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Join the $1000 Club What is the LifeSaver Club?
The LifeSaver's Club is made up of walkers just like yourself who have set a
goal of raising $1,000 or more to help animals who have life-threatening medical
conditions and need help to save there lives. The Club was started to
acknowledge and support the hard work that caring animal people provide to make
this event a success. How do I get into the LifeSaver Club? It's easy! When you register for the Walk, simply check the box that says, "I plan on raising $1,000. Please sign me up for the LifeSaver Club" Our LifeSaver Club coordinator, will contact you and send you some great information to get you started. How Do I Join the LifeSaver's Club Benefits
of Being a LifeSaver Club Member Participate In Early Sign-In. Enjoy Special Thank You Awards.
Tips
& Tools for Fundraising Set Up Your Personal Fundraising Webpage Everyday Fundraising Ideas People can't donate if they don't know you are walking! Talk about Celebrate Animals! with everyone you come in contact with and tell them how much fun it will be. Talk to your grocer, doctor, nurses, dentist, etc. Ask them if they would be willing to support your efforts. Bring a sponsor form to your place of worship. If you attend religious services regularly, bring along your form and ask fellow members of your congregation to support your efforts. Recycle. Collect and recycle aluminum cans. Put a container in your break room for collecting the cans and let colleagues know that recycling helps the animals. Don't forget to collect cans at home. Change your voice mail message. This will alert everyone who calls you at home that you're up to something special. Let them know that you need their support. Ask your local bartender or waiters and waitresses to donate a portion of one day's tips. You can create a sign for the bartender to place on the bar or a slip to put with checks that reads, "All tips collected tonight will go directly to XXX who's walking 5 kilometers to raise money for suffering animals. When people see the sign, they may be willing to dig a little deeper in their pocket! Hold a benefit garage sale. Ask your family, friends and co-workers to donate items. Have all proceeds go to your LifeSaver's fund and give anything leftover to a local non-profit organization. Hand out business cards Print some inexpensive business cards on your computer so that you can hand out the web address of your personal fundraising webpage and get more online donations. Hand them out to everyone you meet! Find your creative outlet. Do you love to cook? Can you make the most fabulous brownies? What about creating stationery or designing t-shirts? Use your creativity to work for you! Sell to your family, friends and co-workers with proceeds going to the animals. Raise Money on the Job Include Celebrate Animals! information as part of your auto signature file in your email. Include a link to your personal Walk webpage in your signature. Each time you send a message, the recipient will be provided with a reminder to sponsor you. Get your company to have a Denim Day. If there is a dress code in the office, have company employees wear jeans and a red ribbon to work one Friday if they donate $5.00 to Celebrate Animals!. Sell goodies to your officemates. Pick up bulk packages of the most sought after sweets and set up an honor snack area near the photocopy machine. Charge $1.00 per item. Collect loose change. Everybody has a stash of loose change in a cup or jar just sitting around. Ask everyone to donate theirs toward your goal. You will be surprised how quickly it adds up. Post an Celebrate Animals! poster or sign. Put up a note by the elevator, coffee maker, copy machine, vending machine, break room or bathroom letting everyone know that you are a LifeSaver Walker and that you would be grateful for their donation. Designate a certain day as Animal Awareness Day. Give out dog shoe promotional poster to each person who donates. Skip-a-Snack. If you normally buy candy, sodas or other snacks, donate the change you would have spent to Celebrate Animals! instead. It may be fun to pick a day or a week when your friends or co-workers do it together! Sandwich runs. How many of your co-workers wouldn't donate a few dollars to have a trusty runner fetch their sandwiches? Hold an office potluck. Ask everyone to cook and donate an item for a themed luncheon in the office. Then ask everyone who partakes in the lunch to donate $5 or $10 to the Walk. Decorate your desk at work. Hang up Walk posters, registration cards, note cards, design-your-own posters. Make a poster with a thermometer, your goal being the top, and fill it in as you raise money. If you did the Walk last year, hang up paraphernalia from it. Get creative! Make sure people know that you are a member of the LifeSaver Club and you are working to relieve an animals pain and suffering and needless "economic euthanasia." Other FUNdraising Events Murder Mystery Dinner. Use one of the scripts from the board game, How to Host a Murder Mystery. Decorate your home in accordance with the theme for the murder mystery. Follow the characters and scripts. Perform Scene One and then serve the salad. Perform Scene Two and then serve dinner. Dinner is followed by Scene Three, then dessert, then Scene Four. All who come are then invited to guess who the murderer is. Charge $15.00 per ticket for the dinner. Make sure your meal is low-cost, even donated if possible. Television Show Finale Party. What will happen on Wisteria Lane? Who will be the next American Idol or Who will win Dancing With the Stars ? Tune in to watch a big season episode or series finale. Provide snacks and charge admission with proceeds going to your fund. Karaoke Night. Sell tickets for an evening of awful singing at a local bar or at home. Get people to donate money to stop their friends from singing or have a singing contest. Charge an entry fee and have proceeds from the ticket sales go to your fund. Have a pop idol competition with your friends and coworkers. Everyone gets sponsored to perform a song and you choose your own panel of judges, making sure at least one of them is as nasty as Simon on American Idol ! Charge a cover at the door. Disco Party. Plan a Disco party on a Saturday night. Sell tickets in advance, have a raffle during the evening, appoint judges, and give a prize to the winners. Have refreshments, a costume contest, and a dance contest. Relive the glory days of disco and raise money for the Walk. Reverse Raffle. Hold a non-raffle raffle -- the raffle that no one wants to win. Intriguing, yes? Everyone at an event is issued an equal number of tickets in the raffle for free but they have the opportunity to buy back their tickets stubs and reduce their chances of winning. Why? The first prize is one that no one wants to win, e.g. having their hair dyed green for a week! Benefit concerts/gigs. If you know a rock band, barn dance caller, jazz group, disco DJ or string quartet, ask them if they will do a benefit evening for the animals at a local club or coffeehouse. Idea of the Month Earth Day - April 20th. Start a recycling program in your office. Take in your aluminum and turn it into funds for the Walk. Put a twist to it and fine your co-workers for not participating in the recycling program. Every recyclable can, bottle, or box that a person throws away will cost them one dollar. You'll make the world a cleaner place while helping Atlanta animals |
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