Tips & Tricks

How to run a successful virtual or peer-to-peer fundrasing event

Crowdfunding Advisors, FundRazr Team

Helping our community get to the next level of crowdfunding success

Peer-to-Peer fundraising is a popular crowdfunding method that allows your community and volunteers to raise money on behalf of your organization. Peer-to-peer campaigns are a great tool to engage your supporters, involve a wider network, acquire new donors and raise more money for your cause.

Traditional peer-to-peer event types are walks, rides, runs and boxing events while virtual events that became very popular since 2020 are bike-a-thons, virtual game nights, virtual races/walks and online galas.

Running a peer-to-peer or a virtual fundraising event this year is event more important due to a several reasons: 

People crave new experiences and meaningful connections 

Your team has more time to prepare for the event than last year

Peer-to-peer events are a great opportunity to raise awareness about your cause and mobilize a crowd. 

FundRazr’s peer-to-peer events functionality will help you effectively run and manage successful campaigns for 0% fee. 

How to make your peer-to-peer or a virtual event a success?

“80:20 Pareto Rule” of Fundraising 

Spend 80% of time showing and telling the results of your work and only 20% asking for support. This will help make your community feel involved, appreciated and, as a result, much more engaged. 

Post updates and leaderboard results

Frequent milestones and results updates will help motivate teams and participants to stay on track and mobilize their efforts. 

Prepare to become a cheerleader

Peer-to-peer fundraising will require active cheerleading and participation of your team. Prepare to be the ones that light the fire! 

Maximize your communication channels

Optimize your message distribution network and communication channels to reach the largest pool of people. 

Define your broadcasting, narrowcasting & dialog channels for your communication 

Turn your participants and donors into the heroes of the story

Impact statements and donor-centric storytelling will help you overcome one of the most common peer-to-peer fundraising donor acquisition limitations which is the donor retention. Very often the new donors give not because of the cause but because of their friend and never repeat their donation after the campaign is over. 

Define your “Units of impact” – an arbitrary measure that helps turn your work into a tangible result (ex: saving a puppy, plant a tree, etc)

Explain how participation will impact the mission

Show results through tangible wish-list items or perks
(ex: $10 = plant 5 trees)

Celebrate the impact with Updates

Use the right feature set that will contribute to your success

Create your peer-to-peer campaign with FundRazr for 0% fee

Engagement and admin effectiveness for you and the team: 

• Storytelling capabilities 
• Impact communication tools
• Internal messaging system 
• Leaderboard
• Website integration
• Content control tools 
• Roles and permissions
• Tax receipts 
• Detailed reporting
• Cloning

Easy enrolment and community engagement functionality for your participants:

• Individual enrollment
• Team enrollment 
• Personalized story 
• Social sharing to public and private
• Updates
• Progress milestones
• Gallery sharing

Related: A complete peer-to-peer fundraising functionality on FundRazr

Get inspired by these amazing peer-to-peer and virtual events run on FundRazr 

Virtual cycling event: $200K+ raised for World Cancer Day: click here

Virtual run for Romania: $20K+ raised: click here

Virtual Spin-a-Thon: 66K+ raised: click here