RE: Community Center Fundraising Ideas
Some of the gifts that we raffeled off at are Garden Club, brought in a lot money. We went tol local merchants and received gift cards for manicures, pedicures, hair cuts, lunches. We had flower arrangements in a vase, donated by the flower shops. The spirit shops gave us bottles of wine, ect. We took these wine bottles, added a pair of stem ware glasses, crackers,different little food -items that pair with wine and made up a pretty gift basket. That one basket bought in $350. You could make any theme basket. You could make up a basket of Easter food, and add a gift card from a local meat market, bet that would sell. How bout a garden theme basket, gloves, garden tools, seeds, bulbs, fertilizer, a few small flowering plants?If the basket is for the church raffel, how about some plants from the Bible.?There is even a small book out there that can purchased, which names all of the plants in the bible, and how they were used. ?Be sure to add a nice big bow. Good luck, Jeannette
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RE: Community Center Fundraising Ideas
I did a search for bazzar crafts and made lots of small bits and pieces such as tea towel angels, men's hankies into shirts with a comb and a razor as well as a sample of shave foam( got from a company after requesting several sachet sample), ladies hankies into dresses, or parasols, kids hankies dressed paper dolls, cupcake/petifours made from face washers, face washers made into bunnies and have added a small shower gel. Also I also made kitchen bunnies with tea towels and dish cloths, also bikinis made out of dish cloths and pot scourers. I also made kids sticker packets, angels out of dolly pegs. all up we made close to $500 - it was just before Christmas and many people were looking for trinket or simple gifts for the elderly in nursing homes - so usable items were most popular.
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RE: Community Center Fundraising Ideas
Get donations from business's and make themed baskets. Like popcorn, movie tickets, and soda.
Posted on 02/15/2009 | Report Spam or Abuse
RE: Community Center Fundraising Ideas
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By Beverly M. (Guest Post)
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I presented my question wrong, I was really looking for ideas & items to raffle off. In answer to DeDe we have used Geo.Forman Grills, TV, Groceries, gas tickets, white elephants etc. Hope this helps you.
BJ
Posted on 02/14/2009 | Report Spam or Abuse
RE: Community Center Fundraising Ideas
If you have sewing scraps, you can make tote bags, which people are starting to use more for grocery shopping instead of taking home more plastic bags. You could also cut fabric into strips and crochet them into rugs. If you have yarn, younger people are enjoying the comeback of shawls, granny square scarves and other accessories. There are patterns available these days for that. Old ironing board backing is good to use for the inside of hot pads. If you are having the sale in the early spring, you could start flower or vegetable seeds in hollowed out eggshells and sell them in open egg cartons for people to transplant. They simply crack the shell when it's time to plant and plant the whole thing.
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RE: Community Center Fundraising Ideas
Collect donations from local businesses and have a penny sale. Most businesses big and small will donate.
Posted on 02/12/2009 | Report Spam or Abuse
RE: Community Center Fundraising Ideas
Hello, I am the supervisor for the Macon County Shelter Workshop in Macon Mo.
We are getting ready to do a fundraiser ourselves, and I would be interested in the ones you have tried out. Could you e-mail me at dedesmithwrkshop at hotmail dot com?
We are going to try our hand at selling Krispy Kreme donuts.
Not sure where your town is, but we will have to get them from an Independance store via thier Columbia drop off.
Yes, there is an initial investment, but once we have the dounuts all we need sell them at is $2.80 a dzn to recover costs. So I am excited because the shelter stands to make a good $1,000.00 selling at $6.00 a dzn! I will try to let you know how that goes for us.
For this fundraiser it was the flexibility, the demand and the minimal work involved, that got me to take a good look at it.
The Chamber of Commerce, of which we are a member, did an e-mail flyer to see how many we could presale and I am half way to my halfway mark already! And we will have 4 booths around town the morning of pick up to sell off the rest.
They have a website, just look up Krispy Kreme and research their fundraiser tab.
P.S. the prices on their online flyer were cheaper than what the store quoted to me.
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