Community Fundraising Tips and Tricks

Spaulding Rehabilitation will support you by:

• Answering questions and sharing fundraising best practices.
• Providing access to a personalized online fundraising page.
• Promoting your event on Spaulding Rehabilitation’s social media: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram (at our discretion).
• Permitting use of Spaulding’s logo for fundraising materials, collateral, advertisements, flyers, and giveaways (with approval).
• Processing gifts and providing tax receipts, when applicable, for contributions made online and those mailed directly to Spaulding Rehabilitation.
• Offering samples of solicitation letters.
• Sharing resources and information about the area your event is supporting.

Event organizers are responsible for:

• Planning and promoting their fundraising effort.
• Creating and maintaining invitation and attendee lists. Spaulding Rehabilitation is not able to provide mailing lists of donors, staff, or vendors.
• Arranging volunteers and all day-of support.
• Soliciting donations and/or sponsorships.
• Producing and distributing communication and marketing materials, collateral, advertisements, flyers, and giveaways.
• Customizing their online fundraising page.
• Paying for all event-related expenses. Spaulding Rehabilitation is not responsible for paying any invoices.
• Coordinating media coverage and distributing press releases, with prior approval from Spaulding’s Development and Marketing departments.

For questions, or more information on third-party events, please contact Amanda Shuman at alshuman@partners.org. Thank you for your interest in supporting Spaulding Rehabilitation’s programs and services.