Fundraising Tip: Pledge Yourself!

A couple of weeks ago we posted a fundraising tip about how to raise $1000 without breaking a sweat. In the blog, we outlined eight simple steps that would help take you from $0 to $1000 in no time. Do you remember what the first step was?

You guessed it. Pledge yourself! But what you probably didn’t know is how important that first step really is to your overall fundraising success.

Recent studies show that participants who pledge themselves turn in 2.5 times as much money as those that simply ask others and 5 times as much as those that simply show up and write a cheque.

Why?

Well, quite frankly it’s called putting your money where your mouth is. It’s a lot easier to get friends and family members to pledge you in the RONA MS Bike Tours, if you can say that you have personally donated to your efforts.

After all, if you truly believe in a cause you have to be willing to take the first step.

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