ARMCHAIR TELETHON

Armchair Telethons will soon be an important fundraising tool. You should have one. Our belief is that the Armchair Telethon is a wave of the future and will soon be an important tool in the nonprofit fundraiser’s kit. Picture a telethon like any other you may have seen on TV over the years, but 100% online – with musicians, other THE ALLIANCE VIRTUAL TELETHON The Alliance Virtual Telethon Sat., Sept. 26th 9AM-5PM Donate Watch on Facebook Watch on Youtube Telethon Schedule PURPLE KIDS TELETHON Purple Kids Telethon & Auction Sat., April 17, 2021 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. ET Donate to the USO Bid in the USO Auction Watch on Facebook Watch on

Youtube

VIRTUAL TELETHON SUPPORTING THE HEART OF DANVILLE Sun. Aug. 9th 1:00-9:00 PM donate Watch on Facebook Watch on Youtube Raffle & Auction Telethon Schedule 1:00-1:10 KBIA WINTER CAMPAIGN TELETHON KBIA Winter Campaign Telethon Sat., Feb. 6, 2021 9AM-5PM CT Donate to KBIA Watch on Facebook Watch on Youtube Telethon Schedule BOYS & GIRLS CLUB VIRTUAL TELETHON Boys & Girls Club Virtual Telethon Sat., Oct. 24th 9AM-5PM MT Donate Watch on Facebook Watch on Youtube Telethon Schedule BAY AREA TURNING POINT TELETHON Bay Area Turning Point Telethon Fri., Oct. 9th 11AM-7PM CT Donate Bid on Our Awesome Auction! Get Raffle Tickets! Watch on Facebook Watch on Youtube Telethon Schedule SUPPORT DOWNTOWN COLUMBIA VIRTUAL TELETHON This is NOT a competition, but we want to be transparent, and know the numbers can be motivating. Let's push everybody up as high as we can! Let's support our downtown businesses. Donation totals updated every 20 minutes or so. Remember that donors get full-value gift cards for all donations! 100% goes to the businesses. JEFFERSON CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION VIRTUAL TELETHON Virtual Telethon Sat., Sept. 19th 9AM-5PM Watch on Facebook Watch on Youtube Visit the Raffle & Auction to Support the Foundation Telethon

Schedule

OHIO SMALL BUSINESS DAY Ohio Small Business Day Supporting Urban Accelerator X, Supporting Urban Small Business Thurs. Nov. 19th 8:30AM-4:30PM ET Support Urban Entrepreneurs Watch on Facebook Watch on Youtube Telethon Schedule

ARMCHAIR TELETHON

Armchair Telethons will soon be an important fundraising tool. You should have one. Our belief is that the Armchair Telethon is a wave of the future and will soon be an important tool in the nonprofit fundraiser’s kit. Picture a telethon like any other you may have seen on TV over the years, but 100% online – with musicians, other THE ALLIANCE VIRTUAL TELETHON The Alliance Virtual Telethon Sat., Sept. 26th 9AM-5PM Donate Watch on Facebook Watch on Youtube Telethon Schedule PURPLE KIDS TELETHON Purple Kids Telethon & Auction Sat., April 17, 2021 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. ET Donate to the USO Bid in the USO Auction Watch on Facebook Watch on

Youtube

VIRTUAL TELETHON SUPPORTING THE HEART OF DANVILLE Sun. Aug. 9th 1:00-9:00 PM donate Watch on Facebook Watch on Youtube Raffle & Auction Telethon Schedule 1:00-1:10 KBIA WINTER CAMPAIGN TELETHON KBIA Winter Campaign Telethon Sat., Feb. 6, 2021 9AM-5PM CT Donate to KBIA Watch on Facebook Watch on Youtube Telethon Schedule BOYS & GIRLS CLUB VIRTUAL TELETHON Boys & Girls Club Virtual Telethon Sat., Oct. 24th 9AM-5PM MT Donate Watch on Facebook Watch on Youtube Telethon Schedule BAY AREA TURNING POINT TELETHON Bay Area Turning Point Telethon Fri., Oct. 9th 11AM-7PM CT Donate Bid on Our Awesome Auction! Get Raffle Tickets! Watch on Facebook Watch on Youtube Telethon Schedule SUPPORT DOWNTOWN COLUMBIA VIRTUAL TELETHON This is NOT a competition, but we want to be transparent, and know the numbers can be motivating. Let's push everybody up as high as we can! Let's support our downtown businesses. Donation totals updated every 20 minutes or so. Remember that donors get full-value gift cards for all donations! 100% goes to the businesses. JEFFERSON CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION VIRTUAL TELETHON Virtual Telethon Sat., Sept. 19th 9AM-5PM Watch on Facebook Watch on Youtube Visit the Raffle & Auction to Support the Foundation Telethon

