Tools to make your workplace campaign a success
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Thank you for supporting the Red Cross’ humanitarian action in your community
Our team has prepared an array of tools to help you organize a successful workplace fundraising campaign. In addition to the Support Guide, which provides an overview of available tools, you can download the following tools and contact us at any time.
Please note that because of the current pandemic, we advise you to adapt any fundraising activity to follow public health rules and advice in effect at the time of your campaign. We invite you to speak with your Red Cross advisor for help with your project.
Contact us anytime
Would you like to have one of our spokespersons visit your company? Do you have questions, comments, or suggestions? Feel free to email us anytime at cmt@redcross.ca.
Plan your campaign
- Support Guide: overview of the Red Cross, steps for a successful campaign, list of tools and resources available to you, etc.
- Ultimate checklist for a successful campaign: key steps to complete before, during and after your campaign
- Campaign support letter or thank you letter written on behalf of the head of your organization
- Campaign director’s report (bilingual)
- Fundraising activity suggestions
- PowerPoint presentation to present the Canadian Red Cross* to your colleagues that demonstrates the daily impact of their donations and presents the story of a family who received direct assistance thanks to donor support.
Get new photos, videos, and other material on a daily basis
Follow us on social media and tell us about your campaign success stories!
- Canadian Red Cross or Croix-Rouge canadienne Facebook pages
- @redcrosscanada and @CroixRouge_Qc Twitter feed
- @redcrosscanada Instagram account
- Canadian Red Cross and Croix-Rouge Québec Flickr albums
Inspire your company with in-person or video accounts that bring the local Red Cross’ action to life
Every three hours, Red Cross teams are mobilized to provide essential emergency aid to people affected by disasters across the country.
- Contact us to invite a volunteer to speak to your company about the impact of your colleagues’ donations.
- Download this one-pager on how your donations help* or and visit this page to read stories about the people you have helped us support.
- Download and share this video with colleagues to help demonstrate the work of Red Cross volunteers in your community:
- Resilience in the face of B.C. fires: A Red Cross worker shares her experience
- In MP4 format or on Youtube
- Mike testifies about volunteering for the Canadian Red Cross
- Fort McMurray residents Chris and Christina MacKay are working to rebuild their home after the 2016 Alberta fires.
- In MP4 format or on Youtube
- Dunrobin resident Todd Nicholson describes his experience facing the tornadoes in 2018 that devastated his area, and other parts of Ottawa and Gatineau, Quebec.
- In MP4 format or on Youtube
- Resilience in the face of B.C. fires: A Red Cross worker shares her experience
Get your colleagues involved
Using promotional materials and blurbs:
- Campaign poster
- 17 x 25 format*: Red Cross responds every three hours to disaster big and small across Canada and three times a day in Quebec
- Thermometer to track the progress of the campaign and encourage your colleagues to reach the goal set
- Red Cross at a glance one-pager*: how your donations help, disaster response statistics and story from a family who received Red Cross help.
- Canadian Red Cross logo
Other stories and blurbs to support you before, during, and after the campaign
Stories:
Campaign blurbs: Thank you blurbs: