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Friday, November 6, 2009

Any ideas for a "profitable" and fair FUNDRAISER for a small non-profit organization??

I'm always trying to come up with GREAT ideas for a fundraiser to help our small work committee. So far, a group garage sale has been the best! We've done cook sales in our breakroom, however they are not profitable at all! Of course a football raffle is common and can help..........BUT, we are at a standstill because we can't come up with anything else to keep us going. We help people in need, the Ronald McDonald house, charitable needs, family loss/flowers, and our own in-station things like our Christmas party, baby showers, special other things, birthdays, Any ideas from anyone?

Any ideas for a "profitable" and fair FUNDRAISER for a small non-profit organization??
are there any grants you might be eligible for ?

maybe ask your local mayor for ideas ?

Ask McDonald's Corporation in Oakbrook , IL , if they have any suggestions since you are helping support the Charity house.

As an accountant if something can be set up for gift matching / if a foundation or something was estabished. our company allows us to contribute to a charity of our choice and they will match our contribution. I do not know the details but they get a tax advantage and so do we for doing so. Not sure how to arrange. Is one of your members an attorney or tax attorey that might be able to advise ? You could offer to list their name on brochures for advertising in exchange.

What about coupon booklets / ask local business to advertise / you sell the coupon books for low prices ?

ask to have raffles at all sporting events or other events ? ask a business to contribute something ... cell phone / dinner for 2 at a restaurant / dozen donuts / 4 movie tickets / spa time / manicure/pedicure / anything at any loal store and then sell raffle tickets for it.

would food sales be more profitable if grocery stores / sams club donated the food instead of purchasing it ? ask one store to donate bread items / another store to donate hot dogs / another store to donate chips. another store to donate condiments. list their names / thank them . pass the brochure with each item purchased.
Reply:We've found that "garage" sales are very good, but sometimes you get stuck with a lot of things you can't sell. If you are a REAL non profit (have your 501C paperwork) then you can talk to some area businesses about donations or other fund raising methods. For example, McDonalds will sell the coupon books that people sometimes give kids at Halloween for half price, then you sell them to employees for $1. We've received things like coupons for a free car wash or massage, movie tickets, bath sets, etc and then held an auction. If you do that, be sure you advertise to outside buyers as well for the best prices.
Reply:Let's see: carwashes are always a fun way to raise money. Or a game night at someone's house: just charge a couple bucks to get in and provide an easy dinner, like spaghetti and garlic bread.

Or you could do a movie marathon: charge a few bucks to get in and provide popcorn and a soda or something like that.

Also you could contact a fundraiser company like Sees and sell products from door to door or in front of a popular store. (One that I always liked to do was sell cookie dough, and it was always a BIG hit.)

I found a website with a ton of ideas for you though. It is the first site listed in the source box below. The site listed below it is a site where you can do sponsored fundraisers.

GOOD LUCK!!!!! =]
Reply:One of the best fundraisers I have ever heard of was in my old school. Back in the early 1980's., we lost funding for music and athletics, and we had to scramble to keep any programs. We made and sold apple pies. In our area of Michigan, apple orchards are pretty common, and there were lots of blemished or bruised apples that wouldn't sell for much of anything, so the orchards gave us the apples, the sugar beet factory donated sugar, the dairy farmers donated butter, the local grocery store donated the flour, and we used the school cafeteria to make the pies. I think the only thing we had to pay for were the pie tins. The students went out and picked the apples, and we pre-sold the pies for like $8 each. People had to come and pick them up the day we made them. We had every band student and most of our Moms helping to make crust, peel apples, fill pies, package and people who just worked at the door giving people pies for their little tickets they purchased from the kids. They still do this fundraiser today, and it now raises about $30,000. Some people inevitably don't pick up their pies, so the rest are frozen and sold to a local store or resold for a lower price that afternoon.

You could do similar things in your area based on what is available. One idea is to sell seedling trees, you can get them for next to nothing on Ebay, and have one or two days for people to pick them up. Or flower baskets in the spring, bought in large wholesale lots and resold. Or go door to door and to businesses offering to pick up their pop cans that day and then recycling them or getting the deposit. (That is how our girls high school softball team raises money, and I love it.!)