Schedule

OHIO SMALL BUSINESS DAY Ohio Small Business Day Supporting Urban Accelerator X, Supporting Urban Small Business Thurs. Nov. 19th 8:30AM-4:30PM ET Support Urban Entrepreneurs Watch on Facebook Watch on Youtube Telethon Schedule VIRTUAL TELETHON SUPPORTING WELCOME HOME Sat., Aug. 29th 9AM-5PM Donate Text-to-give -- Dial (573) 200-8382 to give with your cell phone. Watch on Facebook Watch on Youtube Watch on Twitch Auction & Raffle for Welcome Home!

THE FOUNDATION

Welcome Home is a non-profit Veteran-centric organization, with a community-based approach, that empowers homeless and at-risk Veterans to return to society as productive self-supporting citizens. BACK TO SCHOOL VIRTUAL TELETHON, SUPPORTING THE IDAHO FOOD Back to School Virtual Telethon Supporting The Idaho Foodbank Thur., Sept. 10th 9AM-5PM Donate Watch on Facebook Watch on Youtube Telethon

Schedule

WE LOVE KIDS VIRTUAL TELETHON, BENEFITTING THE SHAKEN BABY 9AM-5PM CT10AM-6PM ET. donate. Text welovekids to 44321 to donate.

Watch on Facebook.

BAY AREA TURNING POINT TELETHON Bay Area Turning Point Telethon Fri., Oct. 9th 11AM-7PM CT Donate Bid on Our Awesome Auction! Get Raffle Tickets! Watch on Facebook Watch on Youtube Telethon Schedule SUPPORT DOWNTOWN COLUMBIA VIRTUAL TELETHON This is NOT a competition, but we want to be transparent, and know the numbers can be motivating. Let's push everybody up as high as we can! Let's support our downtown businesses. Donation totals updated every 20 minutes or so. Remember that donors get full-value gift cards for all donations! 100% goes to the businesses. JEFFERSON CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION VIRTUAL TELETHON Virtual Telethon Sat., Sept. 19th 9AM-5PM Watch on Facebook Watch on Youtube Visit the Raffle & Auction to Support the Foundation Telethon

Schedule

ADVISORY BOARD

Advisory Board At Armchair Telethon, we are grateful for a nationally prominent advisory board, helping us provide nonprofit organizations (and schools and churches and, and, and) with a way to help solve their fundraising challenges. Every day, we are making the world a better place. (And seriously, you PEOPLES-GORDEN TELETHON Peoples-Gorden Telethon Benefiting JSU Development Foundation, Inc. Tues. Dec. 1st 11AM-7PM CT Donate Watch on Facebook Watch on Youtube Telethon Schedule Check back soon for the details! PRIMROSE ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE TELETHON Primrose Hill Adult & Teen Challenge Telethon Sun., Nov. 8th 2-5PM CT Donate Watch on Facebook Watch on Youtube Telethon Schedule

ARMCHAIR TELETHON

Armchair Telethons will soon be an important fundraising tool. You should have one. Our belief is that the Armchair Telethon is a wave of the future and will soon be an important tool in the nonprofit fundraiser’s kit. Picture a telethon like any other you may have seen on TV over the years, but 100% online – with musicians, other VIRTUAL TELETHON SUPPORTING WELCOME HOME Sat., Aug. 29th 9AM-5PM Donate Text-to-give -- Dial (573) 200-8382 to give with your cell phone. Watch on Facebook Watch on Youtube Watch on Twitch Auction & Raffle for Welcome Home! WE LOVE KIDS VIRTUAL TELETHON, BENEFITTING THE SHAKEN BABY 9AM-5PM CT10AM-6PM ET. donate. Text welovekids to 44321 to donate.

Watch on Facebook.

