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Fundraiser flyer for a clean water charity's spring appeal
A fundraiser flyer answers the donor’s first question, what does my money do, with a number, before it asks for anything. These three are for Tidewell Water Trust, a fictional charity that funds hand dug wells in three countries and raises most of its budget in one spring appeal, and each converts money into an outcome: $2,400 builds a well, $30 a month covers a family for a year.
The 3 designs
The same business laid out three ways, on three templates and three colour themes. Every price, name and time on these was written for this example, so you can judge the layouts on real content rather than placeholder text.
Gala dinner
The Well Dinner
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Spring appeal
Three Countries, 40 Wells
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Donor story
Give $30 a Month
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What each layout is doing
The gala design is a full bleed navy poster: brand mark, a three line headline, three icon value pillars carrying the impact numbers, then an event row with the date, the ticket prices and the dress code. It is the one you frame at the venue and email as an image. The appeal design is the data one, with a world map highlighting Malawi, Cambodia and Nepal, three metric blocks and a footer that repeats the closing date, and it earns its place because the map answers where before anyone asks. The story design is the quietest and the most personal, a single pull quote at h1 size with an initials avatar, a supporter strip and three ways to give, which is the one that works letterboxed to people who have never heard of you.
How to adapt these
For a school fundraiser, swap the impact number for something the parents can picture, such as what one class needs, and keep the target and the deadline exactly as they are. For a raffle, the gala layout works unchanged: the three value pillars become the three prizes, the event row becomes the draw date, and the ticket price replaces the table price. For a personal appeal in the style of a crowdfunding page, use the story layout, put the person’s own words in the pull quote, and be careful with the supporter strip, because named businesses on a personal appeal need their permission first.
What makes these work
Money becomes an outcome before the ask
The gala design opens with three values: $2,400 funds a well for about 300 people, 92 cents in every dollar reaches the project, 41 wells built since 2019. The story design closes on $30 a month for one family for a year. In both cases the reader knows what their money buys before they are asked for it, which is the difference between a donation and a decision they have to think about.
The appeal has a target and a close date
The appeal design prints $96,000 and 31 October in the same block as 40 wells and 12,000 people. A target with no deadline is a wish. The map underneath highlights the three countries the wells go to, and the routes run from one origin, so the reader can see the whole programme in one shape rather than reading three country names in a list.
The story design is one quote and three ways to give
A 217 character quote from a village water committee chair, a name, a role, four supporter tiles and three contact lines. Nothing else. It is the version to letterbox, because the reader who does not want a gala ticket or a target still reads two hundred characters, and the ask underneath it is a single monthly number.
Questions people ask
What goes on a fundraiser flyer?
Four things, in this order: what the money does as a number, the target and its deadline, how to give, and who you are. These three carry all four. The founder story, the history and the board list all belong on the website. A flyer that opens with your history rather than the donor’s impact is asking for trust before it has given a reason.
Should I show the fundraising target?
Yes, if it is a campaign with an end. The appeal design prints $96,000 by 31 October, which turns a vague good cause into a finite goal a donor can help close. For ongoing giving, drop the target and use a recurring number instead, as the story design does with $30 a month, because a permanent target that never moves reads as failure.
Do I need the charity registration number on a flyer?
It depends on where you are and how you are fundraising. In Australia, fundraising is licensed state by state and the ACNC keeps guidance on the obligations that come with registration, so check your regulator before you print. These examples print "Registered charity" as a line and nothing more, because a real one would carry the number its own regulator requires.
How do I show where the money goes?
Give one unit and one number, and let the reader multiply. $2,400 builds a well for 300 people is easier to hold than an annual budget pie chart, and it scales in the reader’s head to a table of ten. The 92 cents in the dollar line does the other half of the job, which is telling a sceptical donor what the overhead is before they ask.
Can I show a map of the region?
Countries yes, a district no. The map element is a world countries map with a highlight or choropleth mode, plus latitude and longitude markers and great circle routes. So the appeal design can highlight Malawi, Cambodia and Nepal and draw routes to them, but it cannot show a village or a street. For anything smaller than a country, describe the place in text.
Can I use photos of the people you help?
Only with informed consent, in writing, from the people in the photo. None of these three uses a face: the gala and appeal designs use no photo at all, and the story design uses an initials tile beside the quote. That is the safer default for a charity flyer, and it also stops the design leaning on an image to do work the numbers should be doing.
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