FUNDRAISING FUN 101(CONT.)

7: What is your budget? Here you need to consider:
A: Printing of flyers & invitations & tickets & letters.
B: Mailing costs.
C: Music – if it is an indoor event.
D: Promotions
1: Flyers
2: Community calendar
3: Inserts(into bills such as telephone, electric, etc.)
4: Billboards –are there any available to charitable
events at a discounted cost.
5: Direct advertising in newspaper, on radio or T.V.
E: Sponsorship – how much of your budget can be covered
by sponsors?
8: What will your theme be? This applies mainly to sit down
dinners such as at an auction.
9: Does anyone have computer skills to record and keep track of
information such as sponsorship, donations, schedules, etc.
10: Decide your organizational plan- when to have meetings,
completion of various task, etc.
11: After the event, do a thorough debrief to decide what was
done right and what was missed and what needs to be
Improved for next year.

This is the 2nd part of a two part blog.