Boost Your Cause Through Seasonal Fundraising

Keep your cause relevant by sending out seasonal promotional fundraising. People will more likely be interested in correspondence that compliments the atmosphere of the moment. With 2010 just a few months away, create a program to promote your cause every three months based on the season, holiday or other significant event. Your program can be simple: an email blast, social media communications, website advertising and press releases. Work with other organizations or businesses to increase visibility.


Here are ways Non Profits are furthering their cause during October 2009.

Selena & Friends Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF

Hey everyone! Want to change the world? Join me in support of Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF and help kids all over the world get the basics they need to survive and thrive... food, clean water, education and so much more.

Going to a Halloween Party or trick-or-treating door to door? Bring a Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF collection box with you. You can order one at www.unicefusa.org/totorder! When you get home, be sure to add funds raised to your personal page. Join me today and make Halloween count!



Halloween Costume Drop & Treat!

Drop off your old, gently used, Halloween costumes at one of the participating partners through Oct. 31 and receive a coupon good for 25 percent off your next purchase at Roy Maas’ Youth Alternatives’ (RMYA) Thrift Shop. By donating your costumes, you will keep the costumes out of the landfills, provide costumes for the children at RMYA to use and provide revenue for the nonprofit when costumes are sold at the RMYA Thrift Shop.

http://blog.timesunion.com/simplerliving/thrift-or-treat-costumes-rock-halloween-on-a-budget/15725/

Roy Maas’ Youth Alternatives is a nonprofit that helps abused and neglected children who have been removed from their homes. They also offer a transitional living program for teens aging out of the state foster care system and free family counseling for families in the community with children in crisis.

http://www.blewgreen.org/

2nd annual Halloween Fashion Show and Auction

Ripple Repeats Thriftique of Prescott College is hosting the second annual Halloween Fashion Show and Auction. The fashion show will feature designs by students of Prescott College and employees of local non-profit organizations. Organizers will auction off the designs in support of the Ripple Project. Fashion Show designers take donated and recycled treasures from the Thriftique and turns the treasures into one-of-a-kind, hand made Halloween costumes for auction.

Sushi with a side of wasabi and ginger costume

Halloween Fun Helps Kids In Need


A newly opened west Toledo haunted house is giving its profits to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. The two people in charge of building, designing, and marketing the haunted house are 32 years old, combined. Nick Francis, 17, and his cousin Max Simon, 15, are the puppet masters behind the project. With help from about 60 friends and family members, Max and Nick sawed their way through 13 months of planning in time to open.

The boys are paying just $10 a month to rent the old Foodtown. And when it comes time to make a profit, the boys will donate to charity.
http://www.hellsgatehaunt.com/
http://www.northwestohio.wish.org/