Hi fundraising family my name is Kristy with Funds2Orgs
and today I'm super excited to introduce Barbara, hey, who's our marketing assistant
and she is actually going to be talking to us about her top five favorite church
fundraising ideas. So, uh I'm gonna let Eric take it this time. What!?
So, obviously some of you have seen our videos before but do you know anything
about church fundraising, because I don't. I know nothing about it. I know a little bit about
church fundraising. So, what is your experience with church
fundraising? Well my experience with, uh, church fundraising is that I am very
very active at my church. It is a nondenominational church and I help with
their digital media team. I help with communication, I help with events. I also
go to a lot of, uh, faith-based conferences like the passion for college students.
It happens every, uh, first of the year. I also go to a lot of different cool
events with different, you know, Christian artist and different Christian actors
and magicians and things like that. And so, we always put together events to
try to raise money for our cause. So, it's an awesome experience.
Alright, that's a lot of experience so and especially today we need somebody with a
lot of experience to help us, because our church communities need a lot of help
especially, because government spending has been cut on things like soup
kitchens for people that have addictions and also for our senior citizens who
need help from the church and for anybody they can help. So, we're really
excited to figure out a couple things so Barbara tell us your favorite
fundraising ideas that we can do for the church community. Well, my number one
idea is coffee. Do you like coffee? No I never drink coffee. Right... Okay. Okay. Wow.
I'm actually out of coffee. So, a really cool idea is having a meeting and you
know, with meetings with your leadership your, your pastors and your, you know members of your group... everybody,
everybody, exactly. Uhm, when you have your meeting and there's a lot of coffee
there, instead of just giving out free coffee put a donation box there and then
you guys can give donations or get your congregation to give donations for a cup of
coffee. Every great steaming cup of coffee could be a great fundraising
opportunity for your church. Yeah and people spend four dollars at Starbucks
they're more than willing to spend a dollar at your church. Right. So, that's
one idea. What's your next idea? Hit me, but don't hit me. I don't
know her that well, i don't know if she'll actually. My second idea, I'm pretty hungry right now. Yeah me too. I just drank a lot of Coffee so. Right. Yeah. Okay so, my second idea is
you can put together a dinner or lunch and you can do anything you can do a
fish fry you can do a pasta dinner just invite your whole congregation and then
you can have them pay for a plate of food. Yeah, a donation that way or a pair
of shoes...(right) for a plate of food. Yeah that's actually pretty interesting. I can give them one of my shoes now and another shoe later for coffee. Or two plates of food, or two plates of food. Yeah, yeah, yeah, cause the
shoes could go towards like a shoe drive fundraiser or like the donation itself
can go toward your church, but that's a really good idea because everybody's got
to eat (right) no matter what it is. And everyone needs shoes, and everyone needs shoes. So, that's two ideas(two ideas). So, for the third idea, the food
made me hungry. I have an idea. What if they did like a Super Bowl fundraiser.
Now this is just throwing something out there but you could do anything from the
Super Bowl, you could do the World Cup, you can do any kind of sporting event
depending on your congregation would like, but you could show it on the big screen if
your church has that in its auditorium and have people maybe do donations to come in and
have a huge Super Bowl party because everybody does Super Bowl parties,
everybody does World Cup parties but to be safer to be around your church family
maybe you do something like that and you can donate with money
or donate the shoes. My church had lots of pizza. Yeah, see pizza. Whatever, and you have
food and drinks and a game. And shoes. Tada. So that's three. I came up with the third. So
what's your next idea? My next idea, I love spreading social good and give
it back to that community (that's sweet). Right so uhm, what about a real good idea is, uhm, compassionate
camping. I've never heard of that. What is that? So, churches will get their congregation to
go sleep outside with their homeless community, and the reason for that is
because, uhm, we want to show compassion and we want to show them love. Compassion and love? Compassion and love. Okay so, how
does that work? How does that make donations towards the church? There's a
couple ways you can do it. You can do a straight-up donation. Right. You can also, remember
those times when we were in school and then we had like five K's and so forth (right)
and people would give money every time you would run a mile or (two miles), two miles? Exactly. I remember that. so the same thing with this compassionate campaign. Okay. With the compassionate
campaign, we'll be sleeping outside for hours and every time I sleep outside for
amount of time that's how much money you're giving. So, if I sleep out for
five hours maybe you're giving me fifty dollars. 10 dollars per hour. I got it, so you go around to your
community, you tell them you're doing a compassionate caring event and every
person signs up for however much they want to donate per hour, and then the end
of the event you go back and say hey look I did six hours and then they give
you. That's cool, that'd be real nice, and all the money goes towards homeless and goes
towards a church helping the homeless in the community. That's a really good idea, I like that.
So wait. Okay. So, that's four ideas, so what's what's the number one idea? I
think the number one idea is a shoe drive fundraiser with Funds2Ords. If you
guys don't know what a shoe drive fundraiser is you've been living under a
rock and not watching any of our videos. But like we went back and
said any of these events can be done as a shoe drive fundraiser. You can take shoes
and not just money as donations and with a shoe drive fundraiser from Funds2Orgs
it goes towards whatever you want. So, with Funds2Orgs it's very easy. People
don't have to open up their wallets. They simply open up their closets and they
take any gently worn, used shoes and donate it towards your cause. Funds2Orgs
then picks up the shoes based on the poundage and donates towards your
church or whatever you're raising money for. Based on the pounds of your shoes we
cut you a check. So, it's easy you just collect shoes. We
pick them up. We give you all the materials you need. Just go on our
website down below and it will tell you what you get from us free of charge. And
then we send those sneakers to developing countries to micro-entrepreneurs
where they can raise money for themselves and their families and help
their community as well. Mhmm. So, it's not only raising money for your church, it also
raises money for the world which, is somewhere we all live so we should take
care of it. We can be socially responsible. Yup, socially responsible and socially caring. So once again my name is Eric.
My name is Barbra. We loved to meet you Barbara. It was a pleasure working with you. So,
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like, share and subscribe and until then see you again soon guys. Bye. Bye. So, obviously
some of this, some of you not us we have never seen our videos, we don't watch them. I could be obnoxious (inaudible). Excellent. Yeah. A streaming cup of coffee would be great. Just lay under it and have it just... It's easy when you're
not doing it