Welcome to The $1k Project Team. Thank you so much for sponsoring a family impacted by the pandemic! You are what's good in the world right now.
We appreciate your willingness to amplify the project and sharing our latest updates with your local community and your personal network.
Here are 10 things you can do to help take The $1k Project to the next level.
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Post about sponsoring a family through The $1k Project on all your active social channels. Take a look at the samples and images provided. Feel free to tweak the language of course, but keep the essence of the project and the imagery.
Think about a family in your network who is really hurting right now and could use some help.
To learn more about eligibility criteria, please visit our FAQ.
Next, post on each of your social networks and ask your followers to nominate just one family.
Sometimes a one-to-one communication will be more effective at recruiting sponsors. Think about 3 people in your close circle who may be in a position to also sponsor a family and reach out directly via email or direct message.
Please consider sending an email to other perspective sponsors in your network. This is great either 1-1 or if you have a mailing list you use. Here is a sample, please tweak as you think makes sense.
From its beginning, the goal of The $1k Project was to help millions of small business employees. You can help us get closer to the goal by reaching out to the local businesses in your city. Please consider direct messaging them on Facebook and encouraging them to nominate the families of their employees who they had to let go or furlough.
Do you know any relevant organizations that could be helpful to the project? For example your college alumni associations could be a great source for family referrals or sponsors.
Are you connected to local SMB associations, restaurant groups, relevant non-profits?
Are you connected to newsletters read by professionals in the restaurant industry? Beauty space? Fitness? Are you connected to influencers in those or other spaces and feel comfortable reaching out to them?
And last but not least, please ask your friends, family and co-workers to volunteer and help light up their networks. If all of us could bring just a few more people to The $1k Project network, it will grow at light speed. It will grow faster than the virus. That's our goal. That's why we are here - to help millions of families impacted by the pandemic as fast as possible.
