Invitations to Donors
Team leaders,
Displaying all your FIRST team Sponsors and donors (not just the ones who give through ClassWish) on your ClassWish fundraising page, as seen on this sample FIRST team fundraising page has several benefits:
- they get recognition for their generosity, which will reward them and will encourage potential supporters to contribute
- they feel more engaged in the team's fundraising process and more likely to send others to your page
- people who know and recognize them will be more likely to contribute (the bandwagon effect is a powerful force)
- the page we let them create on ClassWish encourages their friends to get involved.
Sponsors and Donors
- Sponsors: We refer to Sponsors as those contributors whose logo you display. However, they get far more than just the customary logo on your page. They also get an entire page of their own, where they can present their company and the nature of their engagement in FIRST. Here is a sample sponsor page, to which the sponsor logo on a team page links. Read more here about recognizing sponsors and for an email you can use to invite their participation on your ClassWish page.
- Donors: We refer to Donors as those contributors whose logo you do not display (that will likely include individuals or others who do not have a logo). They appear below the sponsors on your fundraising page. You can display them with or without links to their own ClassWish pages (the latter is better). Scroll down for an email you can use to invite their participation on your ClassWish page.
Here is an email you can send to your donors to invite their participation:
If you are looking for the email to send sponsors with logos, here it is.
Hello
[start by thanking them again for their donation to your team]
A nonprofit website, ClassWish.org, has built custom fundraising tools specifically for FIRST teams. We would like to display you as a donor on our page so everybody knows of your generous support.
You have two options.
- We can simply list your name, in which case just let me know exactly how you would like to be listed.
- We can display your name and link it to a page on ClassWish.org about you and your support of education. Of course, we hope you will choose the latter option, as it will do more to encourage others to get involved. In that latter case, here is what you do. It is quick and easy:
- Visit and join http://ClassWish.org
- Personalize your page (and perhaps say something nice about our team, your favorite schools, and your favorite teachers). It should just take a few minutes, and you can always revise it later. Uploading a photo is great, but not required.
- Send me the URL of your ClassWish profile page so I can enter it into the team admin panel. That will cause you logo to appear as a donor on our team page.
- If you support other teams, please let them know about ClassWish fundraising tools and provide them the URL to that same profile page so you will get recognition for that support, as well.
Thank you very much for your support. We could not be more appreciative.
Best wishes,