Can't raise the money

[MyLitespeed]

I would love to go on more charity rides but no one wants to donate any money. The last ride I did was the Tour de Cure in San Diego and I was asking people and they would just ignore me or say they forgot. I would even tell them $1.00 would help -- they wouldn't even donate that. Don't know if people are just tighter with their money here or what. I get the idea that they expect something in return--like cookies or something. All the people at work have no problem asking me to buy Girl Scout Cookies for their kids or buy other stuff for their kids schools. Since they won't donate to me I have quit buying their kids stuff.

[KnottedYet]

Cookies might be a cool idea. You could make bike-shaped sugar cookies, and do them up with icing (spokes and other details) and sell them for donations.

I've seen bike-shaped pasta. Maybe you could hold a little silent auction for a pasta salad made with bike pasta for donation $$.

Of course, I'm hungry.... so all my fundraising ideas at the moment involve food!

[Trek420]

oooh, cookies

Lots of good ideas from TE'ers here

http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showthread.php?t=10141

[pooks]

You said "more" charity rides. Are these people who have donated before and don't want to again?

Maybe it's just too soon to ask again?

[mimitabby]

I went to See's chocolates and bought 25 candy bars. I sold them for 2 dollars a piece. Two people gave me extra money!

I sold them in 2 days. If I had started earlier, I could have sold a lot more.


and post a link to your fundraiser here; people donated to mine from TE!

[pooks]

Oh, that's smart!

When one of my sons wanted to have a lemonade stand, i told him, "Too messy and not enough people will stop." Instead, I told him to sell canned Cokes. He would go to 7-11, buy a box of cold Cokes, then sit on the corner and sell them. Sometimes he'd sell two or three boxes in a a couple of hours. People are leery of homeade lemonade but are often quite eager to have a coke, and even at a markup, they were getting the cans cheaper than they'd get a fountain drink at a drive-thru. He would vary the types of drinks, of course, but Coke always sold the best.

He did that for a couple of summers, whenever he wanted money.

So buy something they would want but might not be convenient for them to get right then, and mark it up for charity. Excellent idea, Mimi!