so in this video we're gonna talk about
easy fundraising ideas I'm Dan Kimball
product specialist with Apple oh
software and fundraisings in my
background is my passion and I'd love to
talk to people about it fundraising
ideas out there how do I go get that
money
well again you want to kind of start
with some basics and terms of you know
what resources you have available to you
in terms of staffing volunteers people
that are willing to help other contexts
that you might have so let's kind of go
through a couple ideas maybe some you
know some simple low-level fundraisers
you know like an event I mean the old
days it would be like a car wash or
something like that but there's
certainly you know a lot of you know
what I would say kind of quick and easy
fundraisers recently I saw a cornhole
tournament where people paid a
registration fee and they you know they
played in this cornhole tournament and
you know there whatever money was made
that day was given to the charity you
know so finding some things that you
know where people can be participating
in like a bowling Bowl athan a ping-pong
tournament you know those are I call
them low level not because they're not
valuable but because you know they do
they shouldn't take tons of time and
effort to put together so you know and
then you can kind of work your way up
from there of course some of the more
you know sophisticated and larger
fundraisers that are out there that take
more man hours are gonna be something
like say a golf tournament
a banquet you know those are very
popular you know a gala or you know a
black-tie you know finding those kinds
of things and then you may be trying to
find sort of middle the ground kinds of
things the really important thing is
again look at your resources who's who's
who are you connected with who are some
people in the community that love your
nonprofit that have resources to give
say like a restaurant a really popular
fundraiser is when restaurants will take
a take an evening and they'll give up
percentage of the proceeds back to your
nonprofit you get people there you fill
the room so what you're doing is you're
kind of it's an exchange in value you're
getting people to a business or you're
helping them and then they have a chance
to give back you know so that's you know
another way to kind of look at it the
the key with fundraisers you know as a
whole is your resources and the hours
that it's going to take to put those
together so you know one way to start
off with this again is dependent on the
size of your organization is again we're
gonna start with those resources let's
say for example maybe you're a
non-profit and you've got a pretty good
group of volunteers who are really
excited about you but maybe you don't
have a lot of seed money to say invest
upfront in a fund raiser so you know for
example if you're gonna do a large
dinner or a fancy banquet there's gonna
be a lot of expenses upfront you have to
reserve a hall you have to put a down
payment on something you have to get a
caterer you know those kinds of things
so what you want to do is so you've got
this large group of volunteers and maybe
you don't have a lot of seed money let's
find something that they can go out and
do that maybe doesn't require a lot of
that you know other than some marketing
so something like you know like a
jog-a-thon or an event to where
volunteers are giving back a lot of
there's a lot of local organizations
that will make a donation to your
nonprofit through the work of your
volunteer so looking for things like
that
that might be another way you know again
start with your resources and and and
kind of kind of building from there so
some of the fundraisers out there that
that I've seen and I know of our things
like cornhole tournament a dance-a-thon
or a dance-off where you get a group of
college kids that get sponsors and they
do all night dances you know it dinners
especially with restaurants where you
invite a group of people in maybe for
say a premier wine tasting and you know
an excellent dinner at a Italian
restaurant and you know you charge them
more than they normally would or
something like that you know anything
activity wise such as a
a biking event a cycling event a local
walk or you know they call them five K's
those anything dealing with outside
activities are also very popular also
maybe partnering with existing
organizations like you can do say a
birthday party at the zoo or you know
something at a local aquarium or
something in that matter that that could
also be a good event raffles are really
big very popular we do a 50/50 raffle or
you raffle off something that that
somebody in the community maybe has can
donate such as a car or a house that
kind of thing or a 50/50 raffle where
people donate you do the raffle and then
the nonprofit gets 50% of the pot and
then the donor gets the other 50 so they
get involved a little bit those are also
really popular another thought in fund
raisers is partnering with your local
media partners such as your television
stations and radio stations a lot of
those folks will be willing to you know
maybe where they'll do an hour on the
air will they'll you know almost like
the old phone-a-thon or a telethon kind
of kind of deal those can be really
effective again it's building those
relationships with different partners
you know food anything around food is
always really helpful you know or
finding an event that's big in town
where you can collect donations at that
vent say like at a local football game
or if you are fortunate to have a
professional league in your in your city
maybe maybe you can partner around an
event or a college team or something
like that yeah you know so over the
years I've probably been a part of a
hundred different fundraisers of
different kinds I'd love to hear what
you guys are doing what's working for
you I'd love to find out who has the
most unique and original fundraising
idea out there just drop those in the
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