I am involved in helping a mom with a fundraiser. I am hoping that I can count on the mothers from Mamasource, with ideas, and suggestions on throwing a successful fundraiser. Perhaps, you, or someone you know, has had a good idea, that would help to give a successful fundraiser. Maybe you have attended a fundraiser, that stood out, from the rest. Any ideas or input, would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, in advance.
J.
I do fundraising for my sons football league & for our community baseball league.
I use Charitymania.com
to sell tickets for what ever the sport is that I happen to be helping at that time. I raised just close to $10,000.00 for our football league last season.
We also did a candle light bowl with a silent auction of sports memorbila. We raised somewhere in the neighborhood of $5000.00
Good Luck
Our ladies group did fundraiser last fall for the food pantry at our church. We held a fancy Tea Party. Tickets were $25 each. Each member of our group did a table. provided our own dishes (some did fancy china others did paperplates and cups) you had your own themed table. I had christmas so did stuff for that. the girl who had june did a picnic theme and used paper stuff. We had about 45 people attend. we made little finger food stuff and only spent about $150. It was a really good time and we made a donation to the pantry of more than a $1000. st. peters church in aurora does a basket bingo thing. they make a lot on that. fashion shows are always a hit also.
There are alot of ideas out there. Alot depends on what the fundraiser is for. There is a website www.efundraising.com that has some great fundraising. Good luck.
First of all, congrats on getting your fundraising started! Raising support for a worthy cause can be super rewarding. But obviously, if you're not an official non-profit, it can be really tricky finding a good way to build support for your cause.
One route you might want to consider: setting up a homepage for your group on a fundraising website. Having a group homepage online makes organizing and fundraising infinitely easier ... And though the majority of fundraising sites require you have official non-profit status, many good ones only require that you are a group - and will give you plenty of the tools you need.
For example, one good site is Meet Up (www.meetup.com), who allow you to fundraise directly to your account, and register a group without having an official non-profit status - and they cover groups around the world, while giving you some tools to do event management. But the tools they offer are a little limited outside of fundraising.
Another good option would be Empowered.org (www.empowered.org), a platform that also helps small groups fundraise and organize (regardless of non-profit status). They also work for international groups - and offer a fair amount of useful tools, like the ability to organize your group or to create volunteer activities and fundraising campaigns for more targeted ways to raise support.
Or you could always try to send up your own PayPal account to link to you directly to help you fundraise, but this is a little trickier and a bit inflexible.
Good luck getting started moving forward! Hope that helped.
Alot of people with good ideas on here, Our daycare just started a new annual fundraiser with Little Ceasers Pizza Kits.. its great for families with kids that need quick meal ideas occasionally...they are actually really good too.. we made some good money in a short amount of time--they have a website you can look up online to contact for info. Good Luck
Hi, check out Worlds Finest Chocolate bars. If your kids or friends and family dont mind nocking on doors or standing outside a Jewel. Why not trying selling candy bars. I think it a 50 percent profit you make.. Check them out. My sisters was trying to find a way to make 2000 dollars and with some help from our nephews we were able to raise the money in 2 months or less. Hope this helps
Hi J.! I LOVE fundraising. I am currently involved with 2 Relay for Life walks and am fundraising for 12 other teams as well. Things I have done that have been successful.
*BINGO PARTY...$20 in advance, $25 at the door, get prizes donated, provide some snacks and round tables!
*CHARITY GARAGE SALE...Have friends and family donate stuff they want to get rid of. People always have stuff they want to donate. When its over have Good will or Am Vets come pick up the rest. Schedule pick up in advance for the next day.
*PROM DRESS RESALE...Have friends and famly donate old prom, bridesmaids, formal dresses and then advertise at a local school.
*SELL SOMETHING...This is what I do as of now. I have a Home Based Business called Homemade Gourmet and I have 12 teams right now that are selling from what is like a Girl Scout Cookie order form. They get 25% of the sales.
Hi J.!
I am a Consultant with The Pampered Chef and we have a fabulous Fundraiser Program. Please let me know if you are interested and I will forward you some information.
You could also invite a few direct selling companies that have fundraiser programs and have them set up. They could also donate a "gift basket" as a raffle prize.
Good luck!
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It's hard to say without knowing the size of your group, but here are some ideas I have liked.
The high school track team came by the other day for a "clean up the town" event where your dollars sponsor hours of cleanup time from the person you sign up to sponsor. (kind of like a marathon.) They will spend a Saturday doing beautification projects around town. Simple to execute, a worthwhile effort, and no food to eat.
Kiddieland is also a good fundraiser, if you are anywhere near it (or a similar family amusement park place.) Our school has a "kiddieland day" in the fall and sells tickets in advance. I think our school gets $10 of each ticket sold (the tickets are about $20.)
The event that makes the most money for our school is our "fun fair," which is carnival games, cakewalk, and prizes and there is also a silent auction of donated items. It's also a community builder and a lot of fun.
One idea I was thinking about for our camp fire group is a used-media sale. Everyone probably has DVDs around they won't watch again, right? It would be sort of like a garage sale but for movies, CDs, and video games that we would get through donations.
Our football organization does a few things:
for the kids: we sell Valucards (www.valucards.com) which are discount cards to local businesses and those outside your area (it's a national program). If you have an aunt who lives in Schaumburg, she can buy the card and look on their website (or in the handy booklet they provide) for many places around her. A $10 gives your organization $5.
for the adults: we do a golf outing, adult dance, and texas hold 'em nights. It really just depends on the organization you are involved in. These work well with football, but may not with a "quieter bunch". All of these have opportunities to be big fundraisers as long as you market them well... a good idea goes alot farther with more people involved!
A school group I worked with was raising money to buy holiday presents for their adopt-a-family family (2 parents, 3 kids). They stood outside of a Dominicks (with permission from the store owner, of course) on a Saturday with a coffee can to collect change. In one day they collected over $700. All they did was decorate a few coffee cans, make a few posters to hold up, and stand there, look cute and be polite. I was totally blown away by people's generosity.