THE ALLIANCE VIRTUAL TELETHON The Alliance Virtual Telethon Sat., Sept. 26th 9AM-5PM Donate Watch on Facebook Watch on Youtube Telethon Schedule PURPLE KIDS TELETHON Purple Kids Telethon & Auction Sat., April 17, 2021 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. ET Donate to the USO Bid in the USO Auction Watch on Facebook Watch on

Youtube

BAY AREA TURNING POINT TELETHON Bay Area Turning Point Telethon Fri., Oct. 9th 11AM-7PM CT Donate Bid on Our Awesome Auction! Get Raffle Tickets! Watch on Facebook Watch on Youtube Telethon Schedule VIRTUAL TELETHON SUPPORTING THE HEART OF DANVILLE Sun. Aug. 9th 1:00-9:00 PM donate Watch on Facebook Watch on Youtube Raffle & Auction Telethon Schedule 1:00-1:10 SUPPORT DOWNTOWN COLUMBIA VIRTUAL TELETHON This is NOT a competition, but we want to be transparent, and know the numbers can be motivating. Let's push everybody up as high as we can! Let's support our downtown businesses. Donation totals updated every 20 minutes or so. Remember that donors get full-value gift cards for all donations! 100% goes to the businesses. JEFFERSON CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION VIRTUAL TELETHON Virtual Telethon Sat., Sept. 19th 9AM-5PM Watch on Facebook Watch on Youtube Visit the Raffle & Auction to Support the Foundation Telethon

Schedule

THE DETAILS

The “Support Columbia’s Downtown Virtual Telethon” will be shown Saturday, August 15 th, 9AM to 5PM, on Facebook, YouTubem, and Twitch. Details and links to watch are available at www.supportcolumbiasdowntown.com. “Our downtown is struggling, and this is an easy way for anyone to support their favorite businesses at

any level

ARMCHAIR TELETHON

Armchair Telethons will soon be an important fundraising tool. You should have one. Our belief is that the Armchair Telethon is a wave of the future and will soon be an important tool in the nonprofit fundraiser’s kit. Picture a telethon like any other you may have seen on TV over the years, but 100% online – with musicians, other VIRTUAL TELETHON SUPPORTING WELCOME HOME Sat., Aug. 29th 9AM-5PM Donate Text-to-give -- Dial (573) 200-8382 to give with your cell phone. Watch on Facebook Watch on Youtube Watch on Twitch Auction & Raffle for Welcome Home! WE LOVE KIDS VIRTUAL TELETHON, BENEFITTING THE SHAKEN BABY 9AM-5PM CT10AM-6PM ET. donate. Text welovekids to 44321 to donate.

Watch on Facebook.

THE ALLIANCE VIRTUAL TELETHON The Alliance Virtual Telethon Sat., Sept. 26th 9AM-5PM Donate Watch on Facebook Watch on Youtube Telethon Schedule PURPLE KIDS TELETHON Purple Kids Telethon & Auction Sat., April 17, 2021 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. ET Donate to the USO Bid in the USO Auction Watch on Facebook Watch on

Youtube

BAY AREA TURNING POINT TELETHON Bay Area Turning Point Telethon Fri., Oct. 9th 11AM-7PM CT Donate Bid on Our Awesome Auction! Get Raffle Tickets! Watch on Facebook Watch on Youtube Telethon Schedule VIRTUAL TELETHON SUPPORTING THE HEART OF DANVILLE Sun. Aug. 9th 1:00-9:00 PM donate Watch on Facebook Watch on Youtube Raffle & Auction Telethon Schedule 1:00-1:10 SUPPORT DOWNTOWN COLUMBIA VIRTUAL TELETHON This is NOT a competition, but we want to be transparent, and know the numbers can be motivating. Let's push everybody up as high as we can! Let's support our downtown businesses. Donation totals updated every 20 minutes or so. Remember that donors get full-value gift cards for all donations! 100% goes to the businesses. JEFFERSON CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION VIRTUAL TELETHON Virtual Telethon Sat., Sept. 19th 9AM-5PM Watch on Facebook Watch on Youtube Visit the Raffle & Auction to Support the Foundation Telethon

