Hello fundraising family my name is Eric. I'm Julia. And today we're here to talk about
how to get your fundraiser kick-started off the ground. See there's a play on
words cause it's a shoe drive fundraiser and you're like kickin so you use your
shoe like kick it so that's a joke you can use that. I'm not laughing. Whatever you want. You could put it on the internet.
I'm just gonna keep talking. Hey guys is he funny? Cause I don't think he is.
So the first thing you need to do when you guys start your shoe drive
fundraiser is plan a planning call with your fundraising coach. Remember you
won't receive a welcome kit from us until you have that call with your coach.
And your welcome kit has all the materials that you need for your shoe
drive fundraiser. It has the bags. It has the rubber bands. Everything you guys
need. All the materials so make sure you get that planning call in with your
f-fundraising coach. With your fun-fundraising coach. Do I need to redo that? Nah it's a fun-
fundraising coach. It's a fun-fundraising coach. ffff-fundraising coach. So you can use that for, you could put #FunFundraisingCoach.
So now once you have your welcome kit you want to assemble your team of champions.
Your army. Your team of champion. Army. Team of champions. We'll agree to disagree.
It's whatever. And anyways just get a group of people you know. People from church,
people from work, people that are local business owners, shoe drive people. Anyone
you've done an event with before. If you know the local mayor, if you know a
president, if you know somebody that runs a company, if you have friends and
neighbors, if you have a cartoon character you'd like to reach out to,
whatever it is make a list of all the people you know that can help you with
your fundraiser and assemble them. Talk to them. Tell them what you're doing and
get their help with your shoe drive fundraiser because the more people that
help you the easier this thing is to do. So once you build your army. Team. Army.
Champions. What about a squad? Can we call it a squad? No too many people do squads.
Squads are over used. Alright, once you build your. Legion. Okay. So once you
assemble your team of volunteers and supporters like Donna usually says you
need to find a space to store your shoes and she likes to think of it as a
bedroom, or the size of a garage. You can call it your shoe bunker. Army style. See.
So these shoes are gonna take up a lot of storage space so if you need to get
storage unit, or find a friend who has a storage unit, or even if you have space
in your garage, make sure you have enough to store these shoes because it's
gonna be you know two three months before we pick them up from you. Just
make sure it's clean and dry. And as a tip from one of our fundraising coaches,
throw a few dryer sheets in the bags of shoes they'll keep them dry and they'll
keep the smell down. Now once you have that done you want to download and
customize your digital material. There's free resources as part of your kit that
are also on our website that you can get to make it personal for whatever you're
trying to do. Some of those materials include a press release, door hangers and
flyers. And you can customize it with your logo and your organization's name.
And remember that can all be found on the website we'll have a couple links
somewhere down there. Yeah I'll do that. Now all that is done. So next the only thing you have
to do basically is instruct your team to gather bags of 25 pairs of shoes and
then put them in that thing that you just got together, hand out some of the
flyers that you already made, call one of your logistics teams, and get
everything set up. You're done. Look at that how easy that was. And by shoes he
means gently worn, new, used and used shoes. He actually meant gently worn, used and new
shoes. I was close. really it was like this. Like word flipped. He like word swapped.
Gently wear new shoes. Gently worn, used and new shoes. Gently worn, new and used shoes.
And make sure to look out for our next video for tips on how you. You. You in the hat. Talking to you.
Can maximize your shoe dry fundraiser. Until next time I'm Julia. And I'm Eric. Bye
guys. Bye guys. because so fresh and so clean clean that go yeah some of the
resources include a customized press release
which probably list your head before you start dumping some of the materials
include a pet oppress oh my god no pet don't trust your pets pressure shirts
and you guys can customize all of them with your logo I was like until next
time he's okay oh um okay until next time I know you
output you're gonna say my name you just forgot it
yeah yeah whatever so make sure you know is own name you
know names