By Oleksandr Maistrenko | Advisor of Executive Director
In order for the charitable organization to work successfully in such difficult times of war as now , Charity Foundation Democratic Society, Ukraine, Kyiv actively works with donors. To increase fundraising by working with donors, Charity Foundation Democratic Society focuses on strengthening relationships through personalized communication, regular impact checks, and diverse engagement opportunities. We implement strategies such as creating recurring fundraising programs, promoting corporate giving, and diversifying fundraising methods to encourage more contributions and retain donors. Our nonprofit continuously nurtures existing donor relationships by personalizing communications: We use past giving history and engagement data to tailor messages, making them more relevant to each donor’s interests. We demonstrate impact: We share success stories and regular updates on how their contributions are making a difference. A quick thank you call or email significantly increases the likelihood of repeat donations. We analyze feedback: We actively ask donors for their opinions through surveys or conversations to understand their preferences and improve their experience. Create new and recurring giving opportunities Encourage donors to set up regular recurring contributions to ensure a steady stream of income and increase their long-term impact. Encourage corporate giving: We are reminding donors about their employer-sponsored giving programs, making it easier for them to double their impact. We use modern information and digital technologies: We constantly strive to expand our donor base. We strive to partner with corporations: We collaborate with companies that share similar values for corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives or employee giving. We engage volunteers: Sometimes volunteers are often the first donors themselves; they can become powerful advocates. We are constantly looking for and exploring new ways to fund. Charity Foundation "Democratic Society", Ukraine - is now working at a charity project for helping students, most children of refugees to get higher education in the time of war: Providing scolarships for students from Ukraine. In order to help ukrainian children, most of them - children of ukrainian refugees, our official partner, US charity organization "GlobalGiving", Washington, D.C., has kindly provided us with a fundraising platform for help. All information is situated: http://www.ukrmol.kiev.ua fb.me/UkrMolnews fb.me/FoundDemSoc e-mail: demsocfund@gmail.com Now our country Ukraine is engulfed in the fire of war. Cruise missiles, drones, fired by the Russian military troops, have killed and are now killing civilians, fall on the ukrainian homes, destroying them, forcing refugees to seek safe places in other regions and countries. Many Ukrainian families have become refugees. They can not provide that their children continue getting higher education. They, as a result of the terrible Russian missile attacks on their homes, lost all their funds under the rubble of residential buildings, and cannot pay for their further pursuit of higher education, to become specialists. To help children of the refugees our foundation provides activity in the educational directions: free tutoring, free practice for students, free internships for students of higher educational institutions in the specialty "journalism". Charity Foundation "Democratic Society " has projects to help students - children of refugees from the war, a project of aid for free internships on base of the newspaper "Ukrainian Youth". Internship is included in the process of studying students at universities, and the organisation of this internship, tuition, also requires funds. We organize work on teaching students how to write journalistic articles, to do journalistic work, receiving and processing journalistic materials. We are engaged in tutoring for professional growth. We try to support of the newspaper "Ukrainian Youth", which is the mean of media of our Charity Foundation in which tutoring and training of students is providing. Internship is included in the process of studying and tutoring students most children of refugees, at universities, and the organization of this internship, tuition, also requires funds. We were providing aid and support of the newspaper "Ukrainian Youth", which is the main means of media of the Charitable Foundation "Democratic Society" in which tutoring and training of students is providing. Payment of rent, telephone, Internet, transport to supply freedom of moving of our volunteers, students, journalists, electricity, rooms for the employees of the foundation, medicine for the treatment of employees and those who need it. Provision of the office with stationery and other supplies, gadgets for work, especially journalistic work, other equipment, provision of printing materials, printing of certificates on student internships, renovation of editorial office of newspaper "Ukrainian Youth". Payment for food, representative expenses, working trips. Provision of information and advertising services for finding students who need internship. In addition, funds were needed to repair the office of our Foundation, which was fired upon by the Russian troops during air raids. By helping the Ukrainians, we are also helping the American people in order to preserve democratic values and prevent the world from sliding into the chaos of world war. In our work we hope for help of donors. Without the help of donors, we will not be able to carry out our nesessary work. That's why in our work our charity organisation rely on the donations of those, who care.
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