Do you want your business to fund community projects? Use our template email to get in touch with your employer and ask them to fund you through ActionFunder!
ActionFunder makes it easy for businesses to fund projects carefully vetted. Plus, they get impact reports to track the changes you’re creating together.
Let’s get your business funding community action! Working together is the quickest way to bring as much money as possible to the non-profits that need it. Find your step-by-step instructions below.
What to do?
- Personalise the template email for your employer with your information. It’s available at the bottom of this page.
- Find the right person to send the email to within your business (with some help below!)
- Send the email alongside two introductory documents, available at the bottom of the page.
You can find the templates and the documents in this folder too.
Who to send the email to?
There are a few teams you could contact within a business to talk about community funding. It could be:
- Your ESG/CSR/sustainability team – if your company has strong commitments in this area
- Your marketing team – if showcasing social impact supports your branding
- Your sales team – highlighting your community funding could attract new business
- Your CEO – if leadership buy-in will be important
Email the team/person you think is most relevant to your company – or all of them!
The Template Email
You can CC in hello@actionfunder.org if you’d like
Subject: Can [company name] support my non-profit organisation on ActionFunder?
Email copy:
Dear [recipient name],
I actively volunteer with [name of your organisation], a non-profit that [mission/impact of project].
To raise funds for our organisation, I use ActionFunder. It’s a really convenient platform that allows us to secure support from various businesses in one place. You can see our current project here [Project URL].
As you might know, funding is extremely scarce for most community initiatives like ours. Yet, we provide a crucial service to the people we work with. We believe there is a great opportunity for businesses like [name of company] to assist charities and causes in the very neighbourhoods where their employees and customers live and work.
ActionFunder streamlines the process for companies to fund local projects. It helps businesses engage employees through giving programmes, and easily track the impact of their contributions. I would love for [company name] to consider supporting community action through their platform.
I’ve attached a few ActionFunder info sheets and assets that provide more background.
If you’d like to find out more about ActionFunder, you can take a look at their website, or book a demo of the platform via https://www.actionfunder.org/request-demo/.
Thanks so much for your consideration. Your support would make a huge difference to my non-profit.
[Your name]
The documents to link to the email
Thank you
Thank you for joining ActionFunder’s effort to make every business fund community action! Having people like yourself advocating from within their company is a crucial first step for us to get more business to commit to supporting their community.
We’re hoping that by working with our amazing community of non-profits, we can get every project on the platform funded – including yours!
If you have any questions at all before contacting your employer, don’t hesitate to ask us at hello@actionfunder.org.
Let’s do this together!