FUNDRAISING HOW

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overview Why Create an Edco Fundraising Page?

Preparation: Create your customized fundraising page Add team members Collect and upload contacts

Start fundraising: Create your fundraiser and launch it by sendingout emails and posting on social media

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WHY CREATEAN EDCOFUNDRAISINGPAGE? 01

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Sustainable fundraising Edco stores your contact and donor lists so you’ll have a greatjumping off point for your next fundraiser and beyond.

It’s FASTyou can set up your fundraising page in under five minutes.

Make fundraising a team sportinclude your entire school/team/club in the fundraisingprocess. It isn’t your responsibility alone to fundraise.

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Instant access to fundsEdco processes the payments and sends the funds you’veraised to your school/501(c)3 account or prepaid card forfast use.

Integrated toolspromote your fundraiser via email and social media froma single place.

All donations on Edco are tax-deductibleEdco even sends your supporters automated thank younotes including relevant tax information.

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PREPARATION 026

CREATE ANACCOUNT ON EDCO

(name & email)

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FIND YOURSCHOOL

USINGNAME ANDZIP CODE

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UPLOADONE

PICTURE

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NAME YOURFUNDRAISING

PAGE

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WRITE A BRIEFDESCRIPTION

OF YOURSCHOOL/

TEAM/CLUB

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Creating your fundraising pagetakes less than five minutes:

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Fundraising Page Example School,Team, orClub Name

School,Team, or

ClubPicture

Descriptionof School,Team, orClub

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TEAM MEMBERS AREANYONE THAT HAS AVESTED INTEREST IN

HELPING YOUFUNDRAISE.

Potential team membersinclude: Students, parents,

faculty, school administrators, alumni, etc.

Finish by clicking “Add Team Members” Edco will send out an email explaining how to

join your fundraising team

Enter the email addresses of everyone you'd like to invite to join your fundraising team

(separate email addresses with a comma)

From your dashboard click “Add Team Members”

Adding Team Members To Your Fundraiser

INVITE THEM ALL

TO JOINYOUR

FUNDRAISINGTEAM.

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The email yourteam members

will get

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FACT

Teams with 6-9 members seebetter results than teams

with fewer members. Teamswith 10 or more memberstypically raise 53% more

funds on average.

HELPS BUILD YOUR CONTACT, DONOR, ANDALUMNI BASE FOR FUTURE FUNDRAISERS -

LEADS TO SUSTAINABLE FUNDRAISINGYEAR AFTER YEAR.

GIVES DONORS THE ABILITY TO ATTRIBUTETHEIR DONATION TO AN INDIVIDUAL ON THE

TEAM (AND THEY LOVE THAT!)

Why adding team members toyour fundraiser is a crucial step...

MORE TEAMMEMBERS

MEANSYOU’LL HAVE

MORE PEOPLETO:

MORE TEAM MEMBERS =MORE FUNDS

Solicit for donations & share

your fundraiser on social media

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ASK EACH OF YOUR TEAMMEMBERS TO SUBMIT

CONTACT INFORMATION

CONTACT INFORMATION OF POTENTIALDONORS CAN BE ADDED ONE AT A TIME

OR BY UPLOADING A CSV FILE.

MORE CONTACTS = MORE FUNDS

name and email

Collect and upload contacts

FOR AT LEAST 10POTENTIAL DONORS.

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Why collect and upload contact information?

THE MORECONTACTS YOU

HAVE, THEBIGGER YOUR

REACHBECOMES.

Sharing your fundraiser on social media

Donating

Checking with their employer aboutmatching their donation

Submitting the contact information of potential donors

THAT MEANSYOU’LL BEASKING A

LARGER GROUPOF PEOPLE TO

HELP YOURFUNDRAISER

BY:

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03 START FUNDRAISING!

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Time to Create Your Fundraiser

CREATE AFUNDRAISER

NAME (what you’re raisingmoney for)

WRITE A BRIEFDESCRIPTION

OF YOURFUNDRAISER

CREATE CUSTOMGIVING LEVELS

(explaining what eachgiving level means to

the team)

UPLOAD APHOTO

Once you have this, your fundraiser will be live and ready for launch!

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Time to launch your fundraiser!Kick off your fundraiser by sending out emails to all ofyour contacts and posting it on social media (with one click!).

SEND OUT 1-2EMAILS PER WEEKTO ALL OF YOURSUPPORTERS THAT:

What they can do tohelp (see slide 13)

Notify everyone thefundraiser is live

Say thank you fortheir support

Update them onfundraising progress

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questions? Nathan Spevack nathan@ed.co (212) 336-3828

filled with usefulHow To videos

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