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If you’re planning a silent auction or other fundraising event, you’ll want a clean, eye-catching fundraiser flyer to help spread the word (preferably a free one). Not crafty? Don’t worry, you don’t have to make a fundraiser flyer yourself! You can find hundreds of flyer templates on sites like Canva or VistaPrint. If you have access to Microsoft Office or Google Docs, you can also find lots of fundraiser flyer templates there that you can customize easily.
Canva’s “Beige Modern Illustration Fundraiser Charity Event Flyer”
Promoting your auction is important to its success. Use your flyer on your website and social media channels and print it out if you have access to great places to hang it up, or hand it out to people. Below we have some tips on where you can find these free fundraising flyer templates as well as some silent auction flyer examples you can feel free to copy!
How to Find Free Fundraiser Flyer Templates in Microsoft Office:
If you’re a Microsoft program and open a new document, the templates should appear below the New document (your mileage may vary depending on what version of Office you’re using and what program you’re in: this screenshot is from Word):
From here, you can even search for flyer templates:
How to Find Free Google Doc Flyer Templates:
This one’s a little easier, just make sure you’re logged into to your Google account and click the link below:
Now, there are slightly fewer types of templates in Google Docs. You’ll find letter templates that would be great donation request letters, like this one:
Donation Request Letter Template
But it might be difficult to find fundraiser templates, as Google Docs focuses a little bit more on resumes, meeting notes, and other professional communications.
Use the flyers to publicize a local event, but don’t forget to advertise on social media, and leave links to your online event, too. So much of our daily life is online now that flyers may not spread the word as fully as you would like them to. When you combine flyers with digital efforts (don’t forget to update your website), you will reach your goals even faster.
Ask local businesses if they’ll hang your flyer in their windows or in other prominent spots (by the register, for example). Mail flyers out to the community, and don’t forget to post them to communal boards. Spread the word about your event every way you can.
In addition to the flyer template we linked to above, you can find a variety of free fundraiser templates in our library of fundraising resources. Download templates, examples, and checklists to kick your fundraising efforts into gear.
