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BBQ Dinners
Have the saints sell plates in advance at work, school, and local
businesses.
Make sure to collect the money in advance.
Have a crew to cook potato salad, baked beans, and of course the meat!
Have a few of the ladies bake/buy pound cakes.
Have a crew to assemble the plates for delivery.
Have a few people to deliver the plates
Golf Tournament (or any other type of tournament)
You can have this at a local par-3 or a larger course it is up to you.
Dothan uses a par-3 course that donates the course for the tournament.
Have someone to go around to local businesses and have them sell hole
sponsorships for $50 - $150 or let them have the hole exclusively for a
larger donation (say $250).
Have someone to call local restaurants to donate gift certificates to
be given to the closest to the pin winners and the winners of each
flight. If you have enough gift certificates at the end of the
tournament you can auction those off to the highest bidder
Have someone prepared to have food for sale if the course doesn’t offer
food.
Charge a cost per person to enter the tournament and make it a 2 or 3
man scramble. Set your entry fee cost equivalent to the quality and
prestige of the course you are playing on.
Century Club
Pass out slips for Century Club pledges at the beginning of the SFC
drive in April (these can be downloaded at
www.jointhesfcstory.com).
Have families pledge $100 to SFC. This can be paid in one lump sum,
monthly at $20 a month, or weekly at $5 a week. Some families may even
consider each member of the family pledging $100
Give regular updates to the individuals as to the amount they have paid
of their pledge
At the end of the SFC drive have the names of those families that kept
their pledge engraved on a plaque and placed on the wall in the church
for all to see.
Car Washes
Try to have these in a highly visible location
Make sure the youth/saints are supervised at all times, you don’t want
to be sued over damage to a car.
Ask for donations only...sometimes you will get a $2.00 donation on a
really dirty car, but other times you will get $20.00 for a car that had
just been washed the day before. If you ask for $5...that’s all you
will get!
After Service Dinners
These have been big money makers for years. Every other week a
different family or families are assigned to prepare an after service
dinner for Sunday night. The menu is up to them. Word to the
wise...keep it simple...the more costly the meal...the less money.
The typical meal are items like spaghetti, tacos, hamburgers, hotdogs,
chili, sloppy joe’s, nachos, pizza, and other quick meals.
If it is possible have the family/families preparing the meal to donate
the cost of the meal and not receive a reimbursement.
Set the cost of the meal at a reasonable amount. Don’t charge $7 for 2
taco’s and a 10oz Coke that they could get for $3 at Taco Bell.
Picture Sales
There are several companies that will offer to come to your church and
take family portraits for $5 or $10. These companies will give you a
bonus for selling a certain amount of pictures and an even higher bonus
for going over that amount.
These companies make their money of the sale of addition portraits that
they sell, but you are not obligated to purchase anything above your
original portrait purchase. These companies can be found on the
internet.
Auction
This is a major undertaking, but it is fun and a great way to make some
money.
You will need to have an auction coordinator that spends time calling
local business to donate items for auction, meals, gift certificates,
oil changes, dry cleaning, books, clothing, etc...The coordinator is
responsible for seeing that the items are collected.
Have a list made up of all the items up for bid with the opening bid
price (usually 40% – 50% the original value).
Have an auctioneer (this can just be someone to call out the items for
bid and to keep up with the bidding) at the event to make the process
fun.
Have numbers for everyone to hold up as they bid and have lots of fun
getting people to bid higher and higher.
As stated earlier, this is a major project, if done right it is not
something you can do in a month. In Dothan, they normally start calling
businesses in January and hold the auction in May.
For more information on this project contact Sis. Shannon Goodwin
(334)671-4102 in Dothan or send an email to
revdog@gmail.com
Walk-a-thon
Simple...get people to sponsor you to walk a certain number of miles.
A high school track or local walking trail with lots of shade are great
places to have these kinds of events.
You can rent pavilions and put up lots of signage promoting your
event. Some people will walk by and just donate money if you are
having it at a local walking trail.
Have plenty of water, Gatorade, chocolate, and other snack items to keep
the walkers energized. After the event is over have food prepared for
the walkers
Bike-a-thon
Same concept as a walk-a-thon...only you ride bikes
Silent Cake Auction
This is a really good way to make a good sum of money in less than 20
minutes.
Have someone to ask the ladies (or men) of the church to bake cakes,
brownies, etc...
This is good to do on a Sunday morning or Sunday night after church.
Have the cakes laid out on a table with a sheet in front of each one
with the name of the baker, the type of cake, and the opening bid. We
usually set the opening bid on all items at $10. Some of these cakes go
for as much as $50 and when you have 10 cakes that can really add up.
Set a time limit of 20 minutes to make your bids. It is funny to see
people scrambling around to make sure they keep the highest bid on their
favorite cake.
SFC Fun Day
Set up some games outside, have a “train” ride, and any other carnival
type games and events that you can come up with.
Have food...food...and more food.
Sell tickets. Each attraction costs so many tickets per the
attraction. Give away prizes at each booth for the attractions.
Fundraising through sales
Yankee Candles
World’s Best Chocolate
Rada Cutlery...etc...
Teen Auction
Auction off your teens...pastor stop smiling like that...you’re not
really getting rid of them.
Have teens offer to do certain chores or to do general labor. These
teens will be auctioned off to the highest bidder and must perform the
work assigned to them or they have to pay back the price they were
auctioned for.
There needs to be certain stipulations as to the kinds of work that the
youth will not do.
Talents
Give each person interested in participating $10 or $20.
Have them devise ways to make money using the $10 or $20. As they earn
money have them reinvest it and raise more money. Give them 14 - 30
days to raise the money. At the end of the event have them turn in the
money they have raised and if no money has been raised they need to
return the $10 or $20.
Mother’s Day (Mother of the Year)
Start in April promoting this event.
Have someone collect votes for who they think is the mother of the
year. Each vote costs $1
On Mother’s Day have the votes represented by balloons, homemade
carnations, or other “motherly” type items.
The winning mother receives a dinner to a local restaurant and a gift
card to Wal-mart, target, etc...and a certificate announcing her as the
mother of the year.
Father’s Day (Father of the Year)
Same concept as mother of the year
Get That Outta My Yard
Calvary UPC in Mobile would put a decorated toilet in a church member’s
yard and the church member had to pay $20 to have it removed.
They did this the year they raised the most money for SFC in the
district.
Tithe Your Grocery Budget
Take one month and tithe your monthly grocery budget. You can do this
multiple months if you like.
If your budget is $500 per month...then tithe $50 to SFC for that
month. If you get 10 families to do this and you get $50 a month times
10 families equals $500. Do this for 5 months and your church just
turned in $2,500 for SFC.
One Day’s Pay
Give one day’s pay each month to SFC for 5 months. This can go for full
time, part time, salaried, and commissioned employees. |
