The Best Fund Raising Event Would Involve Community and New Partners

This is your page to tell us what has worked with you; the form and what others have submitted is below.

In fact, if your need for money isn't of the type where you're about to go out of business if you don't have a certain amount of new funding, maybe one of your major benchmarks for success should be how much community buy-in and increase in acquaintance and friendships your event can accomplish.

We're pretty sure people will have dynamite fund raising ideas and just for the fun of it, on this page, we'll concentrate on events, which tend to be social rather than just selling something.

Below you'll have an opportunity to send us your photos to boast a little about your great event and to tell us the secrets of your success. We imagine readers would want to know your net proceeds in general terms or at least how your income compared to expenses. They're also interested in effort, side benefits such as new members or press coverage that you achieved, and how exhausted everyone was afterward.

After the form, you can see the first few lines of what others have sent us too. We moderate and edit a bit so that you have the quality content you expect from this site.

The best fund raising event reflects the personality of your group. If you're family-oriented, chances are your fund-raiser builds in plenty of opportunity for kids of all ages to have some fun. But in sophisticated urban and urbane neighborhoods, maybe a really imaginative upscale party would be just the ticket. There's no need to stretch your neighborhood identity to raise some money; just have fun being yourselves.

Did your neighborhood have a great fund raising event?

Here we're interested only in fund raising events that benefited a neighborhood or community association, not a school or good cause in general.

Tell us about the location, invitation, decorations, publicity, amount you made, effort required, number of people involved, and so forth. What would you do differently next time? Was it worth the effort? What would make it even more successful?

Did the fund raising event have some side effects such as building neighborliness? Did you have fun, or was it more on the hard work end of the spectrum?

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