Tips and Resources to Make You a Fundraising Superstar!

Looking for fundraising resources? Check out our F-U-N-draising ideas list (PDF download) or our sample fundraising e-mails (Word download). We've even put together a list of PCR statistics to help with your support pitches. Oh but wait, there's more! How about some terrific quotes from the people PCR serves to use in your emails? For any remaining questions, we've even established a Fundraising FAQ and Matching Gift FAQ for your convenience.

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Need some short and sweet descriptions of PCR's work? Use some of the suggestions below in your fundraising e-mails.

PCR really is unique. They are a local grassroots organization (just seven staff and lots of interns and volunteers) that has worked for over 43 years to knock down the barriers that keep women and youth from receiving the sexual information and health services they need and want.

You don’t have a choice if you can’t afford an abortion – through the Hersey Abortion Assistance Fund PCR gives away lots of money to help women pay for their abortions. You may not know it, but this is a major problem for hundreds of thousands of women every year. Last year they gave away $116,953 to women and girls across the country who couldn’t afford an abortion and wouldn’t have gotten one without their help.

You can’t make smart decisions about your sex life if you don’t have accurate information – PCR educates thousands through the Birds & Bees Project. People who normally don’t have access to sex education, people like women in prison and youth in alternative schools. But they couldn’t do this work alone, so PCR started the first and only sexual health residency program in the country. PCR teaches the teachers because if they didn't we'd only have Alaskan governors, Maxim magazine and internet pop-up windows to rely upon.

You can’t reduce the stigma of abortion if you don’t talk about it – PCR offers the first pro-choice, after-abortion support group in the nation. They believe it’s important for women to be able to discuss their abortion experiences openly – to help combat the shame game society plays with women.