Thursday, March 22, 2012

Fundraisers, fundraising ideas, school fundraising, wowgreen

Fundraisers, fundraising ideas, school fundraising, wowgreen by GreenSafeClean LLC

 

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When you are asked to purchase cookie dough you do so reluctantly for the cause. When it arrives you put it in the freezer, knowing you will soon be able to bake and eat the cookies. Unfortunately, we forget what's in the freezer and when you finally remember that it's there and you go to the freezer and remove the cookie dough, you find there freezer burnt. Or better yet, you buy Girl Scout cookies that are already cooked and ready to eat. You pay double for them because your only able to purchase them once or twice a year, so what do you do, you spend $100.00 on cookies for the family. Three to four weeks later, your cookies arrive. You're excited; you bring them home and put them in the kitchen for the family. Now one of two things happen, they go stale because nobody eats them, or like me two weeks will pass and you remember the cookies! You go into the kitchen and they're nowhere to be found, you ask your wife where are the cookies I brought home and she tells you they were gone in two days.
Well those days will soon be gone. This fundraising event will become a revolution, because everyone who participates in this fundraising event will use the products. We must do so for our health and the environment. The world is turning green. We all have to recycle to protect our planet and we even have garbage police that will fine you for not recycling correctly. Every time you turn on the television you're seeing more and more about greening, going green, green products etc. Our fundraising event is all about going green, and where does going green have a positive affect, at home. We all have products in our home that secrete and leach chemicals into the air as you're using them and storing them under the sink. We breathe this air when were watching television with our families, eating, reading a book, and sleeping.
We have been in the dark for far too long when it comes to product awareness, it's embarrassing. Corporate America has been poisoning all of us for decades. Only now are we finally being educated about what has been happening. Now it's our turn to make a difference and change?
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Youth Softball Fundraising Ideas

Youth Softball Fundraising Ideas by Trevor A. Sumner

 

The success or failure of your youth league depends on the funding you can raise to support your expenses. Youth softball fundraising ideas can help get you the funding that you sorely need to support the mission of your softball league. While fundraising ideas should be germinating in the minds of your administration all during the off season, it is at your winter or early pre-season meeting that you must begin to kick start your youth softball fundraising ideas.

Once you have set up a fundraising committee, you must compare anticipated expenses to anticipated income. Now, you have established a fundraising goal. Set up a fundraising committee and give the members some fundraising ideas to get them started in the right direction. Figure out your expenses and your income for the upcoming campaign.

Here are some simple youth softball fundraising ideas that can help your league have a successful campaign:

  • Car Wash � This is one of the better youth softball fundraising ideas. It is especially effective as a unifying activity for the community. It raises community awareness regarding your league, and the importance of the community in the success of your endeavour. Your fundraising committee could try to exact donations for the cleaning equipment, including rags and squeegees. You can hold car washes a few times during the season, if additional funding is required.
  • Chocolate Candy Fundraising � This is another one of the youth softball fundraising ideas to help your league raise the funds it needs to fulfil its mission. There are companies that sell you the cases of chocolates that you sell. There are 52 bars in a case, and they come in these tasty options: Creamy caramel; roasted almond; milk chocolate; dark chocolate; tasty truffle; and crispy rice. All members of your organization can take part in this softball fundraising activity. If you sell 100 cases, your organization will make $10,400.
  • Fundraising Scratch Card � This is currently one of the more popular youth softball fundraising ideas, and it is simple to organize. There are companies that furnish fundraising scratch cards that contain discounts from major manufacturers. The card contains 50 dots. The person you are seeking the donation from rubs two of the dots on the card. These will indicate money totals, such as $1 or $10. This is their donation amount for the card. Usually, your profit margin will be 70%.
  • Develop an Internet Presence - People donate money and time to a youth softball league because they appreciate the experience and its effects on kids, families and the community as a whole. To aid your softball fundraising efforts, the more you can share those memories and involved everyone in those experiences better. A softball team and league website where everyone can upload and share photos, communicate schedules and engage in discussions, parent coordination and the like is an extremely valuable way to both engage sponsors and make those involved more able to coordinate fundraising and donate.

