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Fundraiser Raffle

Sunnycorle — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 19:58:46 GMT

Hello ladies,

Any answers are welcome. I have a family member that has a tramatic brain injury. Friends of the Father is throwing a fundraiser with a go fund me page etc. I have been asked to help with a raffle. I have been to fundraisers with a table of "baskets" with various items in them. You buy tickets, say a arms length for $20 or 20 tickets for $20.

How much should each basket be valued at? I just gathered a great deal of my backup beauty items and Its probably $300-$400 of stuff. i don't want to over fill a basket and not get a good price for these items. I want attention for items and get excitment. Anyone familiar with raffles that can advise?

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Peaches McPhee — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 20:12:31 GMT

An organization I belong to does this at the annual dinner. They have a variety of items and a variety of prices. I'd say anywhere in the $50-$500 range, which is a really big range, but that's the fun of it Someone really into makeup/skin care will really love your basket.

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threecees — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 20:16:03 GMT

Ask for donations for gift cards for restuarants, online stores, etc. Then you won't

have to wrap as many large baskets.

Maybe 10 tickets for $15 or $20 dollars.

I love going to these basket fundraisers and I wish you luck with yours.

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Forbidden Fruit — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 20:20:12 GMT

First of all, I'm sorry this situation happened to your family. My prayers and heart go out to all involved.

Now to your question, can you group certain items together to create several "theme" related baskets, such as bath/facials/eye shadow/foot?

I have been to many fundraisers-both raffles and silent auctions-- and if there was a higher valued item/basket, there was always a special raffle tickets that were higher-say $50 or more or open to a silent auction. Most people try to be a generous as they can be in these type of situations.

My best advice is to try to create baskets/offer items that cover a wide range of income so all can participate. People will want to help. And don't forget--just take straight donations. Some items won't appeal to anyone but people will still want to donate to the cause. Good luck with everything and thaki you for being kind and generous with your donation.

Oh another thing, hate to mention it, but make sure someone is watching the $/items, we had friends who were raising $ for their kid with cancer and someone came in and stole some things. There are low lifes everywhere.

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wilma — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 20:33:08 GMT

The price of the raffle tickets can vary with the value of the baskets. Our church has baskets valued between $100-200 at our annual fundraiser. Each raffle ticket is $1. A list of items & value of each is clearly printed for each basket. We used to have some larger baskets that were $5 a ticket but they didn’t sell as well. It really depends on the popularity of the items with the people attending.

I hope your fundraiser is successful. Sending best wishes to your family member.

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Daisy Sunflower — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 07:11:08 GMT

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ScrapHappy — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 21:00:15 GMT

We did baskets for fund raising at my daughter's old school every year. Each class had to come up with an idea/theme, donate the items and put it together. Some ideas are: Family Game Night (assortment of board games and the like), Let's Go Camping (sleeping bags, small outdoor grill, stuff to make smores, etc.), A small tree with attached gift cards to various places in the area like restaurants and grocery stores, a basket full of "green" cleaning items and a one time use gift card for a "green" cleaning service, a beauty basket of all sorts of beauty items including gifts cards for manicures/pedicures or a facial. The baskets were always a big hit and a huge money maker.

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Sunnycorle — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 21:08:39 GMT

I knew I could count on my Beauties!!!! All good info. I am taking the box of items to my sisters house to figure out what is what and get this moving along. I will be back online later today so please keep the good info coming. one of the items is the too faced Chocolate bar palette so we could do a basket just for that and add various chocolates! I like the theme idea alot!

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Sunnycorle — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 21:09:51 GMT

@ScrapHappy wrote:
We did baskets for fund raising at my daughter's old school every year. Each class had to come up with an idea/theme, donate the items and put it together. Some ideas are: Family Game Night (assortment of board games and the like), Let's Go Camping (sleeping bags, small outdoor grill, stuff to make smores, etc.), A small tree with attached gift cards to various places in the area like restaurants and grocery stores, a basket full of "green" cleaning items and a one time use gift card for a "green" cleaning service, a beauty basket of all sorts of beauty items including gifts cards for manicures/pedicures or a facial. The baskets were always a big hit and a huge money maker.

question how do people win the baskets in this case? Is it tickets in a container and then a ticket is picked?

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ScrapHappy — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 23:51:30 GMT

@Sunnycorle wrote:
@ScrapHappy wrote:
We did baskets for fund raising at my daughter's old school every year. Each class had to come up with an idea/theme, donate the items and put it together. Some ideas are: Family Game Night (assortment of board games and the like), Let's Go Camping (sleeping bags, small outdoor grill, stuff to make smores, etc.), A small tree with attached gift cards to various places in the area like restaurants and grocery stores, a basket full of "green" cleaning items and a one time use gift card for a "green" cleaning service, a beauty basket of all sorts of beauty items including gifts cards for manicures/pedicures or a facial. The baskets were always a big hit and a huge money maker.
question how do people win the baskets in this case? Is it tickets in a container and then a ticket is picked?

