{"id":1509,"date":"2012-07-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2024-05-08T17:43:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T17:43:26","slug":"how-jewish-family-service-raised-9654-on-their-first-online-fundraising-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/blog\/how-jewish-family-service-raised-9654-on-their-first-online-fundraising-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"How Jewish Family Service raised $9,654 on their first online fundraising campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/assets\/jfs-cv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1513\" title=\"jfs-cv\" src=\"https:\/\/causevox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/jfs-cv.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"337\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cCauseVox helped us make our first online fundraising campaign a very successful experience.\u201c<\/strong><br \/>\n~ Jerry Starr, Executive Director<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Jewish Family Service<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.JewishFamilySvc.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Jewish Family Service<\/a> of Somerset, Hunterdon and Warren Counties is a non-profit, non-sectarian social service agency whose mission is to preserve and strengthen the quality of individual, family and community life based on Jewish values.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jewish Family Service Walk for Families<\/strong><br \/>\nJewish Family Service (JFS) organized a walk-a-thon to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/digital-fundraising\/\">raise funds<\/a> for their programs. Participants were invited to create fundraising pages to raise funds through the event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/assets\/jfs-walk1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1514\" title=\"jfs-walk1\" src=\"https:\/\/causevox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/jfs-walk1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why CauseVox?<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cWe determined that CauseVox offered the best combination of features, customization, and price.\u201c<br \/>\n~ Jerry Starr, Executive Director<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fundraising Techniques<\/strong><br \/>\nJFS relied on CauseVox to power their fundraising pages. They placed graphic and text&nbsp;links to CauseVox on their web site, encouraging site visitors to go there, read about the&nbsp;event, and make a donation.<\/p>\n<p>JFS also promoted the CauseVox fundraising site in their monthly email newsletter as well as through word of mouth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/assets\/jfs-walk2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1515\" title=\"jfs-walk2\" src=\"https:\/\/causevox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/jfs-walk2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Key metrics of Walk for Families include (rounded figures):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Total number of fundraising pages: 12<\/li>\n<li>Fundraising pages that raised $10 or more: All of them!<\/li>\n<li>Highest amount raised on fundraising page: $1,510<\/li>\n<li>Average funds raised per page: $739<\/li>\n<li>Average online donation size: $63<\/li>\n<li>Total number of online donations: 152<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Lessons Learned<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Even with the first attempt at online fundraising, you can be successful<\/li>\n<li>To reach your goals, you have to get key supporters energized and willing to raise awareness about the event<\/li>\n<li>Use all your channels (email newsletter, Facebook, etc) to extend the reach of your campaign<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCauseVox helped us make our first online fundraising campaign a very successful experience.\u201c ~ Jerry Starr, Executive Director About Jewish Family Service Jewish Family Service of Somerset, Hunterdon and Warren Counties is a non-profit, non-sectarian social service agency whose mission is to preserve and strengthen the quality of individual, family and community life based on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rob Wu","author_link":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/author\/rob\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}