Show your Face, Book a Cause.

I spent hours out of my weekend training my Causes recruits on how to do more within the Cabrini Connections Causes page. I have challenged our members, now at an impressive 163 total to help us reach a fundraising goal of $2,500. To do this, we would need each member to donate, recruit donations and get the word out in general.

Below is the verbatim message one of my recruits sent out to the four people she recruited. I have removed names so it is easy for you to send to YOUR recruits.

Hey (insert friend's personal name)!

Thanks sooo much for joining the Cabrini Connections cause to help Chicago at-risk youth. Right now, the Cause has a fundraising goal and is asking each of us to donate at least $15. If we raise at least $2,500 a company is going to match us! This would be a $5,000 donation to help the program mentor more than 75 at-risk youth. Can you please join me in being one of the first few to get this goal underway?

Thanks again for joining and please visit the cause from time to time to see what they are doing in the community.

Thanks!

(insert your name here)

We, the staff need to make sure we contribute more than just recruits to the Cause. We do this day in and day out, recruitment of eyes to our program. We need to show the public, our Facebook friends, and our recruits that we don't only work here but actually support it as well. I sent a note to 60 of my most promising friends asking them to contribute. With that note it touched on how Cassina has donated $10 to the Cabrini Connections cause. Can you help too? If all of them at LEAST match my meager donation, that's $600 toward our fundraising goals. The staff has to be the example. It is because of this, I am asking each full-time and part-time staff member to donate at least $25 total to the cause by January 8, 2009. If I were recruited to a Cause by someone who had not donated to it, it would make me leery to give my own money. We must show we are just as committed. We don't just WORK here, but we support and believe in it.

To use our Program Coordinator's store analogy: we, as investors, have to put money into the store if we want it to make money. Other investors look at what's been done in house, first, before they decide to take a chance. If you are a staff member, a volunteer, or even a student of Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection and should you need help reaching out to your recruits, friends who are not apart of the cause or convincing people to join Facebook to give back, let me know. I can help you with that.

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