Types of Fundraising Events

Craft Items • Zonta Club of Portland (Flowers)

• Zonta Club of Saffle Amal (Cookbook)

• Zonta Club of Frankfurt am Main (Handbags)

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Zonta Club of Portland

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Fundraising Event- Zonta Club of Portland

• Zonta Club of Portland

• Number of Members:6

• District 8

• Event Name: “Flower Power”

• Type of Event: Online flower blub and seed sale

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Overview- Zonta Club of Portland

• This has definitely been a learning experience.

It has taught us there are always non-traditional methods that can get results for even a small club like ours.

• This also helps keep our name in front of our “Friends of Zonta” email list to build recognition in our community. With recognition comes new members.

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Planning- Zonta Club of Portland

• Started campaign 4-6 weeks before the campaign end date

• Used a professional fundraising vehicle known as FlowerPower Fundraising.

• Target Audience: Anyone with an email that might consider planting flower bulbs

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Promotion- Zonta Club of Portland

• Via direct email, via our club’s Facebook and Twitter accounts, and using printed flyers we hand out in the community.

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Successes/Challenges- Zonta Club of Portland

• We have a tiny club (just 6 members—3 of whom live elsewhere for part of the year).

• This lets us raise money with a professional-looking package that requires a minimum investment of time

• NO upfront investment of club money, and members can participate from where ever they may be

• A fundraiser run entirely online was embraced enthusiastically by some, but others found it rather baffling!

• Same issue with potential customers. Either they love it or don’t understand it at all. And even though this is an incredibly easy way to raise money, it can still be hard to get club members to participate.

Organizing Committee- Zonta Club of

Portland

• All 6 members participated in organizing the FlowerPower Fundraiser

• Organizer’s Name: Anita E. Marks, Club President

• amarks685@outlook.com

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Zonta Club of Saffle Amal Our cookbook “Simply and Tasty”

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Fundraising Event- Zonta Club of Saffle Amal

• Saffle Amals Zontaclub

• 28 members

• Area 3, District 21

• Cookbook release

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Overview- Zonta Club of Saffle Amal

• “Skordefesten” ( Harvest weekend) at

Bodaholm´s farm, Varmlandsnas where roughly 60 copies were sold, after that each Zonta member has sold five books each through their own networks.

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Planning- Zonta Club of Saffle Amal

• A group consisting of five persons set up the project roughly eight months before its release. This included; the collection of recipes from our members, photo session, text editing and time for layout of our cookbook.

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Promotion- Zonta Club of Saffle Amal

• Press release in two local newspapers

( ST,PD) and information in the

“Skordefesten” leaflets.

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Financial Overview- Zonta Club of Saffle Amal

• 300 books were printed and the cost of this

was covered when half of the copies were sold. The rest of the money went to ZIF-projects, which was the main idea.

• The total cost of printing the book was

US$ 2900

• The total funds raised was US$ 3570.

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Successes/Challenges- Zonta Club of Saffle Amal

• The idea was simply: “Simple and tasty” from the members of the Zonta Club. The given task was to “mail in a recipe that has the following ingredients” :

• Food using few ingredients and what you normally have at home in your fridge. Be very specific with measurements, hand in recipes that you usually get appraise for, and know that the money is for a good cause.

• Eat well- do good!

• This project demands more time than you would have thought, you need to plan ahead and have a release date set in advance.

Organizing Committee- Zonta Club of Saffle

Amal

• The cookbook committee especially engaged

for this occasion.

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Zonta Club of Frankfurt am Main

Fundraising Event

• Name: Caroline Willeke • Email: caroline.willeke@t-online.de • Organizer : Luise Gerischer and Beate Weber, • Vice-Presidents • Club: Frankfurt am Main • District: 28 • Event Type: • A marketplace for bags: collecting and selling (mostly used)

handbags

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Club of Frankfurt am Main Overview Zonta

It was the first time of probably a recurring event (currently planned to be repeated in 2017)

There was high attendance and a lot of support from club members, donors of bags (in particular private but also a few firms), and, very importantly, support

by various local retail shops to collect the bags and spread word about the event. Besides, a banking institution (SEB) supported the event by allowing us

to use their lobby area for the sales activities.

The fundraising was earmarked for two of our local projects “ZONT Alente”, by which we support female pupils of 3 Frankfurt schools with an extraordinary

talent that cannot be supported by the school, and “die kanne”, a house where females and girls, suffering from violence, find help

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Zonta Club of Frankfurt am Main

Planning

Number of days before the

event was the planning started

140

Target audience

Anybody interested in buying a bag,

mostly women

How was the purpose of the

funds explained to the target

audience?

By a flyer and personally by the

Zontians

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Zonta Club of Frankfurt am Main Promotion

How was it advertised? Flyer and networking

Did the event have media

coverage? Please describe.

Event notes in newspapers, posters,

announcements via email by our

local club members within their

network

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Zonta Club of Frankfurt am Main Financial Overview

Target goal for fundraising about 10,000 €

Total funds raised 15,000 €

How many of these funds were

donated to the Zonta

International Foundation

The funds were earmarked for local

projects. However, by ensuring the

financial basis of our local projects,

it allowed us to donate again 8,000€

for ZI

How the funds were raised

(tickets, raffles, auctions,

solicited gifts…)

Selling bags

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Zonta Club of Frankfurt am Main Successes/Challenges

• Very effective team

• Well organized

financial success

• Support by entire club

• Finding a good location for the sale and “drop points” for the bags and attracting enough buyers (marketing)

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