The Gateway Challenge is a practical fundraising campaign that helps charities, NGOs, social enterprises and not-for-profit organisations to successfully raise funds online for their projects and build their individual donor base.
Are you interested in growing your donor base? Improving your online communications? Joining a global network of non-profits? Improving your fundraising skills and network? Then this programme is for you.
The Gateway Challenge has two parts:
1. A proven online fundraising and communications training programme. Over 300 organisations have been supported to complete this programme. Training is delivered remotely through 7 online seminars as well as supplementary guides and tools. A dedicated free physical fundraising workshop for organisations that are UK based is also run.
2. A practical fundraising challenge to directly implement the learning from the training. The challenge is to raise £2000 from 50 unique donors for your work. This runs immediately after the training to help you cement your new knowledge and skills and ensure your charity raises much need money.
Benefits
• Fundraising awards of up to £3500. The organisation who raises the most funds gets a bonus of £1500, second place £1000 and third place £500. The project receiving the highest number of unique donors receives a bonus prize of £500.
• Free training & support for all participants. All Gateway Challenge participants will receive proven training in online fundraising, creating an online project page, mapping and building their network, communications in fundraising including email and social media, and preparing an online fundraising campaign.
• The mobilisation of existing and new networks of supporters.
• Exposure on search engine campaigns during certain initiatives.
• Access to ongoing free training and services from GlobalGiving UK after completion of the campaign.
Get Started
The next Gateway Challenge deadline is 15 September 2014. The Gateway Challenge training will be held throughout October 2014 and the fundraising campaign will run from 17 November to 22 December 2014.
For further information and to take part, visit: www.globalgiving.co.uk/what-is-gateway-challenge/