July Fundraising Ideas Archives

Fundraising: How to recruit more volunteers

Fundraiser Preparation: Recruiting Volunteers
How to advice on recruiting volunteers and the best ways to handle personnel assignments.
Start early
As previously discussed, to get enough volunteers you need to start early. The best way to do that is by pre-recruiting them. In other words, go through last year’s files and select the members that you think will [...]

Fundraising Advice Wanted

The July newsletter is online and this issue has some great content, including a new article on getting the most profit out of your car raffle.
I also included a bit of a forum thread I started this morning asking you what type of fundraising advice you wanted.
It might sound funny, but after six years [...]

eBay Auction Niche Finder

Wonder how you’ll ever find a profitable niche on eBay? Blindly diving in to a new product niche without knowing the competitive landscape and potential profit margins is a quick way to go broke!
If you want to avoid that pain and turn a tidy profit off niches with little or no competition and high demand, [...]

Yale Student Critically Injured On Fundraising Bike Ride

Yale fund-raiser ‘critical’ after Kansas accident
A Yale University student was in critical condition in a Kansas hospital Tuesday after he was hit by a car during a cross-country Habitat for Humanity Bicycle Challenge fund-raiser.
Dan Lewis of Denver, Colo., was hit by a car Saturday in Lincoln County, Kan., while riding his bicycle for [...]

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