Fund Raising Event Ideas
February 24, 2010scfm 19 Comments »Your fund raising event’s success can multiply your donor support, increase understanding of and generosity towards your cause as well as raise up front funds.
Your event’s success relies on the publicity that your group can effectively attract. Remember that community awareness will definitely increase your end results.
Publicity for fund raising event tips:
Make use of your website. Use your website to announce your objectives,
highlight regular offerings, thank your supporters and sponsors, honor certain contributors, recognize successes, etc.
Promote through the newspapers, flyers, word of mouth, posters, brochures, etc. Be sure to include all information in your flyers and display posters in very strategic places.
Take advantage of special gatherings. Announce your fund raising event at other social gatherings.
Goal and objective awareness. Promote heavily your fundraising goals and objectives through all forms of communications, specifically between sellers and buyers. A cause with meaningful objectives attracts funding.
Sponsorship signs. Offer free stickers to your supporting merchants, for display in their store or vehicle windows.
Some Fundraising Events you can organize:
1. Park party. Host an afternoon park party with food, drinks and lots of games. Include attractions such as face painting, Frisbee toss contests, sack races, juggling, etc. Charge 1-3 dollars per child for admission which includes game tickets.
2. Mystery Easter eggs. Sell plastic “Mystery Easter eggs” stuffed with candies and coupons on an “Easter bake sale”. Prizes such as Easter basket with toys, a fluffy bunny, large chocolate bunny, as well as other smaller surprises are revealed in the coupons. You can sell each “Mystery egg” for 50 cents to a dollar, depending on the prizes that you offer.
3. Ticket Raffle. Ask for a donation, such as an airline ticket, a home appliance or art work to be raffled at a cocktail party. Sell tickets for the raffle and charge admission fee.
4. Fashion Show. Ask designers and boutiques in your area to participate in a fashion show where they too can profit by promoting their clothes, free! Gather some models, construct a runway, and announce the event. Sell tickets that already include entrance fee and refreshments.
5. Culinary Festival. Invite different restaurants in your area to rent a booth from you and sell their specialties. Create a festive atmosphere and sell entrance tickets.
Careful planning and your imagination are main factors in order for your fundraising campaign to succeed. You must have fundraising decisions based on kinds and availability of resources and situation of your organization. Just remember, success always entails hard work.
Question about fund raising
Fund Raising!?I need some good ideas for fund raising events because my friend is moving away. My friends and I want to throw her a huge party and visit her later in the year so we need to hold fundraisers that will bring in a lot of cash. Any ideas?
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Posted on February 24th, 2010 at 6:19 am
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Posted on February 24th, 2010 at 7:26 am
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Posted on February 25th, 2010 at 12:50 pm
Helpful video. Inpiring and informative. Does anyone know any good business plan competitions to enter? Has anyone heard about the launch together business plan comp? Is this the first year they are doing it? I love the video they have on the website. Someone should post it on here. Comments appreciated
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Posted on February 26th, 2010 at 5:05 am
You can look up fundraising on the net and find lots of companies that are willing to help you sell their stuff. Also, many direct sales companies, like Avon, have a fundraising catalog you can sell from, giving you a portion of the sales. Of course, there's always the time honored ones like bake sales, brat & hot dog sales, car washes, garage sales, auctions, golf events, walks & rides (for miles traveled), raffles and other such activities. You can put cans out at several businesses, with your particular event listed on the side. Hold a spaghetti, chili, chicken, steak, soup, salad, or other such dinner. I belong to Habitat For Humanity and I'm on the fundraising committee. We're looking for new ideas, because we've done all the above ideas. They're good, but we're always looking for something unique, that will get people's attention. We do something called Shanty Town, where everyone goes around getting pledges to sleep in a cardboard box overnight. They create whatever kind of box they want, decorating it and coming up with themes or whatever. We've turned it into a real festival, with rides and games, music & food. This was our third year and we raised over $12,000…and in a rural community too!. Being creative is important, because there are hundreds of other organizations trying to do the same thing. Hope it all works out for you. <*)))><
Posted on February 26th, 2010 at 5:23 am
i love relay for life. i did this in high school and we basically had a bunch of car washes and raised a lot of money in our area. i don't really know what you would do as a company. if you're trying to raise the money within your company, you could hold a dinner/picnic and people can bid on picnic baskets or a dinner meal that people make and bring. we do this a lot at my uni. outside of the company, i don't really know. i guess it depends on what kind of business you are. you could hold some sort of promotion or something.
Posted on February 26th, 2010 at 9:34 am
Perhaps organise a fun run/ walk in the local community.
Posted on February 27th, 2010 at 12:24 am
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Posted on February 27th, 2010 at 11:34 am
1. used book sale
2. yard sale
3. can and bottle drive
4. pancake breakfast
5. car wash/chicken bbq
6. babysitting service
7. yard work service
Posted on February 27th, 2010 at 1:46 pm
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Good and to the point video Matt. Definitly will use it again for reference towards build my buisness plan outline. Thanks!
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