You can try any of these youth softball fundraising ideas, or you can develop a few of your own. One rule that almost always makes your fundraising more effective is to make sure everyone participates. If a parent or coach solicits money with the kids there or vice versa, it makes your softball fundraising effort seem both more legitimate and have more emotional resonance. We all want to make sure the kids have a great time.

Monday, March 19, 2012

It’s All Greek to Me

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It’s All Greek to Meby Jason Dick · 4 comments

I recently joined a committee that funds social services projects in the city in which I live. At one of our meetings the committee was discussing setting our funding guidelines. I’ve been a part of the grant writing process for many years and have seen the result of some of the stranger and more involved funding questions.

Maybe it was just my revenge on the funders but I realised quickly that funders and nonprofits do not always speak the same language. The intention behind a funding guideline does not always translate into the intended results. Here are a couple of examples that came to my mind. I’d love to hear from you if you have any other examples.

Example #1 – Leverage

In order to receive funding a nonprofit must use a funders gift to leverage additional financial support from other funders.
Funder Intention: Their perspective on leverage is that it increases their giving power. They can say that with a gift of $500 it was turned into a gift of $1,500.
Nonprofit Result: More partners does not always equal better results. Sometimes a project is best run independent and additional partners just add cost and red tape. Many nonprofits are seeking initial funding to get the project started. This also means that they have to have a process in place to track and report to a group of funders which can mean additional work and administration. More partners does not always equal better service.

Example # 2 – Sustainable Funding

This is the concept that a nonprofit must show that they have a plan for how the project will be funded after the initial contribution runs out.
Funder Intention: The idea is that the funder is providing the start up funds for a program that the organization does not have the capacity yet to fund. They see themselves on the cutting edge of a new solution or kind of assistance.
Nonprofit Result: A nonprofit will wait until they are a year away from putting this project in their annual budget. The result is that it is not a new idea but one they have been hoping to run for a while but have been forced to put off until the organization grows to meet a sustainable funding model. This can also commit a nonprofit to a project that turns out to not work as it was originally intended.



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Take Initiative

by Jason Dick · 2 comments

I am not a particularly brilliant or innovative person nor am I fabulously talented or charismatic. Any success that I have had I’d contribute to a God that cares about me, great friends, and initiative. I am baffled by how many people will only do exactly what they are told or asked to do and nothing more. If you want to be successful, find a way to do more than is expected and asked of you.

Many organizations have a time where the office is less busy often times during the summer donors are less engaged as they are traveling. What a great time to think about a special projects you can work on that will make a difference at your organization. Think about doing a thank you campaign or working on a social media plan. Don’t take your extra time for granted or sit bored at your desk.

If you can create a habit of taking initiative, it will serve you your entire life. Bosses love hiring staff that they do not have to watch over and worry if they are working hard. Everyone will know you are a hard work and you will also get the benefit of the doubt when you make a mistake or when something you try doesn’t work.



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Fundraising is Not a Narcotic

by Jason Dick · 1 comment

Over the last few months I have been secretly peddling drugs. My blog was hacked and, unknown to me, written into the metadata was advertising for a narcotic. I’m very sorry that I did not catch it sooner. I deleted my site and reposted everything and have solved the problem.

I was thinking about what I want my website to be about and I reflected on what fundraising is about. There is not a lot in common between fundraising and drugs. Fundraising is about capacity building for good work in our communities. It is about providing people a chance they never had before.

However some people seem to steer clear of fundraising as if it was worse than you local dealer. . It is an opportunity for us individually and as a community to make a difference.



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Friday, March 16, 2012

Restaurant Fundraising Made Easy updated Mon Mar 5 2012 10:57 pm EST

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