Benefits of using fundraising on social media
Including social media in your fundraising efforts can offer more benefits than you may realize. Here are just a few of the advantages:
- A wider audience reach: Both free and paid advertising opportunities are available via social media platforms. With the help of social media, you can effortlessly expand outreach for your St. Jude fundraiser.
- Increased long-term engagement opportunities: Once the initial hype around a fundraising event has ended, it's not uncommon to see a dwindling number of donations come in. With social media fundraising, you can keep the giving going for as long as you need to meet your fundraising goals.
- Cost-effective fundraising: Because it will be online, your cost for fundraising on social media will be relatively low, leaving more opportunities and overall impact for the kids at St. Jude.
How social media fundraising works
Social media fundraising can be a simple way to raise funds for your favorite charity, like St. Jude in these easy steps:
- Choose a socila media platform
- Create your fundraiser for St. Jude
- Share your story and fundraising goal
- Engage your network and share updates
Learn how to plan a fundraiser with these simple, easy-to-follow steps.
Discover how to start your own fundraiser and support St. Jude while doing what you love.
Explore ways to incorporate storytelling into your fundraising to make a larger impact.
Instagram Stories also have many specific donation features, such as the ability to raise money through a donation sticker.
Learn how to fundraise on YouTube and how it can make a difference for the children of St. Jude.
Why support St. Jude kids?
Families never receive a bill for treatment, travel, housing or food — so they can focus on helping their child live.
When St. Jude opened in 1962, childhood cancer was considered incurable. Since then, St. Jude has helped push the overall survival rate from 20% to more than 80%, and we won't stop until no child dies from cancer.
Every child deserves a chance to live their best life and celebrate every moment. When you support St. Jude, you help give kids with cancer around the world that chance. Together, we can save more lives.
St. Jude patient Bailey with her parents
Fundraising helps support patients like Bailey
Bailey is a vivacious 8-year-old girl and an active member of her Cub Scout pack. She likes to paint her nails and try on frilly dresses. Bailey also lives with sickle cell disease, a condition diagnosed within a week of her birth. Sickle cell disease affects red blood cells, causing them to warp and become rigid. This distortion hinders the cells’ ability to move through the body and supply major organs with oxygen, leading to a host of potential lifelong health complications.
When Bailey’s parents, Monica and Tony, first received her diagnosis, they were wracked with worry. But then their pediatrician referred Bailey to St. Jude where Monica and Tony say they not only found solutions for care, but hope as well. Bailey takes hydroxyurea, a medicine that has been shown to reduce episodes of severe pain and improve quality of life. “They treat all kinds of diseases, including blood disorders,” Monica said. “Until you really see it and are immersed in the St. Jude world, you don’t know the extent of all they do.”
Start fundraising for St. Jude
Because of your support, we can provide children with cutting-edge treatments not covered by insurance, at no cost to families. Unlike other hospitals, the majority of funding for St. Jude comes from generous donors. Join us and be part of our mission to save more lives.
St. Jude patient Beckett
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