Use Social Networking Sites
- Update your status asking friends to support your fundraising efforts
- Send notes/messages to friends and family
- Create a photo album with pictures from previous events
- Download the event Facebook Badge to use as your profile photo
Ask, Ask and Ask Again
Remember that you are asking for donations to support Special Olympics Connecticut and not for yourself. The moment you limit who you ask, you limit the amount you can raise
- Ask your friends to contribute to Dodging for Dollars instead of purchasing a gift for your birthday, anniversary or other special occasion.
- Write a letter or e-mail explaining your participation in Dodging for Dollars and your Special Olympics experiences, and send it to everyone in your address book. Include information on where to send donations and ask everyone to forward to one friend. Here is a sample you can use.
- Find out if your company has a matching gifts program. Matching gifts can double your fundraising efforts.
- Host a fundraising party and ask attendees to pledge their support
- Create a buddy system! Ask someone who cannot play dodgeball with you, to help you collect donations
- Give something up - movie, manicure or dinner at an expensive restaurant - and contribute the money you saved to Dodging for Dollars
- Suggest a friendly competition between your Dodgeball team members. Set weekly or monthly goals to beat and recognize the team member who reaches it first.
- Ask one person a day to sponsor you in Dodging for Dollars to support SOCT