Fundraising Ideas.

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by guniv

Can you elaborate on how you did pre-sales? Someone collecting at a school; online?

Also interested in where you guys held it, how you advertised it, your layout, etc. As much info as you guys can provide would be very valuable to me, this sounds like a great fundraising opportunity.

Josh,

Once my finals finish next week, I hope to write a White Paper detailing how 1676 organizes and runs their annual car wash. I'll be sure to post the link to it here once completed.

[3072Cap]

Originally Posted by DonRotolo

The trick to car washes is pre-selling tickets. Even if they don't show up, you have raised fund.

Our youth group at church did our car wash by donation. Some would give $10, some $100. With a preset price, a lot of people will just pay that price, and not think about giving more. But we are pretty rural, so not sure how it would work with pre-selling here.

[Monochron]

Originally Posted by BrianAtlanta

We would make $600-$1000 with hitting up 4-5 neighborhoods. . .
We would make just under $1 per bail. There are some nice things about this....

How in the world would you deliver 1,000 bails of hay? And how would do it with only 3-4 hours notice.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Monochron

How in the world would you deliver 1,000 bails of hay? And how would do it with only 3-4 hours notice.

Pine straw != hay.

[ctt956]

Originally Posted by EricH

Pine straw != hay.

Similarly, "bail" != "bale"...

[BrianAtlanta]

Originally Posted by Monochron

How in the world would you deliver 1,000 bails of hay? And how would do it with only 3-4 hours notice.

We would put the flyers out about 3 weeks before the delivery day, a Saturday. People would leave a voice mail with the how many they would need. Then the Wednesday before delivery, we would let the landscape company, that sells pine straw, how many we needed. The chairman would layout delivery routes and give them to drivers. We had about 3-4 parents that had open top trailers. The parents would drive to the landscape company, and load up with 30-50 bails of pine straw. Then cars would drive their route with a follow car of about 3 people to help deliver. Most people bought 20-30, so it would take about 5-10 minutes to unload their order, usually leaving it on the driveway. People would pay at that time. We had the Scouts do all the money collection.

Keep going until they ran out of pinestraw, then they would go back for more. It would take about 30-40min to refill and get to the next house, when they ran out. Now if you could get a 27ft ryder panel truck donated, it would be even easier.

Brian

[Phoenix Spud]

RoboCamps. We are annually raising 5 digit sums by providing robotics-based child care during our school vacation. PM me if you want our resources.

[smitikshah]

Our team for the first time this year tried giftwrapping!

At a local Barnes and Nobles, we offered around 6 hours of our time a few days before Christmas day and set up a small tips jar.

We didn't gross much, but I'm sure if you had a more tactical plan you would make more (we did it as a spur of the moment thing).

Something like that, when made large scale with proper planning, I'm sure would get you a decent bit of funds.

[natejo99]

An idea that has been thrown around a couple times on my team (although we have never accomplished it) is a team yard sale. Team members and their families can bring in anything they want to sell, and have an enormous sale.