Following
is a list of suggested fundraising events that you can
do in your local community. You
can find the ones that are right for you in terms of
relative ease to organize and potential to raise money.
These events can be done with or without a personal
fundraising webpage. If
you do create a webpage to promote your event, email
it to everyone you know; people who don’t live close
enough to attend your fundraiser will still play an important
role in contributing to your goal!
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House Party
Invite
friends to your house for drinks/light food,
play the video,
discuss your family’s experience w/hemophilia,
and ask for donations for the It’s Time for
a Cure campaign
(recommended $50*). Allows for fun socializing,
while helping an important cause that is personal
to you. |
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Birthday Party
Ask
friends to donate to It’s Time for a Cure in
lieu of birthday presents. |
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Spaghetti/BBQ/FishFry/etc. Dinner
Decide
on a menu that’s easy to prepare for a large
group, assemble friends as volunteer cooks, ask
managers
of local grocery stores to donate food items**,
arrange for space at church, school, etc., invite
friends
and promote to general community to a $30-$50*
fundraising dinner. |
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Potluck Dinner
Invite
20 friends, each bringing a food dish, who will also
contribute $30* to It's Time for a Cure. |
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Candy Bar/Krispy Kreme/etc.
sales
Requires an initial purchase but
sales are relatively easy and the average profits
of 35-50% go to the It’s Time for a Cure Campaign.
http://www.thegoodiesfactory.com/Candy.htm
http://www.krispykreme.com/fund.html |
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Yard Sale/eBay Online Auction
Need to clean out your closet? Have a house full
of things you're not sure what to do with? Sell them
using Ebay on behalf of the National Hemophilia Foundation.
Through the Mission Fish program of Ebay's Giving
Works, all or a portion of the sale of your items
will be donated directly to NHF!
http://www.ebay.com/givingworks
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Bake Sale/Car Wash/etc. |
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Progressive Dinner
Work
with 2 friends, each of you being assigned to host
a single course of a meal, e.g. one person will prepare
appetizers for their house, another will serve the
main course at their house, and the last will have
dessert. Everyone invites a couple of friends, with
all participants donating $50*. The entire group
then meets at the first person’s house for appetizers,
progressing through each course by traveling to the
respective houses.
This idea can easily be broadened into a larger community event. Identify a
large communal space (e.g. a church, school, community center, etc.) and several
hosts. If for example, 100 people participate, identify approx. 10-12 hosts. All
100 people gather in the communal space to enjoy drinks and hors d’oeuvres. Each
attendee then receives an invitation to one of the hosts’ house for the main
course. After the meal, everyone gathers again at the communal space for dessert. All
the hosts would contribute to providing the appetizers and desserts at the communal
space. |
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Combined Fundraiser with Local
Schools, Churches, Service Clubs, (e.g. Lions,
Kiwanis, Rotary clubs), etc.
These community
groups oftentimes hold regular fundraisers and
will work with the community to determine what
not-for-profit organization it will benefit. Suggest
the It’s Time for a Cure campaign and work
with them to organize the nature of the event. |
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Approach local movie houses,
playhouses, to give brief presentation on It’s
Time for a Cure and circulate w/bucket |
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Raffle/Auction
Solicit product donations from local businesses**,
sell raffle tickets or hold a live or silent
auction.
This can be done on a small scale in connection
with another event, e.g. the spaghetti dinner,
or as a stand-alone event if you collect enough
donated prizes. |
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*All donation amounts are recommendations;
feel free to set another amount or leave it to
your guests’ discretion.
**NHF will provide a letter confirming the charitable
tax deductability of their donation. |
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