I am Jeff Zaret the Chair of the Kettering Relay For Life in Ohio and we worked with Outback Steakhouse to do a lunch buffet that raised over $2000.

The idea is simple: Outback dontated the food and the manpower and the restaurant since they are not normally open for lunch, we had a local printer dontate the tickets that we sold for $10 each. We also took additional donations and had a raffle with donated prizes. We asked the guests to leave something for their servers since they were working for free and they were very generous.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions or the pdf files for the tickets.

relayforlife@jeffzaret.com

Jeff Zaret
Chair
2009 Kettering Relay For Life
937-260-2990

 

 

Our Mohican Valley Relay would like to try On Line Fundraising, but we do not know how to even get started.  Can anyone help us out?

If you were in Reno last week at  the Great West Division Leadership Summit...and you attended one of the fundraising breakouts (titled Fundraising: Learn from the Best!)...then check back soon!

We're in process of compiling all of the responses from the different breakouts into several easy to use posts...

They are among the best ideas and best practices that our teams in the GWD are using to raise money for their Relay For Life teams.  We had a great group of breakout participants in 8 different breakouts that helped contribute to these summaries.

In the next few days, you'll find a summary of the best ideas shared in the following areas:

• Team Fundraising
• Individual Fundraising
• Online Fundraising
• On-Site Fundraising

In addition, there will be some great ideas from our Top Fundraisers [teams who raised more than $20,000 (with a $1200 per member minimum) and individuals who raised more than $10,000 on their own].

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Hey Relayers!

I am needing some help in naming a Relay beauty pageant.  Just in case there will be more than one beauty pageant as a Relay fundraiser in this community (near present or perhaps in the future), I do not want to suggest naming it "Miss Relay For Life."

Have you been to any Relay beauty pageant fundraisers?  Do you have any suggestions on unique names that would associate it w/ Relay?

Your help and responses are needed!  Time sensitive :)

Thanks,

Melinda in Jackson TN

I'd like send a link to family and friends that they can click on to donate to my fundraising efforts. I have searched the site and cannot find anything like that. Am I missing it? Or is there a location on the Relay website for this?

I  posted this idea last year and just wanted to put it up again. We just finished our portrait fundraiser again this year and we raise $2475 in money. It was great and everyone loved being able to look at their picture and say that was my donation to Relay for life. Our church let us use the fellowship hall to photograph in. We used Olan Mills and they are always great. You can find them on the web. Hope this helps some of you looking for new ideas.

 

God Bless.

Does anyone know of a company that would put together a book for a fundraiser, almost like the cookbook but it would not be a cookbook? Because the Morris Company only does cookbooks and the book that I want to do is about poems to sell.Please let me know.

jenny_pickle@hotmail.com

Thanks
Jenny

Hello all,

Our group has never done any on site sales at the relay. One gal this year is planning on doing a knot blanket raffle and I know how to knit. Scarves are fairly quick so I thought maybe I could knit a bunch of fun scarves and see if they would go, a friend of mine also knows how to knit some neat purses, I have one I use for a lunch sac for work. I thought that this could be a possibility as well.

I have a few fears. One, that scarves are fairly common, especially the fluffy ones that people have all over. Two, that people won't buy them because of the hot weather, and three the cost involved in the purses is around $20.00 for just the yarn. The other stuff isn't as bad.

A few other ideas I had that are too late to do this late in the season- our relay is Aug 8th. Were scrapbooking pages, I have access to purchase supplies at cost. Or also a cookbook made by the people who are participating in the relay. Either just our group for the first year or to include anyone who wants to submit recipes. Our relay is in MN and those "hometown" type cookbooks go over very well.