{"id":12869,"date":"2021-06-28T15:36:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T14:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aluminati.net\/?p=12869"},"modified":"2022-09-26T11:04:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T10:04:29","slug":"expanding-your-fundraising-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aluminati.net\/expanding-your-fundraising-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Expanding Your Fundraising Community"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our recent <\/b>Creating Connection<\/b><\/a> roundtable event brought together members of the Community Builders Network to discuss how the digital fundraising landscape is changing.<\/b><\/h3>\n

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We were joined by Ben Parker of <\/span>Stockcrowd UK<\/span><\/a> who gave the groups his insights on the digital fundraising landscape, how this presents a commercial opportunity for organisations and how our <\/span>new partnership with Stockcrowd UK<\/span><\/a> can help organisations grow their donor supporter base.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stockcrowd UK started in 2015 with the vision to enable any organisation to turn their own website and digital channels into their own fundraising platform, rather than using a 3rd party technology.\u00a0 However, due to the current trend in fundraising moving towards digital technologies, some challenges were perceived.\u00a0 Firstly,\u00a0 the online giving market has become very crowded and the ability for an organisation to differentiate its cause from any other is becoming increasingly difficult and secondly, the issue of control over payments and data.\u00a0 With a typical donation flow, the donor donates money to the third-party platform which, in turn, distributes the money to the organisation.\u00a0 The problem with this is that the 3rd party provider owns and controls the donor data.\u00a0 This creates a barrier between the organisation and its donor community leaving the organisation unable to build an emotional connection that would make the campaigns more successful.<\/span><\/p>\n

It can be noted the audiences that support campaigns can be quite static.\u00a0 Many organisations going back to the same audience for every campaign that they are trying to launch and an element of fatigue can set in. Ben noted that the key differentiator in this situation is creativity and cited some examples of fundraising campaigns using Stockcrowds technology.\u00a0 One particular was a campaign to buy an educational school bus and the platform allowed donors to fund different parts of the vehicle.<\/span><\/p>\n

This format for fundraising has shown not only to be very effective in engaging a fundraising community but also helps the donors understand what their money is actually contributing towards.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another challenge facing organisations, Ben highlighted, is the internationalisation of fundraising campaigns.\u00a0 How organisations can show a common journey of donors when they live across different tax structure regions.\u00a0 The solution that Stockcrowd is able to offer is the ability to create different donation forms depending on the region of the donor.<\/span><\/p>\n

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As an organisation that has started in the UK and now working across Europe, do you see things that other countries or sectors are doing that can be implemented from a fundraising perspective?<\/b><\/p>\n

Ben: We are seeing a trend towards gamification of the donor experience.\u00a0 We are also changing things to allow people who feel an affinity towards a cause rather than just towards the organisation.\u00a0 For example, Exeter University has a strong dementia research programme, I can be engaged with this cause, even though I did not go to Exeter University.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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Fundraising is moving towards caused-based models\/\u00a0 Lots of institutions are in campaign mode but how does this work on the Stockcrowd platform from a user perspective?<\/b><\/p>\n

Ben:\u00a0 One of the things that differentiate Stockcrowd from other fundraising platforms is its ability to host different campaigns side by side.\u00a0 For example, fundraising for a new science block and then right next to it, a campaign to fund a scholarship.\u00a0 The point is that you are inviting your community into a single space and allowing them to decide on which aspects of the organisations fundraising efforts they want to engage with.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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How much flexibility does the Stockcrowd module offer for alumni to create their own campaigns?<\/b><\/p>\n

Ben: If you are using the Aluminate Community Builder it\u2019s very easy.\u00a0 The power of having Stockcrowd integrated into the Aluminate Community Builder is that you can leverage your own community network.\u00a0 People are familiar with it and then this is one more widget that empowers them to do the fundraising bit.\u00a0 What you\u2019re doing here is turning your donors into fundraisers and getting a far greater reach.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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Find out more about how Stockcrowd and Aluminate Community Builder can help supercharge your community fundraising and increase your social impact capabilities.<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

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