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Characteristics: Good and Bad
Since day care fund raisers can be very difficult to organize and plan, the organizers will need to apply a genius day care fund raising idea to utilize and make the activity successful. For better and positive results, organizers should stick to the tried and tested ideas for a day care fund raising activity as new and untested ideas might jeopardize the fund raising activity. Next, the organizers should device ways and steps to help them achieve their plans of holding a day care fund raising activity. Steps such as which sponsors to approach and how to approach them, or how to broach the plan to the day care children’s parents are very important.

A lot of day care fund raising activities settle for tacky, unheard of ideas, only because the organizers want to be different. But these unheard of ideas usually bring in unfavourable results. The bad thing is that it’s not just the day care that suffers, but the children more importantly. It is so very difficult to come up with a new and good idea for a fund raising activity. But whatever the case may be, there are certain characteristics of what a good day care fund raising activity should be. What are these characteristics of a good day care fund raising idea? Add to that, what are the fund raising ideas that would usually work on normal and regular fund raisers but does not work for a day care fund raising activity? Some great fund raising activity ideas are sale, benefit dinner, yard sales where the children and parents can participate as sales persons.

Look for the Best Bargain
Just like with most fund raising events, the best day care fund raising activity idea always does not require the organizers to shell out cash in the planning stage. Most day care centres always use fund raising activity sales in order to come up with funds for the day care centre maintenance cost and the children needs, like playground facilities water and food. This applies if the items to be sold in the day care fund raising activity were gotten by the organizers for free from contributions and donations. In other words, these items were donated by sponsors or individuals. If this is not the case, then the organizers will have to shell out cash up front to pay for the items to be sold in the day care fund raising activity. In this arrangement, the organizers will have to come up with a mark-up range or percentage. For every sale made, the organizers should take back the cost of each item and give the profit, to the day care centre director as funds donated for the day care centre and its children enrolees.

This can be a good idea if the day care centre has enough funds, but in this case, failure becomes an option, particularly because there is a good chance that the organizers might not be able to sell all the items. And history states hat they will not sell all of the items. Thus sending all their efforts, and if ever, the children’s and parents’ efforts as well, down the drain.

Donations are Good
Facts show that the best way to hold fund raising sales is to sell items that were collected through donations. The perfect example, parents can bake goodies from their homes and bring these to the organizers. The baked goods can be pies, tarts, dough nuts etcetera. These goodies are given by the parents to the organizers for free as donations. In this scenario, the day care will not need to spend cash up front. The organizers of the day care fund raising activity can also ask for used items from the children’s parents. Clothes, toys, books, gadgets, furniture, among other things, may be dropped off on a particular day, and then sold on the day of the day care fund raising activity.

Organizers can also seek the help of professional fund raising organizers. It is normal practice that these professionals collect a certain percentage of all the revenues gathered from the day care fund raising activity. Their professional fee will be strictly taken from the revenue and not from the day care centre’s share of the funds produced. The day care’s share is its’ own and will go to its’ bank account for the care and maintenance of its facilities and salaries or allowances or personnel.

Considering Safety Is Good
The organizers are advised to come up with children-safe ideas and activities for the fund raising activity as these activities will certainly involve the day care fund raising activities’ target market, the children. Ones a child’s safety is compromised, the organizers should be held responsible and should assume responsibility. Safety precautions should also be considered for the parents. As with the children’s safety, the organizers should be held responsible in case a parents’ safety has been compromised. The organizers again should assume responsibility. With parental advice and strict watch, a benefit dinner can be a good idea for a day care fund raising activity, where the day care facility is transformed into a small restaurant and the children serve as waiters, waitresses and chefs to their parents and paying guests. In this scenario, a uniform amount is paid by each guest.

The time and date are of important value and must be greatly considered by the organizers for the day care fund raising activity. Weekends are the best times as parents are usually free from work and the day care facility is free. Weekends also means that the invited public are free to attend the fund raising activity of the day care centre. The time and date of a day care fund raising activity are major factors to the success of the day care fund raising activity.

Finally, the activity or activities should be enjoyable for the children and their parents. It should also be educational for the children and allow the parents to spend quality time with their children. The fund raising activity is for the children and for their benefit after all.

