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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Mark, that is a very interesting fundraiser.
You are right that we are looking for signature fundraisers that really are
remembered by the public and make large amount of money for the NFB. If
each chapter had one of those and shared the funds with the national treasury,
it could go a long way for all of us. We are recommending that states make
their conventions fundraising opportunities and that chapters have something big
in the other season. We are trying to get together a packet to begin
distributing at the Washington Seminar, and some experiences that bring in
several thousand would be helpful to include. We will talk about what else
to put in on our conference call. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I have the bike info in my BrailleNote and
will get it out tomorrow. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Ramona</FONT> </DIV>
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<A title=blindsquid@yahoo.com href="mailto:blindsquid@yahoo.com">Mark T</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=cash-and-caring@nfbnet.org
href="mailto:cash-and-caring@nfbnet.org">Fund-raising assistance for Chapters
and Affiliates</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, November 16, 2012 8:40
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Cash-and-caring] Salt Lake
Fundraisers</DIV>
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<DIV>I must admit with regard to this committee, I feel a little like I walked
into the middle of a movie and am struggling to figure out what is going
on.</DIV>
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<DIV>So I am not sure if we want to do some fund-raising brainstorming.
But I am going to go ahead and tell of some of the things we have done.
We are still searching for that really large, signature fund-raiser that will
really help our affiliate and the national office.</DIV>
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<DIV>We have our annual big fund-raiser in the Salt Lake Chapter, Utah each
August. It is called “Smashing the Myths of Blindness”. It is
something I think many chapters could do around the country. It has been
a really fun event and the public loves it. So here it is:</DIV>
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<DIV>We rent a booth at the Salt Lake County fair ($200). It is open 12
hours per day for four days. We get a local auto wrecking yard to donate
a car that they are going to scrap (body should still look good). The
yard removes the windows, headlights, etc. Then we set it up in the
booth. We set up banners announcing the NFB is Smashing the Myths of
Blindness. We have a variety of sledge hammers of all sizes, and the
public can come by and smash the car for $1 per swing. We get all ages
and sizes. We also have a table set up with literature, a brailler,
braille alphabet cards, blind services info, etc. Our chapter provides
2-5 people per 4 hour shift to work the booth.</DIV>
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<DIV>We have learned a lot of things to improve the event each
year. Like we tell the people to smash the car anywhere except
inside the car. The first year they smashed the steering wheel off, and
we had a hard time getting the car back on the trailer. We also added an
accessible dartboard to the booth that people enjoyed trying out. And
this past year, we decided to quickly paint half the car blue and half
red. Here, there is a huge school rivalry between BYU and the University
of Utah. So people who hated BYU would smash the blue side and vice
versa. We kept a tally, but by the end of the four days, it was obvious
which side was smashed the most.</DIV>
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<DIV>After about our fifth year doing it, we have it down. The public
now look for us at the fair. We even got TV coverage this last
year. After the fair is over, we tow the car back to the auto wrecking
yard, where they can still scrap it for the metal. So they really are
just loaning out the car. One place has even towed the car for us both
ways for free and then donated the money he got when he scrapped the
car.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>We usually make about $1200. This is a very small fair. We
have thought about trying to do it at the big state fair, but haven’t tried
yet. The booth rental is much more expensive, and we aren’t sure they
will give us enough room to do it right. I also came up with the idea
this year of doing it at the annual football game between BYU and U of U in
the parking lot, but we did not have enough time to get permission.
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<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>We also printed t-shirts and hats that say “National Federation of the
Blind – Smashing the Myths of Blindness” with a Whozit in the middle.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>We also do the usual fundraisers. We are trying a new one right
now. The local minor league hockey team gives us tickets for one night
and we sell them at face value, but we get to keep $10 per ticket. They
will then allow us to put up NFB banners and make announcements that it is NFB
night, and we get proceeds from other promotions they do that night. It
is January 19th, so I will let you all know how it went at the Washington
Seminar.</DIV>
<DIV>I know this email was long. I hope you find it of some value.
I would like to hear about others fundraisers, including the bike-a-thon
Ramona mentioned in Idaho. I appreciated the Chile dinner idea.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Thanks, <BR>Mark Turley<BR></DIV></DIV>
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