What does your club do to raise money?
04-04-2002, 02:42 PM
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What does your club do to raise money?
Besides collecting dues, what other things do your clubs do to raise money? What have you had the most success with?
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04-04-2002, 07:10 PM
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Raising Money
What is a 50/50 raffle?
Has anyone done a static display at a Mall, Airport, or museum with a raffle? I was thinking of setting up a display at a mall (or any other public place) to raise awareness of the hobby, promote the club and ama and host a raffle that would hopefully raise some money. Is this a good idea?
Has anyone done a static display at a Mall, Airport, or museum with a raffle? I was thinking of setting up a display at a mall (or any other public place) to raise awareness of the hobby, promote the club and ama and host a raffle that would hopefully raise some money. Is this a good idea?
04-04-2002, 08:07 PM
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What does your club do to raise money?
In our club, The Lake Ontario Flyers in Olcott, NY, we raise money the good old fashion way, by recruiting members by offering anyone the opportunity to fly either RC airplanes or helicopters, at their convenience, not ours.
All anyone has to do is call one of our instructors and make an appointment and when there is someone at the field, there will always be a trainer ready to fly. We supply the aircraft and all equipment and for free. This is on a 7 day a week basis, btw. Just call and fly, anytime. This works wonders for bringing in and keeping new dues paying members.
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All anyone has to do is call one of our instructors and make an appointment and when there is someone at the field, there will always be a trainer ready to fly. We supply the aircraft and all equipment and for free. This is on a 7 day a week basis, btw. Just call and fly, anytime. This works wonders for bringing in and keeping new dues paying members.
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CCR
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http://www.kites.org/rc_instructors
04-04-2002, 08:22 PM
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What does your club do to raise money?
One thing we did that's not common ; we had a large barrel and we collected all the empty soft drink cans and found a local aluminium recycler that paid us by the pound... We were able to collect enough to buy supplies to build a roofed section beside our pits for shade in no time! Best regards, Johnny Matwing 
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What does your club do to raise money?
zxxman, A 50/50 raffle is when people buy tickets, say at $1 each, and then a number is drawn. The winning number gets half (50%) of the total ticket sales.....the other half goes to the club.
My club has done static displays at a local mall, but the mall will not allow us to sell raffle tickets there. I think it would be great to be able to sell raffle tickets for a fully equiped trainer package. I think that would raise quite a few $$.
Mike
My club has done static displays at a local mall, but the mall will not allow us to sell raffle tickets there. I think it would be great to be able to sell raffle tickets for a fully equiped trainer package. I think that would raise quite a few $$.
Mike
04-04-2002, 09:48 PM
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RAISING MONEY FOR YOUR CLUB
HELLO EXXMAN,
WE USED TO SELL HOT DOGS AT THE LOCAL HY-VEE.THAT GOT BORING AFTER A WHILE.WE LATER GOT AHOLD OF OUR LOCAL EAA CLUB AND HELPED SPONCER A FLIGHT BREAKFEST AT THE LOCAL AIRPORT. THAT GOT US ENOUGHT MONEY TO BUY A NEW RIDING LAWN MOWER.NOW FOR THE PAST TWO YEAR, WE'VE BEEN RAFFLEING OFF A ARF SIG LT-40 WITH ENGINE,RADIO ALL INSTALLED. WE CHARGE $1.00 FOR ONE TICKET AND $5.00 FOR SIX TICKETS.THE HE HANG THE PLANE AT OUR LOCAL HOBBY SHOP AND WATCH THE MONEY COME IN. WE WILL BE DRAWING THE WINNER AT OUR MALL SHOW IN TWO WEEKS.SO IF YOU WANT A RAFFLE TICKET OR TWO THERES STILL TIME TO BUY.JUST KIDDING EXXMAN.
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WE USED TO SELL HOT DOGS AT THE LOCAL HY-VEE.THAT GOT BORING AFTER A WHILE.WE LATER GOT AHOLD OF OUR LOCAL EAA CLUB AND HELPED SPONCER A FLIGHT BREAKFEST AT THE LOCAL AIRPORT. THAT GOT US ENOUGHT MONEY TO BUY A NEW RIDING LAWN MOWER.NOW FOR THE PAST TWO YEAR, WE'VE BEEN RAFFLEING OFF A ARF SIG LT-40 WITH ENGINE,RADIO ALL INSTALLED. WE CHARGE $1.00 FOR ONE TICKET AND $5.00 FOR SIX TICKETS.THE HE HANG THE PLANE AT OUR LOCAL HOBBY SHOP AND WATCH THE MONEY COME IN. WE WILL BE DRAWING THE WINNER AT OUR MALL SHOW IN TWO WEEKS.SO IF YOU WANT A RAFFLE TICKET OR TWO THERES STILL TIME TO BUY.JUST KIDDING EXXMAN.
