Tips and Ideas

Phones4Charity® is dedicated to helping you with your phone drive. It is easy to start collecting phones. Here are a few tips and ideas on how to have a successful phone drive.

Promote Your Phones4Charity® Phone Drive Collection

• Send out flyers, e-mails, letters, newsletters, and posters to promote your collection.
• Create a press release and contact your local news papers and radio stations to let them know about your phone drive. Phones 4 Charity is a new concept and can generate additional media attention for your organization.
• Add Phones 4 Charity information to your organization's Website.
• Include Phones 4 Charity in your advertising materials.
• Inform other chapters/affiliates about Phones 4 Charity.
• Ask local media sponsors to encourage listeners/viewers/readers to drop off phones to a designated location in support of your event or organization.
• Ask friends to set up drop boxes in their stores, restaurants, or offices in support of your event or organization.
• Ask corporate sponsors to set up collection boxes and promote phone collection within their businesses.

Expand the number of donated phones.

• Ask volunteers to set up collection drives at their individual workplaces, and increase your potential to reach wider audiences. mechanism for your company's charitable giving programs.
• Encourage your board members to set up collection drives at their places of business.
• Give participants in sponsored individual or team events (walks, runs, marathons, etc.) the option of collecting phones instead of cash from their sponsors.
• Set up contests to see who can collect the most phones.

Incorporate Phones4Charity Into Existing
Fundraising Events:

• Set up a drop box at any event site (walks, runs, galas, bowl-a-thons, golf tournaments, etc.).
• Use pre-event promotion to inform participants to bring their used phones to donate.
• Ask for used wireless phones as the "price" of entry for fairs and other events.

Look at the many benefits of the Phones4Charity program:

• For your company — provides funds for charitable endeavors, enhances image in community and can add to the bottom line.
• For your charity — funds to help them reach their goals.
• For the environment — reuse of idle handsets and the proper disposal of obsolete phones or exhausted batteries.
• For your customers and employees — an opportunity to feel good about themselves for donating their phones and to feel good about who they do business with. It's a win-win initiative!!!