Identifying Fundraising Ideas
Helping hands food bank, as a non-profit organization, has helped save many lives and reached out to many people. As the name suggests, it aims at feeding the poor and helps the needy. However, the fact that it is non-profit is to say that it has no sure source of capital and so it does depend on good wishers for its survival. We, as a consultant team, look forward to coming up with the perfect fundraising idea that will push $15,000 to a whole $50,000.
See, our major focus is the money but I must also add that the idea makes most of the agenda at hand. What we decided to do is to first identify a few ideas that we can choose from. Truth is there are a lot of them and it is hard to decide on one. In the end, we had to come to a conclusion (Waldron, 2015)
Our research has been based on what the people will accept more. Talent shows are one of the ideas that people love. I tend to believe so because it is entertaining and fun too. What we want to establish is a talent show that is continuous.
Allow me to explain, we thought of how some of these fundraisings are carried out especially when they are about talent shows and what we found out is that some of them are done once and it all ends there, it is done, just like that. What happens is that the next year it becomes difficult for an organization to decide what next especially when losses are incurred (Monaghan, 2015)
For us, we would like to really avoid this. Our idea is to have a talent show that from year-toyear as I had mentioned is continues. We understand that monotony may be a major concern for our clients. That is where creativity comes in. I mean a lot of things can be done with talent. It is not a limited sector after all.
One year we could focus on singing. The next it could be about a magic show talent. Then next would be a fashion modeling contest and the chain goes on and on. We could also factor in awards so that this year’s winner will pass, say a trophy, to next year’s so forth. This will be an assurance that many people will be attracted and it may go a long way to create a large platform.
Second of them is what we call crowdfunding. When you talk about a budget saving plan, this is one of them. It needs no such expenses. It does attract a lot of people and gets them involved. Crowdfunding’s are most popular in densely populated areas. It is also important to note that it does not cause as many losses. I would call it a much safer way of conducting a fundraiser (Muir, 2016)
Talent Shows
Well, moving on swiftly is the third and last of the three ideas. We settled on runs. From time to time we hear of different off to raise say awareness about a disease or a campaign in order to save Mother Nature, I mean it is nothing new to us. When it comes to races and runs, as I had earlier on mentioned, it is all about raising awareness and creating a reach out a programme to expand the base of the organization.
A run is more engaging in that it brings together people from all walks of life irrespective of age, size or even color. It is indiscriminative, and that is why it is more preferred. According to our expansive research, runs carry a large percent of preferred fundraising events that are carried out annually (Lopez, Mattys, Carey & Sherwood, 2015)
Now, the question is, what is the final decision? After long decision engagements and in deep consideration, we finally settled on the race. According to us and also what our clients want this is the best idea for the fundraising event (Barber, and Yasuda, 2017). We looked at both sides of a coin, both the good and the bad and decided to settle on it
Why the race? What we want is to create a connection. A large one. We want to be involved, we want other parastatals to come and join together with other non- profit organizations. We did not overlook the other two to come to this, no. as a matter of fact, we plan on somehow including them under the run. It would be much better to incorporate some details that are in them than to leave them out (Buchman, 2015)
For example, for the talent we decided to factor in some entertainment, say music, just a little bit of it. The run will be dubbed the reach out plan. What we look forward to is to make the run yearly. That depends on whether the organization agrees with our proposal, so until then, we cannot really confirm that it is a sure deal.
With our plan, we will need a way to make it known, to promote it to the people and the public at large. We will need to sensitize to the public what importance this race has on the less fortunate (Adams, 2015). What we have come to know is that people only get involved when they are sure of something and so we cannot act independently. We need to involve the people or even the entire society to enable the fundraising to take place (Brown, (2015)
Crowdfunding
We have gone with ways such as putting up posters, putting the information on a billboard, used word to word method to pass the information from one to another. These ways are more, what I would call, budget-friendly. They do not put a strain on the organization.
The event has to, obviously, be conducted on a sunny day. Where several roads have to be closed for the event. This means that there is an earlier that has to be put in place In order to avoid late bookings. Looking at the arrangements, some partnership deals have been already been signed before the day. This comes in a bid to ensure that the event will take place.
As a board of consultants of helping hand food bank, we would like to express our views and opinions in the most way we could. There is no better way to have a fundraising done than to have it done in an event that aims at meeting the goal at the end of the day and bring better results to the people concerned (Berman, Barasch, Levine & Small, (2015)
What we would recommend, as in relation to this particular event, is that at the end of the day the people have to see for themselves that the money must accomplish the purpose it was to as a matter of fact mean to in the first place (Dang, 2018). Why we say this is because we have had in not just one occasion but several, cases that an organization became a fraud in the name of fundraising for the needy.
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Lopez, S., Mattys, L., Carey, M., & Sherwood, A. (2015). Edible Book Festival Project 2015 Final Report.
Monaghan, A. (2015). P-142 Better together–successful partnership working between care, fundraising and teenagers receiving hospice care.
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