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Wow, thanks for all the info guys. I'll copy this down and show it at the meeting tomorrow night.
We do have a local radio station on our side, (103.1 fresh fm) they were actually the station that told the hockey players about us.
I'll also tell them to contact a couple of news stations around to see what they can do.
Me, and 2 other girls so far have both volunteered to shave our lovely locks off if we reach our goal. We are in the process of recruting more people.
Good ideas about the shows... We'll have to discuss this at the meeting, we are going to need ALOT of volunteers for this fundraiser, and we want to make sure we have enough people to man everything.
Hmm, never considered an auction before. We do ask businesses for donations as door prizes for some of our events. Tomorrow me and the owner are going to Winter Wheat to get some items to raffle off at the mall this weekend. Winter Wheat is an awesome place with all sorts of goodies.
We are planning the garage/yard sale, we have been gathering items since the summer and have a lot of things so far.
Everything sounds awesome.
I'll let you know about the necklaces too!
And Yup! For this Magic Show we are having this Friday, we had a lot of local businesses donate money to help fund the show, and in turn they get advertisement at the show. Half goes to us, half to the other people.. last year we did this and raised about $1500-$2000 I can't remember. We also sell baked goods and beverages. We get the drinks for free because the owner of the rescue works at a Wendy's in town, and they are very supportive and donate all sorts of things we need.
This is getting me really excited, that pretty soon we might own the building, and not have to worry that we will get kicked out with almost 200 kitties and nowhere for them to go!
And yes, since we have started purchasing the building and have it all (I think it's 9000 sqft, but I'll check on that) we have been taking more dogs in. We used to send them striaght to foster homes, but now we have a room at the centre that is large, it has a couch, and a tv with cable and a dvd player in it. But sicne we've gotten that room, we've taken more dogs in than we have the past 6 years.
A dog walk-a-thon is an option... excpet for the fact that the other rescue does it too, and I don't know if people will want to do it twice a year. St Thomas is big... but not that big.
Unless we could do it in London or another nearby city, then i don't know if this will be an option.
Thank you everyone for all your suggestions... this is going to be awesome.
We do have a local radio station on our side, (103.1 fresh fm) they were actually the station that told the hockey players about us.
I'll also tell them to contact a couple of news stations around to see what they can do.
Me, and 2 other girls so far have both volunteered to shave our lovely locks off if we reach our goal. We are in the process of recruting more people.
Good ideas about the shows... We'll have to discuss this at the meeting, we are going to need ALOT of volunteers for this fundraiser, and we want to make sure we have enough people to man everything.
Hmm, never considered an auction before. We do ask businesses for donations as door prizes for some of our events. Tomorrow me and the owner are going to Winter Wheat to get some items to raffle off at the mall this weekend. Winter Wheat is an awesome place with all sorts of goodies.
We are planning the garage/yard sale, we have been gathering items since the summer and have a lot of things so far.
Everything sounds awesome.
I'll let you know about the necklaces too!
And Yup! For this Magic Show we are having this Friday, we had a lot of local businesses donate money to help fund the show, and in turn they get advertisement at the show. Half goes to us, half to the other people.. last year we did this and raised about $1500-$2000 I can't remember. We also sell baked goods and beverages. We get the drinks for free because the owner of the rescue works at a Wendy's in town, and they are very supportive and donate all sorts of things we need.
This is getting me really excited, that pretty soon we might own the building, and not have to worry that we will get kicked out with almost 200 kitties and nowhere for them to go!
And yes, since we have started purchasing the building and have it all (I think it's 9000 sqft, but I'll check on that) we have been taking more dogs in. We used to send them striaght to foster homes, but now we have a room at the centre that is large, it has a couch, and a tv with cable and a dvd player in it. But sicne we've gotten that room, we've taken more dogs in than we have the past 6 years.
A dog walk-a-thon is an option... excpet for the fact that the other rescue does it too, and I don't know if people will want to do it twice a year. St Thomas is big... but not that big.
Unless we could do it in London or another nearby city, then i don't know if this will be an option.
Thank you everyone for all your suggestions... this is going to be awesome.
