Fundraising Tips
Congratulations! You have taken the first step and decided that you need to raise funds for a project. Enjoy this part…visualize the outcome whether it be new equipment for a hockey team, school travel or church renovations to name a few. Whatever it may be, give yourself a pat on the back because you are taking the initiative and making a difference! But now, you are probably asking yourself a ton of questions: What should we do? How will we raise the funds? Do we have enough help? Where do we even begin?
Planning a fundraiser can be a daunting task but here at Mom’s Pantry rest assured that we are with you every step of the way. We understand the challenges but also the opportunities and so we have set out below some tips that we have garnered over the years that will help you ensure your fundraiser is a mind boggling success…and easy to boot!
Tip #1: Set your fundraising goal
how much money do we need to raise?
how many people would we like to be involved?
Tip #2: Read through our Fundraising Information Package
This document has all the info and details you will need to make the whole process EASY…it takes all the guesswork out as it lays everything out step by step.
Fundraiser Information Package
Tip #3: Gather your team. No need to go it alone!
Find those who can help you whether it be in distributing the forms, getting the word out to your group or helping hand out the boxes on delivery day. They always say, “The more the merrier!”.
Tip #4: Set your key dates
Date to Distribute Mom’s Pantry Forms to group
Date to Collect forms back from your group
Date to Return Order Forms to Mom’s Pantry
Date of Delivery
Tip #5: Hold a fundraiser Kick-Off and promote and publicize your fundraising campaign to your group and your community
Tip #6: Run fundraiser for approximately 2 to 3 weeks
In our experience and from feedback from our successful fundraising coordinators we suggest running the fundraiser for 2 to 3 weeks as one week doesn’t allow enough time and anything over 3 weeks tends to be too long as people forget and put it to the backburner. Other suggestions are to ensure it runs over at least one weekend and possibly a holiday as that is when families tend to get together.
Tip #7: Ensure easy and successful delivery with these 3 tips:
1. Schedule delivery time (by Mom’s Pantry) for 45 minutes to 1 hour before your set pick up time for sellers/customers. I.e. Mom’s Pantry delivers at 1pm and you set pick up for 2pm which allows time to ensure it is all organized and ready when people begin to arrive for pick up.
2. Have your team/volunteers meet at the delivery spot at least 15 minutes prior to arrival of Mom’s Pantry Driver. Product comes pre-labeled and ready for easy sorting
3. Send out a Reminder of the Delivery Date to All Sellers a couple days before delivery