A short tutorial on being a Touch Nepal Fundraiser.

Have you ever bought a Girl Scout cookie?

Of course! Oh those delicious Thin Mints, Samoas and Shortbreads. We love them, we buy them, we eat them and we do it again! 

WHAT ARE YOU ASKING ME TO DO AS A FUNDRAISER FOR TOUCH NEPAL? 

First we want to assure you that you don't have to stand in front of the grocery store and sell cookies for us. But there is a very important lesson we want to share about the Girl Scouts, their success and how they fundraise. 

Most of us have bought a box of cookies from a Girl Scout that we know. An individual Girl Scout, starts out with bringing the story of the Girls Scouts (and yes the product which supports the Girl Scouts) to their friends, family and neighbors first.  Ask yourself this question, would you be more likely to buy cookies and support the Girl Scouts if I came to your door, or if your sweet neighbor's daughter Lily from down the street came to your door? Easy question to answer yeah? Lily would get the sale! Not only that, specifically because you know her, you are more likely to say yes faster and donate more! This is a style of fundraising known as Peer To Peer or sometimes just called P2P fundraising. Can you believe that your dear Grandmother would have taken part of one of the first and most well known Peer To Peer Fundraising campaigns to ever exist? If she was a Girl Scout she likely did. 

To the person who will see your fundraising campaign, you are likely either a close friend, friend, relative, family or at the most, a friend of a friend. That close connection is not only powerful, but extremely important to the person saying " Yes, I'd love to help and donate!"  A recent survey by Nielson, a leading market research company, found that 92% of respondents said they trusted the recommendations of people they know. So Peer to Peer works primarily because of the connection people have to you! 

About the sign up Process.

1.) First you BECOME A FUNDRAISER . You put in an email address and make a password. Your set. 

2.) Next you'll be asked to pick if you want to campaign as an individual, join a team or create a team. Here's how to know what to pick. 

Using the example of the Girl Scouts, here's an easy way to decide.

• Being an INDIVIDUAL is just what it means. Think of it as instead of selling Girl Scout cookies with a group of girls in front of a grocery store, you decide you'd rather go door to door to your neighbors and friends. You share our pre-made campaign on social media such as Facebook or Twitter, or via text or email.                                                                                                                                     
• Think of a JOIN A TEAM as a Girl Scout Troop which is established and you can join. If someone has already made a team, you will be able to see that team and you can ask to join that team or troop. Someone else is already the leader of that team, but you are on that team as well. You participate as an INDIVIDUAL on a TEAM. This is closest to the model of seeing a group of Girl Scouts in front of a store.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
• The third choice is CREATE A TEAM. Creating a team would be like creating a troop. That troop or team can be made up of anyone you want to be on your team but you are all united in the same mission! Maybe its your close friends, maybe your church community group, maybe some of your co-workers, maybe your bike club. It's up to you to get creative. A troop is clearly going to reach more people and likely be more effective than an individual. If you are good at coordinating groups of people into action and they trust you, we'd love for you to consider CREATING A TEAM from people around you! 

CREATE A PAGE.

The next section asks you to create your page. This is YOUR PAGE which will link your friends to the Touch Nepal fundraising campaign.