Kids these days...are awesome. Take Students Helping Honduras (SHH), for example. A few months ago, they began a campaign of pledge fundraisers - the type of fundraiser where you ask volunteers to raise money for you by reaching out to their friends and families.
In about 2 months, SHH raised over $80,000! By relying on the power of peoples' networks and the internet, SHH was able to raise this money at a low cost. Participants were asked to register online and set up their own fundraising pages on Blue Sky Collaborative's SWEET pledge fundraising platform.
The fundraisers were volunteers. Most of the donations were made online. Most of the participants were college students who were comfortable with online solicitations and giving. And they knocked it out of the park!
One participant raised nearly $7000 on her own by emailing letters to her network with a link to her fundraising page! The fact is, if motivated, young people make excellent fundraisers. They are used to doing everything online and have a sense of social responsibility engrained in them.
Congrats SHH!
No doubt , kids of this generation are really talented and have got the ability to do everything on their own.
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