WoW! You are all INCREDIBLE! I found this list yesterday started at pg 1 & have gone from there. Within 30mins, I had my first prize: the Keurig. I would have never thought of them!
Our event is called Basket Bash. It is in March. I acutally just started my mail outs 2 days ago. I mailed over 250 out yesterday with the help of this board & also sending to local businesses.
Here is how ours goes: We are a small private school approx. 130 High 5's-8th grade. So there is only 1 of each teacher. The teachers allow themselves to be "auctioned" for lunch with the teacher. Special teachers to it to, our gym teacher also does a free basketball lesson (cause he charges), a free archery lesson (with our archery coach), free lunches for amonth (we have NO hot daily lunch, a gramma donates her time every Wed & Fri for those who purchase her lunch). The teacher has the choice of taking them out to lunch or ordering in. We can do this since we are a private school. (Principal, secretary, participate also--we are tight-knit school)....Also a class pizza party that the PTSF pays for. (The child whos tix is picked wins for the whole class).
We then have each classroom do a themed basket. In the past: Webkinz, Gift card tree, Americana, Rainy Day, Road Trip, Legos, etc...
I was have the authority to auction off the front row seats to our Spring & Xmas musicals. WOW IS that a big one! Seriously! This doenst even cost anything!
We do pay for stuff, we pay the offset for Kalahari donation. We buy the bikes, but I watch Target like a hawk for when they're 75% off. Usually get 2 bikes.
Hopefully this yr. I can get some $ donations to purchase a Nook Color EBook. Last yr. our big prize was the Nintendo DSiXL (It came out 2 days later--the local game stop had givven me a box for promotion).
Anyway~We do it by buying tix. There is usually 3 different $ levels. the teacher lunches/pizza party/Rosies lunch/etc are 10/$1...I used to do Themed baskets 3/$1 (but with the gift card basket last yr being worth $140 I couldnt justify it). So this yr. anything worth $25 or less will be in the 3/$1tix. ...then the rest is 1/$1 or like 20 for $18...I adjust & you get some bonus tix.
Then we set up a printer & print labels for people who are willing to pay for them.I usually do a lot in presale tix becasue people want to write their names on them. I jus put name/phone#. We charge like $2/sheet to do the labels.
Then you stick the tix in the box of the prize you wanna win. Last yr. we raised about $7500 (our highest in the 3yrs. of doing it). I'm hoping with using this board I can break $10,000 this yr. It would be awesome.
Does anyone have any advise about this for me? Do you think I'm doing it right? There was a girl who started this that left the school. She did it for 2yrs.. I helped her 1yr. Then she was not very kind to me. So didnt help her the nxt yr. I far exceded what she brought in in those 2yrs. with my last yrs. #. I would love to make this a huge event this yr.
Thanks!
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We were able to get 4 tickets for the Childrens Musueum you can email:
Maria Borges
Membership Manager
Children's Museum of Manhattan
The Tisch Building
212 West 83rd Street
New York, NY 10024
P 212.721.1223 x227
F 212.721.1127 www.cmom.org
Hi All-
Every now and then I re-post the original guidelines from slfournier for this thread:
I've noticed that a lot of the listings for auction/raffle donations are quite old. Both the economy and company policies change over time, so I am starting a new Thread. I have found it tedious to go through pages and pages of a thread to get what we all really want - Names and contact info of national corporate donors people have been successful with. So, I ask the following:
PLEASE:
1) Only list sources you have had success with.
2) If you have questions for a poster, please contact them directly - not through this thread. This thread is supposed to be a Listing.
3) Use the following format for your listing
COMPANY NAME
-- Mailing Address -or- URL for online form
-- How long it took you to get a response
-- What did the company donate?
-- Your comments
Please note: although no board code and smiley buttons are shown, they are still usable.
First to LI mom. A tricky tray is also known as a penny auction. Your organization collects donations from families, businesses, etc. The donations are put on display. People buy tickets, put them in for the prizes they want and later you pull a ticket from that bucket for that prize. If the number matches that person wins the prize. Tricky Trays are very popular and make a lot of money if they are done right.
I have mor donation yes's to list
Delaware River Tubing, Inc.
2998 Daniel Bray Highway
Frenchtown, NJ 08825
2 Free passes plus some extras
Dave and Buster's
4661 Palisades Center Drive
West Nyack, NY 10994
$25 gift certificate
Blockbuster, Inc.
Office of Corporate Contributions
1201 Elm Street
Dallas, TX 75270
10 free movie rental cards
Dick's Sporting Goods
on-line application on their website
$20 gift certificate plus 3 coupon books for your volunteers at your event
For those of you in the NJ/NY area here are some of the places we got yes's from so far. One of them is even from Ohio!
Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
P.O Box 15 sent 2 passes
Strasburg, PA 17579
Pro Football Hall of Fame
2121 George Halas Drive, N.W sent 2 passes
Canton, OH 44708
They request you keep them anonymous in the event program
If you are in Bergen County here are 2 more addresses
Supercuts
246 Livingston Street a basket of hair products & coupons
Northvale, NJ 07647
Bowler City
85 Midtown Bridge Approach 24 coupons for free games
Hackensack, NJ 07601
Our event is not until April so most letters I have put off sending until after the 1st of the year. A lot of businesses and companies turn down requests at this time of the year due to the Christmas rush. These were all places either myself or someone from my P.A visited personally. But they all gave addresses and said they do donate.
No's so far-
Hotel Hershey- Budget for 2010 & 2011 have already been met.
Good luck everyone and I'll keep posting as things come in.
