Do-It-Yourself Fundraiser Of The Month

Caged For Critters: The President and Shelter Director of the Animal Rescue Foundation, Superior, Wisconsin, were caged in a dog kennel in the McDonalds parking lot at the intersection of two busy streets. They were not let loose until after the Foundation met their fundraising goal. There were several dignitaries from the city who spent some time with them in the kennel: the University Chancellor, the Mayor, school principals, school music directors, who brought a small group from their bands or choirs to perform, etc. Other ARF members were around to run up to cars stopped at the traffic light to ask for donations. They had bags for the money made to look like animal paws. A couple of the people also dressed like animals for fun.

  First Light, Inc provides services and shelter to Birmingham, Alabama's homeless women and children. It houses 48 women and their children in a dormitory setting with restroom and laundry facilities. In addition to their emergency shelter, they have a floor designated for permanent housing that consists of eight individual rooms in a community setting. These residents suffer from serious mental illnesses and are unable to maintain an independent lifestyle. Some of these women are elderly and will probably be with First Light for the remainder of their lives.

 Featured Fundraising Ideas

Digilabs: Our free calendar software will enable you to create a fully customized fundraising photo calendars. Customization includes images, text, dates, sponsors ads, and more. Once created, send to us for professional printing. No minimum quantity required. Online fundraising - setup a private labeled online storefront for photo cards, calendars and photobooks link this storefront to your web page and/or send out emails to your members with the storefront web address. From every photo-product ordered your organization will make 20% of proceeds. Simple to set up, no risk, little hassle, easy distribution, on going, automatically managed, viral spread.

Ranch House Candles: Candles are fast becoming a top fundraising program. With a Ranch House Candles fundraiser you will receive 50% profit on all sales, free shipping nationwide, and free scent samples for each participant in the 10 scents you pick for your group to offer, free full color brochure and an order form (customized with your group’s name) for each participant, all at no cost to your group. We are the manufacturer and offer high quality soy candles that your group will be proud to offer your supporters at reasonable prices. Start by requesting you free fundraising sample kit.

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Interesting or Fun Facts

When the flashlight was introduced in 1898 at an electrical show in New York, it weighed more than six pounds, and its battery alone was half a foot long. Later, Joshua Lionel Cowen, who would later invent the toy electric train, invented a flower pot with a battery in it that made the flower "light up" when a button was pressed. A Russian immigrant named Conrad Hubert took the battery, the bulb and the paper tube from the pot and remade it into what he called "an electric hand torch." Because batteries were weak and bulbs primitive, flashlights of the era produced only a brief flash of light—thus the name.