Support this Ministry (dot-com)
Support This Ministry advertises itself as a “Hassle-Free Christian Fundraiser”. From my personal experience, this is exactly the case.
The fundraiser take place through three main avenues:
1. A full-service Christian bookstore
2. An online mall
3. An online advertising directory for local businesses
The full-service bookstore offers your local organization 10% of all sales through the bookstore on books, music, and other resources. One draw-back is that most items for sale on the site can probably be found cheaper with a little search-time.
Support this Ministry partnered with big-retailers like Best Buy, iTunes, Office Depot, Macy’s, Staples, and Walmart to bring percentage-off savings to people who use your site to purchase everyday items! The site serves as a click-through to the major retailers so there is no limit to the available items for purchase!
The advertising directory can be as little or as large as each organization is willing to make it! Local businesses can choose to advertise their services on your Support this Ministry site.
All three fundraising avenues work independently of each other and you don’t need to have one to have the other. The site offers numerous advertising methods to get your supporters the information about the fundraiser site. There are bulletin-inserts and suggested text to send to your church family to get them to use the site. The more people that know about the fundraising site and use it to buy everyday products, the more income your organization can receive!
Within a few days of setting up our fundraising site (CRM’s Site) I had received a phone call from STM’s customer service representative asking me if there was anything I needed help with. I was blown away at their willingness to make things work for us. Currently we have NOT published the site to our church family and therefore haven’t made a dime!
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PlugRug.com September 20th, 2008 at 10:42 am
Fundraising Resource: Support this Ministry (dot-com)…
Supportthisministry.com is a free online fundraising site for your ministry. It’s a large Christian book store that offers 10% of all sales to the registered ministry….