Charity Appeal Letter

Charity organizations serving social causes also need to pay their workers and hire services, for which they mostly depend on funding and donations from philanthropists and other organizations. If you support a cause, you can also raise funds for your favorite charity and make a donation.

A good way to go about this is to write a charity appeal letter to organizations and individuals known to take interest in such work. For instance, if you are organizing a fund raiser, you can invite prominent personalities and ask them to contribute and donate to your pool of collected money.

Here we will show you how to write a charity appeal letter and also provide a sample and a template to help you write your own letter.

Tips for Writing a Charity Appeal Letter

Start the letter with your request for charity
Elaborate on your plan for raising funds
Clarify how you intend to use the funds raised
Make a clear request as to what you need
Offer something in return (recognition, invitation etc)

Instructions

1

Sample of a Charity Appeal Letter

To:

Mr. James Tredwell
Gotern Financial
1023 East Avenue
New York

Dear Mr. Tredwell,

I am writing this letter on behalf of the complete management team at St. Andrew’s High School. We are students of grade 10th and are organizing a dance show to raise funds for ‘Books for All’ charity.

The charity provides free books to the underprivileged children, and we feel that education is everyone’s right. Given your organization’s reputation for active participation in social welfare, I would like to request that you attend our event and make a donation to help us raise the amount of money we require.

Our current target is $5,000, and I believe your contribution will make it much easier for us to hit it. With this money, ‘Books for All’ will be able to provide over 300 children with free books and give them the opportunity to learn and progress in life.

The concert is scheduled for the 10th of June 2014, and I have attached your invitation card with this letter.

Kindly write back to confirm receipt and attendance,

Looking forward to your response,

Regards,

Clara Roswell
2

Template of a Charity Appeal Letter

(Name of recipient)
(Name of organization)
(Address)

Dear Mr./Ms. (Name of recipient),

I am writing this letter to request a contribution from you towards our charity fund raiser to support (Name of charity).

This charity organization is actively working for (Charity’s mission) and is in need of funding to expand their net. Our whole team at (Your location/institute/workplace) feels the charity is doing commendable work and are organizing a (Event being organized) in order to show our support for the cause.

We would like to invite you to the (Event being organized), which his scheduled for (Date of event), and make a contribution as you see fit. Your reputation for helping worthy causes is well known, and we hope you will find that our cause merits your support as well.

The invitation and other details for the event are attached with this letter.

Kindly confirm your attendance so we can make necessary arrangements,

Looking forward to your response,

Sincerely,

(Your name)
(Your institute/organization)
(Date)