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Maybe you’ve already seen them in your neighborhood, or heard about them in the news: a new generation of food trucks that serves everything from tri-tip and crepes to cupcakes or any ethnic cuisine you can imagine. Unlike a traditional ice cream truck, or the hot dog and taco wagons at a downtown street corner, [...]

Valentine’s Day is one of the best times of year to hold a fundraiser! A Valentine’s Day fundraiser offers the advantages of • Decreased competition from other fundraisers – as opposed to the busy times of year for fundraising like Christmas and Fall, when many local and nationwide groups launch major campaigns • Demand for [...]

Maybe you’ve used gift cards in gift baskets for silent auctions before, or as prizes for your most successful fundraising volunteers, but have you considered doing a fundraiser by collecting gift cards and cashing them in? Especially during the winter holidays, people get lots of gift cards for presents. Sure, when you receive a gift [...]

The founders of Groupon.com, the popular coupon website just can’t help themselves: they’ve morphed Groupon out of their then not so popular fundraising site ThePoint.com and have now found a way to get back to their fundraising roots and put the two together as their “G-Team.” G-Team is a new way for non-profits to raise [...]

Following are some considerations and tips for raising funds for veterans: – You may feel like you want to jump right into helping out a veteran in your neighborhood, but what you think this person needs may be quite different from what they actually need most desperately. Try to speak to the family directly before [...]

Many of you have probably already been part of a fundraiser that sold products made outside the USA. Wouldn’t it be great if your favorite fundraising products were made in the US? Why buy fundraising products made in the USA? Why not make an effort and seek out US companies that sell fundraising products made [...]

Need, practicality, and usefulness are three elements that can really boost fundraising product sales. When you show your customers that you are selling something that is truly helpful and needed in their homes and their lives, like first aid kits and safety products, you grab their attention and their orders. First aid kits and other [...]

A cookbook fundraiser can be an interesting, profitable way to raise money for your group; and the added benefit is that you get to create a product that promotes pride and community, while leaving a lasting legacy! Why A Cookbook Fundraiser? Cookbook fundraisers are beneficial in many ways: • Cookbook fundraisers become a “community” group [...]

A golf fundraiser can raise substantial amounts of money and is a great way to attract a large number of supporters for your cause. It is also a great way to entice members of the business community to participate. Many of them probably already play golf – golf is a great way to have meetings [...]

Raising cash by recycling electronics doesn’t just help your group, it also helps prevent e-waste by keeping millions of TVs, computers etc. out of landfills. Recycling electronics is quite popular and we have long recommended our sponsor Funding Factory for a very easy way to raise funds with ink cartridges, cellphones and other electronics. But [...]