duminică, 9 septembrie 2018

Tips On Higher Education Unique Fundraising Events

By Joyce Price


An academic institution s normal operations involve lecturing, conducting research in the laboratories, maintaining old buildings and equipment, buying new equipment and erecting new buildings and etcetera. All these require a lot of money. The students contribute by paying tuition fees, the state also contributes by giving the institution a set percentage of the operations costs. However, institutions cannot survive only with the money from these 2 sources, it needs more to run efficiently and to maintain top quality. So, most of the institutions carry out unique fundraising events to keep their operations running.

Big companies like Amazon and other non-profit organizations are using big data to personalize marketing and to target the right donors/customers. They make it easy for people to donate and they find the right people with this modern technology. When people have witnessed a great user experience and feel like the fundraiser know them personally, they are more likely to donate. In fact, they will want that same type of experience from colleges, unconsciously.

Big data and data analysis now allow companies and institutions to make direct marketing. They can extract data about the possible donors and use algorithms and models to predict whether they are likely to donate to academic institutions or not. That way, they will target directly those who are likely to donate instead of wasting money trying to convince those who are unlikely to donate.

Another important thing to look at is how the institutions connect to possible donors. Fortunately, in this age, messages can be passed around throughout the world in just a matter of seconds, but will it reach the right people? Over two billion people are on social channels like Facebook and Linkedin, so digital advertising and social media pages may be used to reach these people. For personalized marketing, institutions may go directly to sending emails to targeted donors.

Caution should be taken to avoid scaring first-time donors. When asked, people say they don t donate to some organizations because they have a lot of requirements and force them to commit in the long run, it s like they are signing a contract with them. They run away immediately when they hear that there is a minimum donation they should make each month or year.

How can you support something that you don t know anything about or have a limited understanding about, it is very unlikely that people will donate money if they don t see what benefit the accepting institution will give to the world.

One survey results revealed that people think when they donate to varsities, they are paying for students fees and that s why others are reluctant. But, if they know that that money may be used for researching a cure for cancer, they might understand that donating to university is just like donating to other charity organizations. In fact, it might produce a permanent solution for other charity organizations.

When the above-mentioned devices are followed and technology is used, higher education fundraising becomes a little easier for academic institutions.




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