I need help in raising money for a volleyball tournament in Australia for this summer and could really use the help.
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Well, I know exactly what you are going through.  I had to raise a lot of money for a volleyball classic in Hawaii last summer.  Here are a few things I did:\n\n1.  There is a restuarant in a town 4 miles away from me that has awesome food and people from the region know that they have great food.  So what I did was asked them if I could raffle a $25 Gift Certificate for my trip.  I expected to pay them $25 for it, but they gave it to me for free!  The tickets sold for $.25 a piece or 5 for $1.00  I made a lot of money!\n\n2.  Next thing I did was sold glazed donuts every Friday morning at my school.  I ordered around 2 and a half boxes (keep in mind I come from a school with a total of 97 students in the entire high school).  Students from all grades would look forward to Friday morning donuts.  I sold them for $.75 a piece.\n\n3.  Ask local banks to make a donation.  Around here, banks love to do it.  Also, send out a letter to family members and friends of family, or even friends of family friends, and just let them know what opportunity you have.  Include with the letter a smaller enveloped already stamped and with your address(just attach an address label).  This way, all they have to do is put a check in the envelope and put it in the mail!\nhope this helps!
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Well, you could always ask people to donate to the mom & Dad foundation. You could tell them that the proceeds will be going towards getting a lucky couple of parents a nice gift. Or if you actually want to work for it, you can maybe have a fundraiser, maybe a plate sale, like a chicken plate or something, just get your mom and dad or some friends to help sell get the food and cook it and sell tickets so that you can have some money left over for yourself also! Let me know if my ideas were good!
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Think about your resources...Fomer school teachers, former coworkers, friends, extended family... Start with people you know closely and work your way out to people who are more aquaintences than friends. <-- for Donations\n\nOtherwise, you could try calling a local pizza place or mcdonalds to see if they will give a % of profit from a certain time period to the cause.  You could also have a silent auction wtih donations, (they can range from gift certificates to baked goods once a month for the summer, or 3 hours of house cleaning... be creative!)
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The first thing is to appoint a fundraising chair preferably someone with plenty of get up and go. If you are looking for a sponsor, you should have some reason why it makes sense for a business to support the team even if it is to show support for the community. You might also have a business in mind.\n\nThings to consider are:\n\n1) How many people would see the girls cheer a week?\n\n2) Will the sponsor have his name announced at the game for example The Smith Ford Falcons cheerleaders\n\n3) Will the sponsor have the opportunity for advertising in newsletters?\n\n4) Will there be promotional opportunities for the business concerned ie photo of girls with business owner announcing sponsorship in local paper\n\n5) Will there be any signage at the games with the sponsors name on?\n\n6) Are there any other publications which would allow the business to print an ad in ie school newsletter?\n\n7) If you put an ad for the company on the website, how many people read it?\n\nThese are things you need to consider before you approach businesses so you can make a convincing business case for sponsorship.
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check out\nhttp://eyebank.med.utoronto.ca/DONATION.HTM\nhope it'll help..
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Well, it's hard to tell what you mean by "cash awards for school". I noticed that you mentioned helping a school baseball team, so I am guessing that you mean fundraiser ideas? If that is the case, you may want to check out http://www.fundraisers.com/index.php and http://www.fundraiser.org/. Both these sites are designed to help you find the perfect fundraiser :)
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you could start with flyers for volunteers in public access areas, eg grocery stores, public offices etc you could use the same technique for donations. website could be another source of gathering volunteers and donations, a volunteer could make the website too, good luck
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Surf the net with the word "fundraising ideas." There are some pre-designed ideas and schemes that you might use, depending upon your situation. You can also buy required stuff such as bands, stickers, and stuff you can sell to raise money. \n\nBut first determine your budget and then decide your apporach so that time is not wasted. Try out-of-the-box ideas like using social networks like Orkut. Create a community there, and rally people to join it. This way you can advertise your message free to a great number of people. \n\nWrite to organizations and philanthropists who may fund such cases. Depending upon her ailment, you can find specific organizations that fund the cure of that disease.\n\nTry what they did in The Apprentice: approach people who are willing to donate something for an auction. \n\nBuild a team of friends who will be staunch supporters and will reach out the maximum number of sources. Give your campaign a theme: put a smiling young picture of the lady on the posters/ badges, etc... and appeal to other mothers by using a specific slogan such as: HELP SAVE JOHN'S MOTHER.\n\nAs for a tiny idea: If you're in college, you can arrange a day of games. WE used to hold "slave auctions" in which we sold the college's most eligible guy as a date to someone for a specified time. He was bid upon. Usually, he was bought by the other (straight) guys. :)\n\nGood luck, and the best of wishes for your friend's mother. May she recover.
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start a web site to take donations, or "cash advances", try putting it on my space, the word will spread quickly since it's for a good cause. contact your local radio channels, for nonprofit causes most will run adds free, or at least a discount. encourage your community to get involved. maybe visit some larger businesses in your area, and encourage them to sponsor or contribute to the cause. Promise free advertising, and new loyal costumers, that should help. Good Luck, and I hope everything works out.
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a friend in need is a friend indeed, hey just email me at volleygrl9210@yahoo.com
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How about some type of tournament to enter and watch.  Maybe you could do some events for parents to take their tykes to for like 1 or 2 dollars and they compete in events and get little metals and other such prizes etc\n\nThere's the old standard dance\n\nsecret items secret auctions where you dont what you're bidding on but you may know some of the contents of the boxes in the auction.  Like there's a cd player in one so bid on this bla bla bla.  a 30 dollar cd player people bidding 5 or 6 dollars and some crap prizes worth 5 bucks total and make about 20 of those and wolla you've got instant money for crap.\n\nkissing (whore) booth where the guys and girls pay 1 for a kiss or whatnot from the hottest chicks in school and the hottest guys in school.\n\ndating auctions, an always interesting one this one the resources are usually free and you might get a community business to donate a meal for the winners or something.
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i am also going this summer and i have a few tips for you. the fundraising book you sould have gotten or will get has a lot of good ideas. I am making crafts to sell, have a basket auction and a dinner at my church, and maybe having a car wash. good luck!
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Have a look at today's blog entry for Answers Australia and you can win them. But you have less than 2 days to do so. http://au.blog.360.yahoo.com/y_answrs_team_au
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There are plenty of places to get funding. I am no expert, but I have provided some links below. They should be good places to start. Good luck.
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There are many foundations that would donate money to your project. The Conserve Africa Foundation is one that might be worth checking into: www.conserveafrica.org.uk. \n\nAlmost every foreign country has project funding for overseas development. Try visiting the US embassy and othr foreign embassies in your country. They will have detailed information about the type of projects they will fund.\n\nYou will need a detailed project proposal including a budget.\n\nI wish you the best of luck.
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Sometimes peoples willingness to help might surprise you, specially around the christmas season, but you gotta realize also that people are very untrusting nowadays, I would say to raffle rather cheap items and state that the proceeds will go to this family in need. Try to contact the media, or your local radio stations, they migth be willing to help. Hope i was of some help, Really wish you the best, i hope you do get to help out this family
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Bake sales-ask friends and family to make things for it\n\nGarage sales-get people to donate items\n\nSilent auction-Get businesses to donate items and then take bids on them. Who ever has the highest bid gets the item for that amount.(we raised over $3000 doing this for the fire department)\nIf this is for school do it at a school event.\n\nCar wash-get friends and family to help.\n\nDo a raffle-Gas card/handmade quilt/something of value\n\nWalk people dogs.\n\nGet donations from friends and family.