Fast
Church Youth Fundraisers
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Trying
To Find a Good, Fast Church Youth Fundraiser?
There
are as many possible church youth group fundraisers as there are people
to dream them up.
Sometimes
the best church youth fundraisers are the ones dreamed up at the youth
group itself-- such as the traditional car
washes,
spagetti dinners, rummage
sales, bake sales, menial labor auctions, head-shaving, and
so on.
However, there are several companies offering organized, simple, easy
church youth fundraisers through selling products and other means.
Many
tend to be very quick to put together, with funds coming in quickly and
with minimal hassle or paper work. Some of these easy church
fundraising ideas include:
Some
popular sale items for fast school fund raisers include:
Some
of the more popular products church youth fundraising companies offer
include selling candles, cookie
dough, T-shirts, pins and other church fundraising
products with
your church logo, Pizza discount cards, nuts and fruit gift
baskets, coffee, cookbooks, magazine sales,
local
entertainment and restaurant discount books, scratch help cards
and fundraising custom wrist bands.
A few tips for having
quick and easy church youth fundraisers.
Planning
an Easy Church Youth Fundraiser: Plan ahead
You should start to plan your church fund raiser a month or two in
advance if possible.
Try to find out if related groups are having fundraisers at the same
time and
try to schedule around them. Be
sure to
allow plenty of time for your fundraising products or materials to
arrive. Line up
volunteers, and be sure to delegate
responsibilities.
Be
Sure to Set Effective Youth Group Fundraising Goals.
Before you begin, get an idea of how much you want to make. Set a goal
that
is motivating and challenging, but not discouragingly impossible. Get an idea of how many
volunteers will be
participating, and then set a goal for each participant to raise a
percentage. If
possible, get each
volunteer to commit to reaching their personal goal.
Use Incentives to motivate the Church
Youth
Many fundraising companies offer incentives for individual
participants. Or
create your own
incentives. Ask
local stores if they
would be willing to donate a few prizes for the top fundraisers in your
group,
in exchange for mentioning them on various flyers about the fundraiser,
etc. Many local
stores are happy to
help, and happy for the publicity.
Have
Fewer, Big Church Youth Fund Raisers Rather Than Too Many and Too
Lengthy. People can get tired of Church
fund drives- both
the volunteers doing the fundraisers and the people
who support them financially. Rather
than overstaying a fundraisers welcome, have two or three focused,
energized
briefer fund raisers a year. Many
fundraising companies recommend having the fundraiser last no longer
than one
or two weeks. The
ones that drag on
longer tend to not make much more money, and may actually create a
slight
backlash.
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