[Cash-and-Caring] Fund-Raising for At-Large Chapters

[Marci Carpenter]

The NFB of Washington just did a popcorn fundraiser with DoubleGood. With them you do a 4-day fundraiser. Their popcorn is less expensive ($9-$13 per bag). There’s less popcorn but still plenty. We made $3,481 (our take) in 4 days with 14 sellers. Keys to our success were:
1. Having a purpose/specific programs we promote it in our advertising
2. Each person setting up their own pop-up store
3. Promoting it every day of the fundraiser through social media posts, emails and texts with the link and highlighting Federation program each day/what the Federation means to each person
4. Creating a text thread to build team spirit (could also be email thread or check-in calls)

Like the online auctions, this is also a good fundraiser because you don’t have to be in the same location and you don’t have to handle money or products. People order and pay through the link and the popcorn ships directly to them. Even if people are going to be out of town during the four-day event they can set up their pop-up store ahead of time, schedule it to begin on the first day and send posts/emails/texts from wherever they are. We had two members who were vacationing in Italy at the time of the sale and they still sold popcorn.

I’m happy to answer other questions.

Marci Carpenter, President
National Federation of the Blind of Washington
206-604-5507
mjc59 at comcast.net

The National Federation of the Blind of Washington is a community of members and friends who believe in the hopes and dreams of blind people. Every day we work together to help blind people live the lives they want.

> On Aug 31, 2022, at 9:43 AM, David Andrews via Cash-and-Caring <cash-and-caring at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> I would like to start a discussion of fund-raising that an at-large chapter could do. These chapters are all-virtual, so some things might work better than others.
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> The popcorn thing seems to be big lately, there is one popin-good I think, or something like that? I think I saw another, but can’t find it. I bought the popcorn, I thought it was good, but a little on the expensive side, which may be how they all are, once everybody gets their cut!  What success are people having?
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> I know some have done Pampered Chef things too. How do they work out for chapters? I think you go through a pampered chef representative, is there someone in the NFB that does this?
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> Other ideas, thoughts etc.?
>  
> Dave
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> David Andrews, President
> Minnesota At-Large Chapter
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