The best ideas have a few things in common. First, they have a high profit rate, with donated items (like your thrift sale) or a very fast turnaround, like a one or two day craft sale, book sale, etc. Also, doing something new that no one else does is good. One idea is to ask for donated items that can be sold on Ebay, and give reciepts since you are a non-profit. This can be a great tax deduction for the giver, and you have a large selling audience to bid on the items. You can sell anything on Ebay, from antique dishes to car parts to DVD's or whatever. Instead of always going to your local businesses asking for donations, try to go door to door, or put a general call out to local people. Offer to pick things up. You can probably get your local papers to give you free classified ads asking for donations. You just need somewhere to store stuff. What you cannot sell on Ebay, you could sell in your garage sales, even holding one a month on a regular basis, first Saturday or something.

Good luck! Thanks for doing good!
Reply:try raffleing a fourwheeler, we did that in the fire dept. i belonged to. usually cleared around seven thousand dollars in our small town....
Reply:Raffles work great in this type of situation and it's something you could do over and over. Choose great prizes that people really want and you'll sell plenty of tickets every time. iPods, digital cameras, spa treatments, full car detailing, and so on work really well. Be sure to price your raffle tickets accordingly; too low and you won't make as much profit, too high and you won't sell many tickets. Fundraising over and over to the same people gets old for you and for them, but if there is a possibility of winning a great prize, that changes everything. Look for more raffle ideas here:

http://www.fundraiserhelp.com/raffles.ht...

Good Luck.

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Urgent name required?

Flowers %26amp; Nemesis want to know what they should name thier new baby, a girl weighing 8 pounds 8 ounces?

Urgent name required?
Andelyn~ The best name ever.

Madison

Jenna

Victoria

Coley

~Just a few suggestions. Let us know what you pick! Congrats!!!
Reply:dandelion
Reply:Congratulations! How about Primrose?
Reply:Rosebud
Reply:How about choosing a name you like????

Maybe Flowers has 1 up her sleeve???

If not then something like Kara or maybe Lynsey?
Reply:herbaceous floribunda has a nice ring to it, really pretentious should impress members of the RHS.
Reply:PATUNIA
Reply:uummm...BERT.

However..

Rose Dolores

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Large bloom on a tall stem. This popular pink rose lasts a long time, but doesn't open fully. Always cut rose stems at a sharp angle underwater. If a rose appears wilted cut and put in hot water while holding the head straight. After about 20 seconds the water will reach the top of the rose and revive it.
Reply:Ashelyn!
Reply:What ! where! when!
Reply:petal

lilly

Rosie

summer
Reply:Eris
Reply:Poppy
Reply:Adele.

(or going by the birth weight how about Nellie as in the elephant)

No offense intended!

Congratulations and welcome to the world (insert name here)
Reply:delilah, lola, leila, kayla
Reply:How about....

'My parents names are crap, but don't condemn me for it'?
Reply:Layla Star
Reply:Juanita

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My favorite girl names...?

Would you please comment on or rate individually my favorite girl names?

Violet Erin- Erin was my favorite girl name for years and years, but then someone married into the family with that name, so I decided it would be a middle name, and I realized that I absolutely adored the name Violet.

Brenna Ruth- Ruth has ALWAYS been one of my favorite names, and I love "enna" sound in names because it sounds really soft and pretty to me.

Fira Bree- Fira is pronounced feer-uh, or fee-ruh, and I heard it from a storybook, and Bree is just a really elegant pretty name in my opinion.

Keturah Eden- I've always liked the name Eden, but preferred it for a middle name; Keturah is pronounced keh-too-ruh, and it's a biblical name that means incense.

Blodwyn Audra- I discovered the name Blodwyn just searching thru a baby name book; it means white flower in Welsh and I think it's a BEAUTIFUL name; Audra is a family name and I think it sounds really good with Blodwyn.

My favorite girl names...?
Violet Erin- I think this is the prettiest one. i really love it.

Brenna Ruth- i like ruth, but not brenna.

Fira Bree- Fira is kinda pretty, but not fond of the name Bree in general.

Keturah Eden- this one is ok, sounds very exotic. would she have a nickname? if so, what would it be? be ready for a lifetime of strange spellings.

blodwyn audra- i like audra, but blodwyn is a little weird for me.
Reply:Violet Erin: Really pretty name

Brenna Ruth: Quite like this as unusual but not totally out there

Fira Bree: Quite nice. The name grows on you

Keturah Eden: Ok. Not my favourite but passable

Blodwyn Audra: Hate the name brodwyn. No child would want to grow up with a name like that and she would change it by deed pole as soon as she could.

Audra is nice though
Reply:Violet Erin is a beautiful name. The others are too contrived or made-up. Name her something that is easily understood.

I've lived my whole life explaining my first name and spelling it.

Wish I had been named a more understandable name.
Reply:I have a younger sister named Brenna, it's such a a pretty name.

