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Fundraising Success #55Fundraising Success - Issue #55 - Article: "Mini Golf Fundraiser"; Supplier Spotlight: "Gateway Spice" ================================================Fundraising Success #55 - June 2007 June is the favorite month for weddings and now it's my turn to enjoy one. The oldest son, Wyatt, and his longtime love, Sara, are tying the knot this Saturday. Talk about lots of last-minute to-dos! But, at least when you are on the groom side of the wedding, it's a lot less stressful. Plus, you don't feel like you have to do a fundraiser just to cover all the costs. We're looking forward to a beautiful ceremony and the weather forecast couldn't be any nicer. It'll be an eventful weekend with the Saturday nuptials followed by Father's Day, but everyone will be together and that's a wonderful thing. You don't know how much you miss your kids until they've grown up and moved away! Enjoy your Summer! Kimberly ---------------------------------------------------------------- This one's from our forum:
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Mini Golf Tournament Profit TipsHosting a mini golf tournament is a great fundraiser for school clubs, youth sports teams, church groups, and cheerleading squads. It's great fun and done right, a mini golf fundraiser can raise considerable funds. Getting started To maximize attendance, price your golf event tickets at reasonable prices. Offer attractive variations like a flat-rate family ticket or discounts for students or advance purchases. Publicity For example, if you are raising funds to help a specific person with medical expenses, feature that person's story in the press release. If you are raising funds for a cause, focus your story angle on the positive effect those dollars will provide. And don't forget to use posters in store windows, community newsletters, email, and other methods to stimulate interest in you golf tournament. Profit tips Think like a business person and encourage sponsors to offer something creative that will bring them customers such as two-for-one coupon given to all players. Or, a business could offer a prize to everyone who beats a certain score or gets a hole in one on the 18th hole. Besides sponsorships, you can also ask businesses to donate items or services to use as prizes for lowest score, best bank shot, etc. Fundraising activities Food and drink sales is another source of potential profits. With course owner permission, you could even run your own concession stand offering grilled hot dogs, hamburgers, sodas, etc. You can also offer silent auctions of donated goods and services. Place the items along with attractive descriptions and bid sheets on tables near high-traffic spots. Be sure to tape down paper and pens to make it easy for players to get in a quick bid while still holding their putter. And don't forget to ask for donations. You can oftentimes raise a considerable amount just by placing a jug labeled donations right next to where players pay for their rounds. Summary Employ multiple fundraising activities to generate additional funds. Conduct raffles and silent auctions or run your own concession stand. Offer prizes for low scores or conduct a hole-in-one contest. Make your event as much fun as possible and you'll be surprised at how well you do with your mini golf fundraiser! ---------------------------------------------------------------- (Excerpt from my book, Fundraising Success!) Supplier: Gateway Spice, aka Gateway China This company profile is an excerpt from my book, Fundraising Success, which provides complete how-to information on all aspects of raising funds for schools, churches, youth sports teams, and nonprofit groups. ---------------------------------------------------------------- From the homepage, visitors can look over sections that include “When should the doctor check for cancer”, “Quitting Smoking”, and “Eat Well & Be Active”. Within each of these sections, visitors will find helpful and well-researched tools designed to help them in each of these different areas. The “Health Tools” section is definitely worth a look, as it contains an interactive body mass index calculator and a feature that tabulates the cost of smoking based on an individual’s particular habits. http://www.labs.cancer.org/lifeclinic/kiosk.html
Things to see: Design is one of those elements that we encounter hundreds of times each day in our wanderings, yet many give it nary a second thought. This recent exhibition from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York has given it about 86 second thoughts, as it features the work of 87 designers and firms. All told, they include those in the fields of architecture, robotics, interactive media, landscapes, interiors, and film. Visitors to the site can click on an alphabetical list of the designers featured here, or they can take a look at a list of popular tags, such as “defense research”, “magazines”, and “animatronics”. Not surprisingly, the site includes a number of podcasts that feature interviews with selected designers, including fashion designer Han Feng and textile designer Jessica Smith. The site is rounded out by a blog, which includes the posts “The Craft of Manufacturing” and “Are Designers the Enemies of Design?” http://www.peoplesdesignaward.org/designlifenow/
That's all for this issue. See you next month. Related PagesNewsletters - All the Back Issues! Fundraising Ideas - Ideas for fundraising that focus on the best activities for high school, elementary school, sports teams, and youth groups to raise funds with events, activities, programs, projects and products. Fundraising Events - Three profitable event ideas for small group or school fundraisers - Fundraiser events that are quick and easy - Event ideas you can do in a month and that work anywhere from Canada to Australia. School Fundraisers - Easy fundraising ideas for schools that consistently produce excellent results. Includes articles on cheerleading, high school football, soccer, and band, plus more great youth sports team activities and events for other high school groups. Thank You Letters - Seven tips on writing thank you letters, notes, or simple donor recognition phone calls. Fundraising Letters - See what fund raising letters work for other non-profit groups. Fundraising Letter - How to generate the best response with your donation request letters. How To Write A Fundraising Letter - Advice and tips on what works and what doesn't. Nonprofit Software - Listings and descriptions of popular software programs for nonprofit groups. Donor tracking and recognition programs, nonprofit accounting, and capital campaign support.
Church Fundraisers - Church fundraising ideas for capital campaigns through donor recognition -
Christian fundraiser charity activities and events that produce quick results.
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