Thursday, August 1, 2013

Secret To Success Of Food Fundraisers

By Cathy Mercer


You must know that the success of food fundraisers is in the people organizing the event. That is because the people are the ones who take actions, make solicitation letters and follow them up, find donors and sponsors. There are many things that members of the campaign are doing.

That is why it is important for an organization to pick its members carefully. Their background should be checked. They should be of good standing in the community. They should not have any criminal records whatsoever. They should have been involved in several other organizations in the community and their performance in said organization should also be checked or considered.

The people are the skeleton or the bones that hold together the entire framework of the organization. When the people are weak, so is the organization. The people running the organization need to be tough especially in times of challenges. Many challenges are faced by an organization.

The organization also needs funding in order for it to realize its goals and objectives. Take for example the organization is helping in destitute parts of the world. They have medicines to be distributed to the local areas. In order to move these medical goods, they need funds.

It is not that they do not trust others. They simply want to handle the things personally. They want to be updated all the time of the progress of the event that they are running. They are very creative when it comes to making ideas that would create money for the event. By the way, you can also get some ideas on the internet.

But the people in the organization are very used to such challenges. They understand that this is the nature of running an organization. There are not always funds because most of the time they are depending on the mercy of other people and organizations when it comes to their funding.

Some the things that should be checked in a person who wants to be a member or is applying for membership are his background, professional affiliations, other responsibilities he has held before whether in a corporate office or government office, etc. It is necessary to do background checking. You want people involved in the organization to be of good moral background, are qualified and reputable in their own rights. Being a member of an organization with a cause is a lot of responsibility.

Get all the help that you can. Inform your friends and family, colleagues in the business and in the office. They can all help spread the word that you are organizing a certain event. Let them know what the purpose of the event is so that when somebody asks them what the event is for they will know how to answer that.

It can be in the form of reposting the campaign in their facebook timeline or in their social medial pages. Even if they are not donating money directly to the organization but the mere fact that they have posted the message regarding the campaign is already a big help to the organization. There is also bound to be someone out there in the world who will get to read about the food fundraisers and will scrounge up some money for the donation.




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