Raising money with a quilt
07-15-2011, 07:14 AM
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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.
07-15-2011, 07:17 AM
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Shelly, I totally agree about the raffle. I was shocked to learn that some states have laws against raffles. Too bad as it is such a great way to do fund raising.
The selling of the cornerstone blocks is a great idea!
I also agree that donating quilts for an outright auction rarely fetch even the cost of materials, let alone the time and effort put into making one.
The selling of the cornerstone blocks is a great idea!
I also agree that donating quilts for an outright auction rarely fetch even the cost of materials, let alone the time and effort put into making one.
07-15-2011, 07:32 AM
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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.
Most recently, they invited campers to send a fall colored 9-patch and then had groups associated with the camp facility sell raffle tickets. The raffle was held during the last camp. They raised (if I remember correctly) over $700 for the camp.
07-15-2011, 07:36 AM
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Originally Posted by feline fanatic
Shelly, I totally agree about the raffle. I was shocked to learn that some states have laws against raffles. Too bad as it is such a great way to do fund raising.
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