8 Simple, Free Ideas to Help Your Favorite Charity or Cause
May 2, 2011 in Charity, Philanthropy, Social Media, Twitter, Volunteer | Tags: charity, facebook, microvolunteering, Twitter, volunteer
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” ~Anne Frank
8 Simple, Free Ideas to Help Your Favorite Charity or Cause
As busy as you are, there are still ways to easily fit some helping into your schedule without giving money. Here are a few!
Help them post requests on the microvolunteering site http://Sparked.com. They can get free, skilled volunteer services for things like language translation, website or logo design, PR, marketing, and social media help.
Show some social love. Send some tweets on Twitter, share and like their articles on Facebook, Join their LinkedIn Group (or help them start one.) Add them to your profile and bio info.
Add yourself to their email list. Then remove yourself from their paper mailing list.
Help them write and mail personalized Thank You cards for donors.
Get creative with a fun fundraiser. A list to give you ideas: http://fundraiserinsight.org/ideas/
Add them to your personal email auto-signature. Link to their site or donation page with a short snippet on what they do. Here’s how: http://bit.ly/eHowCreateEmailSignature
Help them write articles. Or curate existing online news articles about them with headlines and shortened links, so they can have them in one place on their site. You can shorten links with http://bit.ly or another URL shortener.
Volunteer, and add it to your resume and online profiles (like LinkedIn). Let the world know about the organization, and that helping is important to you — maybe open new doors in the process! An example: http://LinkedIn.com/in/amyneumann
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” ~William James
