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

Tue Oct 16 21:00:15 UTC 2012

Ramona,
We have been doing the Bowl-a-Thon to support the Beep baseball team in
Austin for over 20 years now.  The funds we raise vary between 6000 and
11,000, it really depends on the giving nature of the sponsors each year.
I've helped for the last six years, and have learned a little of the
logistics.  We have a very good fundraiser in this group, she's quite
territorial of her gig, and not a true believer that a blind person can do
her job, but of course we know best...

Richie Flores
Youth Services Coordinator
National Federation of the Blind of Texas
512-323-5444
rflores at nfbtx.org
www.nfbtx.org/youthprograms
"Changing what it means to be Blind"

-----Original Message-----
From: Cash-and-caring [mailto:cash-and-caring-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Ramona Walhof
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 8:36 AM
To: Fund-raising assistance for Chapters and Affiliates
Subject: Re: [Cash-and-caring] Welcom, chapter fundraising idea, and
Washington Seminar

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

Ramona
----- Original Message -----
From: <rflores at nfbtx.org>
To: "Fund-raising assistance for Chapters and Affiliates" 
<cash-and-caring at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2012 2:24 AM
Subject: [Cash-and-caring] Welcom, chapter fundraising idea, and Washington
Seminar

> 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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