How Can I Organize a Pampered Chef Fundraiser for Help Whip Cancer?

[SMOORE]

I work at a high school in the office. Our school nurse loves Pampered Chef and is involved with Relay For Life. She has said that her team would be interested in doing a PC fundraiser. I could really use some advice as to how to do this because unfortunately I have never done a fundraiser before! I would donate all of my commission. I am very excited to do this but don't even know where to start. Do I do a show or have them collect there own orders? I am just not sure how it works.

Thanks for any suggestions!
Susan Moore
Living "The American Dream" through Pampered Chef

 

[cmdtrgd]

Susan - the one tip is not to donate all of your commission because you will be putting money into this. Catalogs and order forms take money. I suggest that you stay with what HO has until they get to $1000. Then add another 5% and at $5000 add another 5% and so on. Make sure you cover your expenses!!!

 

[DebbieJ]

Have them do it just like a catalog show. Give a few catties and outside order forms to each team member and have them collect orders. They usually have team meetings and stuff. You can have a kick off meeting with them where you bring a recipe or do a short demo and then another closing meeting to collect all orders and money.

Good luck!! I'm working on Relay leads right now myself!

 

[cookinwithbarb]

I am doing a HWC-Relay for Life fundraiser show too. It should be BIG. It will be my first one of this size. It will be for a team at a local hospital. I am looking for a flyer if any of you have gotten this far.

 

[blondeinpcola]

I have a question...
I'm the team leader for my Relay for Life team. If I do a fundraiser with HWC in May. How does that work? How does my team get credit for the fundraiser? Probably a silly question, I'm just not familiar with fundraisers but would love to do this help raise money for my team this year. Thanks!!

 

[chefann]

You'll need to do a fundraiser with your team as the organization. It won't count as an HWC fundraiser (those have to go straight to the ACS fromHO). But by doing it in May, people will be able to get the pink products.

You'll receive a check from HO for the benefit amount around the same time that the products ship.

 

[blondeinpcola]

Thanks Ann!
So it will just be the 10-15% like a regular fundraiser?

 

[speedychef]

That's right. Pass out catalogs and order forms to everyone on the team, and encourage them each to collect a certain number of orders. Do they have a particular goal in mind? That can help when you are setting goals for each memeber to collect $xx in orders, and then you can break that down into approximate number of orders.

I have a fundraiser that I'm about to do and instead of donating my commission, I'm going to add things on to people's orders when they get to certain levels...I had this set up for last fall, so I'm going to have to update it, but here's what I have if you want to get the basic idea...(clearly I won't be putting MY cost on there...) I figure I will give them the smaller prizes from the supply/order, and the others, I will just add on to their order. That way, I add to the fundraiser total, and my commission rate as well.

 

[COOKINWITHSHERRI]

Another way to submit a fundraiser would be to have a show, donate your 20% and take it as a write off. I time it when my commission check will be in (8th or 22nd) to give each Host the their check. It can be for a Relay, from a specific person or anyone other fundraiser!

You'll process it as a Cooking Show. Treat it the same as the regular show. Gather the Outside Orders, use one of the handy special HWC pre-orders forms that we've seen here to gather more Orders. You can do a pre-fundraiser type show, before your deadline to give everyone a heads up and some tips to use the catalog and the order forms.

I usually either draw for a Mystery Host OR I'm the Host myself. That way I take the FREE products and get items I want &/or prizes I need for my monthly BINGO. It's a WIN WIN situation!