Fundraising News From Around the World

Brooklyn, NY: Minor league baseball team front office staff plays baseball for 24 straight hours to raise money and awareness for local food shelters; Pulaski County, AR: Medical community holds trap shooting fundraiser to help people from Honduras; Orillia, ON: Boaters show off their "Lamborghinis of the waterway" during the annual powerboat poker run to raise funds for the Heart and Stroke Foundation; Traverse City, MI: Man accused of stealing from a fundraiser for a soldier's family sentenced to jail; Chicago, IL: Sex education organization draws rebuke for featuring stripper at adults only fundraiser; Toronto, ON: Pooches strut stuff on catwalk at fundraiser to raise money for pets with cancer; Yonkers, NY: School collects used and new clothing as part of a fundraising drive to benefit American Cancer Society; Birmingham, MI: Celebrities autograph handcrafted ceramic masks to support hospice; Moncton, NB: Five-year-old boy fly’s plane above the city to raise money for the region's largest children's hospital; Marquette, MI: Pet portrait fund-raiser held to benefit the humane society; Beaver Dam, WI: Soaring society offers glider rides to benefit schools; Harrison, AR: Junior high students hold slime-a-teacher day to raise funds for American Cancer Society; Utica, NY: General Motors donates $10 to United Cerebral Palsy for each test drive of 2009 Camaro at Utica College; Sutherlin, OR: Mud race fundraiser held for a sign welcoming travelers to town; Palmerston, NZ: Intermediate school students and teachers participate in polar bear swim fundraiser for the school's parent-teacher association; Gerogia, Peru: Women firefighters replace their male counterparts in this years calendar to raise money for burn foundation; Frostburg, MD: Plywood cutouts of shovels, pick axes and coal miners "visit" residents yards to raise funds (like flamingo flocking) and honor the history of coal mining in the area; Chester County, PA: Library sponsors shred-a-thon with donated mobile shredding truck; $10 for a grocery bag full of documents or a 12" by 16" box.

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Do-It-Yourself Fundraiser Of The Month

The Phi Sigma Pi at Missouri State University held a Rent-A-Puppy fundraiser and rented out puppies on campus for playtime at $5 per 30 minutes. The behind the scenes work started with contacting the humane society and explaining to them what they planned to do and asked them if they could come out and bring a bunch of puppies that they could "borrow" for 5 hours. Campus rules required that all animals be on a leash, so that needed to be planned for. They booked a location outside the student union. And then there was the advertising. They put up flyers around campus 1 week in advance and made a Facebook Event group and invited all their friends to the event about 2-3 weeks in advance. Advertisement included mention of "Can't have pets in the dorm? Do you love puppies? Come Rent-A-Puppy to play with for 30 minutes! Bring your driver's license". This event was so wildly popular that passersby got on their cell phones to tell people about it. Puppies rented quick, and people started asking to make reservations. A good system will be needed to keep track of who rents a puppy, reservation time, return time, which puppy. They took driver's license as a guarantee that the puppy would be returned. They made $305 in 4 1/2 hours with 7 puppies. The event was from 10am-2:30pm, and they had to start turning people away around 1pm because all the time slots were reserved. They decided that they should have done this event two days in a row.

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Non-Profit In The Spotlight

The Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation is dedicated to making a world of difference for seriously ill children and their families by softening the hard edges of what a family experiences. We create a sense of community between families who are having similar experiences by providing opportunities for them to escape the hospital, doctors, nurses, needles and treatments and doing something fun where they get to join others and just feel "normal" again--perhaps even forgetting that anyone is sick for a short while. This includes outings, books, toys, games, fun centers, playrooms, teen lounges, parties and much more!

Masterpieces of Metal, Inc. specializes in the sales of decorative Iron Crosses for fundraising. We offer a complete easy fundraising program for your organization, which will make $7 profit per cross and free shipping. No up front or hidden cost and no minimum order required. We offer high quality products for the half the retail cost to the buyers but giving your organization the maximum profit. Request a free sample kit. Call 1-888-649-9759 or visit us at our fundraiser-webpage for more information.

Interesting or Fun Facts

Originally, Play-Doh came in only one color; off-white and came in a 1.5.lb cardboard can. Joe McVicker of Kutol Chemicals had learned from a teacher that modeling clay used by children in the classrooms was often too difficult for many of the smaller children to manipulate. He remembered that his non-toxic composition he had created as a wallpaper cleaner was easy to manipulate and could possibly work as a substitute for the typical modeling clay the schools were using. He shipped a box of his cleaning composition to the school and it was a huge hit with both the teachers and the kids. He offered to supply all of the schools in the Cincinnati area with this new material, and after great reactions from those schools as well, his product was showcased at a national education convention. Word spread like wildfire and department stores began to take a serious interest. Under the banner of his new company “Rainbow Crafts”, it was first sold in the toy department of Woodward & Lothrop Department Store in Washington, D.C. It was the first of over 900 million pounds of the squishy, salty (non-toxic) cans of the recently dubbed “Play-Doh” to be sold over the next 50 years.
 

 Digilabs offers two unique fundraising programs, fundraising calendars and online fundraising. Fully customized fundraising calendars with your groups images, events and even sponsor information. The online fundraising program is simple to set up, no risk, automatically managed, viral spread. Valuable to users and works year round.

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