The People's Cup: Turning World Cup Watch Parties Into Mutual Aid Fundraisers

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Why we love Zeffy:

Zeffy has enabled our global mutual aid network, Gaza Champions, deliver direct mutual aid to communities in Gaza with switfness and ease. We run a series of community events -- from happy hours, to children's events, pottery painting, and now -- a World Cup Watch Party series -- all to raise funds for mutual aid in Gaza. For our latest endeavor (the watch parties), we are so impressed that Zeffy's platform allows us to run sliding scale ticketing for an event series in such a clean, user-friendly way -- making it easy for community organizers such as ourselves to not get bogged down in logistics and platforms and focus more on telling the story of our work and building our communities.

We've fundraised for food banks, grocery voucher distributions, water and sanitation projects, and other life-saving work in a place devastated by genocide. Through crowdfunding, we were able to deliver resources to trusted community leaders on the ground in Gaza and make a real, tangible difference in enhancing people's quality of life. Zeffy enabled our mutual aid network to do what established humanitarian institutions could not -- deliver solutions and support to Gaza without delay and bureaucracy.

One of our Zeffy best practices: Take the time to thoughtfully story tell. Whether it's writing your event or campaign descriptions, thanking donors, or sending updates with the impact their donation made -- this is how you turn donors into a community that you can call on again and again. Zeffy makes it easy to authentically stay in touch with donors, and alongside the amazing elemts of zero platform fees, thoughtful customizations -- the ability to engage easily with your audience is how you build solidarity with your cause, and move from transactional charity to more community-based work.