Schedule

THE DETAILS

The “Support Columbia’s Downtown Virtual Telethon” will be shown Saturday, August 15 th, 9AM to 5PM, on Facebook, YouTubem, and Twitch. Details and links to watch are available at www.supportcolumbiasdowntown.com. “Our downtown is struggling, and this is an easy way for anyone to support their favorite businesses at

any level

VIRTUAL TELETHON SUPPORTING WELCOME HOME Sat., Aug. 29th 9AM-5PM Donate Text-to-give -- Dial (573) 200-8382 to give with your cell phone. Watch on Facebook Watch on Youtube Watch on Twitch Auction & Raffle for Welcome Home! THE ALLIANCE VIRTUAL TELETHON The Alliance Virtual Telethon Sat., Sept. 26th 9AM-5PM Donate Watch on Facebook Watch on Youtube Telethon Schedule BACK TO SCHOOL VIRTUAL TELETHON, SUPPORTING THE IDAHO FOOD Back to School Virtual Telethon Supporting The Idaho Foodbank Thur., Sept. 10th 9AM-5PM Donate Watch on Facebook Watch on Youtube Telethon

Schedule

ARMCHAIR TELETHON

Armchair Telethon — Short Video Intro. Armchair Telethon — Short Video Intro FloatingAx 2020-06-26T11:48:03-05:00. KBIA WINTER CAMPAIGN TELETHON KBIA Winter Campaign Telethon Sat., Feb. 6, 2021 9AM-5PM CT Donate to KBIA Watch on Facebook Watch on Youtube Telethon Schedule PRIMROSE ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE TELETHON Primrose Hill Adult & Teen Challenge Telethon Sun., Nov. 8th 2-5PM CT Donate Watch on Facebook Watch on Youtube Telethon Schedule

ADVISORY BOARD

Advisory Board At Armchair Telethon, we are grateful for a nationally prominent advisory board, helping us provide nonprofit organizations (and schools and churches and, and, and) with a way to help solve their fundraising challenges. Every day, we are making the world a better place. (And seriously, you KANSAS TRAILS TELETHON Kansas Trails Telethon Sun. Nov. 15th 2-5PM CT Donate Watch on Facebook Watch on Youtube Telethon Schedule PEOPLES-GORDEN TELETHON Peoples-Gorden Telethon Benefiting JSU Development Foundation, Inc. Tues. Dec. 1st 11AM-7PM CT Donate Watch on Facebook Watch on Youtube Telethon Schedule Check back soon for the details! SAARA ARTS ONLINE ART & HANDICRAFTS AUCTION Saara Arts Online Art & Handicrafts Auction Sat. Dec. 12th 4-7PM ET Watch on Facebook Watch on Youtube Donate to Saara Arts Bid in the Saara Arts Auction Auction Schedule

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ARMCHAIR TELETHON

THE 100% ONLINE, EASY-FOR-YOU FUNDRAISER; NEVER LEAVE YOUR ARMCHAIR! __Get Personalized Advice __Meet the Armchair Telethon Advisory Board > Sean Spence did a terrific job planning and implementing the > Armchair Telethon for our COVID-19 Relief Fund this past April. > And he did so in a very short period of time. The telethon went off > without a hitch, raised over $33,000 with just a few days of

> publicity,

> and the community was very happy with the telethon and donation

> total!

JOHN BAKER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, Community Foundation of Central

Missouri

> As we were beginning to plan how to raise funds in June when we had > to cancel our golf tournament Sean approached us about a virtual > telethon. The pivot made sense and our already committed sponsors > jumped on board. Sean sent us a detailed timeline & kept in constant > communication with us. On the day of the event, even in a nationwide > internet outage that affected many of our performers, speakers and > Sean himself, the event went off without a hitch and we surpassed > our goal raising over $53,000! We were more than pleased with the > results and the backend worries taken care of by Sean! KERRIE BLOSS, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, Boys & Girls Clubs of

Columbia

ARMCHAIR TELETHONS WILL SOON BE AN IMPORTANT FUNDRAISING TOOL. YOU

SHOULD HAVE ONE.

Our belief is that the Armchair Telethon is a wave of the future and will soon be an important tool in the nonprofit fundraiser’s kit. Picture a telethon like any other you may have seen on TV over the years, but 100% online – with musicians, other entertainers, and speakers, all joining the event from their homes or wherever they happen to be. The goal is to entertain, inform, and raise money. We recommend 4-8 weeks planning time; we are booking up to 12 months into

the future.

