Putting together a pancake morning meal fundraiser is a tried and true formula for raising funds for a worthy cause. The important thing is to include some extra ways to raise as much money as you can.
For a pancake breakfast, all you need is a large space with kitchen facilities, fullness of batter, and lots of volunteers. So, what supplementary steps can you take to double or triple your fundraising results?
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Publicity
To attract as many customers as possible, you in fact have to work the publicity angle. It's not enough to put up some roadside signs and to mention the event in your group's newsletter.
Put together a press publish featuring the most newsworthy aspect of your pancake breakfast. Usually, that would be the human interest story describing why you are raising the funds and specifically how they will help the man or group the fundraiser is benefiting.
Distribute your press publish well ahead of your event to all the media outlets in your market. It helps to include newsworthy photographs of the intended recipient or a old year's event. All the time focus on telling a story that will be enthralling to a newspaper's readers, a tv station's viewers, or a radio station's listeners.
Silent auction items
An easy way to boost results from a pancake morning meal is to add silent auctions of donated goods and services. Coming local businesses for items that will attract lots of bidding. To growth donations, offer each enterprise fullness of publicity at your event.
Place silent auction items on tables where customers will line up to be served. Have wall signs highlighting the silent auction process and ask patrons to bid generously. include a full report of each item in large type and be sure to have enough lines on your bid forms for at least twenty bids.
Verbally encourage each customer to bid on something and make sure that each item has at least a beginning bid on it before the crowd forms and things get hectic.
Conduct a raffle
Pancake breakfasts are a great place to sell raffle tickets. If you offer it right next to your payment table, close to half of your customers will buy a raffle label that's reasonably priced and has a large prize.
If you can't get a good enough prize donated, then run a 50/50 raffle. That's where the owner of the winning label gets half of the label earnings and the other half goes to the fundraiser.
Ask for donations
Place a large open-mouthed jug or pail next to the cash register and prominently label it as the place for donations. Even if citizen only donate turn from paying for their pancakes, you'll raise a essential amount.
Attaching a note saying 'Every limited Bit Helps' and 'Make Checks Payable To' is an additional one great way to stimulate donations. With some groups, donations exceed label revenue!
Sell advertising
If you are using paper placemats for your pancake breakfast, you can sell advertising space on them to local businesses. This works especially well when your event is an every year affair and draws a large crowd.
Some groups put a combine dozen ad blocks on their placemats and fee 0 a spot. They not only get it, they sell out their ad space weeks ahead of the event.
Summary
There are many supplementary ways at this type of event to raise more funds than just selling pancakes. Look to add as many fundraising activities as you can such as silent auctions, raffles, and asking for donations.
Work the publicity angle with a newsworthy press publish focused on exactly why your group is raising funds and how it will advantage the recipient. A good human interest story is All the time newsworthy.
By putting a limited extra endeavor into your pancake morning meal fundraiser, you will double or triple your results!
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