5 Great Ways to Raise Funds On the Internet for Your Group

If you're a member of a non-profit group of any kind and are need to raise funds for your events or activities, here are 10 ways to do so online that you may not be aware of.

1) Run your own online auction.

Ever bought or sold anything on eBay? Most people don't realize that they allow you to sell items for your non-profit group too. Look for the link in the seller resources under 3rd party services. It's called eBay Giving Works - click there and read all about how it works.

2) You can run your own "A-Thon".

Does your group like to do "A-Thons", but you don't like all the work involved with running one? With www.choose-a-thon.com, you can select any of the following to do as a fundraising event: walk-a-thon, bike-a-thon, read-a-thon, bowl-a-thon, march-a-thon or life-a-thon. There are no up-front fees and they'll collect your donations for you too.

3) Use a Krymus website.

A website through www.krymus.com offers a cash-back reward for using the site to shop at over 300 national chain stores. There's a fundraising option where they'll build a free shopping mall website for you and you promote it to your supporters. For every sale made at this store, your group gets paid a commission. Some of the stores included in this are Wal-Mart, Sharper Image,Barnes & Noble, Target and Best Buy. Your group does no selling, collecting money or delivering products - just promote your website and cash the checks.

4) If you have an emergency need for your group, a pittance portal might be the way to go.

Pittance Portals (www.pittanceportal.com) are websites you can set up for free and send supporters to so they can make a donation via Paypal. You have control of the content and can update it as needed. They also offer additional marketing and search engine services for a fee.

5) You can sell internet service as a fundraiser.

That's right, www.cyberlynk.net will give you up to 50% of every sale for internet service you make for your group. The internet service is dial up (which might be a disadvantage) but the price is good - $12.99 a month. Your group doesn't have to do any sales, collection of money or distribution of the product....it's all handled online. Your group only has to promote it.

The best part of all of these fundraisers is that the selling, money collection and distribution of the products or services is mostly handled for your group by the online service. This will give your volunteers more time to concentrate on promoting the fundraiser and is certainly a lot less work and stress for those involved. All of these are extremely easy to run - so if you need more funds and don't have much time to do the legwork, let the internet help.

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