Fira, Keturah and Blodwyn are all a little to made up sounding for my taste. But I like Violet, although I think it's quite trendy right now.
Reply:Violet Erin, very cute.

Brenna Ruth, love Brenna, not Ruth.

Fira Bree, Fira is pretty, not Bree.

Keturah reminds me of Ketchup. Eden is pretty.

Blodwyn screams Blood to me. Audra is nice.
Reply:I lmost like Brenna Ruth.

Violet Erin - cute - 7

Brenna Ruth - sweet - 9

Fira Bree - I like Fira spelt Freya. so i like the name - 8

Keturah Eden - not so sure on this name - 6

Blowdyn Audra - sorry dont like it at all - 4

Sian is welsh and i love that name :)
Reply:i love this name Fira Bree, this is unique....violet???someone already own that , the daughter of tom and kat...and i dont like it ew..thats a very big EW....i like Fira bree, not known and very nice..
Reply:I like Violet Erin, Eden, and Audra, but the others are too odd. Really don't like Blodwyn!! or Bree!!
Reply:All these names are very unique and beautiful. I like Fira Bree the best. If a girl is named Fira Bree, she would remind me of a fairy.
Reply:I really like Violet Erin and Brenna Ruth sounds nice, but the others are not names I care for at all.
Reply:Well its not like your close friends with Jen and Ben. Anyway I like Brenna its cute and not to common.
Reply:Personally, I don't like any of the names.
Reply:I like the name Audra. How do you pronounce Blodwyn...in my head it's sounding kinda vampire-ish.
Reply:Blodwyn is the only one i like the other are tacky
Reply:Words fail me right now.

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A Love Poem?

[A Sweet Dream]

I’m lying in my bed

I’m leaning to my left

Stare at a plain pale wall

I close my eyes

I breathe in…

I breathe out…

I open my eyes

Instead of seeing a plain pale wall

I see flowers

I’m lying in a field of them

I’m looking up at a baby blue sky

The suns heat fills me with warmth

The smell of flowers

Is all around me

All of a sudden

I hear rustling in the flowers

Someone’s walking towards me

I sit up

I look around and see no one

So I stand

I turn around

To look behind me

And I’m shocked to see

Her

Standing right in front of me

She looks at me

She starts to grin

I can’t help but giggle

She gives the cutest grins

I smile back at her

As I’m staring into her beautifully colored eyes

And as she stares into mine

I see her mouth

Start to open

Words are about to come out…

Then everything stops…

I can’t feel the sun

I can’t smell the flowers

And the slight breeze

Is now gone

I look at her

She is still as stone

I can’t hear

Or even see

Her breathing

A Love Poem?
I liked it though you misspelled the word slight somewhere in there. Heh just being an a$$ sorry for that but all in all it was good though in my opinion there are more powerful words than that to e spoken. The words " I love you" have been spoken so many times that like an old blade they have become dull and the power which they once held has diminished. Now those words have little meaning. Yet if you my friend believe you can bring meaning back to those words, and sharpen that blade as such to cut threw to the heart and soul of the one you care for than be my guest.
Reply:agree probably time to truly tell her because thinking of it onl can cause these type of fears and insecurities. We can think the worst of things and wreck a good thing that way. just do what you gotta do and get it over with and should tun out better than this poem you made about a heart of stone.
Reply:That is One of the Best Poems I have read i n a Long time!

I want more!
Reply:Your poem is excellent

computer

What do you think these song lyrics mean?

It's a rap song....I'd like your interpretation of it..Thanks!

"Daydreamin'"

(feat. Jill Scott)

Daydream

I fell asleep beneath the flowers

For a couple of hours

On a beautiful day

Daydream

I dream of you amid the flowers

For a couple of hours

Such a beautiful day

[Lupe Fiasco]

As I spy from behind my giant robot's eyes

I keep him happy 'cause I might fall out if he cries

Scared of heights so I might pass out if he flies

Keep him on autopilot 'cause I can't drive

Room enough for one I tell my homies they can't ride

Unless they sittin on the shoulders but that's way too high

Let's try not to step on the children

The news cameras filmin

This walkin project buildin

Now there's hoes sellin hoes like right around the toes

And the crackheads beg at about the lower leg

There's crooked police that's stationed at the knees

And they do drive-bys like up and down the thighs

And there's a car chase goin on at the waist

Keep a vest on my chest

I'm sittin in my room as I'm lookin out the face

Somethin to write about

I still got some damage from fightin the whitehouse, just a

Daydream

I fell asleep beneath the flowers

For a couple of hours

On a beautiful day

Daydream

I dream of you amid the flowers

For a couple of hours

Such a beautiful day

[Lupe Fiasco]

Now come on everybody, let's make cocaine cool

We need a few more half naked women up in the pool

And hold this MAC-10 that's all covered in jewels

And can you please put your titties closer to the 22s?

