Month: September 2008

Keeping It Easy With Fundraising

If you have worked on fundraisers in the past, you can attest to how frustrating a difficult fundraising idea can get. There is passing out paperwork, collecting paperwork, sending the paperwork in, receiving shipments, delivering shipments to students or having them pick them up, and then having the students deliver the product to their customers. All of this just seems difficult and unnecessary! With many of these fundraisers, the organization is only netting a very small percentage of the profits from the sales. Why not try an easy fundraising idea that allows you to take home more of the profit instead?

The Easiest Ideas

While a fundraising event idea will almost always be complex, a simple fundraising activity or a fundraising opportunity at another event can be easy. A very easy fundraising idea is simply a 50/50 raffle. These raffles work best at a large event like a sporting event or the drama clubs main production. All you have to do is sell raffle tickets. At the predetermined time, someone draws a ticket from the bin. Whoever has the matching ticket wins fifty percent of whatever you took in. With this easy fundraising idea, many people actually choose to donate their winnings back to the organization anyway! If you did not want to do a 50/50 raffle you could also do a 75/25 raffle.

Raffles in general are very easy fundraising ideas. You can sell raffle tickets to just about anything. Along these lines, basket bingo is a very easy fundraising idea. Have companies or individuals put together baskets and donate them to the organization. Then simply have people pay to come play bingo and the basket is the prize!

Other Easy Fundraising Ideas

Aside from raffles and bingo, there are other easy fundraising ideas out there. A bake sale is a very easy fundraising idea. All you need are parents and students to donate food items, a table, and a great location. If your town is having a fair or festival, set up a table! The best thing to do for your bake sale is to cater to the event. If you are setting up at a winter festival, make sure to sell hot chocolate and hot coffee. If you are at a summer event, have coolers filled with ice and cold water, sodas, and juice. Make sure that you have the typical bake sale items like cookies and brownies as well as nontraditional items that people might not expect.

Easy fundraising ideas are possible and practical to raise money for your organization!

The Taste of Tuscany; Italian Wine Makes a Hit in

Your best friend is getting married. Youve sat and tried to figure out what to buy her and her new husband for a wedding gift. You dont want to join the rest of the guest as they grab a list from some place the couple is registered at. You want to be different. You want your gift to really say something. Then it hits you like a ton of bricks, an Italian wine gift basket. Thats the perfect gift for this amazing couple.

You cant believe you didnt think of it before. After all, your best friend told you of the amazing trip she and her fianc took to Italy when they got engaged. She replayed the amazing walks they took, how the architecture screamed out to them and how he surprised her with a romantic candlelit dinner. This was where she first tried a bottle of Italian Lambrusco wine. Then you remember how wine played a role in their whole trip. Since they both loved wine, they vowed to try a new Italian wine at each place they visited.

An Italian wine gift basket would remind them of an amazing moment they shared together. It would symbolize a trip that celebrated the love they shared for one another. As you head to the winery, you toss various varieties of Italian wine around in your mind. Should you give them a bottle of wine from the Piedmont region of Italy or perhaps some bottles from the Veneto region? You decide to make them an Italian wine gift basket that will contain one bottle from each region they visited.

The local winery says they can create a basket for you; all you have to do is pick the varieties of wine you want to include. They custom wrap it and its sure to be a gift that will stand out and be memorable. Arriving at the winery youre taken to the Italian wine section. Youre amazed at how many different varieties of Italian wine there are. You definitely want your Italian wine gift basket to include a bottle of wine from Tuscany, since this is where he proposed to her. They toured Sicily show you choose a bottle from there as well. With so many varieties you are simply at a loss as to which ones to choose.

The employee at the winery makes a few suggestions based on the experience your best friend has there. Your selections are placed in a magnificent wooden basket and wrapped in a sheer, silver toned plastic. Tied with a big bow you walk into the wedding chapel with a smile on your face. When the happy couple opens the gift and sees its an Italian wine gift basket, they are immediately flooded with wonderful memories of their trip. With the look on their faces you might eventually end up buying a baby gift basket. For now though, you know from the looks on their faces that creating an Italian wine gift basket just for them was the best thing you could have ever done. Its a gift they will never forget.