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Fundraising With Cheese Cake And Other Baked Foods

Cheese cakes, other bakery products and gourmet foods are very popular fundraiser items. They are easy to sell and well-received, and can turn a sizable profit with organizations often keeping as much as 60% of sales returns. Bakery goods, such as cookies, pies, cheese cakes, ...

Water Bottle Fundraiser

Whether you’re planning on using reusable and customized water and sports bottles, or water bottles that bear your group’s label, this type of fundraiser presents yet another simple and inexpensive fundraising option. Basics of Running a Water Bottle Fundraiser Water bottle fundraisers are run primarily ...

Motivating Volunteers & Donors: Get The Word Out And Increase Profits

The key to successful fundraisers is obvious—get your volunteers to sell more, and get donors to spend more. Obvious, sure, but easier said than done. So what can your group do to make the most of your fundraising efforts and increase fundraiser profits? Get The ...

Motivating Volunteers & Donors: Show What You’re About

General fundraising information like brochures and order-takers tell volunteers that there is a fundraiser ongoing, and shows donors what they can buy or give. But order takers and product catalogs do little to motivate volunteers to participate and sell or donors to buy. Sometimes, volunteers ...

Partners In Marketing: Planning Joint Fundraising Events

Joint fundraising ventures and events are gaining in popularity both for fundraising groups and for businesses. Forming a fundraising partnership with a local or national company can remove many of the hurdles facing small and medium sized, low-budget fundraising groups. Why A Partnership Is Good ...

Green Fundraising: Recycle Ink Cartridges

Maybe you don’t know that only about 10% of ink cartridges are turned in for recycling. Maybe you don’t know that it can take up to 3,5 qts of oil to produce just one ink cartridge. Maybe you don’t know that there is a super ...

College Fundraising

College fundraising is unique in that a more mature group is doing the fundraising and reaping the benefits. College fundraisers want a fundraising campaign that reflects their age and maturity while still being fun and productive. The same fundraiser that worked for younger school kids ...

Creating Gift Programs

Gift Programs come by many names, and are sometimes used by unconscionable individuals to build complex and illegal pyramid schemes (often also called gifting programs). But gift programs are legitimate and can be a very good way to raise a continuous funding base for your ...

All Wrapped Up: Fundraising With Gift Wraps And Greeting Cards

There comes a time when everyone is in need of gift wrap and greeting cards. Your next fundraiser can be a year-round supply train for your supporters. Gift wrap fundraising why and when Gift wrap and greeting card fundraisers have been popular for several years ...

Successful Online Fundraisers

To keep you up-to-date on creative and innovative fundraising ideas, we will occasionally inform you about how others raise funds for their groups and how you can apply their fundraising strategies to your own fundraiser: One way to raise money for your favorite cause is ...

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