Different types of people can be approached for support to a campaign: the campaigners themselves and members of their social networks; participants in campaign events; community members (in campaigns with a community mobilization component); visitors to the campaign web-site and other members of the target audience; segments of the “general public” that may have an interest in the campaign theme.
There are numerous techniques of mobilizing individual grants and maintaining productive relationships with individual donors. Many campaign communication tools can for instance be used in fundraising to catch potential donors’ attention in many different ways. Letters, websites and public events can include a fundraising component: letters and websites may invite readers to make a donation by filling in a form; activists may collect cash donations or addresses for future contact at campaign events.
Community donors
In campaigns that include community mobilization, raising financial and in-kind contributions from the communities involved can give a boost to the campaign – both in terms of available resources, and in credibility. Effective networking at community levels, seeking to involve a wide range of businesses, associations, clubs, faith-based and other groups, is a key condition for success.