Fundraising Ideas?

[Bob Dole]

Get some old t-shirts and rip them into small strips and sell them as prayer cloths.

It worked pretty well for Bob Tilton.

[Edubs]

Golf tournaments are the best bet most of the time. You can charge a good amount for everyone to play and it's obviously for a good cause. You try to contact some local businesses to donate or help out with prize items......closest to the pin, longest drive,....etc. If you get enough items donated you can even have an auction or silent auction after the tournament to raise more money.

[|Zach|]

Do a biography on Tom Cash.

[Hoover]

I'm a fundraiser.

A few questions.

What are you raising funds for?
How much do you need to raise?
When do you need to raise it by?
What type of community do you live in?
Who will help do the work?
What type of event are you leaning towards?

[Iowanian]

Have the members donate unique items and put them on Ebay...have it known that it is for a church fundraiser.

buy an old house/apt building, and have the membership remodel it.......sell it for profit.

[Hoover]

OK if it were me, and I lived in decent size town and I had a few months to plan this I would do the following fundraiser.

I would host a "Men Who Cook" Dinner.

Contact the notable Men in your church and community and get them to cook a either a Appetizer, main course, or dessert. Now they have to make enough for everyone who attends to have some, its not just a dish. If you end up with 400 people, they need 400 servings. You will also need to have so many of each course.

People who attend are asked to sample everything, then vote on the best Appetizer, main course, dessert and the best overall dish.

Thats the gimmich, now to raise the funds you need to sell tickets. Set a per price to attend. But also ask people from the community and your church to buy a table of ten, and list them as a sponsor for the event (Ticket Price times 10). Also the Cooks should want to win, so they are always a good source of getting people to attend.

Sell tickets, if you just pray people will attend you will raise nothing. Also its best if you do an annual event, people get used to giving to one event.

[Troy1220]

Here are some things that have been successful for me. I raise money for many different ministries nationwide.

Last year I hosted a golf marathon. 40 golfers...99 holes...raised 40,000.
I'm running 3 golf marathons this year. I am trying to raise 1 million dollars for a ministry I'm doing in Eastern Africa in 2006.

I've done a putt-putt golf marathon. Got a group of 20 people to play putt-putt for 24 hours straight...raised over 10,000.

Church softball tourneys are good, but you won't raise a ton of dough...volleyball tourneys might work.

I've worked with our local minor league ball team, and had some of the ball players put on a hitting and fielding clinic for youngsters. The ball players were Christian and happy to give a few hours of their time. We raised a few thousand at that event.

Hope you find something that works well for you.
Troy

[Hoover]

Most of the fundraising I do is political. I've done alot of Golf stuff, but for a Church Fundraiser I think its a bad idea because not everyone golfs, but everyone needs to eat.

[jspchief]

The "brothel out of your parents' house" thing worked good for Tom Cruise in Risky Business, but it would be a hard sell to the church.

Raffles are always nice too.

[Bob Dole]

Do churches not hold the good, old-fashioned Lord's Acre Suppers any more?