Tips for Fundraising in your Community

·Hold a special event in your home: i.e., host a fiftieth birthday party in support of MS. In lieu of gifts ask for donations.

·Local Business affinity programs: Many restaurants have programs that will let you run a special night or weekend there. A portion (often 15-20%) of a meal’s value from customers brought in by you will go to your charity.

·Hold a street party: Begin with street-wide garage sale and a dinner follows. Every family donates a food item for the pot-luck dinner then they pay a fee ($15.00 per person) to participate. Also do raffles in conjunction with it.

·Get a local pub or restaurant to sponsor an event: Pick a place where you are a regular and get the owner to sponsor a night with raffles etc with proceeds going to help end MS.

·Sell keys to a cure at a local business or your work