Hey Ballard!
My husband and I have signed up for the Victoria Half Iron Man! (eek?) :)
We are training with Team in Training (TNT)who raises money for the LLS-Leukemia Lymphoma Society!
We have ideas for the usual fundraisers but we really want to make it more creative and Ballard-like. So we are calling all Ballard for ideas, HELP!
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Fundraising Ideas Needed
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TriUs2010
offlineMemberPosted 2 weeks ago # -
ED
offlineMemberRaking yards. It got me from Wisconsin to Washington DC when I was 12.
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Jules
offlineMemberWhat ideas have you come up with so far?
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ballardmike
offlineMemberDevil's Advocate time... how much of the funds raised go to the charity?
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TriUs2010
offlineMemberBallardMike, great question. 75 cents for every dollar goes directly to Leukemia Lymphoma Society!
Thanks for the raking yards idea, it would give us some excercise too!
So far we are doing holiday gift wrapping at bookstores, mailing letters to family, adversiting for donations on our Facebook/Myspace, looking for sponsors and dontated items to auction off...thats all so far because we just started last weeek. We need to raise $8,000 in apx 8 months. We arent afraid of hard work, we just need help creatiing events/services that will be atractive to our Ballard neighbors.
Oh, another idea was a Pub Crawl....but not sure how we could make money off of that...Posted 2 weeks ago # -
devils advocate
offlineMemberNot to be nit-picky but that is my basic nature.
While 75% of money raised by Team in Trainings go directly to the LLS charity, the LLS charity itself devotes 16.7% of it's own budget to fundraising and another 9% to management and general expenses.
A good illustration of the fact that it takes money to raise money.
Good luck to you. It looks like you are a creative team and have some good ideas so far.Posted 2 weeks ago # -
mc7
offlineMemberFriends of mine who do the 3-day breast cancer walk every year have found their greatest success with raising money from multiple garage sales (friends, neighbors, family, etc. stockpile items year round) and they actually move the unsold items from one of the participant's house to a different neighborhood over the course of a few months. It's a lot of work but they usually make over $2,000 after 3 or 4 sales.
Their other lucrative enterprise is to sell raffle tickets for items that businesses, friends, co-workers, etc. donate (massages, gift certificates, jewelry, etc.) It's fun because you don't know what you might win.
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Jules
offlineMemberA group I am involved in, the Wild & Scenic Institute, holds a Texas Hold'em Poker night and dinner. Everyone pays $25 to enter, and most bring some food as well. (OK, it doesn't hurt that one of the members is the chef at Lombardi's.) If 40 people show up, that is $1000 right there. You will need a house large enough to accomodate 40-50 people, a bunch of card tables, cards, and chips. But it's a ton of fun.
What skills do you have that you think other people might want? Recently, a friend and I donated a "Frederick & Nelson Tea Party and Vintage Fashion Show" to the Swedish Club for 8. It went at auction for $800.
Do you belong to any organizations that have a space you can rent cheaply or for free? If so, I'd consider running an event (wine tasting, tea party, spaghetti dinner) with a silent and/or live auction. FYI, Swedish Cultural Center and the Sunset Club, amazingly enough, have pretty good prices on space. You can do a wine tasting party easily if you contact wine stores and get hooked up with reps/distributers.
My mom belonged to a guild for the Childen's Home Society; every spring they would do a luncheon and fashion show to raise money. They did it at Calvery Lutheran church basement...and got a local store to provide the fashions. I'll bet Monica at Ella Mon would love to do that. They got all their models from within their group and their daughters/friends. The menu was pretty simple; three kinds of salads, croissants, and a dessert. They got some items donated by local businesses to auction. It was pretty low-stress and they raised a ton of money.
(I used to run a whitewater event called SkyFest-we raised @75K in a two-day event each year.)
Jules- out of work event planner
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Jules
offlineMemberFYI, The Sunset Club I am referring to is the women's club on First Hill, not the Sunset Hill Community Center; I don't know what their rates are (but it's worth checking out.) I do know that a friend organized a charity tea at the Sunset Club (which is a very beautiful venue, BTW) and they charged $25 a head for a tea party.Combine that with a fashion show, charge $50, get 100 women to come, and voila! you've made $2500 with almost no effort on your part, and very little overhead, other than printing.
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