[nfbwatlk] Fw: [Nfb-fundraising] Successful fund raising ideas

Thu May 8 13:38:00 CDT 2008

I have another idea.  How about a gas raffle?  $10 ticket buys $200 worth of
gas.

Alco 

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Mike Freeman
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 8:26 PM
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Subject: [nfbwatlk] Fw: [Nfb-fundraising] Successful fund raising ideas

More fund-raising ideas.

Mike Freeman
... "It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly." -- Anatole
France

----- Original Message ----- 
From: David Evans
To: NFB Fundraising Mailing List
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 7:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-fundraising] Successful fund raising ideas

Dear Ryan,

There are a great many fund raisers you can do that have big returns.
Sell advertisement when and where ever you can.
Here is an example.
Make a deal with a restaurant to supply them with free place mats to set
their tables with.  You just get to sell the advertisement on the mats 
and
the restaurant gets to deduct the amount of money you make on the
advertisement as their donation to your chapter.
You sell business card ads on the place mat from other businesses in the
same or near by shopping centers.
Let the ads include coupons for discounts on services and goods at these
other places and people will keep the mats, just for the coupons and
discounts.    Note: Don't use other businesses that are competitors of 
the
restaurant.

Another way you can sell advertisements is to do a free car wash.  Yes, 
I
said free Car wash.
You go around , with a letter that says you are a 501-(C)(3) non-profit
organization and sell a business card size ad for say $20 to$25 dollars 
each
or a coupon ad for $40 to $50 each.
Don't spend a lot of money on fancy printing.  Just cut and paste the 
ads on
to a light colored paper and run them off on a copier.  The colored 
papers
helps to prevent people from running off copies of your flyers easily 
and by
placing a expiration date on them 2 months after your event also helps.
Make sure that there is an expiration date of no more that 3 months 
after
the date of your car wash.
On the front page put: Free Car Wash sponsored by the merchants of 
whatever
area you are in, to benefit the National Federation of the Blind, a
non-profit organization serving the Blind.  Please favor these merchants
with your patronage as they help support the Blind citizens of our area.
Find a place that will let you wash cars that is on a busy street corner 
and
is visible from the street.
Seek donations of the place, water, hoses, buckets. rags , soap and 
short
latter's to use in washing the cars.
Make up signs and get some pretty high school girls to carry the signs 
out
by the street.
Have a table set up to greet the drivers and their dirty cars, where you
will hand out the set of flyers with the adds on them.
Also have a large labeled donation jar there for drivers to see as they 
get
the flyers and the ads.
Get some local press about your event and people will be interested in 
how
and why your would put on a free car wash as a fund raiser.  Make sure 
you
have all car washers remove their jewery and large belt buckles so they 
will
not scratch the cars.
The hard part is just going around to all of the merchants and get them 
to
part with a $20 dollar bill.
Talk only to the manager or better yet the owner.  Come back to see them 
if
you have too.
Tel them that you are going to print at least 300 sets of flyers, with 
their
business car or coupon on them and that you will do whatever it takes to
give them to possible customers.  nothing will be trashed.
You can point out that this is cheap for a businessman to get 300 or 
more
flyers printed and passed out to the Public and to connect their 
company's
name with a great project.
You will find that it does not take as much effort to pass them out as 
you
might think.
You will give one set of flyers to each of the businesses so that they 
can
see their ad and the ads of the other businesses.  You will give flyers 
out
to all of the people who stop to get their cars washed.  You will give
flyers to all of the workers, or their families who help you in the 
event.
You will keep some flyers back to show the next time you want to do the
event, It only gets better.
Now if you have any flyers left at this point, you can walk around a 
parking
lot or at your church and pass them out until they are all gone.  You 
have
kept your word.

I did this for my Boy Scout troop and we raised $2,700.00 from the ads
before we even turned the water  on.  We made another $320.00 from the
donations jar and we got free pizzas, cokes and other things from some 
of
the merchants to give to our volunteers.
By the way, you can get a Boy Scout troop to do the washing for you for
community services and then make a donation to their troop  for helping 
out.
There are lots of ways you can get help to do it.
You need about 3 months to work up to this and to give you time to get 
out
and sell the ads and line up everything you need to do it.
The rewards can be worth it.
I use the selling ads techniques in many of my fund raisers to embellish
them and bring in more money.
I do bowl-a-thons, walk-a-thons and all sorts of other things.

I am tired now, so I will stop now.
I have many other ideas that work and only need a few people to do them.
Write me back if you have any questions.

David Evans, NFBF
President, Palm Beach County Chapter Florida

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ryan Smith" <ryansmith78 at comcast.net>
To: <nfb-fundraising at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 6:16 PM
Subject: [Nfb-fundraising] Successful fund raising ideas

> Hello all,
>
> I am the fund raising chair person for a small chapter and hoping that
> some of you might be able to offer some proven fund raising ideas. 
> The
> chapter members have kicked around the idea of a silent auction, which 
> is
> in the planning stage for later this year.  We have also discussed 
> selling
> different items such as donuts, key chains, tote bags, etc.  I would
> greatly appreciate hearing from any and all of you about your various
> successes.
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Ryan Smith
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