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How to Recover From a Slow Start to Your Campaign

How Tos

So you launched your crowdfunding campaign and it doesn't go as successfully as you thought it would. What do you do now?

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Quick tip: How to create a compelling campaign video in under 90 minutes

How Tos

The most effective crowdfunding campaigns use video. In this quick tip, you’ll learn the step-by-step process for adding a little cinematic magic to your campaign in just 90 minutes.

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Quick tip: The most popular perks in the history of Chuffed.org

Inspiration

What makes for a great donor reward? In our previous research on the best crowdfunding perks, we’ve found three categories that work well. Today, we’re going to look at some of the most popular perks of all time to get your creative juices flowing.

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How to Build a Team to Crowdfund $91,400 for Asylum Seekers

Case Studies

You have a big vision, you want to raise a large amount of funds for your cause, but you don't have a team? Read this to find out how Libby and Caroline built a team to Crowdfund $91,400 for Asylum Seekers

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The Secret Crowdfunding Strategies to Crush Four Stretch Goals in a Row

Case Studies

Do you set your crowdfunding goal high or low? Is it better to smash through a small target or inspire with a huge target. Kieron did both. This is how.

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Running a Community Event? Here’s How To Make It Wildly Successful Using Crowdfunding

Case Studies

How do you build a massively successful community event and transform it into a movement than just a ticket-selling spree? Use crowdfunding.

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The Ultimate Crowdfunding Guide For Animal Rescue Groups

How Tos

A guide for animal rescue groups, shelters and individuals who want to use crowdfunding to raise funds to pay vet bills or help care for animals in need

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5 Steps to get PR for your Crowdfunding Campaign

How Tos

Getting media coverage is a great way to increase awareness about your crowdfunding campaign and access new supporters. We take you through the 5 steps you need to follow to get you coverage.

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Crowdfunding for Legal Action - Australia for Dolphins Case Study

Case Studies

How do you get a marine park to release its captive dolphins? You sue them for falsely advertising that their dolphins are happy and healthy in captivity. But legal cases are expensive. That's where crowdfunding comes in.

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How to Run a Campaign so Successful You Hit Two Stretch Goals

Case Studies

Nat Panzarino and Fer Wicker had an idea for a book that would support greyhound rescue organisations. But to get a book published is expensive. This is the story of how they raised $28,871 and brought Pointy Pembleton to life.

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5 Team Crowdfunding Campaigns That Blasted Through Their Targets

Inspiration

Team Crowdfunding is a new way to get others to crowdfund for you. They can set up their own individual fundraising pages with all the money adding up on your main crowdfunding page. Here's 5 examples.

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The future of regular giving is rockbands

Inspiration

Crowdfunding is just for one off projects, right? In the early days that was right, but now innovative charities have discovered a way to run regular crowdfunding campaigns that raise funds and grow their audience

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What we've learnt from over 100,000 donations on Chuffed.org

Inspiration

Chuffed.org just hit $10 MILLION raised on the platform. We analysed over 100,000 donations to show you some interesting patterns.

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[Podcast] - Episode 2: Home STREAT Home

Podcasts

Donors say they want the line by line itemisation about where there money is going, but do they really want that? And should donors even be telling social enterprises where to spend their money? That's just a couple of the questions we jump into with the STREAT team as they launch their second crowd

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[Podcast] - Episode 1: Home STREAT Home

Podcasts

STREAT CEO and co-founder, Rebecca Scott tells us the story of how they took a donation of $4,000, transformed it into $80,000 crowdfunding campaign and launched their new $160,000 social enterprise cafe.

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3 Top Tips from Edgar's Mission's $162,458 Crowfunding Campaign

Case Studies

In 2014, Edgar's Mission broke crowdfunding records, raising $162,458 in their first crowdfunding campaign. We explore how they did it and what lessons they learnt

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How Crowdfunding Saved The Sawtell Cinema

Case Studies

In July 2015, the Sawtell Cinema crowdfunded $142,500 to keep its doors open. In this case study we look at how the community group used Facebook, Email, PR and Offline to fundraise one of the biggest campaigns in Australia

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Crowdfunding: What is it and how can it help my charity fundraising?

Inspiration

What is crowdfunding? We share our definition of crowdfunding and how non-profits and charities can best use it

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Crowdfunding: how the best animal welfare organisations fundraise

Inspiration

There are three main ways animal welfare organisations use crowdfunding. Want to know what they are?

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[Video] - The basics of crowdfunding for non-profits and social enterprises (25 min)

Videos

In this 20 minute video, Chuffed.org CEO, Prashan Paramanathan takes you through the basics of crowdfunding for your social cause project

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What are the most successful perks/rewards for my crowdfunding campaign?

How Tos

Do perks really matter to your crowdfunding campaign? We explore the reasons why perks matter, and what types of perks you should be offering.

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How to raise $15,000 in 50 hours – includes email templates and tools

Case Studies

In 2013, Rob Caslick ran an amazing crowdfunding campaign for the Refugee Rooftop Garden. It raised $15,000 in 50 hours.

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5 steps to writing an awesome non-profit crowdfunding pitch

How Tos

Your crowdfunding pitch is the most important part of you campaign page. We show you how to write a pitch donors will love.

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How to increase your donation page conversion by 1500%

How Tos

We ran some experiments on Chuffed.org which massively increased our donation page conversion. You can do the same for yours.

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