TOOLKIT Fundraising - Dementia Alliance of North Carolina
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2021 Fundraising TOOLKIT
Participating Is As Easy As ...
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Register
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Choose your community’s
campaign at
www.dementianc.org/move.
About Our Walks to Take a few minutes to
Be Social.
De-feet Dementia! register and personalize
your fundraising page with Ask Everyone!
T he burden of dementia is
huge. With more than 180,000
North Carolinians impacted by
your story and photos.
Donors feel more inclined
to support when they know
Families, friends, and
coworkers support causes
that are trusted by their
all forms of dementia, including why you’re participating network. Share your story
Alzheimer’s, there is a great need in the Move to and explain why this cause
to invest in supporting caregivers, De-feet Dementia. is important to you. Often,
providing education and you’ll be surprised by what
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supporting research that improves they say. Use social media to
the quality of life and gives hope recruit, fundraise, and share
to those facing the challenges that your story. Tag those who’ve
donated in thank you posts
come with these diseases.
so their connections see the
Our Walks to De-feet Dementia Join Us Walk Day fun that’s happening and
are days of celebration and or Get Out are encouraged to join
the festivities.
remembrance that provide critical & MOVE!
funds to support our mission
We invite you to walk, move,
and our belief - that everyone
and fundraise alongside
impacted by dementia deserves
your neighbors, friends, and
the reources to have an optimal family, united in a state of
quality of life and hope until there caring. You can walk, run,
is a world without dementia. bike, swim, or participate in
any kind of movement! Join
Dementia Alliance of North
us from your neighborhood,
Carolina is a 501 (c)(3) non-
local track or wherever you
profit organization that relies are! Take photos and post to
solely on community support. our special MOVE Facebook
Please register your team today event page. Be sure to use
and fundraise to ensure we can #DANCCARES! You can also
continue to provide CARE - send photos/videos to
Comfort, Assistance, Resources sedwards@dementianc.org
and Education, so that no family
walks through this journey alone.
2021 Walks to De-feet Dementia | DementiaNC.org/MOVE2021
Our How Your Support Helps
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IMPACT
our support is critical in helping us increase our reach
and impact across the state. You can rest assured that
your donation will be leveraged to deliver services and
conduct research that helps make N.C. a state of caring
for those caregivers and individuals living with dementia.
Your donations allow us to directly support locals impacted
by dementia in many ways:
● Continue to deepen and expand our CARE programs
Over 133 that provide access to unmatched Comfort,
Support Groups Assistance, Resources and Education for caregivers
in 52 Counties and their loved ones, including our Music & Memory
Funded over program and Dementia Caregiver Assistance program.
2,000 hours
● Provide access to local, professional resources and
of respite
dementia navigation services for individuals and
helping over
caregivers seeking assistance to help them have the
66 families highest possible quality of life.
Responded ● Develop and deliver educational seminars and training
to over 3,417 featuring internationally acclaimed dementia care
family calls experts to inform and equip caregivers, professionals
including 354 and the public.
new families ● Provide support for research initiatives being
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conducted at the local and state level.
educational
conferences
and work-
shops in
44 counties,
educating
$200,000 more than
awarded to 5,254
researchers at caregivers
Duke and medical
University professionals
and East
Carolina
University.
77 Music
& Memory
kits given to
families
2021 Walks to De-feet Dementia | DementiaNC.org/MOVE2021
Your Support Funds
$1,000 supports Talking
one 4-hour caregiver
workshop POINTS
These talking points will
help you tell your friends
$500 provides training and family about Dementia
for group facilitators Alliance of North Carolina!
to launch their own
support group
MISSION: BELIEF: UNIQUES:
$250 provides a family
with a Music & memory Improving the We believe 100%
at Home Kit lives of caregivers that everyone of money raised
and others impacted by stays in North
impacted by dementia Carolina. DA-NC
dementia in North deserves the provides personal
$100 provides an hour Carolina, engaging resources to have support via CARE
and empowering an optimal quality programs, and
long consultation with our
them through of life and hope expands the
dementia navigator
support, until there is network of
education and a world without support groups
research. dementia. across the state.
$50 provides us the
ability to do an hour long
online support group.
OUR APPROACH:
The burden of dementia is huge. With more than
$25 provides an 180,000 North Carolinians impacted by all forms of
hour of respite. dementia, including Alzheimer’s, there is a great need
to invest in supporting caregivers, providing CARE -
Comfort, Assistance, Resources & Education that
$10 provides a packet improves the quality of life and gives hope
of materials for families to those facing the challenges that come
educating them about with these diseases.
dementia and how to take
care of their loved one.
2021 Walks to De-feet Dementia | DementiaNC.org/MOVE2021
10 IDEAS
Here are more ideas to take your
fundraising efforts to the next level!
1. Host a concert! ers who donate can also
2. Include a raffle - Give out submit a request to get
a raffle ticket to every their gifts matched by
donation you receive. your employer.
Know Your At the end of each week 5. Host Poker Night
NETWORK
pull a raffle ticket and 6. Host a online wine tasting
give a homemade gift or craft cocktail event
to the winner.
7. Host a craft night
3. Wing eating competition
● Immediate Family 8. Video game tournament
or cooking demonstration!
● Extended Family! 9. Casual for a Cause
4. Ask your company for a
● Friends - grade school, high matching gift. Talk with in office
school or College, Informal your supervisor or HR 10. “Give Up Challenge” -
groups or clubs! Book club! Department about your Encourage your family
● Post on social media! company’s matching gift or friends to give up
policy or employee Starbucks or other treats
● Distant Contacts:
engagement program. for a week and donate
wedding or shower guests
If you do have a matching to the cause!
lists, holiday card list, sorority,
fraternity sisters/brothers gift program, any cowork-
● Anyone you recently
supported in a charity
event of their own
● Coworkers! Don’t forget
How to Raise $100 in
5 Steps
former Coworkers from ONE: Personally Donate - Kick start your fundraising by
leading by example. Donate $10 to get yourself started.
previous jobs
● Business contacts - Who do TWO: Ask Family! Reach out to four family members and ask
you interact with regularly? them each to donate $5.
Clients, partners & vendors THREE: Ask Friends! Reach out to five close friends or neigh-
● Businesses you frequent - bors to each make a $5 donation to raise an additional $25.
nail salon, hair stylist,
dentist, financial advisor FOUR: Ask two businesses you frequent to contribute $10
each to bring in $20. Think of your nail salon, hair stylist,
● Professional groups & dentist, financial adviser or insurance agent.
LinkedIn contacts
FIVE: Be Social! Post a link to your fundraising page on
● Networking groups,
Facebook and Instagram. Let people know that any amount
industry and professional is appreciated. If five of your connections each donate $5,
development groups! you are at your $100 goal.You can also read
