IBO-Nederland would like to give as many people as possible the opportunity to do volunteer work abroad and in that way support the project organizations. To offer that opportunity to even more people and thus have more volunteers available for the projects, we strive to keep our participation fee for volunteers as low as possible. This can only be done if we receive additional funds from other sources.
For this reason, we ask everybody that supports IBO and the projects to raise extra funds. Of course you can ask everybody in your own social circles to support you with small amounts of money. You can also think of organizing sponsor events.
Need some inspiration?
- SHOP SHOP! Select clothes from your wardrobe that you no longer wear (or from the wardrobe of a family member or friend). Invite as many people as possible and offer the clothes in a sort of auction (also online) with the proceeds going to your good cause, meaning IBO and your project.
- Podium! Organize a benefit show and charge an entry fee. Local bands are usually very popular. Or consider an evening full of poetry, story telling, stage acts or workshops. Look around in your social circles and dare to ask!
- Would you like to keep it simple? Organize a chores-for-money drive. Carwashing, collect deposit-bottles, mow all the lawns in the neighbourhood or think of something else that makes other people happy, while raising money for an IBO project.
- Serve food for charity! Go wild in the kitchen and invite all your friends and their friends, and neighbours and let them dish out some money while you dish out food. Spaghetti for Italy, pancakes for Poland, vegetable soup for Georgia or whatever you can think of.
- Bake cakes for charity and sell them door-to-door.
- Sell all kinds of goods in a garage sale or a fleemarket.
- Run! Ask to be sponsored in a running contest, marathon, sprint or a long walk for Rumania, Croatia, Kosovo, Moldova or…..Of course you can change the legwork for other activities such as rowing, swimming, cycling or any other sporting event that will generate sponsor funds.
- Organize a games event and have participants pay an entry fee or have the non-winners put money in the pot (also feasible online).
- Make your personal talents work for you. Are you good at painting, singing, writing, sculpting, knitting or something else? Sell your own product to raise funds!
Digital funding
You can set up a crowdfunding via the donation platform GEEF.nl; they will ensure that the collected funds end up at IBO.
• Go to https://www.geef.nl/en
• click 'start a campaign'.
• fill in the requested fields
• and make your campaign known to family, friends, acquaintances and the rest of the world!