WE WILL GIVE YOU A SUCCESSFUL ARMCHAIR FUNDRAISING TELETHON. We will plan and produce an 8-hour Armchair Telethon from beginning to end – creating a local advisory committee to help with planning and execution; finding and booking local talent; promoting the event; stage-managing; and following up, as appropriate. Donations will primarily be accepted online, with donors directed to your donation page; those who want to mail a check will be directed to your address. OUR ARMCHAIR TELETHON FEES ARE CLEAR AND STRAIGHTFORWARD

CITIES

$3,000

Local telethons with population up to 500,000 BIG CITIES/STATEWIDE

$5,000

Statewide telethons and local telethons with population greater than

500,000

NATIONAL

$10,000

National telethons

Payment can be made in two increments: half at signing and half within 48-hours of the end of the telethon. Or it can be paid in one up-front payment, with a 10% discount. Geographic pricing (local, statewide and national) is based on where our team spends its time. All telethons will reach audiences all over

the country.

ARMCHAIR TELESPRINT

Armchair Telethon is proud to offer our clients an exciting opportunity to raise funds and spread the word about their organizations. Armchair Telesprints are shorter versions of our virtual telethons, less expensive and still very impactful. Armchair Telesprints best serve organizations who are new, located in smaller communities, still growing their donor base, and/or serving a narrower niche. Examples include small-town nonprofits, churches, private schools, and nonprofit startups. COST FOR A FULLY PRODUCED, THREE-HOUR ARMCHAIR TELESPRINT IS $1,500. AN ARMCHAIR FUNDRAISING TELETHON OFFERS MANY BENEFITS:

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Fundraising

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Organization leadership can be involved as much as they want to be, or

as little

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No overhead cost beyond our fee (any incidentals will come out of our

fee)

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Volunteer opportunities

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Networking with community leaders (powerful, even though it is all

virtual)

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New potential donors

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Exposure to the community

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Few or no meetings necessary; communications can be online, with maybe

a few phone calls

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Massive social media potential

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Decent traditional media potential

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Since we do not personally ask people for money, there is dramatically less potential conflict with other fundraising efforts __WE MAKE IT EXTREMELY EASY FOR YOU. The bottom line is that we take care of pretty much everything, allowing you as much or as little involvement as you want. We will build every aspect of the telethon from scratch and then stage-manage the event. We will keep you apprised as everything develops, answer any questions as they arise, and make sure we have approval to the extent you want it for any big decisions (ex. telethon name, if we choose to have a logo, if we want to give someone a special title, who

will MC, etc.).

__WHAT WE EXPECT FROM THE BENEFITTING ORGANIZATION. We need relatively little from the benefitting organization to create a successful armchair telethon. As we often say in e-mail communications to advisory committee prospects, “Your responsibility would be to pay attention to e-mail, to help when/if you can, and to not worry about it when you can’t.” We would appreciate your sending one e-mail, at the beginning, to board members to offer them the opportunity to be on the advisory committee. This is not required but will make a big difference in the success of the event (and those who choose to be involved will enjoy

it!).

__HOW MUCH WILL WE RAISE? We cannot really know how much will be raised for any particular organization at any particular time because there are so many variables. That said, we are limiting this opportunity to organizations we expect to have significant success. Without guaranteeing, we expect smaller local events to raise $1000 to $3000 or more per hour, so $8000 to $24,000 or more; we expect larger local events and statewide events to raise at least 2-3 times that amount; and we expect national events to raise at least 4-8 times the amount smaller local events do. These estimates come from our experience with this event and over 25 years of fundraising experience. HERE IS A SAMPLE TIMELINE. This basic, six-week timeline can be compacted to four weeks or expanded to eight weeks.

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WEEK 1

* Make any preliminary decisions (telethon name, date, etc.) * Build lists (potential advisory committee members, performers,

etc.)

* Decide how we want to handle sponsors (ask for money or just

publicizing)

* Clarify anything we want to not do (approach specific people,

etc.)

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WEEK 2

* Start building the advisory committee * Start recruiting performers (musicians, entertainers, speakers,

etc.)

* Start recruiting sponsors

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WEEK 4

* Recruit up to four MCs (organization leadership is welcome to do

it)

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WEEK 6

* Last-minute prep

* Last-minute communications * System tests with performers and MCs

* THE BIG DAY!

* Follow-up (primarily thank-you e-mails and notes)

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