Proven & Successful Family Fundraising Tips Raising Funds with Contributions: Just ask! In one of your mailings, ask each adult family member over the age of 21 to contribute $5.00 to the creation and charting of the Family Tree. If you have 100 addresses on your mailing list and there are at least two adults per address, you may receive $1,000.00 or more. Request a $10.00 contribution, receive $2,000.00. Raising Funds with Memory Book Ads: At your next family gathering or reunion, prepare a 50-page Memory Book and sell ads to be placed in the Memory Book as follows: Use 2 pages for Cover & Back Use 10 pages for Family Information Use 38 pages for Ads @ $60.00/page = $2,280.00 REVENUE 50 pages (25 sheets: printing on both sides of the sheet.) (Popular Ads are those placed to congratulate a relative for an achievement and ads placed “in memory of” a loved one who has passed on.) This Memory Book Fund Raiser will more than cover your cost: Family Tree Poster & Framed: $450.00 1 Family Book $225.00 90 Memory Books $1,200.00 (approx cost) $1,875.00 EXPENSE TOTAL FAMILY PROFIT $405.00 You or a family member can do most of the work on the Memory Book and save more than $600.00 … Increasing your Family Profit to over $1,000.00. |