{"id":35,"date":"2011-05-24T13:50:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T13:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tiskimo.com\/mrch\/?page_id=35"},"modified":"2024-08-12T20:03:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T20:03:50","slug":"christmas-cards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/?page_id=35","title":{"rendered":"Organise a fundraiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have organised a fundraising event, you can make a donation via any of the methods on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/?page_id=34\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">donations<\/span><\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p>Some people have made bequests or asked for donations instead of gifts for special occasions such as weddings or anniversaries. Other groups run events to raise money for the Home or organise sponsored events. Many churches and other groups choose to &#8216;adopt&#8217; the Home as their annual\/biennial charity.<\/p>\n<p>You can also use one of the following online platforms to set up a fundraising page:<\/p>\n<h5>Give as You Live<\/h5>\n<p>It is very easy to sign up for an account and start raising funds for the Friends. Go to the website and select &#8216;Create a fundraising page&#8217;, select Friends of Matthew Rusike Children&#8217;s Home as your charity of choice and away you go.<\/p>\n<p>On the site you can set up fundraising pages in memory of a loved one, for a special occasion, or a personal challenge. Why not organise a sponsored event to raise funds.<\/p>\n<h5>Crowdfunder<\/h5>\n<p>You can use <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crowdfunder.co.uk\/p\/friends-of-matthew-rusike-childrens-home-1120944?_ga=2.146068157.849718582.1661247899-1323257600.1661247899\">Crowdfunder<\/a><\/span> to start a fundraising campaign for FoMRCH.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Fundraising Resources<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>To support you in running your own fundraising events we provide the following materials:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a title=\"Buy Christmas cards\" href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/?page_id=79\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Christmas cards<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Contact our <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"Chairman.fomrch@gmail.com\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Chairman<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li>We also have lots of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/?page_id=82\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">photos<\/span><\/a> pages on the website. These are free to use for making any additional resources you may need<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can see how our funds are used <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a title=\"How you can help\" href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/?page_id=13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">here<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have organised a fundraising event, you can make a donation via any of the methods on our donations page. Some people have made bequests or asked for donations instead of gifts for special occasions such as weddings or anniversaries. Other groups run events to raise money for the Home or organise sponsored events. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/?page_id=35\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Organise a fundraiser&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}