The things I did last year, starting around the first of August is: I baked cookies and sold them at work - 3 for $1.00 I bought candy bars at Sam's and also sold them for $1.00 each (M&M's was the "hot seller" for me) I put up a sponsorship sheet and asked my co-workers to sponsor me for a $10 donantion. (several gave more than $10, I think I had over $150 just in sponsorships) I asked for people to donate items for my silent auction. I used the candy money to purchase other items like a small pink ribbon belt buckle, a few pink ribbon cross saddle ties, and I had a pink ribbon key chain. I also had those hats made for $5 each and sold them $15 each. Most items went into my silent auction, but I also had a raffle drawing. The raffle tickets were $1.00 each or 6 for $5.00. The winning items for the raffle were the key chain (3rd prize), Pink ribbon cross saddle tie, (2nd prize) and the belt buckle (1st prize). Let me tell you there were A LOT of people wanting that belt buckle! They bought tickets like crazy trying to increase their odds of winning it! We had a pot luck dinner that night, which was also when we held the raffle drawing and silent auction. Everyone was VERY generous, and we even invited people who were not riders to come to the pot luck dinner. My ride was VERY small, only 14 people I believe, but we raised over $1,400 total. The big thing is to start early and ASK, ASK, ASK!!! :-) If anyone else has any other ideas, please share! I also had the two recognition boards. A pink one to honor the survivors and a white to memorialize those lost. Andrea Fowler afowler@truskok.com |
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