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Online Volunteer Web Designers needed

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Thank you for not only becoming a fan of HINT but doing something to promote our cause – inviting facebook friends to join, liking content on our website, etc.

One of the ways we are helping other non-profits and faith-based organisations and groups around the world is providing domain name registration, web hosting and web design at an incredibly low fee. All proceeds go towards supporting HINT.

Currently, we are not able to match the demand for websites with our limited number of volunteer web designers.

So, we need more volunteer designers to sign up to help. Donating your web design skills this way will be a great way to volunteer and make a difference without ever leaving your home town.

If you have web design skills and would like to help, send an email to info @ hintonline.org to express your interest. If you are not a web designer but know someone or a group of web designers, then please forward this mail to them.

If you need college/university credit for the work you do, we will be more than happy to help.

Thank you
Genesis Tinshu
Executive Director, HINT

Fundraising Tips

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Below are a few ideas to help you raise money for your Volunteer Program.

  • • Craft a personal letter that explains what you are doing and why you have chosen to volunteer in a village with Village Volunteers. After you have applied, been accepted, and provided a $100 USD deposit, you will gain access to a fundraising templates that contain our US 501(c)(3) tax ID number and our logo. Donors can deduct their contributions.
  • • Make a presentation in your community; clubs, place of worship, schools, family/friends, and workplace.
  • • Make sure the letter is limited in length to one page and it describes the village or program you are visiting and what you hope to do while you are there.
  • • Explain how this journey will positively affect your life and the people you are helping.
  • • Provide stamped return envelopes with each letter. Remember, you want to make the donation process as easy as possible for your sponsor. All they should have to do is write the check.
  • • Contact your local publications with a press release. If you provide your contact information and a special interest factor, you might have a feature article written that would bring in more donations!
  • • Create a brochure for yourself.
  • • Create a website or e-mail distribution list and send out frequent e-mails about your fundraising experiences, dollars raised, and details of your journey while you are gone and after you return.
  • • Hold an event, silent auction or even a series of bake sales. Make sure that people know what the money from the bake sale will accomplish. Be sure you put out a donation jar. We can send you photos to print.
  • • Contact your school’s Financial Aid or Study Abroad Department. There might be funds available for you to tap into.
  • • Apply for a scholarship, grant or fellowship. Below are a few suggested sites.
  • • Scholarships, Grants and Fellowships
  • • Glimpse Correspondents Program for young writers and photographers who will be abroad for at least 10 weeks: http://glimpse.org/correspondents
  • • The Levinson Foundation: www.levinsonfoundation.org/
  • • American Association of University Women:www.aauw.org/education/fga/
  • • The J.W. Saxe Memorial Fund: www.jwsaxefund.org/
  • • Scholarship, Grant, and Fellowship Banks
  • • The Foundation Center: http://foundationcenter.org/findfunders/
  • • Stanford University Library: www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/grants.html
  • • Get Recognized:www.actionforchange.org/getrecognized/scholarships.html
  • • Advice
  • • Fund-Raising.com: www.fund-raising.com/
  • • Create a Donation Form. This form will list all of your contact information and several donor amounts your sponsor can choose from. Start off with an initial modest amount ($25) but also request large donation amounts ($100+) and any amounts in between.

Fundraise for HINT

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Thank you for considering to help raise funds for some of our projects. We have listed on this page some of the different ways/ideas in which you can help raise funds right from where you are. Together we can make a difference.

Food For Funds (FFF)

5 or more people come together on October 16 (World Food Day) to eat, discuss ways of helping to end poverty in Africa, and make donations. Funds raised will be used to support Helps International’s work in helping poor people come out of poverty in Cameroon.

Procedure.

  1. Someone contacts HINT and indicates the willingness to organize a meeting through the Food For Funds website.
  2. HINT gets in touch with additional details about hosting the event.
  3. The meeting takes place.
  4. Funds are sent to HINT online via PayPal or deposited into our UK Bank account.

This is one of the easiest ways to raise funds for some of our on-going project. Please contact us to let us know if you will participates in this year’s Food For Funds Fundraising Event(FFF).

Testimonial: in 2006, Michael & Margaret Astbury in England organised a Tea Evening and raised more than GBP 300 for our Community Education Library (CEL) Project. CEL will kick off in September 2007 and will provide over 2000 school textbooks to about 300 primary school children. Organizing an event is a great way to raise funds for the work we do as well as creating a general awareness about our work and raising more supporters. We will provide you with the necessary information you need to pass across to your guests. Contact us if you will want to organize an event to raise funds for one or more of our projects.

Testimonial: In 2007, we raised close to $3,000 from 15 donors who gathered at Arlington, USA during the first ever Food For Funds event that we orgainsed through the effort of one family – Brian & Christe Dodds. The funds were used to extend credit to 25 rural women organised in 4 credit groups in two rural communities in the the South West Province of Cameroon. You too can take a simple decision to participate in this year’s FFF and change lives

Run For Funds (RFR)

Fifth Third River Bank Run

Participate in the 5th 3rd River Bank Run in the USA and help raise funds for HINT. Go to this website for information. Please contact us if you can run for funds to support HINT.

London Marathon

Participate in the London Marathon in London, England, and raise support for HINT.

ING Amsterdam Marathon

Participate in the ING Amsterdam Marathon in Amsterdam and raise support for HINT.

Procedure.

  1. Someone contacts HINT and indicates the willingness to participate.
  2. HINT acknowledges the willing to support her.
  3. Information about Potential Donor is uploaded on our website.
  4. ‘Potential Donor’ notifies his/her family members, friends, alumni, … about his/her plans to run for funds to support HINT and asks these people to support the project with donations as they are able to afford.
  5. The donor participates in the race.
  6. Funds are sent to HINT online via PayPal or deposited into our UK Bank account.

If you do not want to eat or run in order to raise funds for HINT but you can do something (such as writing proposals and contacting potential donors or have any other ideas on how to raise funds for us, please contact us.

Donate in kind (equipment or material)

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People often travel from Europe and the USA to volunteer at HINT. If you can help to donate any of these items (new or used), contact us to let us know and some of our volunteers may help bring to us. Thank you for helping:

  • Computers
  • Laptops
  • Digital Cameras
  • Cell Phones
  • Computer Parts
  • Printers and Fax machines
  • Office Stationery
  • Scanners
  • Photocopy Machine
  • Clothes
  • Shoes
  • Toys
  • Wheelchairs
  • Medical Equipment
  • Educational Books For our Library
  • Sewing Machines
  • Carpentry Tools
  • Farming Tools
  • Public Address System (Microphones, speakers, amplifiers, etc)

We accept any kind of useful equipment. If we can’t use it, we will convert it into cash when it arrives Cameroon. The funds will then be used towards our charitable causes.

Learn how you can support us.

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Thank you for considering helping us in our efforts to help poor and needy people in our community. As a non-profit organisation, we rely very strongly on the generosity of people like you to be able to do our work.

There are a number of ways through which you can help. You can make an online donation to help with one of our projects, donate in kind, volunteer with us, or help to fund-raise.

To see how your donation will be used, go here.

If you are interested in helping in some way but would like to ask us further questions, please contact us

About HINT

Our mission is to improve the well-being of the underprivileged in our community through education, skill development, and job creation.

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