See: How to start a daycare center

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Consolidating Ideas
In organizing a fund raising activity for a day care centre, the organizers must consolidate, scrutinize, discuss, approve or disapprove all ideas that they can use, apply and implement for the fund raising activity. All these fund raising ideas are imperative mainly because the kind of ideas the organizers will apply and implement determines whether the event will be a success or not. These ideas, when implemented, must produce positive results for the children, and not only for the day care centre. Therefore, the organizers must implement a full proof idea with supporting plans for the fund raising activity for the benefit of the children and the day care centre.

Organizing and holding a day care fund raising activity are in some parts difficult particularly because it is a lot different from the normal fund raising activity as the main attendees, beneficiaries and persons involved in the event are children. These children will be the significant contributors as well in the organizers efforts, and like it or not, they are the cause, means and end of these events. The difficulty lies mostly in the planning stages

Meetings will be held amongst organizers and volunteers. Disagreements will happen. Distribution and division of action takes place. Giving out information to the public and meetings with possible sponsors and donors takes place. This is where hard work and action takes place, inviting and convincing the sponsors and the public to participate in an event for a good cause. That is why the right ideas are of utmost importance.

Here are some tried and tested ideas the organizers can use and develop for their fundraising activity and event.

Selling
The item sale is the most common and the most highly regarded idea for a fund raising activity because it has always given the organizer positive and favourable results. The item sale is so common as it requires very minimal effort in planning and not much money to organize. In a normal fund raising activity item sale, organizers buy objects that are auctioned off or sold to bidders and buyers. But in a day care fund raising activity, organizers seek sponsors who will and can contribute items to be sold in the fund raising activity. The organizers look for and set up meetings with sponsors by talking to owners of establishments within the daycares’ vicinity and surrounding neighbourhood. They, both organizers and sponsors, can agree on a profit share scheme. The share of profit of the sponsor will be added to the amount the items were sold for and given to the sponsor, while the profit share of the organizers go to the day care centre. Obviously, this will not require the organizer to spend a single cent.

The baked goods sale idea. It is in this idea that the organizers approach and ask the parents of each day care child enrolee to contribute baked goods to be sold in the fund raising activity. This is more effective than approaching possible sponsors and has the capacity to earn more funds for the day cay centre. The organizers sell the baked goods for a certain price to attract customers or at an agreed mark-up for a profit. In an agreed mark-up set-up, the organizers will have to share the profit with the parents. The profits that the organizers collect will be added to the amount the baked goods items were sold for and given to the day care centre. The children’s parents can even sell the goods themselves for a great bonding activity with their children. The parents can also help in promoting the fund raising activity of the day care centre through their means like email, and by inviting their own friends and officemates, family members and relatives.

As far as location goes, the day care centre itself is often at the top of the list. Organizers redecorate the day care centre for the fund raising activity. Next would be the door to door type of selling. Both ways are very good and often produce positive and great results for the children and the day care centre. Aside from not requiring too much money to plan, the children are often very excited with this type of idea knowing that they will get the chance to spend time with their parents and friends.

Add to these, the organizer can also take into consideration of the parents’ main focus and primary attention: their children. The children can take center stage as organizers can sell items that the kids made themselves. Or they can sell these children’s pictures, as for greeting cards. Though it may not seem a good idea, parents will be more than glad to help and see their kids through this fund raising activity

Organizing is Easy!
Though it was stated earlier that the difficult part lies in organizing and planning a fund raising activity, planning such fund raising activity does not involve rocket science. Day care fund raisers are wonderful fund raisers, particularly if the organizers involve the children. The centre can be turned into a mini-restaurant, and the children will be the waiters and waitresses where they can wear costumes made by themselves. Some of them can even go into a make shift kitchen and play chefs, complete with toques (chef’s hat) and prepare the food, an idea the parents will definitely enjoy. Parents will surely embrace the idea of, for once, being served and cooked for by their children.

Must be Fun
Other ideas abound which the organizer can consider, apply and use for the fund raising event. The organizer must consider that these ideas must have the element of fun for the kids. Fun, fun, fun! When people give the idea of fun to a kid, their eyes suddenly glow and light up like light bulbs. It’s the best way to entice children to attend and, more importantly, participate in a fund raising activity. It becomes another venue for them to play and laugh with the other children. Surely they will appreciate it more when their parents and family are in it.

See: How to start a daycare center

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