Setting up your page

1. Start your page — with a progress bar and other nice features

Register with your name and email address.

For comfort, it can be your chosen name — or the name of someone close to you, if that is something you have agreed on. Use whatever feels right and safe for you.

2. Add some pictures

Choose an avatar, a background image, and a couple of pictures for the page itself.

The honest answer is: your own pictures usually work best. A photo from yesterday, a photo from ten years ago, a picture from the place where you are gathering people — it all works. People like supporting people they know.

One tiny technical thing: you may need to compress your images before uploading them. iLoveIMG is one convenient free tool for that.

3. Write your text

This is the important bit.

Tell people why you are doing this in the first place. What is your connection to the topic? Why does it matter to you? Why are you asking these particular people to join in?

No need to speak like an NGO, it is much better if it sounds like you.

If you are stuck, you can borrow some wording from our host copy — or simply write to us at http://[email protected].

4. Set your goal

Be ambitious, but realistic. It is always lovely to collect more than you aimed for; it is much less lovely to set a goal that feels impossible from the start.

For a dinner with friends, $250–300 is a good place to begin. If you are bringing together a bigger group, or organising something around Christmas, Pride, or another occasion when people are ready to give, $500–1,000 can be realistic too.

But this is not a competition. Whether your event raises $50 or $500, it becomes support people can rely on.

5. You are all set

Now tell your people! Share the page on your socials, send a personal message, mention it in the office, bring it up in the group chat. And sometimes remind the same person twice. People often care and still forget — that is just how life works.

The point is not to make it a perfect campaign. The point is to gather people around something you care about.

Two things not to forget

• Making an event is fun, but it can also be tiring. Give yourself a couple of weeks to prepare, depending on the scale, so it does not become a rush.
• Please make it enjoyable for you, too. This is meaningful work, but it is also your dinner, your party, your birthday, your people.

Still want a hand?

If setting up a page feels like one task too many, no worries. We can make it together — just email [email protected]. We are always happy to speak.