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This weeks highlights
* Editor's Notes
* Fundraising Idea Spotlight - Biscuits And Bagels
* Product Focus - Telecommunications Affinity Program
* Free Tip - Get A Weekly Dose Of Foundation Resources
* Software Highlight - Politically-e! Fundraising
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Editor's Notes
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Food! Food! Food! Everybody loves food. How about making
money by starting your supporters off early with a good
breakfast. Not your typical pancake breakfast mind you, but
a hearty selection of biscuits and bagels.
Think of how quick and easy it would be to scramble a few
eggs fry a little bacon and sausage, and bake a few biscuits
and bagels. Put them together, and you have a popular "on
the go" breakfast as good a McDonald's. Offer coffee, orange
juice, grape juice, cranberry juice, and milk and you have
more money coming in for your own Biscuits and Bagels
Breakfast Bonanza.
Sell your breakfasts ahead of time. Create a colorful
brochure using a popular word processing software program.
Include an order form in the same brochure and go out and
start selling.
Imagine that you have 10 members in your group. Each can
easily sell 20 breakfasts at roughly $4.00 each. You could
easily earn $800.00 and probably ten times that amount if
your members got really aggressive.
Plan to deliver your breakfasts or plan a day and location
for people to stop in and pick up their order. Sell a
large office building one day then go down the road to
the next for a continual supply of customers. Check out
more about setting up your own
Biscuits and Bagels
Breakfast Bonanza.
Product Focus -- Telecommunications Affinity Program
Would it be possible to make money month after month without
reminding the donor to donate? Well, it's possible to raise funds
month after month (even in the lean months) while providing a
great service through the BestTalkPlan.com Affinity program.
After signing up, every time one of your supporters uses their
calling services, you are paid.
There are a couple of dozen programs to choose from including
2.9 cents/minute long distance, $29 flat long distance plan where
you can call all day long...all month long for a flat fee, and there are
satellite TV, pager services, computer services, computer sales,
and many more money saving features for your supporters.
You also get your own free website with all of the sales support that
you would expect. Just promote, promote, and promote your website
and watch your support grow. It really is that easy.
Free Tip -- Get A Weekly Dose Of Foundation
Resources
Are you considering looking into foundation funding for your
group? Even if you are just thinking about approaching
foundations or are now writing proposals you should check
out the free e-newsletters provided by the Foundation
Center.
There are tens (maybe hundreds) of software programs dealing
with charitable nonprofit organizations, but rare is the
program specifically designed for the nonprofit political
campaigns.
I ran across Politically-e! and found it fascinating. It is
designed to help manage a political fundraising campaign if
an office seeker wishes to raise money for a political
run.
If you are a citizen of this great country, you have
probably thought about becoming a public servant. You may
even have a family member or friend that need to manage
their own fundraising efforts for an upcoming political
campaign.
Politically-e! also has Political Party Packages,
Organization Packages, Consulting Packages, and P.A.C
Packages. Find out more about winning your (re)election
with Politically-e!