar, send it to fundraisingletters@gmail.com – we’ll contact you to discuss the letter if it’s selected before we talk about it on the webinar.
Whether you participate in these webinars or just check out the archvie of over 20 recorded sessions, we hope you enjoy them and maybe learn a thing or two. Good luck with your fundraising!
