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Save the Children’s Cleo Nzombe with Nehet, age 4, and Bridget, age 6. Both students attend the ECD Center in Matau Village of Zimbabwe.

Becoming an “ePhilanthropist” is easy when you use Save the Children’s prewritten fundraising email. Copy and personalize the fundraising message below and use it in all of your “ecommunications.” Be sure to include your fundraising goal, noted in the highlighted copy. On behalf of the children you will be helping, thank you!

Subject Line Suggestions:
   Help Me Help
   Help Me Make a Difference
   Something Really Important
   Together, We Can Move Mountains
   A Special Favor…
   Do Me a Favor (Well, Not Really Me)

Fundraising Email Copy:

Hi!

Will you help me Make a Difference?

I find it hard asking someone to make a donation. I guess we all do. But when Save the Children asked me to volunteer to raise money to help make kids’ lives better, I knew I had to do it. Wouldn’t you?

The brutal truth is that thousands of children around the world die each day from preventable or treatable childhood diseases. These diseases include malaria (which costs just pennies to treat) and diarrhea (which can be treated for less than one dollar per child).

Unfortunately, in many nations, commonplace solutions are out of reach for desperate parents trapped in crushing poverty. Even right here in the United States, one in five children lives in poverty.

The good news is that, thanks to supporters like us, Save the Children can provide programs that enable parents — and their children — to access basic care that can change young lives.

The Make a Difference Campaign is a special project where people like me contact family and friends asking for donations that will enable Save the Children to do even more to help vulnerable kids.

Will you help today? My goal is to inspire my family and friends to help me raise ($$$ insert your personal goal here).  An urgently needed gift of $10, $20, or even $50 would be a tremendous help and can make a huge difference in the lives of children in need.

You can donate right now at www.savethechildren.org/makeadifference1.

Even if you don’t donate now, I hope you’ll subscribe to receive email updates so you can understand why this organization and the work they do means so much to me.

Thank you for helping me make life better for these deserving girls and boys.

P.S. For updates on the Make a Difference Campaign or on Save the Children in general, follow them on Facebook or Twitter.


 

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