What are some cheap fundraisers to help a family in need?
July 3, 2009 by Fundraising and Fundraiser Ideas
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A family I know is in need of much help. They have lost 2 houses in 1 year due to money problems and they have had to live in a bug-filled motel twice due to their problems. They are having trouble with their utilties (they owe over $1500) and I want to help. But, I dont have the money to bake or buy or etc… so what fundraisers could I do to raise enough to help a little (atleast $200)? Please suggest. Thank you!!!
Fundraising Ideas For Non Profits
A family I know is in need of much help. They have lost 2 houses in 1 year due to money problems and they have had to live in a bug-filled motel twice due to their problems. They are having trouble with their utilties (they owe over $1500) and I want to help. But, I dont have the money to bake or buy or etc… so what fundraisers could I do to raise enough to help a little (atleast $200)? Please suggest. Thank you!!!
Fundraising Ideas For Non Profits
Fundraising Feedback: car wash
Fundraising Feedback: Fundraisers for people with money problems…. Offer them a job.
Fundraising Feedback: um…. let me think…….. fundraiser.um……… they can give people bj’s lol im jk jk.gud luck tho i hope they get better
Fundraising Feedback: You sound like a well-mean person. The people that you are trying to help sound beyond financial help. By giving them money, you only prolong their misery. They need to file bankruptcy.
Fundraising Feedback: have the neighborhood pitch in and have a carnival.
Fundraising Feedback: GO TO LOCAL BUSSINESSES OR TO PEOPLE YOU KNOW AND ASK THEM TO DONATE THINGS FOR A CHINESE AUCTION. GET SOME FAIR TICKETS ADVERTISE THE FUNDRAISER WITH FLYERS. CHARGE A 5$ DONATION FOR 10 TICKETS PLACE ALL OF THE DONATED ITEMS ON A TABLE AND PLACE A PAPER BAG BY EACH ITEM. THE TICKET HOLDER WILL THEN PLACE ONE OR MORE OF THERE TICKETS IN THE BAG OF SOMETHING THEY WOULD LIKE TO WIN. AFTER ALL TICKETS HAVE BEEN PLACED PULL 1 TICKET FROM EACH BAG ANNOUNCE THE # AND THE WINNER CAN CLAIM THE ITEM. IT IS A LOT OF FUN. WITH SOME SERIOUSE TIME AND EFFORT YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO RAISE A GOOD AMOUNT OF MONEY TO DONATE TO THE FAMILY.
Fundraising Feedback: Have you tried Good Will, Social Services, Salvation Army, and here on line theres a group called Freecycle where you can give away things or ask for things. For Free.
Hope this helps.
Fundraising Feedback: They have created ther own hell let them live it. No matter what you do they will still continue with there manner of life.
Are you willing to baby sit this Family for the remainder of your life? Miss they need to help themselves first with a large variety of Government programs that would be willing to help them. The salvation Army will pay a persons utility bill one time during a fiscal year. They need to show some initiative and help them selves and stop living off of pity.
Fundraising Feedback: auction people off as slaves to do house work or wateva
Fundraising Feedback: call and ask some of the local clubs,bars nite clubs to get you some names of bands that will do a benefit dance on a given weekend …do some local advertisingthrough your work or the radio ….they will do it for free usually……..now that you are on a roll dont give up the rewards are humungeous for the needy…
Fundraising Feedback: Yard Sale,car wash, Help them find work, Day care if thay have children. Local Welfare office. Look in your Phone Book there is some adds to help you. Allso go to your church thay might be able to help.Good Luck.
Fundraising Feedback: Maybe you can set up a “services for donation” program. Gather friends together and discuss what skills they have, for instance, babysitting, mowing lawns, washing cars, handyman skills. Then maybe offer those services to neighbors or other people in exchange for monetary donations to the family in need? I’ve had a little experience in this kind of drive. If this comes together, present the family with a money order, it’s less awkward for the family to accept, and keeps their dignity. Try to keep it quiet, so as not to embarrass the family.
You have a good heart. Good luck.
Fundraising Feedback: you can put out cans at stores explaining your need for money to drop it in or raffle something or get ideas from church get people to work on there days off and donate the money.look for others that might want to help that have money to bake or hold a raffle or have a garage sale
Fundraising Feedback: Check with any local colleges in your town, sometimes the sororities or fraternities or other groups there might have ways to help raise money for the family. We just did something like that for a family who had been burned out of their house, we gathered food and clothing to help them get started over.
Fundraising Feedback: I couldn’t tell from your post but what, exactly, is the source of their money problem? It seems to me that they have blown through quite a bit already, losing TWO houses in one year? Perhaps the better course of action would be to help them find a shelter or transitional housing program so that they won’t be on the streets or blowing more money on a hotel, and then addressing whatever is causing them to go through so much cash so very quickly. As long as they aren’t living in their own housing, the utilities can wait. It would help to know more about their problem.
Fundraising Feedback: There are many things that can be done on a dime to raise money, but the most important thing is if this is a habitual thing with this family will the neighborhood be willing to help knowing they will only have this raise up again in a couple of months when the bills are due again or they are out on the street yet again. The best thing you can do for them, before doing a fund raiser, is contact your local consumer credit counselling agency who can put them in touch with aid agencies (public assistance, salvation, army, united way, red cross, etc.) AFTER they figure out why they are blowing through money like montezuma’s revenge through a tourist. They can help them get a budget started and put the squash on the bill collectors, in some instances even helping them consolidate and lessen the amounts owed. Only after they are willing to do this, then look at a fund raiser to pick up some of their excess bills. It will be easier to sell to the neighborhood if the neighbors know that these people are trying to help themselves and not just sitting back and waiting for yet another handout.
Fundraising Feedback: they are not the problem. and their situation should be treated with fine judgment. take them to the department of social welfare. ask for a shelter for them. that is the most you could do. another thing, don’t put too much burden in yourself. you have a your own life to live. let them live theirs. anyway, life isn’t fair.