I need good ideas for fund raisers...?
823192
Spaghetti dinners, crab feeds, pancake breakfasts, car washes, catalog sales, candy sales, dances, silent auction, raffle tickets..etc.\n\nYou probably wont be able to raise $5000 each in one event, you will more than likely need to plan to have a series of planned events (dinners/breakfasts) and ongoing events (catalog sales,candy sales,bake sales)
359624
Send them a videotape of your church and it's members, voicing your support for them in both finances and prayer. If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video is worth a million.\n\nYou could also send them some Christian books or CDs that have recently come out since they may have no/limited access to those kinds of things. Devotional books or Bible studies and things like that could help too.
851586
Look for neighborhood bulletin boards at grocery stores, etc. and put some of your business cards on them.\n\nWrite postcards to your friends telling them about your new venture, and offering to help with holiday gift ideas.\n\nInvite a few close friends over for coffee, cocktails or white chili*, and have some of your wares conspicuously in view.  Don't make an overt sales pitch, but be ready with enthusiastic questions to the inevitable questions.\n\n*  My answer to your earlier white chili question was mostly tongue-in-cheek.  Sorry if I offended you.
964029
Get some friends together and organise fundraising events...run, hair shaving, sitting in a bath of cold beans...etc etc.  Advertise your efforts in the local newspaper and on local radio to get more support.
785727
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!!
966969
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.
193752
If you are still in school, try going to your schools office and asking someone whether or not is okay for you to do fundraisers in his honor.  Try selling candy, pizza kits, crafts, special pens and pencils, anything you can think of really would work.  You can also go around and ask people for a donation.  Try putting together some simple red ribbons to simbolize cancer foundation and give those to people who donate.  If you're really creative, make bracelets in the color red and sell those.  You'll soon create a fad and everyone will want one.  These ideas would also work around your neighborhood, but you'd have to put some work into that to make sure people really believe your cause and don't think that you're just trying to scam them for money!!!  Also try visiting cnacer websites for more info!
194021
how about a chili or pancake feed. thats some of the things me and my friends do in our community to raise money for cancer patients.
250998
if i were you i would try a walmart or a sams club they give donations pretty frequently good luck but if your lookin for a fundraiser try a candy sale if your interested email me and ill give you the adress and phone number to the place
205883
Get everyone involved call your friends and neighbors to help with the benefit. Give everyone something to do. Set a date. Make poster. You need to call your local business and ask for donation and tell them what you are doing. Have your local news paper to advertise for free.  Have a raffle on something that one of the stores give you. If you can get a florist to donate a plant you could raffle it off.  Me and two of my friends had a befit for a small boy in our home town and raised over $3000.00 We used a vacated lot  and had a huge yard sale and had all kind of activities for kids and adults to do. We even had a local band to preform and Pepsi donate a drink machine. Ask the fire department and police to get involved. Ask them to let the kids look at the trucks and cars.We even got our med helicopter to land and it was a big hit. Have a bake sale. Have someone to sell hamburgers and hot dogs. Don't be afraid to ask for help. Tell the business's you will advertise their name on what ever they donated. And have fun. Good Luck
592967
Call your local cable company. Some have a channel that advertises events in the area and they may let a non-profit or charity advertise for free. I volunteer with a non-profit organization and the local cable company let us have a space for free. Call your local radio stations and see if they will do a "spot" for you. Call the local T.V. news station and tell them about your event and what charity it is for and they may promote it for you during the news report. I hope this gives you some ideas.
819733
just say no the next time you are asked....you have no responsibility to buy anything from anyone...just say funds are tight. I don't buy these things from anyone...better to donate to the cause than to buy something the cause only gets about 5 cents on the dollar. fund raisers are really good for only one entity..the entity that manufactures the junk that is sold. I won't even buy my Grandson's stuff, I donate directly to the school instead. Good luck
167217
How about selling a "Program" that a person could get to put\nsome idea they have to the public?\nGood luck!
869361
Open a bag of Doritoes.\nI guarentee it will spread love and joy.
1059158
First beleive in the cause in which you wish to support.  Take time in selecting a fundraiser.  Make sure that you have others to back you in this choice.  Make sure that it is honest.  You might want to set up a special account with your bank to deposit these funds and keep acurate records of such deposits.  Don't take money from the funds raised to pay off others.\nRunning a raffel gets sticky.  You must register, have the items already to be raffeled off.  Sell only tickets or such that go specifically for that event.  You must have a cut off date for the drawing and I would suggest that you have someone other than yourself doing the actual raffel.  Please check with your state to see if your charity is eligible to become a 501 (c) 3 non-profit charity or organization.  There is a lot of paperwork involved in becoming one and there are fees too.\nHaving a garage/yard sale is an easy one.  Ask others that are interested in this cause to donate items for this sale.  You will propably have success at this type of sale. Bake sales are good, but you better have a good location to set up and have some good items (goodies) to sell (eat). \nGood luck with whatever you choose to do.\nI run a non-profit charity that raises funds by yard sales and we accept donations year round for our cause. Feeding the community is what we do.  We supply food to persons who don't have any in the area in which I live.  We have gone from feeding 11 families to over 200 in less than a year.\nOnce again, Good Luke and may you be blessed for your efforts.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundraising
704180
Buy a gift in honor of someone through Heifer Project International\n\nIt helps impoverished families worldwide become more self-reliant through the gift of livestock and training in their care.\n\nLast year for Christmas, I gave my nieces and nephews each a gift and a stuffed animal that matched the gift.  One got a flock of geese, one got a flock of ducks, and two got flocks of chicks.  Each of these flocks were only $20 apiece, and even though they were young, they understood that their name was attached to these and they were helping somone!  They loved it!\n\nhttp://www.heifer.org