GETTING STARTED WITH THE MANNING ARTS INNOVATIVE FUNDRAISING INITIATIVE

Your Unique URL Affiliate Link

After you Register your Charity and have received The Manning Arts button embedded with your unique URL affiliate link, simply copy and paste it on as many pages of your website as possible. Use a catchy slogan to encourage your supporters to click on the link.

The more exposure your fundraiser has the more successful it will be. Think outside of the box, as The Manning Arts button embedded with your unique URL affiliate link can be shared with an unlimited number ofpeople.

The Manning Arts does not solicit donations. It is up to you to ensure that your supporters enter The Manning Arts website through your unique URL affiliate link for your organization to benefit.

Tips:

• Many of your Board of Directors and supporters may have websites that support worthy causes. Ask them to copy and paste The Manning Arts button embedded with your unique URL affiliate link on their website with an appeal to click on it to help raise money for your worthy cause.
• Integrate The Manning Arts button embedded with your unique URL affiliate link into all communications that your supporters receive, such as your Newsletter. Make it a familiar symbol to reinforce your ongoing fundraiser.
  
• Add The Manning Arts button embedded with your unique URL affiliate link to the signature on all outgoing emails originating from your organization, with an appeal to click on it to support your worthy cause.
  

Optimize Exposure

Send out a press release. Announce that your organization is now affiliated with The Manning Arts innovative fundraising initiative to thank your supporters for their tax deductible, charitable contribution, by giving them the opportunity to choose a work of art of their choice. Please send us a copy of all press for our archives.

Use Social Media to get the word out. Appeal to your followers to spread the word on Facebook and Twitter. They can invite their friends to go to your website to click on The Manning Arts button embeddeded with your unique URL affiliate link and choose a work of art to support of your worthy cause.

Permission to Reproduce

Please feel free to personalize your fundraising appeal using words from themanningarts.org. See our 'Affiliate Resource' page for periodic suggestions and ideas to keep your fundraising campaign fresh.

If you would like to reproduce any image found on The Manning Arts website to be used in marketing material to promote your fundraiser, please submit a written request by email and we will be happy to provide a camera ready image.

Outreach Marketing

Advise your Board of Directors and all your supporters that your organization is now affiliated with The Manning Arts innovative fundraising initiative to raise money for your worthy cause through original art found in an online Art Gallery.

Appeal to them to click on The Manning Arts button embedded with your unique URL affiliate link to choose a work of art in support of your worthy cause. Let them know that 66% of their purchase will instantly benefit your organization with a tax deductible, charitable contribution from them, and that they will receive a work of art of their choice as a thank you for their support.

Tips:

• An email blast is an easy way to contact all your supporters along with follow up reminders that this is an ongoing fundraiser.
  
• Send a hard copy postcard with an appeal for your supporter to go to your website and click onThe Manning Arts button embedded with your unique URL affiliate link to choose a work of art to support your worthy cause. Remember that your supporter must click on your unique url link for us to recognize them as originating from your organization.
  
• The same postcard can be used as a hand out at events or wherever your supporters may come in contact with you.
  
• Motive your supporters by email and/or hardcopy communication, on a regular basis and before upcoming holidays. Be creative! Their gift of art is a double gift as 66% of their purchase will also benefit your worthy cause as a tax deductible, charitable contribution from them. A win-win foreveryone!
  

GOOD LUCK ON SURPASSING YOUR FUNDRAISING GOALS!