How to Get Started With Fundraisers

[msmileyface]

Hi everyone, I have a potential fundraiser booking and I need to know how to get started. I also have a call in to my director to fill me in, but thought I could get some tips here first. I know NOTHING about how to do them! Where do I begin?

Thanks!
Meredith

 

[gailz2]

Meredith, be sure to look through the files here as there are numerous ways to conduct fundraisers. You can hold actual cooking demos at someone's home and have it all go to the fundraiser, you can set up a table at an event as part of a fundraiser, hold a meeting and give out catalogs to participants to collect orders, and I've even heard of some raffle of sorts--50 squares on a page, each person sells them for $4 a square and the winner gets $100 to spend on PC, and the other $100 goes to the fundraiser person. There are probably more, as well. You'll have to see what they had in mind and what you are comfortable doing. Good Luck!

 

[scottcooks]

Hi, Meredith! Welcome to PC and to CS. Fundraisers in a nutshell are two things: One, an opportunity to do something nice for a community group that needs help. Two, an opportunity to expose Pampered Chef to a broader contact base - one that may or may not be a future market. Don't look at them as a vibrant money maker; they are not.

To raise significant funds, include a PC fundraiser as an aspect of a wider campaign. One of my favorite starts is a batter bowl fundraiser / then a giant catalog show / culminating in a classic demo cooking show.

For the Batter Bowl Fundraiser, call HO ahead to arrange a bulk purchase of bowls. You can probably come up with them a bit less than the $11.50 small BB price - even if you did a show of ordering just them, you could apply the HD to them after 9 purchased to bring the price down - or after 18 at 20% for a bigger group. Go to a neighborhood grocer and explain you are making premixes for a fund raiser. Many stores (like Safeway) will contribute some or all ingredients to the cause. Select whichever recipe you like

https://www.pamperedchef.com/images/cc/us/pdf/holiday_bb_recipes.pdf

layer the ingredients as indicated in the bowl. Print the tag, secure the lid, and you're in business!

Step two is a giant catalog fundraiser. On the order forms, make it clear what the cause is - and when forms are due back. Attached are some ideas.

Step three is the cooking demo - I'd suggest something chocolate, but whatever you like. Keep it simple and intensive in higher end products (cookware, stoneware, forged cutlery, etc.) and you'll have a winner!

Many consultants choose to donate a portion of their commission to increase the funds raised. You could opt to match a certain dollar amount, or simply make a donation yourself if you choose. Good luck!

-careful of the 'potential breakdown'. The last time I used it (maybe I should say final time) a well-intentioned helper misinterpreted the list and in presenting the paperwork to the group's leader, badmouthed the fundraiser so badly, that I lost it. I guess I should've delivered it myself...