Fundraising Blog

DO get started in the summer for your fall fundraisers. Businesses usually can only participate on so many cards per year, so if you want a great fundraising discount card, make sure you get a head start on other groups and sign them up early.
 
DON'T wait until the last minute to order your discount card fundraisers. A fundraising card with the best discounts takes a couple of weeks to put together and print, so give yourself and the fundraising card company working on your card plenty of time before

"COME EARLY, BE LOUD, STAY LATE"
OR HOW TO TURN A GOOD FUNDRAISER INTO A GREAT  FUNDRAISER
 
"Come early, be loud, stay late" is the slogan that University of Texas football coach Mack Brown started to encourage fans to support their football team.  This same quote equally applies to putting on successful fundraisers.
 
COME EARLY!
 

For certain people, fundraising can be quite an anxiety-riddled undertaking.  Just the simple act of approaching someone to ask for a donation can turn a person's stomach.  But why?  Your heart is in the right place.  Your trying to raise money for something you're truly passionate about.  Fear is the last thing you should be experiencing, right?  Well, unfortunately, fear comes up for a lot of people when it comes to fundraising. But we're here to help...

The following are 5 easy steps to what we like to call "No Fear Fundraising":

It's important with any fundraiser to let as many people as possible know about your cause.  That being said; let us introduce you to the concept of event-based fundraising.  We've noticed over the eight years we've been in the fundraising business that groups that center their fundraising efforts around one event tend to raise more money than groups that don't.