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While you are organizing all your wreaths and evergreens orders to prepare your Final Order for your wreath fundraiser, be sure to keep track of your customer information.  This makes it easy to contact any of your customers should you have a question about their order.  If you are having cases delivered to your nonprofit organization, it will also ease the distribution process when y

The time has come to finish your wreath fundraiser!  You may want to perform your fundraiser wrap up in a few small steps.  In advance of your nonprofit group's deadline, send out a reminder to your sellers that they have a couple days left to sell.  You could do this by email for a school fundraiser, sports team fundraiser or a service group fundraiser.  You could do this a

This seems so basic, but it really is one of the keys to making your wreath fundraiser a little more streamlined.  We'll briefly discuss why you should collect payments for the wreaths and evergreens when you are making the sale below.  And it's an easy thing to do as well.

Checking in with your sellers midway through your fundraiser can be a good idea.  This step is a big help if you can manage it.  Some groups have a meeting to do this; some groups send an email or a newsletter to their sellers.  Just like the pre-sale pep talk and informational meeting, the type of nonprofit organization you are with will probably help you determine how to check

This topic is related to our previous post of "Meet With Sellers to Prep for Sale".  When discussing a sales goal with your non profit organization, or amongst the leaders, it can sometimes be very beneficial to have a system of incentives set up for your sellers beyond the benefits of raising funds.  While raising funds for your group allows your nonprofit organization to f

Please excuse the long absence from our blog; we've been fine-tuning things around here, trying to get ready for the Fall fundraiser season.  We're doing it for you!

This goes hand in hand with knowing your target audience, so we're in a sense continuing last week's subject here.  Your advertising avenues can be quite unlimited depending on what kind of evergreens fundraiser you would like to run.  Bulletin boards, newsletter blurbs, local newspaper ads, email newsletter announcements, Sunday bulletin inserts, door to door catalog leave behinds, a

Knowing who you are selling to will help you determine how the fundraiser will most effectively be run.  Figuring out the person most likely to be doing the purchasing from your evergreen fundraiser helps you determine the avenue that most efficiently speaks to them. 

This will be a short post because we all know volunteers are one of the most important components to a successful fundraiser.  It's important to get your roster of volunteers lined up early.  Having everyone organized from the beginning ensures that each step of the fundraiser is coherent and efficient.  Delegating duties throughout your volunteers evenly also keeps the workload

Begin planning your evergreens fundraiser from start to finish early.  This of course could apply to any fundraiser your school, Scouting organization, or other non-profit organization may want to run.  Map out each step so you can be sure you are covering all the bases.  When you do this, you can be sure the dates of your fundraiser coincide easily with other events on your non-