[Cash-and-caring] Welcom, chapter fundraising idea, and Washington Seminar

Mon Oct 15 08:24:53 UTC 2012

Folks,
Thanks for creating the list, I'm sure it'll be very useful.
I like the blindness test/quiz idea.  If it's a facebook mission, I'm
assuming the audience will be our friends on facebook, and their
subsiquential friends on facebook, since we'll probably ask folks to
re-post the opportunity on their Walls, and so forth.  The test/quiz needs
a neat catchy title, to spark interest in attempting to solve, or enter
into.  My initial thoughts on this  are:
"The Blind Know-It-All"
"Blindness Expert inquizission"
"Buying Blindness"
"The Blind Milionaire Questionare"
"So you think your a Federationist"
"The Blind Test"
"Testing Blindness"
"Cant-See Quiz"
I think some times NFB folks like to think they may know more federation
history then their colleagues.  I wonder who'd win between lets say-Dr.
Mauer/Mrs. Mauer, Jim Gashel, Jim Omvig, Mrs. Jernigan, Mr. Caps, or any
other long-standing federationist.  May be we can place bids on a
particular contestant, definitely have to pay to play... Perhaps we can
challenge each state to enter at least one entry, assuring cross-country
participation.  Each affiliate must support their blind-no-it-all. There
must exist, a tie-breaker of some sort, we can't have a whole bumch of
perfect scores.

A fundraiser I've been a part of that has made more than $5000 has been a
Bowl-a-Thon.  This involved reserving a bowling alley for 3-hours, to
allow 40-lanes to be sponsored by contributors to the cause, and having as
many blind folks bowl 2-games beneath signs recognizing said sponsor over
the lanes. Sponsors can also sponsor a team for $80, or a single
blind-bowler for $20.  All blind bowlers pay $5 to play 2-games.  We
usually made 6-10 thousand for the local Beep Baseball Team in-town,
they've been doing it for 20-years now.
10-things I did to help
1: Located sponsors for lanes-$175 for one-lane, $300 for 2-lanes.
2: Communicated with Bowling Alley for scheduling event dates, and key
updates
3: Worked on an event committee
4: solicited local vendors for door prizes for event
5: spread the word to blind bowlers
6: Created event flyer
7: distributed PR materials to public, friends, and family
8: contacted local media for coverage
9: Arranged for dignitaries to attend-Mayor, loacl radio DJ, and a local
minor league baseball player.
10: Attended the event with a nice group of friends.

Thanks,
Richie

> We are targeting whoever will bite.  We will find out.  One possibility is
> to say that all the answers are on the NFB Web Site and ask questions
> accordingly.  I don't know how much effort people would put into finding
> them.  My notion would be to make the questions pretty easy, but I know
> that
> might be hard to do for those who know little or nothing about blindness.
> Of course, those who enter would be recognized as a friend of the NFB or
> something like that.  Conchita says that is easy to do, but people like
> it.
> I want feedback on things like that. I think we have enough time to do
> this
> right if it does not take a lot of Web Site development time, and I am
> assured it doesn't.
>
> Ramona
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Riccobono, Mark" <MRiccobono at nfb.org>
> To: "Fund-raising assistance for Chapters and Affiliates"
> <cash-and-caring at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 8:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [Cash-and-caring] Welcom and Washington Seminar
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>> Seems like an interesting idea to me. We would need to talk with Bridgid
>> only if we are worried about how the donation relates to the quiz and
>> drawing. Will people donate if they don't know the answers? If they can
>> view the quiz and they know they don't know all the answers, what is
>> their
>> incentive to donate? Or is the quiz just a hook to encourage a
>> contribution? Are we targeting our members primarily with this?
>>
>> I think using the NFB Facebook page more dynamicaly is a good idea.
>>
>> Mark
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Cash-and-caring [mailto:cash-and-caring-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Ramona Walhof
>> Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 9:47 PM
>> To: cash-and-caring at nfbnet.org
>> Subject: [Cash-and-caring] Welcom and Washington Seminar
>>
>>            As you can see Dave Andrews did, indeed, get us a list.  It
>> is
>> a private list, so we should be able to discuss what we want to without
>> much interference until we are ready to go beyond this group.
>>
>> I have talked withConchita about doing a quizz on Facebook for
>> Washington
>> Seminar.  The idea would be to announce an online quizz at that time.
>> We
>> would have ten or twenty questions about the NFB and blindness.  It
>> would
>> cost people five dollars to enter.  Everyone who enters would be
>> designated a friend of the NFB.  Further those who get all the questions
>> right  would be placed in a drawing.  We would give at least one prize,
>> say one hundred dollars, unless somebody can get a great gift
>> certificate
>> donated.  Only those who get all the answers correct would be entered in
>> the drawing.  We could decide whether all the answers could be found on
>> the NFB Web Site or not.
>>
>> Committee members, does this strike you as a good idea.  Do you have
>> comments or suggestions for making it better?
>>
>> Have any of you thought up another fundraising event that could be done
>> or
>> kicked off at Washington?
>>
>> Conchita says she can do the Facebook work.  There would be a link to a
>> blogspot for the quizz.  Payment would be through paypal.  We would need
>> to read the entries.  We could keep it going for a week, two weeks or
>> something else.
>>
>> Mark, does this fit with the uses you seek on Facebook?  Do we have a
>> Paypal account that we could use or should we get our own?  Should we be
>> checking
>> with Brigid   or Charlie about any of this?   Conchita says we should
>> just
>> put it on the NFB Facebook page, something I have never used.
>>
>> How many people on this committee are on Facebook?
>> We don't know how many people would pay to participate in a quizz or
>> drawing, but we would learn some things.  If it works even some, we
>> should
>> be able to improve it.
>>
>> I am looking forward to your reactions.
>>
>> Ramona
>>
>>
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