[Nfb-fundraising] New to the list.

[David Evans]

Dear Judy,

Welcome to the list.
There are some fund raisers that can help a small group raise fair amounts 
of cash.
Here is one you can try.
I assume that you have movie theaters in your area.
What you do is talk to a theater operator about doing a Saturday matinee for 
children.  Get him to also help you secure a rarely seen Disney movie such a 
Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs.
Now you schedule this movie for a time when kids will be out of school, but 
you can do it anytime really.
next you get permission to pass out flyers , threw the local schools by 
printing up flyers about the movie show, a ticket price, which would include 
a small popcorn, soda and piece of candy as part of the ticket price, and 
contact info to order the tickets from you.
As you will get the ticket orders in advance, you will have the money to pay 
for the theater and movie rental and printing cost of flyers and tickets 
before you even show the movie and a nice profit as well.
If you need some help at the movies to collect tickets, serve snacks and in 
general keep the kids in line, you can approach the local Lions Clubs, Boy 
Scouts or any number of other volunteer organizations for some manpower to 
help you for community service hours.
I did this kind of fund raiser for the Boy Scouts some time ago and we sold 
so many tickets that we had to have more showings of the movie which only 
increased our take on the movie.
On top of it, the theater liked it so much that their corporate HQ let them 
donate the use of the theater and the movie rental.
It was mostly planning and leg work where we had to go and talk to the 
theater people and the schools.  The printing was not hard, but did cost us 
so keep it simple and print the tickets on colored paper to keep people from 
copying them.
We only needed a few people to handle ticket collections, give out the 
snacks, keep the kids under control and help with clean up afterward.  Never 
have so many been served by so few.  Sorry there Winston.

Another fund raiser you can do is to develop a standardized appeal letter to 
be sent out to businesses in your area around the month of November asking 
for a donation.
You would include some NFB literature and a local contact address for them 
to send you donations.
You should get back about 10% from all of the letters you send out.
The biggest thing is the cost of the printing, envelopes and stamps.
You can get the names and contact info from your local Chamber of Commerce 
and other business groups.

Another idea is that if you meet some where, such as a cafe or restaurant, 
you can sell advertising on place mats that you supply to the restaurant.
You sell business card ads on the mat, from local businesses,  and promise 
to print X number of mats per month.
This is tax deductible for the business and you can sell it by the month, 
such as $25 per month.  Maybe even have a 3 month minimum.  This way you can 
always change it as businesses come on board or drop off.  You could even 
sell coupons on the mats so the people will take the mat or coupons with 
them after they eat.  The coupons make it traceable for the businesses and 
they can count the coupons that come back to them as new business.  This 
will make them want to stay with your fund raiser.  They win by getting new 
business and a tax deduction too.
These are just some of my fund raisers and I can and will share more, but 
for right now, I have to get back to work.
Welcome to the list and see you again soon.

David Evans, NFB

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Judy Jones" <judy.t.jones at earthlink.net>
To: <nfb-fundraising at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 12:16 AM
Subject: [Nfb-fundraising] New to the list.


Hi,

My name is Judy Jones, and I am president of a very small local chapter in 
Tacoma, WA.  There are very few of us in our chapter, although the core 
group is dedicated.  We live far apart, transportation isn't that 
great--could be better, could be worse--and with the exception of three of 
us, most have serious medical problems to contend with.  I've been looking 
for a fund-raiser where you can sell a punch card, for instance, pay for 
eleven items, get the twelfth free.  Krispy Kreme has a card like that, and 
I know Starbucks does, too.  It also seems like phone cards might also be a 
great thing to sell, but these are just my ideas.

Can anyone elaborate on fund-raisers that might be worth us considering?  If 
you have resources and sites to send me to, all the better.

Thanks so much for your help.

Judy Jones



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