Any suggestions on how to raise pledges?
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Target business for sponsorship.
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looks awesome! I don't know what to tell you though, I'm not so good at getting my bills paid if I'm sending donations to places... Pray about it!
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Congratulations on being accepted!!!! i've been on these trips before and let me tell you, the fundraising, is gonna be tough. \n\ni didn't raise ALL of the cost, but i did raise enough spending money for like souveniers and stuff like that.\nas far as fundraising, you can try having a garage sale, which is what i did. \nand you can also make flyers and hand them out around your neighborhood asking people to donate things they don't want anymore, this stuff will go towards your yard sale. \nyou'll be surprised at the stuff some people will donate to you. \nand also on the flyer put that if they need any dish washing done, or if they need help with cleaning their garage, or ask them if they need their leaves raked or baby sitting. things that THEY don't have time to do, but that you'll do for pay. you know? stuff like that.\nyou'll be surprised at the calls you'll get from people. \nthere ARE kind and generous people out there who will try and help you out.\ni've been doing this and i'm trying to raise money as well and so far it's been working for me. well, raising money for another trip outside of p2p. \nif you also go on the p2p website, there are also other fundraising ideas you can do. \nyou can also contact the program office by telephone, and the website has the number to the program office and you call, and they'll send you a handbook on fundraising ideas as well. \nthe booklet is supposed to be free once your a p2p member. \ni hope it all works out for you. good luck.
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Did you ask the chapter or review their website? I know in this day and age you should still be able to pledge, just not do all of the "activities" involved. Best of luck and congrats on your pursuit of a degree. I do hope that your dreams come true.
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ask your family and friends to help out\n\nHopefully you have their numbers
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http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/mlk/srs216.html\n\nlsu list no pledges.
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Be polite!\nListen to their needs!\nGive rewards!
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I like the idea.  It might be better to have the contributions be like ownig shares and having everyone be some sort of corporate officer.  That way - all your donors can write off their expenses and you can still accomplish your mission.\nAlso if anything goes wrong - you can declare Bankruptcy and get a huge government bailout (like Delta does for 25 years) or Enron or Worldcom.
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Get a restuarant to let your volunteers come wait tables for a night or part of a night. All the tips you collect  to your charity. Some chain restaurants prefer to have just a few of your people help out with things like bussing tables, you advertize the night will beneift your charity and they donate a percentage of sales for the night to your organization.\n\nOther than that, direct mail works. Get together a list of your target donors, write a compelling letter, include a return envelope, and wait for the mail. If you do not have a mailing list, you can go to a mail house and buy access to one. You might also get the printing donated by  a printing company, depending on how large a mailing you do. For instance, for my homeless shelter, we mail out to 2,500 of our past donors and make about $14,000. When we cold-mailed out to 50,000 people in our town, we made $42,000 (after expenses).
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Try puting up posters at your campus or school, explaining what the organisations all about. Try community centers and religous institutions too. Im your stil having trouble, try teaming up with a similar existing organisation that already has a volunteer pool.
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tell people your problems and ask them to donate to the cause on the net........set up a pay pal account and run with it.
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When I went to Mexico for a missions trip in middle school with my youthgroup, we were encouraged to write letters to friends and family asking for any amounts that they could send and prayers. You could also write to members of your church that you are close to or even have the church post a bulletin to raise money for her to go. She could also (even the whole group) hand out flyers saying that she wants to do yard work, odd jobs, babysitting etc. for money for her missions trip. Three years is plenty of time to raise that amount of money.
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Maybe you can do it the old fasioned way:  go door to door, and ask people to give you money.\n\nIf that doesn't work, write letters to rich multi-millionaire Democrats like John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Barbara Boxer, Chuck Schumer, Michael Moore, and Hillary Clinton.  They're always telling us the poor deserve more, well, here's their chance to step up and lead by example.
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The easiest thing to do is go to local buisinesses, for example large chain restaurants and ask them for a donation form. Most restaurants are aloted a donation budget each month but you do have to go through their corporate offices. Fill out the donation form and send it in.
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Start with Dear Sir/Madame.  Then go into a brief explanation of what the Homestead Job Corp. is. Then  explain what you would like to do and ask if there is anyway that they (the business you contact) can help.  Usually most business like to have at least 30 days  or more to decide if they want to make a donation.So include a deadline for responce or get business cards and follow-up in a couple of weeks.)  Print the letter on Homstead Job Corp. letter head paper and make sure you include a phone number for them to rach you if they have any questions.  I have collected donations over the years for our conferences and some places are generoud while others are not.  A starting place would be businesses in you neighborhood perhaps once that you contribute to like grocery stores, office supplies.  Oh.. and ask your city and state government officials to give donations.  Also the school board members like to make donations to such a worthy cause.  Good luck!
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It really doesn't matter how much money you raise, you will never get things back to the way they were before. Things like this stick with you and change you forever. Use this to make you stronger. Money helps make the world go round, but isn't a fix all.\n\nSome ways to raise money: See if local businesses will let you set up collection jars, set up a car wash, Put an ad in the newspaper asking people to donate some of there items that they don't use anymore to a great big yard sale. Granted the times were different, but I made thousands of dollars this way for my dance team.
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Some ideas that have worked for me as the leader of several non-profits:\n* Ask a member to speak on a specific topic of interest to the group.\n* Bring in an expert on a topic of general interest.\n* Schedule meetings during meal time and provide food.\n* Have some "social" meetings: potlucks, for example.\n* Call members directly yourself and urge them to come. Make the call personal, telling each how important their attendance is for making decisions, getting the best ideas, etc.\n* Ask your membership why they aren't attending. Is it the time? day? location or frequency of the meetings?\n* Add a fun activity with a modest or gag prize. Or hold a raffle at each meeting.\n* Food! A great motivator.