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Want to make a far greater impact with your time?
The old way is OK
If you do one of these and invite people to support you:
The result is:
You raise some money
The average walkathon, bikeathon and charity run raises $600 for charity.
The new way quadruples the benefits
If you do a Volunteerathon® and invite people to support you:
You raise more money
People will donate larger amounts to your fundraiser if you spend your time serving others than if you walk, run or bike.
More of it goes to charity
About 15% of proceeds of bikeathons etc. go to event admin and credit card costs. In a Volunteerathon™, only 4% goes to those. The extra 11% goes to charity.
You save a nonprofit lots of money
If you volunteer 100 hours instead of training to ride or run long-distance, you save a nonprofit $1,200 to $1,800. That triples or quadruples your impact.
You'll be happier
You’ll be more satisifed serving others than walking or running, and you’ll be happier from creating a bigger impact.
Your friends will be happier
People are happier about donating their money when your time is spent volunteering than when your time is spent walking or biking.
That’s five wins instead of one for the same amount of effort
A big opportunity for good
The average Volunteerathon® raises $700, which is higher than the $600 the average walkathon/bikeathon raises. This is because people on average will donate more if your time is helping a nonprofit than if you're exercising.
If you volunteer 60 hours, you save a nonprofit about $700. If you spend another hour emailing invites and raise the $700 average, you'll double your impact in only 1/60th of the time. Would you rather contribute $700 in 60 hours or $1,400 in 61 hours?
A Volunteerathon® also raises awareness about your cause. Some of the people you invite will be more likely to donate to or volunteer for that cause in the future. So the impact of doing a Volunteerathon® over normal volunteering is more than double.
100 million people volunteer each year. They’re putting in the same effort as a walkathon, but they’re not generating any donations from it. If even 10% make their next volunteering be a Volunteerathon® and invite their friends to be sponsors and raise $700, that is $7 billion in donations per year.
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