{"id":6696,"date":"2016-11-28T20:37:33","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T01:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/?p=6696"},"modified":"2016-11-30T15:10:52","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T20:10:52","slug":"fundraise-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/fundraise-holidays","title":{"rendered":"How to fundraise over the holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How many holiday sweaters do you really need (or want) living in the back of your closet? This year, let your family and friends know that they can make a donation towards your upcoming tour instead! But\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">before you ask them to help send you on an educational travel experience you\u2019ll never forget, review these tips:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #f99901;\"><strong>1. Customize your fundraising page. <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Be sure that your personal fundraising page looks great! Log into <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/My-Account.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">your account<\/a><\/strong> and click\u00a0the &#8220;Go to my fundraising page&#8221; link in the &#8220;Tour Account&#8221; module. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/-\/media\/Images\/2016\/Fundraising%20pages\/Tour_Center_screenshot.ashx?la=en&amp;hash=129EA7D93DD4390CBE5ABD2F6773B4719B992443\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"175\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Upload a photo of your smiling face and write a personal message to your family and friends explaining why this trip is important to you. Is this your first trip abroad? Have you dreamed of going to this destination since you were little? Show them why a donation is a gift you\u2019ll always remember.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #f99901;\">2. Share on social media.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once your page is updated, share it! You can easily post to your favorite social media networks from your account or send the link in a personal messages to let your friends know about your upcoming adventure and how they can support you.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/-\/media\/Images\/2016\/Fundraising%20pages\/Personal_fundraising_pg_Emily-completed.ashx?la=en&amp;hash=1A3871E86A40AF0A9F21887B8E5AE3C2004F76D0\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"591\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #f99901;\">3. Send a personal email.<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you\u2019re reaching out to your family and friends through email, include some of the details from your itinerary. Let them know that you\u2019re not just visiting London or Paris\u2026 You\u2019re visiting Big Ben for the first time or climbing to the top of the Eiffel Tower, and much more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Follow these steps and your family and friends can easily cross your name off their shopping list by giving you the gift of travel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Happy holidays!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5174\" src=\"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/germany-christmas_004267711.jpg\" alt=\"germany-christmas_00426771\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/germany-christmas_004267711.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/germany-christmas_004267711-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/germany-christmas_004267711-530x298.jpg 530w, https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/germany-christmas_004267711-678x381.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/germany-christmas_004267711-528x297.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many holiday sweaters do you really need (or want) living in the back of your closet? This year, let your family and friends know that they can make a donation towards your upcoming tour instead! But\u00a0before you ask them to help send you on an educational travel experience you\u2019ll never forget, review these tips: <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/fundraise-holidays\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[345,58,193,191,59,128,86],"class_list":["post-6696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-students","tag-educational-tours","tag-educational-travel","tag-educational-travel-fundraising","tag-fundraising-tips","tag-student-tours","tag-student-travel","tag-student-trips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6696"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6711,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6696\/revisions\/6711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}