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any new ideas for fund raising?
As an active member of our dept, I'm also involved in working the fund raisers. We have two scheduled food serving events (hog roast and serving burgers and dogs at the town fair) and we serve at auctions when we can. Our Dept even does controlled burns anywhere in the area (which is the HUGH one). But short of more dinners we're running out of ideas for other fund raising events. Anybody with any ideas short of selling magazine subscriptions or candy bars would be great. I have thought about doing calenders but not sure of the route to take. thanks alot
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Permalink Reply by Earl Hoggard on
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Hey Bobby we have tried a Motor cycle ride in our area that has been alot of sucess for us. Set up a day for bikers to ride around the county set up different stops such as sponsers may a food tent here and there with drinks maybe a hotdog. It has worked well in the past. Maybe it will be soimething you would like to check into very little cost out of pocket. It can be a big money maker.
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Permalink Reply by Jeff Pearson on
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Most communities have businesses willing to donate to the local FD. Use these items and hold a raffle. Its easy, fast, cheap to operate, and everybody can help sell tickets.
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Permalink Reply by John Rulli Jr. on
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Have a band! We made out acouple weeks ago.
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Permalink Reply by Nathan Whoric on
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we do hoggies once a month, gun bashes, cash bashes.... bingo is kinda strugglin right now. we have a cash bash this weekend so i can let u know how that goes.
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Permalink Reply by Paul Kerp on
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Here are a some ideas that have worked well in our area, You can sell personalized cook books, you ask people in your area to send in recipies and you create a cook book with them. Bingo works good, a big fund raiser is a Cadet, explorer or Jr Fire fighter dance, have lite food and cold drinks. you will rock the house... a Car wash is a good way to have fun and raise money, have it at your fire house you will get more donations that way.
good luck and be safe
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Permalink Reply by Norman E. Flanders on
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Hi Bobby,
We hold a Texas Holdem tournament, hunters breakfasts, Booster Club Raffles and you can organize a town wide yard sales day. During the sales day you can rent out tables at the firehouse and also offer food for the lawn sales treasure hunters.
You also can put together a town wide cook book, asking towns people to give there best recipes and then sell the book back to the towns folks.
You can put together a FD calendar selling spots to local businesses from this you get a cut.
Good luck. Stay safe, train often and share knowledge.
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Permalink Reply by Beverly on
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There's always a boot drop...on a busy Saturday afternoon when everyone is out and about, take a truck and a bunch of guys/girls, in their bunker pants, and stand at your busiest intersection(s) and have drivers drop $ into the fireboots the guys/girls are holding. Make sure everybody smiles and says "thank you". This does two things, brings in $ and gets people to see the faces of their firefighters...and hey it may even get someone interested in joining! If you have leftover stickers, coloring books etc from fire prevention week keep some in you bunker pockets and give them out to kids in any car that stops to donate.
Also, try holding an open house at the station, see if your local air medical unit will come by for a visit (up here they will with the proviso that if they have a call they cannot come or may have to leave early), see if you can get a police car with officer, anything emergency related to make it all the more interesting. Fire up the BBQ, even burgers and dogs, homemade salads, chips ( lots of times local grocery stores will donate or charge wholesale), charge a nominal amount for food, especially if you get it donated. Put out a boot with a nice sign requesting donations. Give tours of the equipment, remind folks that stop that it is expensive to run, maintain equipment, provide proper PPE, and train firefighters...don't beat them over the head with it, life is tough everywhere.
Then of course, there always is a cookoff, doesn't even have to be chili...make it county wide, open to other dept, charge an entry fee for the cooks, charge a small fee for "samples", make it an all afternoon event, as always bring a truck, the more "fire stuff" folks see the more they are willing to donate to the cause.
Good Luck
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Permalink Reply by John on
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Get some local business to donate services or items and hold raffles at your dinner/ lunch events.
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Permalink Reply by Denise Co 29 on
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We are doing a quarter auction in May . This will be our first but I have been to others and they make a good buck. We are also doing the scratch card in July through ABC Fundraising. This one is easy and no prep but makes good money also. We do our Easter Flower sale. This weekend we are having our chicken Bar B Q and bake sale. We already sold over 700 chickens and we are a small community.
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Permalink Reply by Bobby on
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Wow guy and gals those are some good ideas, although we have done the cook books (about 6-7 years ago and still have hundreds left) and we only have a pop of about 200 or so. We can't really do a boot block cause the only 'busy' intersection drivers don't have to stop for. If you google earth Cowgill, Mo. then you will see how small we are. We do an open house at the food fundraisers that we currently do, and the public has enjoyed seeing the equipment (especially the thermal imager we have one of two in the county)
I've wandered about the Bike runs but don't know enough about them to set it up, we don't really have any businesses in town other than a coop for fertilizer, and the businesses in the neighboring towns do donate alot for as small as they are. thanks again guys
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would it be possible for you to do a joint event with other companies? i know we have talked about doing a joint gun bash and stuff like that. i know of a few that have been done but havent been involved with one yet.
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