Raising money with a quilt
07-16-2011, 04:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Shelley
As many of you know, quilts rarely make what they should when give to auctions. Here are a couple of ways we have found to make closer to their value for good causes.
1) Raffle, don't auction, the quilt. Around here, people will part with $1 or $5 for a chance to win a quilt, but won't pay $500 at an auction.
2) This is a new one. Our community had a fund raiser for a woman with cancer. Our guild donated a quilt. It had 60 white cornerstones between the blocks. Each of those was sold for $10, and people wrote messages and/or their names in the blocks. The quilt was give to the woman to have with her in the hospital while she's having treatments, and it raised some money to help with expenses.
Hope these ideas help with your fund raising activities.
1) Raffle, don't auction, the quilt. Around here, people will part with $1 or $5 for a chance to win a quilt, but won't pay $500 at an auction.
2) This is a new one. Our community had a fund raiser for a woman with cancer. Our guild donated a quilt. It had 60 white cornerstones between the blocks. Each of those was sold for $10, and people wrote messages and/or their names in the blocks. The quilt was give to the woman to have with her in the hospital while she's having treatments, and it raised some money to help with expenses.
Hope these ideas help with your fund raising activities.
I love you second idea, It's amazing how many people want to put their name on a quilt or a brick nameplate to a new hospital wing for $10-25 but won't bit that amount on an auction. I'm two cwnts worth is: People like seeing their name on things, it doesn't matter what but a hundred years from now they want their name to go down in town history. If it works don't fix it and if it makes more money for the cause, use it! :thumbup: best of luck in all your fund raising endeavors. :-D :-D :-D
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