Some more fund-raising ideas:
1. Make an arrangement to collect donated airline miles and use them
for tickets that can be sold for the charity. Or the airline may
provide cash directly . . .
2. Hold a "Taste of Whatever" in which members or groups each cook a
dish or three. The local high school does a "Taste of Kamiak" and the
language clubs are so successful with their Japanese, French, German
dishes that it funds the clubs' activities all year.
3. Have a cookoff -- chili, ribs, chowder, spaghetti, gumbo would all
be manageable. Prizes for the cooks and $3-$5 for each sample when
it's done. (Recipes cost extra!)
4. Got single people? Auction off dates.
5. Print and sell a year-end calendar that uses your activity as a
theme. Make it beautiful. If it's really aesthetically pleasing, do
a screen saver with the images too.
6. Arrange with the phone company to deliver phone books.
7. Do a Halloween haunted house.
8. Find a great local supplier who can do aromatic, fresh wreath
holiday wreathes. (We had someone give us one entirely of aromatic
spices once but it dries out after 2 months). Pre-sell them.
9. Print Ex-libris stickers for people -- not just for books but for
DVDs and CDs. We like to have our identities in books -- and
certainly when we lend out disks!
10. Midnight bowling. Make sure that you invite me.
11. Knife-sharpening service for a modest sum ($1 per knife?). The
local grocery store's butchers (or even one of your members) provide
the service for free.
12. Make and sell pumpkin design kits.
13. For the really lazy ones -- do the pumpkin carving to
specification.
14. Everyone does car washes -- what your community needs is a PET
WASH! Cats cost double. . . no make that triple!
Best regards,
Omnivorous-GA |
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