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   domie
   

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   I'm planning to participate in a bike ride to raise money for a couple of really great nonprofit organizations. Although I participated in the sane ride last year and managed to raise a fair amount just by emailing co-workers and posting updates on Facebook, I'm fairly new to this sort of thing. This year I have much more time to prepare, and I'm hoping I can do even better.

   Does anyone have experience with something like this? I know I can do more than an email campaign and Facebook updates. I've heard of people hosting bake sales and fundraising dinners in their homes, but we live in a smaller apartment and I'm not sure how to go about setting up a bake sale.

   I'm not asking for funds here, although I would gladly take them :) I'm really just looking for advice and what may or may not have worked for others in the past.

   Thanks!

   Posted 4 months ago #
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   teigyr
   

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   That is such a great (and difficult) undertaking. I've done it a few times and tend to donate more to myself than not just because I'm awkward about asking for money.

   I did the Calif AIDS ride ages ago, was San Francisco to LA and our minimum fund raising was something crazy like $3500. What I did was set up an information packet to give to businesses and I even contacted the local media. One of the local radio stations allowed me to go on air and talk about the ride and cause, which helped a bit. I'm a big fan of selling stuff though that way you're not asking people for money :) And with a bake sale/dinner, it's still tax deductible.

   What about contacting a local business with a banquet room? Or a local business with more room than what you have? You could coordinate a bake sale or bake/craft sale maybe. I bet there would be people here willing to both buy things and bake things. You could also "sell" space on your jersey. I don't know the cause of what you're fundraising for but sometimes a business (or person) will be happy to donate $100 to put their business name or a "this is for...." name. Another thing I saw people do was take along pictures of a person affected (or previously affected) by the disease/condition. You could take these pictures with you and take pictures of them next to major spots on your route to send/give to the donors.

   Again, I suck at asking for money but have found it much easier to come up with ways to give back to the donor so they are "getting" something beyond just doing a good and tax deductible thing.

   Posted 4 months ago #

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