Easy Fundraising Idea : Create A Calendar!
Some of the easiest fundraising dollars ever raised have been done through printing calendars.It can be for your local fundraiser for a cause, or your community or student organization might need cash for an important project.Calendar printing is cheap and easy to do, and imagining custom calendar designs can be done comfortably if you have the right imagination.
What you'll need to do first of all is come up with a good concept for your calendar.If you are fundraising for a particular cause or issue, then information and images that are related to those issues are a good choice.If you are aiming for a community calendar, maybe you can have the local prominent figures pose for a calendar picture.Also, if you are a little bit daring, maybe you can recruit some good looking men and women to pose for your fundraising calendar?
Let your imagination go wild – there are countless themes and ideas you could adapt for a calendar. But do try to match the subject matter of the calendar with the project you're raising funds for. Getting the concept is the easy part! Now you've got to take the pictures.
Now, we move on to the creation of your calendars. To make the calendar yourself, not much is actually required.All you need is a computer, some publishing software and an Internet connection.
Use your publishing software to create the layout of the calendar and add images. Your software should already come with a template for the layout, which will make this part much easier.Also, you can download some calendar templates which are available for free over the Internet if your app does not have templates. It's simple enough : enter the images and choose which month you want to go with which image. Be sure to mark important holidays and events on the calendar, too.
When you have finished designing the calendar, you will want to get it printed. This can also be quite easy.Your best bet for calendar printing is to hire an online printer to do the job.This way you can just send your design over the Internet and then after a few days, have the finished calendars delivered to your doorstep.It's just a matter of uploading your document and waiting for delivery.
Another idea would be to produce a more professional looking business planner with your logo and mission statement inside.Follow this link for customized calendars to have a look at one extremely special one I found.
Once the calendars are ordered, it's just a matter of selling them!Of course be sure to sell these a month or so before the New Year so that you can maximize their marketability. So long as you've observed the rule in step 1, there's no reason why your calendar won't sell. Good luck!
Want something different this year? Have a look at our international calendar which contains dates of public holidays for over 200 countries!
