Recruiting & Fund-Raising

Recruiting & Fundraising do have similarities as a recruiter or the head individual for a fund raising event has to get people involved with what they are trying to sell.  Each takes a different approach to each consumer of the product or service.  The recruiter and head fund-raising individual has to be able to adjust and answer any questions thrown their way.  With recruiting and fund-raising everyone has the ability in being selected to make a proposal to.  The standards on how they are selected is where a recruit and a donor differentiate, as the recruit is graded on their physical attributes while a donor is graded on what they can bring to the fund-raising group.

Recruits and donors will be evaluated on their possibility of joining the team or if the donor will be able to donate a certain amount.  Each recruit and donor is receiving information on the possibility of joining the group or team.  The recruiter and the head fund-raising individual will do research on the individual to find ways in approaching them and finding ways to persuade the m to join them.  Depending on the value of the recruit different coaches will be in contact with the recruit to attract them to play for the school.  A donor will be contacted in person as it could raise the changes to get a good personal feeling on how well the donor will fit with the fund-raising group.  Finding individuals who are close to the recruit and donor are important.  The reason to do this is because those individuals become influential in the recruiting and fund-raising aspect of the individual.  When visiting the recruit and donor an offer will be made and hopefully the response will be in favor of the team or fund-raising group.  Once the recruit and donor have agreed the next thing to do is to get a signature on documents to make it final.  After the final decisions have been made sending information on the team and group will be important as the recruit and donor can learn more about the team and the group and what they stand for.

These two aspects do have very similar attributes as everything is based on the selling pitch.  The pitch to the recruiter and the donor is important because if the recruit and donor do not at first want what the recruiter is selling they then will have to change and adjust.  Being flexible as a recruiter and head fund-raiser will be important to get individual’s interested.

References:  Delisio. C.D., & Fleming. S., (August 2005).  Recruiting & Fund-Raising. Retrieved from:  http://tiffinonline.org/pub/content/ac21c4ad-24dd-43e5-8da1-d428a0c72c5a/Recruiting_and_Fundraising.pdf?eclg_res=1156538&eclg_resver=2150639