She’s raised $80,000 and never did a fundraiser…

Garage Sale        Car Wash        Threads of Hope        Support Dinners                      Selling your Art Work               Selling a Kidney (Illegal, who knew?)

 
All great ideas BUT I didn’t use any of them. 
 
I worked Stateside with another Christian missions organization before I participated in the World Race in July of 2010.  I learned the best way to raise money is to initiate face-to-face contact and to ask people directly to prayerfully consider supporting my work. 
 
In the last three years I have raised over $80,000 toward missions efforts to which the Lord has called me. 
 

This technique works!

Here’s the break down:
 
I got a list of 200 people, these people ranged from my sister and uncle, to my dentist and my 8th grade history teacher.
 
I wrote two different letters to send to different people. 
 
The first letter was to TELL the more distant people of my life what I was doing and how much I needed to raise.  – These are typically the people that will write you a one-time check
 
The second letter was an ASK letter:
I sent out this letter to about 75 people.  In this letter I not only informed them of what I was doing and how much I needed to raise, but I also said that I would be calling them within two weeks to fill them in a little bit more. 
 
My life was crazy busy with calling people and meeting one-on-one with them.
 
I now had 75 people to call, and set up a time with them to chat about the WR and what I was going out to do.
 
During my visits with people I had an outline of what I wanted to share with them.
 
1.  I told them who Adventures is.
2.  I told them what the World Race is.
3.  I shared my heart and vision for why I wanted to go/felt God calling me.
4.  I directly and specifically asked them to prayerfully consider supporting me at $50 or  $100 a month.
 

Was it easy?

NO


Was it uncomfortable at times?  

YES


Did it work?
ABSOLUTELY!!!