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04-04-2002, 09:56 PM
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Mall Show
Nedyob and others:
How do you setup a mall show? I have been thinking about this as well. Please let me know what steps you took to get the approval to do it with the mall, what you displayed/handed out, and what you were hoping to accomplish?
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How do you setup a mall show? I have been thinking about this as well. Please let me know what steps you took to get the approval to do it with the mall, what you displayed/handed out, and what you were hoping to accomplish?
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HOW TO SET UP A MALL SHOW
HAY EXXMAN,
CONTRACT THE MALL MANAGER AND SEE IF THEY CAN BOOK YOU IN FOR A WEEKEND.SHOULDN'T COST ANYTHING AS LONG AS YOU DON'T SELL ANYTHING FOR PROFIT. WHEN YOU GET A DATE SET. CONTACT YOUR CLUB AND SEE WHO WANTS TO HELP OUT BY PUTTING ON THERE PLANES FOR DISPLAY.
DURING THE SHOW, HAVE A PEOPLE CHOICE AWARD WHERE THE PUBLIC VOTES ON THERE FAVORITE PLANE. THEN THE WINNER WHO GETS THE MOST VOTES AT THE END OF THE SHOW USUALLY GETS A PLAQUE.WE HAVE 1ST 2ND 3RD PLACE AWARDS.THEN THE WINNER GETS TO CD THE MALL SHOW THE NEXT YEAR.HA HA HA.
ALSO YOU MIGHT WANNA CONTACT THE LOCAL NEWS PAPER.THEY WILL POST A REPORT IN THE PUBLIC EVENS SECTION OF THE PAPER USUALLY FOR FREE. THEN HAVE THEM STOP BY THE MALL SHOW. YOU'D BE SURPRISED WHO ALL WANTS TO GET THEIR MUG SHOT ALONG WITH THERE PLANE IN THE PAPER. HOPE THIS HELPS.
NEDYOB
CONTRACT THE MALL MANAGER AND SEE IF THEY CAN BOOK YOU IN FOR A WEEKEND.SHOULDN'T COST ANYTHING AS LONG AS YOU DON'T SELL ANYTHING FOR PROFIT. WHEN YOU GET A DATE SET. CONTACT YOUR CLUB AND SEE WHO WANTS TO HELP OUT BY PUTTING ON THERE PLANES FOR DISPLAY.
DURING THE SHOW, HAVE A PEOPLE CHOICE AWARD WHERE THE PUBLIC VOTES ON THERE FAVORITE PLANE. THEN THE WINNER WHO GETS THE MOST VOTES AT THE END OF THE SHOW USUALLY GETS A PLAQUE.WE HAVE 1ST 2ND 3RD PLACE AWARDS.THEN THE WINNER GETS TO CD THE MALL SHOW THE NEXT YEAR.HA HA HA.
ALSO YOU MIGHT WANNA CONTACT THE LOCAL NEWS PAPER.THEY WILL POST A REPORT IN THE PUBLIC EVENS SECTION OF THE PAPER USUALLY FOR FREE. THEN HAVE THEM STOP BY THE MALL SHOW. YOU'D BE SURPRISED WHO ALL WANTS TO GET THEIR MUG SHOT ALONG WITH THERE PLANE IN THE PAPER. HOPE THIS HELPS.
NEDYOB
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What does your club do to raise money?
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Our club does a mall show each year and this last year we built a four-star 40 during the two days and raffled it off on the last day. We had a lot of participation by the public and made a lot of contacts. Contact the AMA for their free mall show package, it is really nice. James Goss
Our club does a mall show each year and this last year we built a four-star 40 during the two days and raffled it off on the last day. We had a lot of participation by the public and made a lot of contacts. Contact the AMA for their free mall show package, it is really nice. James Goss
04-05-2002, 02:55 AM
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What does your club do to raise money?
Membership, raffles, 1/2 and 1/2 raffles at each meeting and each funfly, we had some wood donated from a furniture company that let's us sell it for club profit. (they use 1/8 lite ply for inside couches and for laminating. If the grain isn't perfect it can't be used for that so we profitted from it.)
We also get lots of stuff donated by members that means we don't have to buy as many prizes. We also get $$ breaks from the local LHS's for gift certificates.
Sell Hot dogs, chips, pop, coffee and donuts at events; club paraphenalia
Whatever we can, in other words
Nuker
We also get lots of stuff donated by members that means we don't have to buy as many prizes. We also get $$ breaks from the local LHS's for gift certificates.
Sell Hot dogs, chips, pop, coffee and donuts at events; club paraphenalia
Whatever we can, in other words
Nuker