There was a clipboard by each basket. You would write your bid, say $100. But another person, if they also wanted it, had to bid higher (like $110). It would just continue like that till time was up. The highest bid won.

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Sunnycorle — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:44:29 GMT

Last night creating the baskets was so much fun. We picked up great baskets at Goodwill and Michaels. All the loot I brought filled 5 beauty themed baskets. One for nails, with OPI polishes, top coat, Quick dry, Polish remover, those new press on nail polish thingys that all the cool kids are using and various other nail items.

One with ALL Beekman Absolute Vanilla products, 3 big bars of the soap, the body cream, facial wipes, hand cream, bath salts and then put Vanilla Werthers candys around the items to jazz it up.

One with Philosophy Facial 2 piece set, the one with the vitamin C scrub and activating lotion- The big one! 2 Josie Maran body butters, First aid Beauty body lotion set and a Korres body wash and lotion set. with a Bottle of Victoria Secret Perfume.

One with Color Cosmetics- Too Faced Chocolate bar palette, It cosmetic face disc, It cosmetics mascara, the one that really lengthens lashes, Becca highlight in opal, Bare escentuals faux tan powder for face and brush, Too faced makeup bag that says: Your Like Really Pretty! And i put Dove chocolates around the items to jazz it up.

And the last was a combo body and facial washes and lotions creams, Beekman, Philosophy, Mine Tan tanner with both the applicaton mitt and the exfoliater mitt and a couple of scrubbers and such.

I am excited and am grateful for the well wishes and ideas. I love you Ladies here on our boards.

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sunshine45 — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 15:53:53 GMT

baskets of booze are very popular.

a bottle of wine or vodka, for example......add wine glasses or cocktail glasses, cute cocktail napkins, mixers, maybe a restaurant gift card, gift card to a local movie theater, coasters, wine opener, mixed nuts, crackers, cheese, etc.....

it is fun putting together gift baskets or boxes.

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drizzellla — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 16:17:11 GMT

Please let us know how the raffle goes. Hope it goes well.

You made me remember. A neighbor had a race and raffle for their daughter who had leukemia. So my husband bought a bunch of tickets and put several tickets in each basket. WELL, he won the Estee Lauder beauty products. He came home with a huge basket of about 50 Estee Lauder beauty products.

He didn't make that mistake again - he was more selective about which bucket he put tickets.

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chrystaltree — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 20:25:47 GMT

My job does the raffles off big gift baskets to raise money for holiday charities. To be honest, I am a little put off by the idea of filling it with stuff someone already has in their house. "I don't like this,I'll stick it in the gift basket". "I'll never use that, I'll stick in the gift basket". We want people to look at the baskets and really be thrilled with what is inside and to want the basket so much, they'll buy a lot of tickets. We have themes for the baskets and we have baskets for guys too. Sometimes a whole unit will make one, sometimes a couple of people will make one, sometimes it's just a single person. They are always wonderful and they put them on display two days before the raffle so people can look at them. We don't look at the baskets the way you do. You cannot guarantee that anyone will even like you basket just because you like what's in it. We might see the value of something but that doesn't mean that anyone else will. The size of the basket gets attention, the bigger the better. The beauty of the packaging. The bows. What's in it of course. I've seen $$$ baskets didn't generate as much interest as $ baskets. It just depends on what people want and what gets their attention. Also proceeds of the raffle depend on how many tickets are sold! That's why we put the baskets on display 2 days before, to generate excitement. I don't know what "stuff" you are putting in your basket but it it's a lot, you might want to think about making two baskets.

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Nuttmeg — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 20:50:15 GMT

Does a.group or organization need charity status.to have a fundraiser?

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lynnie61 — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 22:52:03 GMT

@Sunnycorle Your baskets sound wonderful and very generous. I’m sure they will get some good $$$. I’ve been to raffles that are tickets drawn, and also, some to the highest bidder. But the tickets drawn, everyone gets a chance to win, not just donors that can afford to bid the highest. One other idea....a lottery ticket Basket or frame with all various denominations (instants or scratch offs). A good friend made one with a poster frame. It was a big hit and a very big money maker, and many who could not donate an entire basket themselves, pitched in and made it a very nice prize. All the tickets were in the frame behind glass so it was easy and everyone wanted to win that. Let us know how it goes.