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Fundraising Ideas to Help Motivate Your Volunteers

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The entire purpose of any fundraising campaign is to reach a specific financial goal. Wouldn't it be nice if you could reach that goal quicker? There is a secret to turning a long drawn out fundraiser into an exciting and fun time for all.

The best way to increase your fundraising profits is to provide motivating rewards. Spending some money on strong motivation is something that can be done in most any fundraising effort. Unfortunately, a good prize program is not always offered to the volunteers who are working the front lines. If you really want to increase your sales and by doing so reach your goal much faster, you must keep your volunteers motivated.

Here are some motivational ideas that might just help you get your gang on the ball and working hard.

Top Seller Award

You might give an award to the top seller in your fundraiser. It could be a plaque, a trophy, dinner for 2 at a local restaurant, movie tickets, or some other prize. However, it is actually more effective to give your "top" prize to everyone who hits a certain level.

Give a Raffle Type Prize

Each time a volunteer makes a sale you could put a ticket with their name on it in a big jar. Then at various times during the sale or at the end of the campaign you could draw tickets for a first, second, and third place prize. This encourages your volunteers to try harder because each time they make a sale their chances for winning the first prize grows.

Goal Specific Prizes

Set some individual sales goals. Something like the first person to sell $100 worth of merchandise or any number you choose gets a certain prize.

Fun Prizes

These are the best because they usually cost nothing but some dignity. Perhaps the top seller might get to give the boss a crew cut. If you have a big old cheesy moustache offer to shave it off if a certain goal is met. The ideas in this category are endless and are only governed by how much dignity someone is willing to lose.

If your volunteers are students in your class you could give away a day of fun. Instead of class that day you could head out and play basketball, football, or any other sport. Maybe a music day would be appropriate.

Team Prizes

If your volunteers are working in teams you could award the winning team a night at a local pizza parlor or other fun activity.

Learn as few good fundraising ideas and find out how many schools are doubling or more their previous fundraisers by making a few key changes in the way they do their prizes. Check it out at the AimFundraising . com website

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