Post by Alexis Stroman on Oct 9, 2014 18:55:09 GMT -5
The organization that I chose to speak about is Africa Community Technical Service(ACTS). This organization has been in existence for 22 years, located in Vancouver, Canada and is composed of Christian people that believe in doing God’s work in renewing hears, bodies, and communities with acts of compassion and restoration. This organization seeks to free Ugandan from disease and needless labor through access to clean water. From my understanding this organization is like Clear Water. There are two values that ACTS possess which include Freedom and Trust. They believe that “water in freedom-liberating people from the drudgery of hard labor and the fear of disease, providing opportunities for education, health, and gender equality.” Trust is the foundation on that allows them to build relationships with communities whether it is at home or internationally.
The way that ACTS is fundraising for their organization is not mentioned on their website. I would assume that they try to gain some revenue through their social media platforms, Facebook and Twitter. One strategy that I learned from watching the Google Hangouts is that you have to have a great presence on social media before you can begin to ask for money and their social media presence is not big at all. They don’t have many tweets on twitter and they don’t have a lot of followers likes on Facebook. This probably means that not a lot of people know who they are or what they are about. On thing on their site that is a good fundraising strategy is the fact that they make it easily accessible for people to donate. The donate button is right at the top of the page and when you click on it, it tells you exactly what to do. Also on their page and on their social media pages they use “pretty pictures” which would definitely attract audiences. Another thing that would probably help them is if they made a specific campaign to try to raise money for that. That way people would know exactly what their money is going towards.
aliciaonamission.com/ActsNew2/index.php/component/content/article/47
Because these articles in the link above are about the organization, I believe it should be accessible on their page.
The way that ACTS is fundraising for their organization is not mentioned on their website. I would assume that they try to gain some revenue through their social media platforms, Facebook and Twitter. One strategy that I learned from watching the Google Hangouts is that you have to have a great presence on social media before you can begin to ask for money and their social media presence is not big at all. They don’t have many tweets on twitter and they don’t have a lot of followers likes on Facebook. This probably means that not a lot of people know who they are or what they are about. On thing on their site that is a good fundraising strategy is the fact that they make it easily accessible for people to donate. The donate button is right at the top of the page and when you click on it, it tells you exactly what to do. Also on their page and on their social media pages they use “pretty pictures” which would definitely attract audiences. Another thing that would probably help them is if they made a specific campaign to try to raise money for that. That way people would know exactly what their money is going towards.
aliciaonamission.com/ActsNew2/index.php/component/content/article/47
Because these articles in the link above are about the organization, I believe it should be accessible on their page.