Post your Fundraising ideas here:

[texasmom]

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?

Sorry, I could have just googled it. That's an awesome idea. That's one I'm definitely going to do... along with several others it looks like

Thanks so much for your awesome ideas everyone! 

[Nefarious]

Hot Dog Sale's always worked for my Boy Scout Troop when I was younger. Now that I am older, I see plenty of other chruches and school orgs doing them.

[druski85]

50-50 raffles have always worked very well in my experience, particuarly in conjunction with another event.  I helped with a fundraiser down in DC a while back that was a silent auction mixed with a 50-50 raffle. All the items in the auction were donated items with each donor given a little advertising space.  So for example a restaurant would donate a $50 dinner card, which would realistically go for maybe $35-40. The host (you) gets $35, the buyer saves $15 bucks, and the restaurant gets name recognition and a potential future customer.  The best item at the auction was a full custom made 3 piece suit from a really well known tailor here in DC, which was valued at 1,000 bucks.  I think the guy who won it ended up with an awsome suit for $400 bucks or so. 

[ROX]

You have a few good ideas here, and who says you can't string 2 or three of them together to reach the goal.

You didn't say what part of TX this is happening, but call the local radio station about 20 minutes after 10 AM and ask for the morning show hosts by name.  Most likely they will take a message, but tell them you are raising money for a soldiers kid that's premature and the family can't pay all the medical bills without help and you are doing a fundraiser.  The show host or a producer should get back to you.  You might end up doing a 5 minute live interview about it--give the Who-What-Where-When-How, and how is how and where people can contribute.

Good luck and our thoughts and prayers are with them!


ROX

[Hajo]

Mom when you do this I would like to contribute.

PM me the when, and where I can send the funds.

Thanks
Hajo

[VonMessa]

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

Something the local MC used to do around here at the end of the poker run.........

Get some old Japanese bike from the scrap/junk yard (not smashed, but not running either).   Get a sledge hammer.
Charge the Hog riders $1 or $2 per whack with the sledge.  There will be a line a mile long.

[Dadsguns]

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.

I find it hard that TRICARE would not support a dependant even with a referal to a speacialist without covering the cost.  Has the Soldier exhausted all of his resources? 

The solution may be as easy as changing his Family coverage from TRICARE STANDARD to TRICARE PRIME.  His Family Support at his base may even be able to help him further with that information.

My vote is a Poker Run and Raffle.

[texasmom]

I find it hard that TRICARE would not support a dependant even with a referal to a speacialist without covering the cost.  Has the Soldier exhausted all of his resources? 

The solution may be as easy as changing his Family coverage from TRICARE STANDARD to TRICARE PRIME.  His Family Support at his base may even be able to help him further with that information.

My vote is a Poker Run and Raffle.

He's an active duty soldier, but Tricare still isn't going to cover the specific treatment they've been scheduled for in June (hyperbaric chamber).  I don't know if Tricare insurance policies consider it 'experimental' or what their reasoning is. But Tricare has already definitively stated they will not authorize payment for that particular treatment, regardless if he was standard or prime.

Their daughter's problems are extensive enough that they're traveling to Dallas, San Antonio & Houston several times a month for appointments to see specialists for each problem, and those specialists are the ones prescribing the treatment that Tricare has already given the RedX for.

I'm definitely doing the Poker Run. Although, raffle & the bike smash are great ideas to include within the Poker Run.

I appreciate it so much!

[Dadsguns]

He's an active duty soldier, but Tricare still isn't going to cover the specific treatment they've been scheduled for in June (hyperbaric chamber).  I don't know if Tricare insurance policies consider it 'experimental' or what their reasoning is. But Tricare has already definitively stated they will not authorize payment for that particular treatment, regardless if he was standard or prime.

Their daughter's problems are extensive enough that they're traveling to Dallas, San Antonio & Houston several times a month for appointments to see specialists for each problem, and those specialists are the ones prescribing the treatment that Tricare has already given the RedX for.

I'm definitely doing the Poker Run. Although, raffle & the bike smash are great ideas to include within the Poker Run.

I appreciate it so much!

PM sent, I hope this will help out....

[VonMessa]

Poker runs work well with boats, also if there are any recreational lakes or you are near the shore, etc.

We participate in at least one a year as we have a place down by the Chesapeake Bay.

[morfiend]

He's an active duty soldier, but Tricare still isn't going to cover the specific treatment they've been scheduled for in June (hyperbaric chamber).  I don't know if Tricare insurance policies consider it 'experimental' or what their reasoning is. But Tricare has already definitively stated they will not authorize payment for that particular treatment, regardless if he was standard or prime.

Their daughter's problems are extensive enough that they're traveling to Dallas, San Antonio & Houston several times a month for appointments to see specialists for each problem, and those specialists are the ones prescribing the treatment that Tricare has already given the RedX for.

I'm definitely doing the Poker Run. Although, raffle & the bike smash are great ideas to include within the Poker Run.

I appreciate it so much!

 Ya mom then add a beer bingo to round out the night..... beer bingo,if you have the number called you must drink a beer,great for beer sales.......

[Roundeye]

I'm definitely doing the Poker Run. Although, raffle & the bike smash are great ideas to include within the Poker Run.

I appreciate it so much!

The jap bike smash originated with old MCs that were strictly Harley Davidson.  I've been to a few parties years ago where they threw a jap bike on a pile of logs and lit it off.  All well and good, but I would not recommend that for a poker run event.  I'm HD all the way, but there are alot of metric bikes out there, many of which will show up and support your cause.  They may take it the wrong way of you bash one up as part of the event. 

I would suggest smashing a car.  A "cage bash" if you will.  Anyone on 2 wheels has been wronged and/or nearly killed by a cager (car driver) at some point.  I think that would go over well.  I'd be all about smashing a cage up with a sledgehammer!