Fundraising Tips

- Types of fundraisers:

• Put out donation jars
• Sell Raffle tickets and have local business donate items for your raffle
• Organize an event and sell tickets:
  
  • a dance
  • a fair or carnival
  • a tour of homes
  • dance-a-thon, hoola-hoop-a-thon
• Sell items door to door
• Hold a garage sale to benefit your cause
• Craft Market
• Send out donation letters
• Hold a banquet
• Run an auction with donated items
• Have a social dinner and sell tickets to it
• Open a boutique at one of your events or performances
• Buy items wholesale from our store and double or triple the price and resell at your events!

- Set a budget for buying goods to sell and for materials.

- Start browsing for goods to sell or things to make as early as January (go to After-Christmas sales at home goods stores, gift shops, discount stores and Nutcracker-Gifts.com, of course!)

- Plan when to start selling and find volunteers for booths, boutiques, crafting items, etc.

- Plan where to sell items (i.e. dance school office, lobby during performances, boutiques, nearby dance supply stores)

- Publicize your fundraiser:

• Put an ad in the local newspaper
• Post flyers around town:
  
  • In local community centers and theatres
  • On office bulletin boards
  • In grocery stores
  • local churches
  • In local dance supply stores
• Put an ad on craigslist.org
• Send postcards announcing your event
• Put an ad on your local radio station
• Posters
• Advertise in playbills