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Weekend to End Womens Cancers
*formerly known as Weekend to End Breast Cancer.
I am doing the 60km walk in September and have to raise $2K to participate. Anyone have any fund raising ideas? I have a few but am looking for more. I did the email thing to my friends/family. We have some stuff we need to sell so I will put all those proceeds towards the Walk. A friend suggested a wine tasting night with a "cover" to get in.
Also, if anyone wants to walk with us or sponsor us just PM me and I can get you the information.
Re: Weekend to End Womens Cancers
I raised some money a couple years ago when I did Relay For Life, by baking some cakes, putting them on my desk at work and asking people to "donate" $2 minimum for a slice... I brought in the pledge forms and a few people gave $20 because of the tax receipt. I think I made around $250 for 2 cakes (which cost about $5 total to make). I don't remember when you are going back to work, or if you have somewhere you could do this, but it's an idea.
A couple years ago I went to a banquet put on by 2 girls who were walking the weekend to end breast cancer. It is a lot bigger thing to organize, it was in a catering hall and everything, they sold $90 tickets, and it was basically a reception (dinner, dancing)... It had a silent auction as well, with prizes that were donated. They advertized on Toronto.com (which is how we found it)... I think it was mostly friends/family who went, but DH and I just randomly showed up. I have the organizer on my facebook if you're interested in talking to her.
To raise funds for Relay for Life, we did a silent auction. People donated their talents (e.g. make your lunch for a week, cover your recess duties, weed your garden, shovel your driveway) and used/like new items (e.g. cook books, bottles of home made wine, purses). I think we raised about $600 this way.
I have also done a Cook for the Cure party. It was something started by KitchenAid, where you have a dinner party or cocktail party and people donate money to you or online. I think we raised about $1200 this way.
You may want to think about hooking up with a couple of other people so that you could do things as a team.
I know there were some teenagers in our nieghbourhood that went around collecting everyone's bottles to return to the LCBO. That would take a while to raise a decent amount of cash though.
Thanks for the ideas! Right now there are 2 of us on our team so it won't be just me trying to raise the money!!
Now since we live in a town with 2 universities and a college finding empties shouldn't be a problem right?
I would come to your wine tasting night.
When I did the run for the cure I put the link in my facebook status a couple of times. Money if people wanted to support me, just good wishes I made it to the end were perfect.
Garage sales
Some Pampered Chef and Tupperware reps do parties where they donate proceeds to charity - maybe you could work something out? I wouldn't mind one of those parties if it had a purpose. Although I kind of need some new tupperware anyway.
Hey Jen,
Good for you for doing the walk!
I did the walk back in 2007. We were a team of 4, so we had to raise $8000. We raised the money by:
* emailing friends/family
* a couple of garage sales (we asked other friends to donate stuff to our garage sales as well)
* poker nights where we took a portion of the pot
* standing outside the liquor store. We were dreading doing this, but it was so easy and we raised a ton of money really quickly. The first time we did this was at the lcbo in parry sound while at a friend's cottage. We raised $500 in 2 hours. The second time we did it was at the lcbo in Uptown Waterloo and it I think we got about $250 in 2 hours. All you have to do is contact the manager of the store and fax them the info that they need (i think the charity # that the walk organizers will provide). There are other stores that will let you stand outside and ask for money. I believe Sobeys is one.
Let me know if you have other questions about the walk. It is an amazing experience.
Oh and I will definitely sponsor you. After doing it myself, I vowed to always sponsor anyone I knew who was doing it!
Keep me posted on your fundraising plans. I'll help if I can! I probably have some "crap" I could donate for a garage sale. One person's crap is another person's treasure!
Some great ideas!?
I second standing/sitting out from the LCBO - those girls always get some good donations. Also doing it at the beer store asking people to donate their empties to you, you'd be surprised how many people donate to this (works best after a long weekend!)
I can look into how the Pampered Chef works, we definitely have parties where proceeds go to the cause. What I did last year instead of the cash donations from PC was that we used the host (my mom) "free" money to buy really good product and made baskets to raffle off at our Annual Golf Tournament.?
You could always do a golf tournament too! I can totally help you with that, it's easy, fun and we make a few grand every year.?
You know you have my support! Can't wait to hear what you do... another idea - offer to babysit and the $$ would go to cause... clearly I'm a little desperate for a night out
These are some great ideas. I second the garage sale. My friend held on when she was doing the walk and made about $800. The key is good advertising (that it's for charity) and getting lots of items donated from family and friends.
And of course, I'll get around to sponsoring you one of these days
Good luck with your fund raising!
All very good ideas so far!
We have a team of ladies at work who do a big fund raising dinner dance. They have a team of 12 though, I don't know that something like that would be doable with a team of two.
I did the walk the same year I got married. Instead of favours at our wedding we made cookies for everyone and donated $5 per person to the walk. I did the walk with my sister so split the donation between us. That donation was the only "big thing" that we did. The rest I collected by individual donations - which was pretty hard to do. Especially since I did the walk with my sister (we were askign a lot of the same family/friends for donations)
The one tip that helped with our "asks" was to suggest a donation amount. A lot of people didn't know what to give, or I think were worried about not donating "enough", so I suggested an amount depending on their life situation i.e. the broke friend in school - $10, and the well off older relative, $100.
I think the wine tasting is a good idea. So is the garage sale/auction. That is another thing that my colleague with the team does - a big garage sale. She does pretty well with it. Other ideas I've heard of - talking to a local nail salon to offer discount mani/pedi's (i.e the salon charges $15, but you charge people $25 with the extra $10 going to the walk).
You could also do a "stag and doe" type party this summer. People do them all the time for weddings (which I find super tacky), but for something like this I think it'd be a lot of fun.
I will let you know if I think of more ideas! I had a blast doing the walk (the fundraising was by far the hardest part). I'm excited you are participating!
topless car wash?
bowling tournament? ?(any tournament really, even a thumb war would be fun, plus super quick to organize/host)
maybe some sort of lecture/mixer for women? ?You could find a speaker, maybe a financial planner, a nutritionist, relationship counsellor, whoever, and charge a cover fee, inviting women from all walks of life to meet, learn and chat.
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?i really like this idea!