Long Beach Gives
On September 23, 2021, the South Coast Interfaith Council is participating in the 3rd annual Long Beach Gives day.
Here’s how you can help us reach our fundraising goal:
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Spread the word! Tell your friends about Long Beach Gives by directing them to longbeachgives.org.
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Follow us on social media and share our posts! You can find us on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and Twitter.
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Become a Peer-to-Peer Fundraiser! Invite your friends and family to make a donation supporting the South Coast Interfaith Council from your very own personal fundraising page!
Ready to become a Peer-to-Peer Fundraiser?
Learn how to create a Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Page: Watch video here!
Contact Cheryl at 562.983.1665 or send an email if you have any questions. Thank you for your continued support.
Templates Just for You
Sample Social Media Images
Feel free to use the images below in your Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram social media posts to help spread the word about your efforts in helping fundraise with Long Beach Gives.
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Sample Facebook Timelime Image
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Sample Social Media Messages
Sample text about Long Beach Gives:
September 23 is Long Beach Gives, a citywide giving day supporting over 200 Long Beach nonprofits! I’ve joined the South Coast Interfaith Council’s Fundraising Team and hope you’ll help me support their efforts. Learn more about at https://donate.longbeachgives.org/south-coast-interfaith-council.
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Sample text about the South Coast Interfaith Council’s fundraising goal:
I’ve joined the South Coast Interfaith Council (SCIC) Fundraising Team to help them adapt their programs for the COVID-19 era. The funds I raise will allow the interfaith and intercultural communities in Long Beach - and all around America - to continue to receive free education and connection to resources regarding social justice, helping the plight of the homeless, youth empowerment, anti – discrimination trainings, and interfaith and intercultural understanding. Visit my personal fundraising page [add your fundraising link here].
Sample text about why helping the South Coast Interfaith Council is important to you:
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Option 1:
I’m part of the South Coast Interfaith Council’s Fundraising Team, helping create communities of compassion among people of different faiths and cultures through service, education and celebration. Please visit my personal fundraising page at [add your fundraising link here] on Sept. 23, #LongBeachGives day, and help support programs that are important to me. Thank you!
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Option 2:
I believe peaceful co-existence is absolutely non-negotiable among people of different faiths and cultures—especially now. That’s why I’ve joined the South Coast Interfaith Council’s Fundraising Team to help raise funds on Sept. 23 as part of #LongBeachGives. Visit my page at [add your fundraising link here] to support the councils programs.
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Option 3:
I’ve found a community of peacemakers through the programs of the South Coast Interfaith Council (SCIC) —like the Interfaith Cafes that brings together diverse people to simply get to know one another and Courageous Conversations that provides a platform for issues such as homelessness, mental health and race relations to be discussed among those who want to make a positive impact and change! Please join me at my personal fundraising page [add your fundraising link here] as I help support them on Sept 23, #LongBeachGives day.
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Option 4:
Write about your own personal connection to the South Coast Interfaith Council (SCIC) and why supporting us is important to you!
Sample text to post a week before September 23:
Long Beach Gives is next week—Sept. 23! I hope you’ll join me and support the South Coast Interfaith Council (SCIC) and all they do for our city and world. I’m helping to raise funds for SCIC’s educational and community programs. Visit my personal fundraising page at [add your fundraising link here].
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Sample text to post on September 23:
Today is #LongBeachGives, a 24-hour giving day supporting LB nonprofits like the South Coast Interfaith Council (SCIC)! Will you help me reach my goal of $____? Join me to help the SCIC continue to create communities of compassion among people of different faiths and cultures through their community and educational programs that focus service, education and celebration. Visit [add your fundraising link here] Thank you!
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Sample Email Messages
Thank you for being part of our Peer-2-Peer Fundraising Team! Below are two emails you’re free to use as you help spread the word about Long Beach Gives and our fundraising efforts. Be sure to personalize the emails with a link to your fundraising page, if you created one, and please share in your emails why volunteering to fundraise is important to you.
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Email 1
Please send this email to your contacts when your fundraising page is live. If you’d prefer to direct your friends and family to our fundraising page, please use https://donate.longbeachgives.org/south-coast-interfaith-council
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Email Subject: Join me in supporting the South Coast Interfaith Council on September 23!
Email Body:
Hi!
I’m reaching out to let you know that I’ve joined the South Coast Interfaith Council’s Fundraising Team!
On September 23, Long Beach Gives day, I’ll be raising funds for the South Coast Interfaith Councils community and education programs. The SCIC provide free educational and community programs for youths and adults that focus on creating communities of compassion between people of different faiths and cultures in Long Beach and surrounding communities. Maybe you’ve been to one of their many programs that focus on service, education and celebration like Feeding the Homeless, Beach Clean Ups, Religion 101 monthly series, Interfaith Cafes, Interfaith Youth Summer Leadership Initiative, the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Interfaith & Intercultural Celebration and annual Unity Awards Dinner? There are so many other programs and services they provide in addition to these!
I’ve committed to raise $_________ towards the councils fundraising goal. With support from donors like you, we can make sure our community continues to thrive.
To make a donation of any size, please visit my fundraising page at _______________________. Learn more about the fundraiser at scinterfaith.org/longbeachgives.
Can’t donate right now? Please consider forwarding this email to your friends and family to help spread the word about Long Beach Gives, the citywide giving day on September 23 supporting Long Beach nonprofits like the SCIC.
Thanks for your support!
Email 2
Mark your calendar to send this email to your contacts the morning of September 23, Long Beach Gives Day! Be sure to include the link to your personal fundraising page in the message.
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Email Subject: Today’s the Day! Join my fundraising efforts to support the South Coast Interfaith Council community programs!
Email Body:
Hi!
Today is Long Beach Gives, the citywide giving day supporting Long Beach nonprofits!
I’m volunteering as part of the South Coast Interfaith Council’s Fundraising Team. I hope you’ll join me in showing how much we appreciate their commitment to building communities of compassion and peace among people of different faiths and cultures! Here’s how to help:
Visit my personal fundraising page at ______________________ and consider making a donation in support of the South Coast Interfaith Council (SCIC). The SCIC provides free programs for youths and adults around service, education and celebration!
Can’t donate? Please share the link to my personal fundraising page on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. and forward this email to your friends and family. The more you help me spread the word, the more our community benefits from the invaluable work of this organization!
Thank you for helping me reach my fundraising goal and for supporting the South Coast Interfaith Councils ongoing efforts to create experiences that our city can enjoy for free!