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Campaigning/Marketing/Public Relations: A more subtle form of advertising, marketing has to do with gaining exposure for your non-profits fundraising through articles, radio spots, and interviews. Press Releases Press releases are essentially announcements to the media about an important even that is taking place. Flea Markets: There are many people who like hunting for lost treasures at flea markets, and these people can make a flea market fundraising idea very attractive.

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For a dinner event, you will want food and refreshment, a place for the dinner, some decoration and possibly some quieter entertainment that will still allow for talking among diners. Letters - For your records, you will want to keep track of any letters you send and the responses you get. Jumble Sales: Jumble sales are very popular, as there are plenty people who frequent yard sales in the summer - and jumble sales are just larger versions of the usual garage or yard sale. Appearance. Time - For a non-profit, keeping track of time is as important as keeping track of money. You can easily become overwhelmed and lose track of the entire project if you allow yourself to become disorganized.

Fundraising Ideas: Finding the Best Ones for Your Non-Profit - part 1

On the surface, finding fundraising ideas is easy. Get together a group of co-workers or co-volunteers into a brainstorming session, and you will likely get a list of ideas ranging from jumble sales to door-to-door selling to a direct mail campaign. Type in fundraising ideas into any Internet search engine and you are likely to get thousands of hits, ranging from bake sale ideas to companies offering fundraising opportunities.

It is not simply a matter of picking an idea, any idea.

To be successful at fundraising, you carefully need to consider which ideas work well for your group. Choosing the wrong ideas is disastrous: you will waste time, money, and effort to get little or no financial return and the failure to raise funds may well ruin the morale and motivation of your group. Getting out of the financial hole left by a bad fundraising campaign can also be quite difficult, especially for small non-profits.

There are a few things that separate a good fundraising idea from a bad one:

Cost of getting going should be what you can afford to spend

Good use of resources and talents

You have enough people power - or can get enough for it

It is a theme-appropriate idea for your group

It is appropriate for the size of your group

It does not require expensive resources you do not have

It is likely to appeal to donors

It gives added value to your donors - your donors will feel that they are getting something from the experience

It will bring in the required money.

You will need to consider these requirements against every idea you consider making sure that you are choosing a fundraising idea with some legs.

However, to save time, you may want to find fundraising ideas by starting with this list rather than starting with brainstorming. On a piece of paper, note the following:

The purpose of your organization

How much money you are willing to invest into fundraising

What resources you have that can help - even small resources such as someones car can be a big help when fundraising for your group

How much money you need - and when you need it by. Be sure to note whether you need money only for a specific project or whether you need to raise money on a consistent basis.

How much time you are willing to expend on fundraising

Who do you expect money from?

What sort of time frame do you have for the fundraising? Is there a specific thing you need money for? Do you need a specific amount by a specific time?

What is the money for?

Based on this simple inventory, you can start weeding out potentially bad ideas and can start focusing on the possibilities right away. This will get you actually fundraising sooner, and with less hassle. With your fundraising goals in mind (and these goals are what you are determining by answering the above questions), you can easily tell which ideas can contribute to your goals and which are unlikely to be a help.

It may be useful to consider the many ways that non-profits raise money for their programs and groups:

Lotteries and raffles: Ticket sales for games of chance are quite high and many non-profits are finding that people are willing to pay large amounts of money for the chance to win a fabulous prize. Many larger non-profits routinely raise money in the millions of dollars by having companies donate prizes such as cars and homes and then having donors pay one hundred dollars or more per ticket.

Donors like the fact that these raffles and prizes often have good odds and great prizes. However, many areas have laws about lotteries and gambling, so before pursuing this idea be sure to check the laws in your area.