Our church is doing fundraisers to raise money to send our teens to church camp. We're a really small church. Next month we're going to have a rummage sale, bake sale, and hot dog sale on a Saturday. We're also going to plan a few car washes. I was wondering what other ways you've raised funds. I thought about looking into companies like Yankee Candle but I think that's mostly for large groups. We are a really small church right now. Thanks for any ideas!
I was very involved with my youth group when I live in Massachusetts. We had an International Food night, which is easy if you have some sort of church hall or something like that. You can always do some sort of Spaghetti dinner and advertise in the community, entrance for a nominal fee to send the kids to camp! The other idea is to have the kids go into the community and look for sponsorship.
Hi L.,
I am a local distributor for a company who does candle fundraisers. The smallest group I have worked with is 5 and they found it very successful..I would appreciate it if you would give me a chance to talk to you about our plan..You can contact me at either ###-###-#### or my cell ###-###-####
Chocolate always bring in money. Different companies you can get the chocolate bars from, then sell them for $1.00 a bar. I used to always sell chocolate and did very well with it. You can have the parents take it to work to sell, or have the kid's stand outside of a Grocery Store to sell them and raise money that way.
My name is I. Konkle-Evans
Have you thought about doing an AVON Fundraiser? There are a few different ones that you could chose from. There are flyers that you make 30% to 40% on or from the regular brochure. The brochure is based on what you sell however you do have a large selection for everyone to order from.
If you would let me know where the church is I could meet you there and we could talk about what AVON has to offer as a way of a fund raiser. I would do most of the work as far as placing the order for you, receiving, checking in, bagging, and delivering to you the product. You would then see that the customer would receive the items. Money would be collected at the time of the orders, your profits would come to you with the orders.
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Thank you for reading this and for thinking about AVON as your fundraiser.
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First of all, congrats on getting your group started! Taking the first steps of forming a group can always be a trying process... kudos for giving it a go!
One of the first things can really help getting started is finding ways to get organized early on. Coming up with the tools to manage your members, plan your events and get the word out about everything you do can be tricky.
I'd say the best way to get a jump on this: set up a group home page on a fundraising website. Many of them are free to use and can offer new groups amazing tools to organize, find new volunteers and raise awareness for a cause (regardless of whether you actually want to fundraise). Some require that you have non-profit status to form a group, but plenty others will give student groups, church groups and other groups without non-profit status some awesome ways to help get your group off the ground.
For example, one good site to help new groups is GroupSpaces (www.groupspaces.com). They offer plenty of tools to help get groups off the ground, including some event management functions that let you create events, as well as managing your members. And if you're interested in fundraising for your group eventually, they can link to your account and charge 2.5% of donations received (while some other sites charge as much as 5%).
Another good option would be Empowered.org (www.empowered.org). It is a bit newer than GroupSpaces and their platform is geared more towards social action, but are open to all small groups, regardless of non-profit status. Also, they offer plenty of solid tools to help new groups, and give groups the ability to create specific volunteer activities and events for each group (which GroupSpaces doesn't do). And if you ever were interested in fundraising, they offer specific fundraising campaigns (and charge 1.5% of donations) - nice if you ever go down that road.
There are some other sites worth looking into - MeetUp is another one that helps groups, but doesn't offer as many tools as the other two I mentioned. Anyways, I really think that setting a home would really help jump start the group-starting process.
Hope that helps! Good luck with your group going forward.
