What are some simple ways to raise money for charity?
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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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Do fundraisers.  Our church collects soda cans and it got us like $500.  Good Luck.
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Do a cookbook.Have the members contribute family favorites and the sell the books.Go to www.morriscookbooks.com\n\nMy church group raised a lot of money this way.
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Donate them to charity. Give some to friends, sell some of them
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Hit some of your neighborhood strip malls, try some of the stores you frequent. Go in person, though, don't just call them. Ask for the manager and explain your project. Most will donate something. I wouldn't ask for any particular item, just let them donate what they want. You wouldn't believe all the free stuff they'll give you if they know it's going for a neighborood kids group. You should promise that they will get recognition at the auction for their donation, like a sign saying who donated each item.
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Take a look here: http://www.fundraisingknowhow.com/search.aspx?keywords=school%20fundraising\nGood luck!
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Be generous.\n\nMake someone feel happy.\n\nShare things with people.
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Although most charities are legitimate, there are quite a few charity scams. And you certainly don't want to give your money to scammers!\n\nHere are nine tips to ensure your money goes to worthy causes:\n\n1. Do some research on the charity. If you're trying to figure out whether or not some particular US charity is worthy of support, check out:\n\n==> http://www.give.org/reports/index.asp\n\nThey publish their standards for rating charities, and then rate over hundreds of different charities using these standards.\n\n2. Don't give to charities where most of the money goes to executive salaries, administrative costs and fundraising. The website we just recommended, Give.org, presents a pie chart that shows the percentage of money going to programs vs. administration and fundraising.\n\n3. Always find out the exact name of the charity before you send a check. Many fraudulent organizations select names that sound very similar to a legitimate charity.\n\n4. Make sure the charity is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (again, for US subscribers). Otherwise, you won't be able to deduct your contributions on income taxes.\n\n5. Never donate if the caller uses high-pressure tactics or insists you donate now.\n\n6. Always ignore phone calls, letters and emails telling you that you won money or a prize from a charity, unless you specifically entered a contest. These are almost always fraudulent.\n\n7. Avoid charities that won't send you written material before you donate because it's 'too costly.' If an organization has something to hide, it's very likely fraudulent.\n\n8. Don't give cash donations, especially to door-to-door solicitors. If you know the charity and want to contribute, never write a check made out to 'cash.' Always make sure the check is payable to the full name of the charity -- that way it can be cancelled if you suspect fraud.\n\n9. Never give your credit card number to door-to-door solicitors, or in response to a bulk email. In fact, don't give your credit card number unless you are completely confident about the authenticity and good intentions of the charity. Otherwise, you may find yourself the victim of credit card fraud -- or even worse -- identity fraud.
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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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Bake sales, car washes, spaghetti feeds, host teen dances...\n\n\n\nhttp://www.fundraisingweb.org/
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Try the 5% to the Church and 5% to the charity
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Donate money to charities or volunteer at a soup kitchen
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You have to solicit the corporate sponsors, but I think you would be surprised how many will actually donate.  Write a letter, make phone calls, try to set up face-to-face meetings.  \n\nAlso, individual store managers sometimes are given a small discretionary fund with which to make donations (supermarkets, etc.).  \n\nYou are doing noble work.  God bless and continued success!!
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Hi, this is a great website to use where people can donate money to your cause, its great for fundraising,\n\nwww.justgiving.com or .co.uk depending where you are
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Check with management and see if you can put a charity tin beside the cash register (nail it down too). \nHave a small sign asking for any 'small change for the needy', details and a pic on the tin so the customers know it's a legitimate charity.\nMake sure you return the customers change by passing it in front of the tin to make it noticable. (Ever notice how some people go blind in front of things like that?) \nSmile, and they'll probably just drop it in.\n\nYou'll have helped someone feel good about themselves too.
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One of the best ways I've found to raise money is to give a "Free" car wash. You don't charge anyone to wash their car but you do accept donations. These work wonderfully at Wal-Mart. Usually, Wal-Mart will donate the water and the hoses. You will have to supply the workers. Place people at the doors advertising the car wash making sure to state that it is Free but that you do accept donations.\n\nMy church raised several thousand like that for our youth group to go out of state to a youth rally.
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If you go to church, you could ask you pastor, if you could set up some kind of box where people could donate items. You could also, let your neighbors know your trying to raise money for someone and have a big garage sale. \n\nI don't know what else to say other than, government assistance, for them, and it help out allot to get people back on there feet.\n\nI hope this helps,