Fundraising Without the Hassle: A Simpler Way to Raise Money
Your organization needs funding. It probably doesn’t need another pile of boxes, a stack of order forms, or a pickup day nobody has time for.
Traditional fundraisers can work, but they can also create a surprising amount of work. Someone has to collect orders, keep track of payments, sort products, contact buyers, arrange pickups, make deliveries, and deal with the leftovers. Then, a few months later, it’s often time to start all over again.
I recently watched that process play out firsthand in a cookie-and-coffee fundraiser. The fundraiser ended, but the hassle didn’t—and the experience raised an important question about whether supporters and organizers will want to do it all again next year.
What if the fundraiser didn’t create another job?
That is the idea behind Joe’s Fundraising: help organizations raise money without turning volunteers, parents, members, staff, or students into order processors and delivery drivers.
Fundraising without the usual hassle
No required inventory purchases. No products for your organization to store or deliver. No cash or checks for participants to collect. No participation fees. No program renewals.
People can support you without the pickup-day headache
Participants receive personalized fundraising links they can share with family, friends, coworkers, and others. Your organization also receives its own fundraising link that can be shared directly.
Customers place their orders online. Your organization does not purchase, store, sort, or deliver inventory. That means no tables covered in boxes, no calling people who forgot to pick up an order, and no driving around trying to finish the fundraiser.
Give supporters a choice
A traditional campaign may depend on one particular product—cookies, candy, coffee, wrapping paper, coupon books, or something else. Some people want it. Others don’t.
With Joe’s Fundraising, supporters decide for themselves whether they want to purchase. Participants simply share their personalized link, while the organization can also promote its main fundraising link through its normal communication channels.
The ongoing support comes second—but it matters
The biggest advantage is reducing the workload. The second advantage is that support does not necessarily end when an active campaign does.
Ongoing support between campaigns
Your organization receives 20% of referred customers’ initial orders and 10% of future reorders for as long as those customers continue ordering.
You can promote continuously, seasonally, annually, or whenever additional funding is needed. Between active campaigns, existing customer reorders can continue supporting your organization.
More time for what your organization actually does
Churches have ministries and outreach. Schools have students, activities, clubs, athletics, classrooms, and programs. Fire departments need equipment, training, and community resources. Lodges, civic groups, nonprofits, and other community organizations support scholarships, charitable projects, and local service efforts.
Fundraising should support that work—not become the work.
See how it works
Joe’s Fundraising is free for organizations and participants to join. There are no participation fees, required inventory purchases, or program renewals. Participants can take part individually or as teams, and the online back office tracks organization and participant activity.
If you’re looking for a way to raise money with less sorting, storing, collecting, delivering, and chasing people down, take a look around JoesFundraising.com and see whether fundraising without the hassle makes sense for your organization. Prefer something you can save and read later? Download the free Fundraising Without the Hassle PDF guide.
