Restaurants: There are several chain restaurants that will do fundraisers. Apple Bee’s, and Chili’s, are two of them that I know of. Contact any in your area and ask, Bowling alley’s do them.
Bars: Try a local bar. Make a deal with the owner. Do say, a 4 hour block of time on a Friday that they will donate 10% of the till. You put up fliers in the area and bring in as many bodies as you can. See if the local radio station will announce it for you. Set up a table by the door and run a 50/50 raffle for that time period that you have to be present to win, that way people will stay until the end of your time block. If the owner doesn’t want to donate part of the profits, then maybe they usually don’t have a cover charge. See if they will let you set up a table and charge say a $10 cover. You give anyone who pays the cover a pink bracelet. Then they get $1 off draft beer.
Letters: Send every business you ever use a letter asking for a donation. Everywhere you shop, doctors, everywhere you can think of. Give them both your website and mailing address. Maybe the owner/accountant doesn’t want to donate but maybe someone else in the office wants to.
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ReplyDeleteI love your site!! Thank you for sharing all this wonderful information. This is my first time doing a walk and your site has been very helpful!!
Question for you, do you have any sample letters that I could use as a templete for sending to businesses??
Thanks!!
Danielle
Hello Danielle, sorry it took so long but it took me a while to figure out how to publish your question in order to respond to it. :) Anyway, I don't have a separate letter for businesses. I just use the letter I send to family and friends but tweek it a bit. I begin it with something along the line of "As a community member for 12 years" but the body is still the same.
DeleteI think AVON has some business letters you can use as templates.
Hope that helped. Have a great day, Kris