Nobody likes doing chores. But if you have a group of families, business partnerships or community members willing to donate their time and handy skills in exchange for donations to your nonprofit, then you have yourself a great handyman/chores services fundraiser! Here’s what you need:
- Worker volunteer sign-up form
- Work Request submission form
- Mobile messaging reminders for service scheduling & updates
Start by gathering volunteer interests with a digital sign-up form, or decide on the types of services and scope of work your volunteers are willing to perform.
Next, your org should assign a minimum donation value to each task and build your custom mobile-first work request form for supporters to request a service and make a donation.
Exporting organized work request data from your account makes it easy to track projects and schedule service dates. Plus, you can upload donor and volunteer information for mobile messaging so you can send scheduling reminders and updates.
Ask community members, especially the elderly, if they have a decorating, cleaning, small repairs, yard work or other odd jobs in need of completion. Local businesses might even be interested in sponsoring a clean-up of a public space that would benefit your nonprofit’s community.
Share the link to your mobile-first Work Request submission form through email and on all social media channels. Ask supporters to instruct friends and family to text your corresponding keyword & shortcode. They can also share the link to your form. Make sure you include website or form URL, keyword, shortcode, text instructions, and your QR code on any posters that you create for your nonprofit’s event.