Peer-to-peer fundraising has gained popularity among nonprofits ever since they realized its fundraising potential. A few ardent supporters can help raise thousands in donations through the power of their personal networks and help nonprofits tap into a new donor base. Explore these remarkable peer-to-peer fundraising examples to learn from their success and boost campaign outreach with the right approach!
Peer-to-peer fundraising has gained popularity among nonprofit organizations ever since they realized its huge fundraising potential. Even a few ardent supporters can help raise thousands in donations through the power of their personal networks. These campaigns also help nonprofits tap into a potential donor base that they otherwise may never find.
With that in mind, online fundraising software like Donorbox enables nonprofits and their fundraisers to boost donations and outreach through effective peer-to-peer fundraising.
In this article, we’ll look at seven successful peer-to-peer fundraising examples to inspire you.
The Brighton Jones Richer Life Foundation has started a peer-to-peer fundraising campaign called #OneTeam for Kenya to support 3 organizations namely, Grace Nanana, Kajiado Child Care Centre, and The Ruben Centre. These organizations help unprivileged kids and families in Kenya. Owing to the crisis they’re going through, Brighton Jones has stepped up to help them with peer-to-peer fundraising.
Through the below campaign on Donorbox, the team has raised a whopping $211,383 in donations through peer-to-peer.
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The campaign has managed to gain support from 60 active fundraisers with more jumping on the bandwagon. As you check out the campaign page, you can scroll down to see their top fundraisers and their total donation amounts.
Guardian Revival and Aligned Alliance joined hands to host a 3,000-mile bike race to raise money for struggling veterans and first responders. The Aligned Alliance Race Across America peer-to-peer campaign was created for that reason.
The campaign managed to raise a huge donation amount of $137,143 through peer-to-peer. They had 19 active fundraisers, each contributing a significant amount toward the campaign goals.
Maya’s Hope Foundation strives to support orphaned, impoverished, and special-needs children on a global scale. They have used Donorbox Peer-to-Peer on a number of occasions to create fundraising campaigns to boost donations and spread their impact across the world.
The 11th Annual Lotus Ball event was a fundraising effort for the organization’s beneficiaries. It raised $176,798 with the help of sponsorships and peer-to-peer fundraising.
Maya’s Hope also created a Ukraine Emergency Fund to raise over $30,000 through peer-to-peer and with the help of 38 individual fundraisers. Here’s the success story of peer-to-peer fundraising conducted by Maya’s Hope team.
Labs and More Dog Rescue is the fastest-growing dog rescue organization in San Diego.
Initially, it was a crowdfunding campaign which the nonprofit turned into a peer-to-peer fundraising one. 46 fundraisers joined in to raise money for them with even more that followed. The below screenshot is from their top peer campaign on Donorbox.
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International Aid Charity or IAC aims at helping marginalized communities across the world. Their supporters including volunteers and donors are their strength in reaching out to and working with these communities for all kinds of help.
They created the Volunteer International Program (VIP) to supply food boxes to the Hatay Province in Turkey. With fundraisers joining in, they managed to raise $49,898 in peer-to-peer donations.
Thaakat Foundation works in West African countries like Ghana and Sierra Leone as well as in Pakistan to help fulfill basic needs such as healthcare, education, shelter, water, toilets, etc.
Their Zakaat Campaign 2022 was created during the holy month of Ramadan to support kids with education and families with their basic needs. They received support from 2 fundraisers that contributed a total of $39,292 donations toward their overall campaign goal.
Saad Bawany, their top fundraiser, collected over $25,000 through his individual peer campaign for this organization.
Hope Story is a nonprofit organization offering hope to parents whose kids have been diagnosed with down syndrome. Their recent fundraising campaign for TCS New York City Marathon was created to help these families with the necessary resources and support.
The peer-to-peer campaign received support from a total of 16 fundraisers or runners. Their top fundraisers Ashley and Jennifer raised more than double their individual fundraising goal. Peer-to-peer fundraisers raised a whopping $30,396 for this campaign.
These peer-to-peer fundraising examples are all created on Donorbox using one of its most powerful features called Donorbox Peer-to-Peer.
Nonprofits can signup for free and easily create a peer-to-peer fundraising campaign to get started. Those with existing campaigns on Donorbox can also just toggle a switch on the campaign dashboard to turn them into peer-to-peer campaigns.
Inviting supporters is simply a breeze – just enter names and email addresses to have Donorbox send them an email invitation. They will then be guided on the tool to create and customize their own fundraising pages.
Here’s a guide to help you get started – in 6 simple steps!
Watch this visual tutorial if you want to quickly learn the steps in just about 4 minutes!
We’ve included these peer-to-peer fundraising examples here to inspire your creativity and help you learn from their success. While there’s no doubt that peer-to-peer fundraising boosts campaign outreach and donations, you need the right approach and effective tools to make it happen.
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Chirasree Bose is the Content Editor at Donorbox. Apart from editing and writing, what holds her interest the most is reading books. Chirasree loves to explore the world of fiction and has authored some books herself. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
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