Austin Pets Alive! | Shelter Pet Social Fundraising Information

Jun 01, 2022

Thanks for becoming a member of us to save lots of shelter pets this summer time! By making a fundraising web page in partnership with Austin Pets Alive!, you’ll assist to save lots of the lives of susceptible animals. Partaking with your mates, household, and social networks by way of sharing a Elegant and/or Fb fundraiser is a good way to attach folks with a mission you care about, inform them about your shelter pet, why you adopted from, volunteer for, donate to, or help APA!, and why they need to assist us to save lots of extra animal lives.

Better of all, it’s simple to do. Creating your fundraising web page takes simply minutes. Sharing your web page together with your neighborhood and inspiring people to donate is fast and efficient (extra on that later!). As you increase funds and have interaction together with your neighborhood, you’ll additionally get insider ideas and incentives to maintain your momentum going!

Able to get began? Here’s a information to establishing your fundraiser, together with a Ceaselessly Requested Questions part that can assist you launch your web page!

Making a Fundraising Web page on Elegant

1. Go to APA!’s Elegant web page and click on “Turn out to be a Fundraiser”

2. Resolve if you wish to create a person fundraiser or be a part of or create a staff. Subsequent, you’ll create your free account, or log in to an current account when you’ve got used Elegant earlier than.

3. To create a person fundraising web page:

   1. Click on “As a person.” Set a fundraising objective and an finish date in your fundraiser a minimum of 3 weeks from now.

TIP: Take into consideration an bold however lifelike objective – fundraising pages usually increase about $350, which is a good goal! Your supporters need to see you succeed and obtain milestones – you possibly can all the time increase your objective!

1. After you have created your account, click on “Handle” to customise your web page and inform your neighborhood why you’re fundraising for Austin Pets Alive! You’ll be able to share a narrative of the way you adopted a shelter pet, why you donate personally to APA!, or spotlight your volunteer contributions. You too can add a photograph of your self or your pet!

2. Share your fundraiser with mates, household, and your broader community by way of electronic mail and social media! Search for this icon in your Elegant web page to get social!

1. To create a staff fundraising web page:

   1. Click on “Create a staff.” Set a fundraising objective and identify your staff.

   2. Create your particular person fundraising web page that might be linked to the staff fundraiser

   3. Invite others to affix your staff or donate to your fundraising web page by sharing by way of electronic mail or on social media!

2. To hitch an current staff fundraising web page:

   1. Click on “Be part of a staff” and seek for the staff you need to be a part of by typing within the search bar or scrolling by way of the listing of groups.

   2. Choose the staff, create your fundraising web page, and share it by way of electronic mail or social media to get people to affix you!

Making a Fundraiser on Fb

1. Go to APA!’s Fb web page Fundraisers

2. Click on “Elevate Cash”

3. Set a fundraising objective and an finish date a minimum of three weeks sooner or later. This provides your community time to donate and listen to extra from you about Austin Pets Alive!

4. Add your story of the way you adopted a shelter pet, why you donate personally to APA!, or spotlight your volunteer contributions. You too can add a photograph of your self or your pet!
   Additionally, make sure to say someplace that you simply’re fundraising for Shelter Pet Social so your {dollars} are counted towards this marketing campaign’s objective and prizes.

5. Click on the “Create” button

6. Share your fundraiser together with your Fb mates by making a publish or sending it straight by way of Messenger

TIP: Sharing broadly on Fb is a good way to attach folks you could not even know are animal lovers with our mission! We advocate sharing with everybody in your Associates listing!

Ceaselessly Requested Questions

When ought to I create my fundraiser and share it with my neighborhood?

Now! We’re formally kicking off this social fundraising marketing campaign on Friday, Might 20 however you can begin constructing your web page and sharing together with your supporters instantly.

The longer your web page is energetic the extra alternatives people need to donate and have interaction together with your ardour for saving animal lives. Sharing your fundraiser commonly all through the marketing campaign is the easiest way to verify everybody has an opportunity to take part!

Which kind of fundraising web page ought to I create? Can I create each a Elegant web page and Fb fundraiser?

You’ll be able to completely create each sorts of fundraisers! Actually, it’s a good way to customise your outreach to family and friends by way of electronic mail with a hyperlink to your Elegant web page and join extra broadly together with your community by way of Fb.

Should you solely need to create one web page, take into consideration who you need to ask to have interaction with APA!’s mission and what kind of help you might have considered trying or want in your fundraiser. Elegant is nice for extra personalised outreach and also you’ll obtain encouragement from our staff together with ideas and methods for making your web page successful! Fb is straightforward to ship to numerous folks however sadly, we are able to’t provide the identical kind of help.

How can I make sure that my fundraiser is successful?

An important factor you are able to do to verify your fundraiser is profitable is to share why you care about Austin Pets Alive! and the susceptible animals that we serve. The second most essential factor you are able to do is share your web page usually with a broad viewers. Should you do this stuff, you’ll probably see success! Listed below are a couple of extra ideas:

• E-mail your fundraiser to your shut family and friends first – these are the oldsters who’re most definitely to help your efforts!

• Embody the hyperlink to your fundraising web page everytime you share or publish about it

• Particularly, ask for a donation, and contemplate making one your self

• Customise your web page! Share why you care about susceptible shelter pets or APA!, a narrative about your adopted animal, or different the explanation why people ought to be a part of you in supporting APA!

• Share updates and ask for folk to donate commonly. As you get your first donation, hit milestones alongside the best way, and ultimately attain your fundraising objective, share these successes together with your neighborhood!

• Thank your supporters! This may be so simple as commenting on Fb however makes an enormous distinction.

The place can I get graphics to decorate up my web page?

Go to our Shelter Pet Social Fundraiser Assets for graphics that you need to use to customise your web page. We additionally extremely advocate utilizing photographs of your pets to assist people interact together with your web page!

What if I’ve different questions or want help?

Attain out to us at [email protected]. We’re glad to assist should you want help setting-up your web page or when you’ve got any questions alongside the best way.

Thanks once more for beginning your fundraiser for Austin Pets Alive! Your help allows us to save lots of greater than 10,000 animal lives annually and share our lifesaving greatest practices throughout the nation.