# End of quarter email drive

A sample email that introduces contacts to a fundraising drive timed to the end of a fundraising quarter.

Source: https://www.fundhero.com/help/email-drive-end-of-quarter-1/
Updated: 2026-10-20

This email introduces your contacts to a fundraising drive that ends with the quarter, which gives your campaign a boost early in the year. Copy it, edit it to fit your cause, and send it from your email tool.

Replace everything in [square brackets] with details about your cause. Anything in {curly braces} should be linked to your donation page. Copy the text into your email tool, or into a FundHero [email template](https://www.fundhero.com/help/create-or-edit-a-template/) if you want to send it from a contact's page.

## Email 1: start of campaign

**Send:** about one week before the end of the quarter.

**Subject:** Major deadline next week...

> Dear [FIRST NAME],
>
> **Next week ends the first quarter, and I am writing to you because we need your help.**
>
> Our campaign is having a lot of success, and I am excited about the future of [NAME OF CITY OR STATE] and the great work we can do here. But campaigns take money, and as we prepare for a summer of parades, community events, and grassroots campaigning, there is literature to print, lawn signs to deliver, volunteers to feed, and staff to be hired. That means I need you.
>
> **As of today, our campaign is just $[AMOUNT] short of our quarterly financial goal.** This is a critical deadline because it can help springboard the rest of our fundraising efforts and ensure we can run a winning campaign.
>
> {Will you chip in just $15, or whatever you can, to help us hit our mark?}
>
> {DONATE BUTTON}
>
> Thank you in advance and I look forward to this upcoming year,
>
> [NAME]