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SolveYourProblem
eBusiness Series:
Fundraising
Essentials For Your Non-Profit:
How To Raise All The Money You Want
( 34 pages )
Fundraising Ideas:
Finding the Best Ones for Your Non-Profit
- Sales: Selling
products is easy and inexpensive to set up. You can easily
organize sales by asking people to donate things and
then selling these at a profit. You will need a space
to store donated items, volunteers to sort and sell items,
and a place to sell the items.
Sales are a good way to generate fundraising money for
a short-term project, although some groups have success
in hosting regular sales that contribute plenty of money
continuously. If you are able to find a location that will
allow you to make sales regularly, you can often host sales
each week. One advantage of sales is that there are many
types that your group can organize:
- Gardening Sales: If
your group has a green thumb or a green theme, you can
sell seedlings, seeds, bulbs, or other items for people’s
gardens at an outside sale. In many cases, volunteers can
raise plants on their own or get plants donated from gardening
centers or other people’s gardens. This is a popular sale
theme in spring and early summer, when many people are
starting to work on their gardens and are looking for plants.
- Craft sales: If
members of your group like creating crafts - knitting,
sewing, wood crafting, then creating a craft sale to sell
small created items is often a good way to raise money.
Craft sales tend to do especially well in tourist areas
during the summer and in all locations before the holidays
(when people are looking for items to buy others). Many
small craft items can be made quite quickly, and it is
often best to try to make lots of smaller items for such
a sale along with a few larger items (such as quilts).
- Children’s Sales: Selling
items specifically for children - such as toys. Children’s
clothes, and children’s books - can be a good way to draw
people and donors for a children or family-related non-profit.
These sales are often quite popular because many people
like to buy things for their children without spending
a lot of money. In many cases, items can be donated by
stores or donated by volunteers. Volunteers will need to
check carefully to make sure that all items are in good
condition, however.
- Bake Sales: Bake
sales are quick to organize and inexpensive to set up.
All a group needs to run this type of sale is some people
willing to bake some items and a small area to sell the
items. It is important to choose a good place for a bake
sale. This is the sort of sale your group will want to
organize at some event (such as a picnic) since few people
are willing to travel out of their way to buy baked goods.
A bake sale can bring in extra
fundraising cash, though, if you set up your sale someplace
where people already are. If you are organizing a bake
sale, you will want to set up sign-up sheets so that your
sale has several varieties of baked goods. In general,
volunteers should be encouraged to make baked items that
are finger food. Baked items that are very gooey or require
a fork to eat are often too fussy for many bake sales.
- Book Sales: If
you live in a town that has a college or several used bookstores,
you generally have the buyer base to hold a book sale.
Book sales can bring in plenty of fundraising money, because
many book fans are enthusiastic about reading and will
gladly buy books in larger quantities.
Plus, many people are attracted
to book sales because the book prices are so much lower
than the prices at book stores. You will need to find book
donations by appealing to the public and will want to set
prices fairly low in order to attract lots of buyers.
- Jumble Sales: Jumble
sales are very popular, as there are plenty people who
frequent yard sales in the summer - and jumble sales are
just larger versions of the usual garage or yard sale.
Jumble sales often take place during the summer, and are
easy and inexpensive to organize.
You will need to collect donations
of used goods, organize them, price them, store them, and
then sell them at a large sale. To do this well, you will
need a storage and selling space and plenty of volunteers.
- Flea Markets: There
are many people who like hunting for lost “treasures”
at flea markets, and these people can make a flea market
fundraising idea very attractive. Flea markets usually
charge an admission fee but have a similar range of items
as jumble sales. At flea markets, however, it is possible
to find ”higher-end” items such as antiques as well as
the usually assortment of used goods.
Flea markets often have several
sellers and sometimes offer larger items and collectibles
as well. Organizing a flea market is similar to organizing
a jumble sale. However, many flea markets are successful
year round. In fact, many non-profits benefit by hosting
regular flea markets on a weekly or monthly basis.
- Home or art sales: Sales
that offer art works or items for the home (such as decor
or furniture) often do well because people are always
looking for these items. If your non-profit can create
art or find used furniture and used art pieces to sell,
this sort of sale can be quite profitable.
- Auctions: Auctions
can take place alone or as part of a larger sale or fundraising
campaign. If you can get someone to donate more valuable
pieces (artworks or antiques) to your non-profit you
can organize an auction yourself or have a local auction
house sell the piece in exchange for part of the profit.
Silent auctions (in which bidders write their bids on
a paper instead of aloud) can be a great way to make
more money on larger items at a fundraising sale or marathon.
 
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