Uncle Steve's
Proven Fundraiser Hints
- Advertise with your web-flyer or email contact list
- Advertise for several weeks in church bulletins
- Advertise with your local paper
- Offer to make them a co-sponsor for free ads
- Or ask about discounted rates for non-profits
- Post uncluttered and noticeable flyers at local businesses
- Eliminate shipping costs completely
- Borrow a truck and/or trailer
- Ask a commercial entity to sponsor shipping
- Be part of an already existing event
- Church Bazaar
- Craft fair
- Well-attended farmers' market
- etc…
- Set up at a busy location*
- Shopping Mall
- Church
- Busy intersection
- etc… *with permission of course
- Create a social atmosphere
- Provide/sell coffee/hot chocolate/food
- Provide music
- Local musicians
- School band/chorus
- Church choir
- Recorded music
- Invite appropriate vendors, or
- Sell popular items yourself
- Our Aromatic Balsam Sachets
- Scented candles
- Christmas Tree Shop items
- Set "Keep-The-Change" prices
- Avoid prices ending in "0"
- Charitable people will "round-up"