| If you are doing a fund-raiser,
answer the following: |
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Who is the recipient and what is the purpose of
this fund-raiser (e.g., to pay medical bills, support a local
charity, etc.)? |
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What type of fund-raiser will you do (e.g., bake
sale, car wash, book sale, etc.)? |
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How much money do you want to raise? |
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Where will the fund-raising activity be held? |
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What is the date/time of the fund-raiser? Be sure
to consider alternate plans for rain or unexpected situations
that may occur. |
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Request funding from chapter leadership board.
Verify approval. |
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What arrangements need to be made for the location
(i.e., reserve hall, tables, chairs, food, etc.)? |
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What tasks need to be done? |
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Will you have shifts for volunteers? If yes, how
many shifts are necessary? How many volunteers are needed for
each shift? How will they sign up? |
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Are donated
items needed? If yes, what items are needed? Who will solicit
these items? |
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Develop communications/promotion plan. Promotion materials
i.e. posters or bulletin inserts are available through the
chapter leadership board.
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| Three to
Five days before the activity |
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Verify that enough volunteers signed up. If not,
recruit more volunteers. |
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Remind volunteers of the date, time, location
and any special details they should know about the activity. |
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Verify funding has been secured.
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| One day
before the activity |
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Acquire cash boxes and change ($50 in change usually
works well; currency amounts depends on the pricing you will
have). |
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Arrange to have someone take pictures at activity.
Have a sign posted saying these pictures may be used for publicity
purposes. |
| _____ |
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Create a sign-in
sheet for volunteers (indicate if Thrivent Financial
member and number of volunteer hours). |
| _____ |
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Check supplies. Do you have enough? Is anything missing?
For example, for a bake sale, you will need things to package
the bakery (i.e., plastic bags, paper plates, stickers, markers,
plastic gloves).
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| Following the activity |
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Thank volunteers (verbally, send e-mail or thank-you
note, provide online recognition certificate - print hardcopy
or send electronically). |
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Pay bills and reimburse expenses, if any. |
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Report activity and send funds and receipts to
chapter leaders. |
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Chapter pays recipient. Consider if you or other community
service team members want to be involved in presenting the
check to the recipient. The chapter leadership board also
may decide to involve one or more financial representatives or
Lutheran Community Service team members to take part in the
check presentation.
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