Post your Fundraising ideas here:

[texasmom]

If you've participated in Fundraising activities in the past that were successful (either as an organizer or donor), I'd like to see your ideas.

I'm fixin to start some Fundraising for a Soldier's family.  Their baby was born 4 months early. Some of the upcoming medical treatments aren't covered by military medical insurance ~ but it's only $4000, so that can be done with some small-scale fundraising.

Here's my own ideas ~ please post your own fundraising ideas. Once I get a full list I'm going to pick the one(s) that are viable in the amount of time.

1. Partner with Radio Station/Car Dealership. Ask the car dealership to sit one car out in their lot & allow donors to drop cash in it.  As the radio station to broadcast from there at least once during a one month period.

2.  Spaghetti Dinner (or something of the sort).  Sell dinner tickets. Have donated items to give away as a draw-in.

3. I've already asked the local newspaper to cover whichever fundraiser we do.

Because this is a fundraiser for a specific family for their daughters medical expenses, anything which requires tax-exempt organization type of thing is out of the question. 

Nickel & Dime fundraising ideas are welcomed too. Doesn't need to be large-scale.
Thanks for your ideas! 

[Tec]

Try and get some local grocery stores to kick you some brats, dogs, burgers, etc..  Wrangle up a couple grills, post them on both sides of the front doors at the local wally world.  Put up  pics of dad in uniform, and some signs explaining the situation.


On a lighter note given your avatar my first thought was this.

[Roundeye]

Two words:  Poker Run.

Know any bikers?  We are always eager to help children.  I cannot think of nobler causes than helping children or soldiers.....but a child of a soldier?.....I'd be all over it.  Get with some local bikers and see about organizing one.  We are always ready to help.

If you need help, PM me.  My club has several chapters in Texas.

  ZZ

[Anodizer]

Check some of your local chain restaurants to see if they do proceeds nights....  
The whole brat/hamburger/hotdog thing in front of Walmart probably isn't a good idea
since they'll probably say no(due to some legality or liability issue) and you'll need a permit from your local government as well..
Car Washes with nice looking girls in bikini tops and shorts works pretty well!  Could probably talk to some local service stations about that...
The nicer looking the girls, the more you can charge!  lol  

[Tec]

The whole brat/hamburger/hotdog thing in front of Walmart probably isn't a good idea
since they'll probably say no(due to some legality or liability issue) and you'll need a permit from your local government as well..

I worked for the great satan for a while after high school and there were quite frequently groups doing hot dog sales and such out front on the weekends.  With all the bad press they get they seem to get in on local grassroots stuff as much as they can to fight the image.  Hell, if there's a Wal-Mart in your town just call, and ask for the STORE manager and tell him the situation and ask if they would be willing to help in anyway.

[Shuffler]

My experience is with tax deductable organizations only. I am the President of the Board Of Directors for the Ross S Sterling Band Association.

A car wash might be a good one as I see those around here a lot. Get some like minded folks together make some banners, find a McDonalds or grocery store that will let yall use the lot and use the water and go for it.

[texasmom]

Thank you so much for the great ideas! Keep 'em coming! =)



( Tec: Lucy has been my lifelong moniker.  Saucy little know-it-all who hates dog germs. I just about died when I saw a cartoon strip with her as an air traffic controller, which is what I used to be.  Can't find that cartoon though.)

[Curval]

Night golf.

9 holes played with glowing balls.  Glowing disks on the green tell the golfers where the hole is.

Captain's choice format...teams of 4 (playing together).

At each hole you sell booze, using volunteers.

You have a poker game going whereby each team buys a card from whichever 5 of 9 holes they choose.  Best hand wins.  (To prevent cheating the cards are marker by the volunteers and recorded).

I do this every year with a charity my partner is involved with...look forward to it every time.

You need to do it after the time changes (fall) to ensure it is dark early enough.

[ariansworld]

I would not try idea #1 of yours TM, simply because you will probably lose some of the money that is dropped inside of a new vehicle.   I can not count how many times that I have heard someone say they have gotten all of the bills/change out of their vehicle, and there will still be upwards of $20 in change and bills still in it.   You have to look up under the back seats under the front seats, any crack that money can fall into you should look.

But back to the fund raiser. You could try washing cars,  offer to dry the vehicle off and shine tires.
You could get about $10-20 per vehicle that way.


Arian

[morfiend]

Mom,bingo.... not sure of the laws your way but we used bingo to fund a nonprofit martial arts school afew years back,well maybe more than a few .........

[DREDIOCK]

I've always found extortion works the best. LOL

Barring that.

Raffles work well if you can find people or a store who maybe cant donate money, but can donate an item.
Tickets to a sporting event, or memorabilia often work real well.
But generally any desireable item will do
You can collect many times the items actual value that way


Too bad your not selling girl scout cookies
a few weeks ago the troop my daughter is in were doing the storefront deal.
sitting out in front of a grocery store asking people if they wanted to buy some cookies.
Anyway I had to drop hmy daughter off and decided to hang out for a few minutes and talk to one of the troop leader.
so Im watching the girls asking the people as they were going in. And the people going in. As is usual most either gave a polite smile and a "no thank you" or just outright ignored them. The sales were pretty few and far between and could see the girls were getting discouraged and possibly more important. Bored.

I decided to step in. "Girls. ya gotta have an angle. Watch."

As people were walking in I started saying "Girl scout cookies!" when they said no thank you or tried ignoring me I quickly followed it up with one of two lines.
"A free girl scout with every box"
Or the old Adams family line
"Made with real girl scouts!"

That made people laugh. It also tripled the amount of boxes of cookies sold.

Nobody took me up on the offer of a free girl scout though.
Seems its easier to sell cookies then girl scouts LOL

If you can make someone laugh, You can sell them almost anything.

[bj229r]

Two words:  Poker Run.

Know any bikers?  We are always eager to help children.  I cannot think of nobler causes than helping children or soldiers.....but a child of a soldier?.....I'd be all over it.  Get with some local bikers and see about organizing one.  We are always ready to help.

If you need help, PM me.  My club has several chapters in Texas.

  ZZ

Damn that hadn't entered my mind--great idea ...if you could get it posted in Patriot Guard Riders forum, would generate a ton of interest from folks who would do anything to help soldiers or their families

[texasmom]

Two words:  Poker Run.

Know any bikers?  We are always eager to help children.  I cannot think of nobler causes than helping children or soldiers.....but a child of a soldier?.....I'd be all over it.  Get with some local bikers and see about organizing one.  We are always ready to help.

If you need help, PM me.  My club has several chapters in Texas.

  ZZ

I know lots of bikers. All the bikers around here are awesome
But I've never heard of a Poker Run. Is that a bike ride with a poker game at the beginning middle or end?

[SKYGUNS]

Youtube advertising?

[Nwbie]

Frozen pizza sales
- find a local distributor to bars in the area, they usually charge 3 to 4 bucks a pizza, sell them for 6 to 8 bucks each. lots of people have no problem spending 6 to 8 bucks that will feed 4 kids, or to have that late night option sitting in their freezers.  Brownie troop my girls belong to made almost 3 grand last year doing it.

NwBie