Join CanadaHelps Executive Director Owen Charters for a morning of social media and fundraising training. Learn about how to apply knowledge you already have to online tools and how to build a strategy around integrating these tools to your current initiatives. We’ll tell you the good, the bad and the ugly. We’ll tell you what’s easy, what’s challenging, what you can try for free, and what might not be worth your time.

Everything Old is New Again: The Fundamentals of Fundraising in the Digital World
The game of fundraising and community engagement seems to be constantly shifting. New tools, new trends, new challenges all seem to be vying for attention, and charities are being held to account for every penny spent and every hour worked and volunteered. How do you tie together traditional fundraising with the brave new world of fundraising and campaign-building online? Learn why online giving is an extension of everything you already know, and why most of us could improve both our online and offline fundraising using techniques that are as ‘old as the hills’. Finally, discover why online fundraising actually emphasizes the need for proper and targeted traditional offline fundraising, marketing, and communications.

Please join us at Georgian College (Orillia Campus) for this timely and valuable workshop. Light refreshments will be served.

Questions? Comments? Please contact: Amy at amyh@canadahelps.org.

Registration is open to registered Canadian charities and non-profits only.

Please note that registration is non-refundable. If you can find someone to take your place, we will allow for substitutions.

Please bring your registration confirmation with you on the day of the event. 

Please note that parking at Georgian College is $5.00. Driving directions and a campus map can be found here.

CanadaHelps is a public charitable foundation and Canada’s only donation website that lets you give online to every Canadian charity. We have proudly facilitated over $130 million in donations to Canadian charities since we started CanadaHelps.org in 2000.

Our mission is to engage Canadians in the charitable sector by providing accessible and affordable online technology to both donors and charities. We strive to promote – and ultimately increase – charitable giving in Canada.

MyCharityConnects is an initiative of CanadaHelps and aims to connect charities to the technology they need to succeed. Our online resource centre is your organization's go-to website for information about online technology. You will find resources about fundraising on Facebook, building better websites, sharing photos on Flickr, blogging, creating engaging e-newsletters, and much more!

Presented in collaboration with Georgian College's Fundraising & Resource Development Program.

MyCharityConnects is an initiative of CanadaHelps.