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

Tue Oct 16 13:36:07 UTC 2012

Richie, that got you going!  That's what I was hoping for.
How much money did the bolling event raise.

Ramona
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> 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
>>
>>
>>> 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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