Comments | lusciousk: HELP!!!!!

lusciousk

HELP!!!!!

Feb 21, 2007 10:46

ok all you brainstormers...we need ideas on how to raise money for my shelter!!!!! there is no reason that al the other shelters in this area have millions...and i mean MILLIONS of dollars!!!! and they put the majority of their animals to sleep....if you don't know, The Plainfield Area Humane Society (where i work) is a non-profit, private ( Read more... )

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deinemuse February 21 2007, 17:36:54 UTC

When I volunteered for a cat rescue group, they always had fundraisers. They were never rich though, but they made due. Here are some of the things we did.

They had membership fees every year, not sure if you do that, but hundreds of people do sign up and at $25 bucks a pop it isn't bad.

We did a fashion show and raffle. We collected donated items and figured out nice gift baskets and got some major stores to donate a tv even. So, the costs were way down and it made a lot of money. It was also a great event. The only cost was the luncheon, which was $17 a head, and they charged $45 a head. That tooks hours of work though from 5 of us a few nights a week.

Art show - artisted donated 20% of the price of art for charity and they got the hall for free. $10 to register and no painting went for under $100. Yet, that was a little turn off for me so I left because I couldn't realy afford anything, but then they were selling.

Garage sales of all donated items. I heard that did very well.

lusciousk February 21 2007, 20:07:00 UTC

we have done all those things as well...they do work, but we are trying to put together something that would make us BIG BUCKS!!!! thanks for the input...i have gotten a lot of people saying to do an art show, i'm working on it!

thanks again sweetie!

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lusciousk February 21 2007, 20:15:07 UTC

well, the other shelters in the area are run by the state/municipality....some get $200,000 + a year for doing animal control...our towns freaked when we upped our contracts from 23,000 to 40,000!!!!

i wish i had an answer about the board memebers though, maybe they want to feel like they are doing good? maybe they thought it would be less work than it actually is? who knows...but soon a certain board memeber is going to be gone....