Hello,
My name is Johannes Lungenschmied and I did mainly direct fundraising, asking people and writing letters, for a project in South Africa for 5 years.
Due to the ever increasing number of orphans in South Africa, my wife and I, decided to work and raise funds for our own project.
We started a so called One Million Dollar Challenge on the internet, a blog supporting our ideas and direct fundraising efforts. We know it is difficult to establish trust over the internet, but we try every way we can to raise funds.
My question is, I'm a so called single person trying to raise funds. I did all legal stuff within my country Austria, where I try to raise funds. My wife and kids are in SA at the moment.
I would like to know, what can a single person do, to become more recognised for his/her efforts? Can I register somewhere as NGO or NPO? The information I got here in Austria are very poor.
Trying to raise funds as a single person and for a project not established yet is, I guess, the most difficult task I ever tried, but if I know, that many tried it before me, otherwise there wouldn't be founders of projects and organisations.
My other question is, due to the fact, that we are not marketing a product, it is really difficult for us to get people to our webpage. Any ideas on that? I'm a webdesigner, but get people donate for something, where they don't get anything in return is really taff, especially over the internet.
Any suggestions, any ideas please write them to my email at J.Lungenschmied@gmx.at or challenge@8ung.at and for people interested talking directly to us, phone at +436649458068.
Our internetaddress is http://www.8ung.at/challenge
Thanks in advance for any ideas
God bless
Johannes and Elizabeth
&
Jessica and Theresa
