Charitable associations need to raise funds regularly and are always wondering of some simple and elegant way to raise these funds. Here is a great process –

Build a word cloud site with WordSiteBuilder and put words or terms relevant to the members for sale. You should also put up a brief background on the association’s activities, how the funds will be used and like, to provide a good context. You should include a nice appeal as well as some relevant pictures.

Now the members can visit this site and buy one word or a few words based on how much they want to donate. Not only are they contributing to a good cause, they are gaining some nice exposure for themselves in the bargain.

It also makes it very easy for you to keep a track of the donations, total collections and all that.

Tip: I will suggest you to earmark a certain percentage of the collections, say 20% for the promotion of this fundraiser site so that you can attract more nice souls.