And where's the champagne? We need champagne

Now look as hard as you can with this blunt in your hand

And now hold up your chain slow motion through the flames

Now cue the smoke machines and the simulated rain

But not too loud 'cause the baby's sleepin

I wonder if it knows what the world is keepin

Up both sleeves while he lay there dreamin

Me and my robot tip-toe 'round creepin

I had to turn my back on what got you paid

I couldn't see half the hood on me like Abu Ghraib

But I'd like to thank the streets that drove me crazy

And all the televisions out there that raised me, I was

Daydream

I fell asleep beneath the flowers

For a couple of hours

On a beautiful day

Daydream

I dream of you amid the flowers

For a couple of hours

Such a beautiful day

Daydream

I fell asleep beneath the flowers

For a couple of hours

On a beautiful day

Daydream

I dream of you amid the flowers

For a couple of hours

Such a beautiful day

What do you think these song lyrics mean?
Its about Daydreams.... And about flowers... And sleep .....LOL...... @
Reply:i think his satirizing modern day hip hop. saying its ridiculous how they portray money, material, and women...

basically if it doesn't change soon, rap/ hip hop will be dead and no longer prevelant and meaningful in peoples lives.
Reply:in a nutshell.

You've been bamboozled.

I'll expand - Lupe is commenting on how the negative images proliferated by the media are having harmful effects on the community and how the government tacitly approves of this state of affairs.
Reply:my guess is wanting the world to change, not getting any help on a place that's gone all wrong, not really being able to do anything to make anyone understand or get any change, the media/government working to defame the place (to people elsewhere) while trying to brainwash children there to accept that's all they are worth and to get used to it, rather than helping... it's pretty deep, was i close? or not even?

White Teeth

What do u think of this , i wrote it myself? star it if u like, and if u didnt like it can u plz tell me why?

i wrote it for my best friend

this is it:-

if my body disappeared ..

and my name went..

this is my hand writing stay ..

to make u remember ..

forever all the way..

to the person where my heart..

will always stay..

i really wanna say..

that the thing what i know..

that i love u..

i also wanna tell u..

that i lived with u..

the happiest and the sweetest days of my life..

and i always hope a good life for u,,

and plz if u could come back..

plz do that..

cuz i love u..

i need u..

and i cant live without u..

i want u to know that..

ur love is the best thing in my life..

i saw u in my dreams..

i draw u in my imagination..

and i kept u in my heart..

i loved u from all my heart..

and by all the sense of the word..

sweety, i'm writing for u..

cuz of ur white heart..

ur brown eyes and ur black hair..

baby, ur more beautiful than any flower..

u r the most valuable thing in the word..

finally, i wanna say..

ur in my soul and the waves of my blood..

that's it

What do u think of this , i wrote it myself? star it if u like, and if u didnt like it can u plz tell me why?
Its honest and real. but, you take expression out of the arabic language and write them down in English:"my name want" and "white heart" words like these don't really do it in english.

after you wrote white heart, you got carried away and went on: "ur brown eyes and black hair" like you are describing a mugger to the police.

"waves of my heart" doesn't really have a meaning here. Had you mentioned the ocean or sea and then said that, maybe??

Actually I enjoyed it bec it is spontaneous. thank you.
Reply:its nice dat u wrote a poem for ur friend...but poems r nottttt dat much long dear dat people get bored...its really great dat u write it n express wat u feel n best of luck ...keep practicin
Reply:its sweet, but dont call it a poem
Reply:nice,because u love ur friend%26amp;write good words.
Reply:it is nice
Reply:It's very sweet of you to write a poem for your friend, my dear. However, you need to work on your language and grammar a bit more. Best of luck.
Reply:it is tender.

your heart is throbbing with true love .

your love must be happy to read this.
Reply:Di tarkeebet dawa?.. sorry just kidding.. it's nice full of nice feelings, but the grammarrrrrr my dear

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Friday, November 6, 2009

Any ideas for a "profitable" and fair FUNDRAISER for a small non-profit organization??

Urgent name required?

My favorite girl names...?

A Love Poem?

What do you think these song lyrics mean?

What do u think of this , i wrote it myself? star it if u like, and if u didnt like it can u plz tell me why?

What do u think of this , i wrote it myself? star it if u like, and if u didnt like it can u plz tell me why?

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