Door-to-door fundraising- your experiences as fundraisers

[Tinkerbell78]

Hi!
I am about to take a turn an become a paid door-to-door fundraiser, am very excited, know all the pros and cons of fundraising in terms of money spent etc. I am interested to know if any of you worked as a proper fundraiser, what your experiences are. I hope not to be dettered by the negative ones. I hope for 20 shut doors in my face there will be the one to remember and be grateful about. I had lots of jobs but none with satisfaction that can come with this one. I do hope to make it my career. Especially after visiting Kenya...
So, anyone out there doing it or having done it? Thank you.

 

[MJJ7777]

The only door-to-door fundraising experience I ever had was when I went to catholic school lol, we had a thousand of those, selling chocolate and holiday catalogs...but that was when I was little and cute. People didn't normally shut the door on kids but for older people...Yeah,very different. there may be a few idiots lol, as is my experience when I go door to door preaching.

Depends on the age and the topic, really.

And I really found this interesting because I didn't know people got paid to do door-to-door fundraising though, I always thought it was voluntary.

 

[Tinkerbell78]

Thank you. Oh yes, it can be a paid job. You can start doing it a a volunteer if you like but you cannot afford to be a volunteer forever full-time unfortunately. And I want to do this every day for the rest of my life. It is only fair to the people whose fault is not that they live where they live.

 

[ElleBella]

I went as a teenager for a fundraiser that our school put together for a local family that was in a crash, they lost three of their children and couldn't afford a funeral. Even then, it was a whole lot of doors shut in our faces. Luckily we were able to raise enough money after an auction. But, door to door was no fun! I hope you have loads of patients, because people can be just plain rude. Good luck hun!

 

[Tinkerbell78]

Thanx ElleBella. Oh how good was it..? U managed to help so that's all that matters.
This is what I'm dreading as well- not being able to pay for my or my partner's funeral. My friend who works at a funeral home said it is so expensive, and government help is not enough to cover the cost. Additionally, it is illegal to just dump the body as you please (as I wouldn't care really), however, so is not spreading the ashes. That is why we need to help as it needed far away but also round the corner.

 

[thrillerchild]

The only fundraising was asking close family and online. Door-to-door stuff tends to get the short end of people's nerves for some reason. Prepare yourself for the worst insults, sad saying that but its inevitable

Good luck though!