Celebrate birthdays for students while raising money for causes that benefit them! A birthday board fundraiser is easy to create and can bring in lots of money for your school group. Here’s how FutureFund can help you run yours from start to finish.
How to Gain Buy-In When Fundraising
Join Darian Shimy, founder of FutureFund, on December 5 at 4 pm PST / 7 pm EST as he shares proven strategies to engage your community when fundraising.
Learn how to inspire involvement, communicate impact, and build a stronger community through effective collaboration.
This 1-hour talk covers:
Clarifying the role of fundraising
How to clearly differentiate between what tuition covers and the additional benefits that fundraising provides, such as enhanced facilities and special programs.
Communicating purpose and impact
How to articulate the specific goals of fundraising efforts and how they directly benefit students, fostering a sense of ownership and involvement among participants.
The importance of offering diverse fundraising options
Why you should provide various opportunities for people to contribute, including direct donations, participation in events, and volunteer roles, to accommodate different preferences and capacities.
Building a strong community connection
Emphasizing the importance of community in the microschool environment, encouraging your community to engage in fundraising as a means to strengthen bonds and support shared goals.
Maintaining transparency and accountability
The importance of regularly updating stakeholders on fundraising progress and outcomes, ensuring openness about how funds are utilized to build trust and encourage ongoing support.
Get a free personalized fundraising strategy session.
Speaker: Darian Shimy
Darian Shimy is the founder and CEO of FutureFund Technology, a platform dedicated to streamlining fundraising and sales for K-12 school groups. With over 25 years of experience in web-based technologies and engineering team management, Darian has been instrumental in developing solutions that enhance operational efficiency for educational organizations.
Beyond his professional endeavors, Darian is an active community member. He mentors emerging professionals, contributes insightful articles to Entrepreneur.com, and coaches his local high school’s dive team.
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Raised For Our Schools Since 2014
S, Kasad
Bollinger Elementary & Iron Horse Middle School
“FutureFund is always responsive to questions and suggestions, and added new corporate matching features based on my feedback. We rarely had to wait more than 24 hours for support and always felt taken care of.”
J, Morgenthaler
Tassajara Elementary
“FutureFund provides excellent onboarding and support for our organization. The FutureFund Team is based in America and easy to get on a call with to help us troubleshoot problems. Most issues are resolved within 24 hours!”