Global Village Fundraising Handbook Page 14
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CRAFTING YOUR MESSAGE
GLOBAL VILLAGE FUNDRAISING GUIDE
You can also use this approach individually and create your own support team
that prays for you, sends you encouraging messages while you are on the trip and
provides extra funding for more building capacity in the region. In exchange, you
would provide daily email updates, photos and acknowledgement of your team so
they can live vicariously through your experience. (Make sure you have consistent
Internet access during the build project. Internet access might be limited in many
Birthday appeal
host program locations.)
One veteran volunteer and Global
Alternative gifts
Village team member felt that
e alternative gi appeal letter asks for nancial support in lieu of material
turning 60 was a birthday that
gi s that traditionally would accompany a special occasion such as a birthday,
deserved extra attention, so she
Christmas, a wedding, anniversary, graduation, etc.
decided to go global by joining a
GV team to Hungary. She asked
Pledge to pray
friends and family, and anyone
A er you ask for a nancial donation, you can also ask for prayers. Ask people to
willing to listen, to donate rather
commit to think of you and pray for you in their own way every day that you are
than give her a birthday gift.
in the eld. Create a prayer team for you and your team, and be sure to update
Because it was her 60th, she
the team when you are leaving on your trip and as o en as you can from the eld.
asked for contributions of $6 to
eir prayers can make a di erence for your team! Don’t forget to update them
$600 or any amount, as long as it
when you get back about how their prayers helped your team do its work.
included a six. Many donors who
might otherwise have written
checks for $10 donated $16. Lots
of people wrote checks for $60; a
few made them out for $60.60, or
$66. All told, nearly 50 donors —
individuals, couples and families
— participated in this very suc-
cessful and satisfying alternative
birthday celebration.
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