And if it becomes recurring year after year, it will become easier and easier to promote. Especially if people thoroughly enjoyed themselves at the previous dinner!
So how will you raise funds with this food fundraiser?
Throughticket sales, sponsorships, donations, and other add-on fundraisers!
Let's get cracking...
Planning & Preparing Your Fundraising Event:
Fortunately a spaghetti dinner fundraiser is not the most incredibly hardest event to plan.
But you will need to plan and think about...
A venue - Somewhere suitable that will be able to hold a big crowd. Your school or church hall, the town hall, a conference venue, or a big marquee on a field etc.
Catering - Who will do it (Your group or will you use a catering company), and where you will order your food from.
Drinks - Will you provide sponsored wine on the tables and then have a cash bar, and where will you get the drinks from.
Volunteers For Waitering & Setting Up The Event - Find volunteers in your organization or through friends, family or anyone wishing to help a good cause!
Promoting - Read about it in the next section.
Sponsorships & Advertising - For the event as a whole and for prizes etc.
And The Add-On Fundraisers
If you can get the organizing of your dinner fundraising event done as early on a possible, you will save yourself and your team a huge amount of stress!
And I would also highly recommend that you grab the
Instant Event Fundraising System
resource before you run any fundraising event!
To find companies for any of the above needs, for example finding a drinks supplier, I would suggest you use a Google search below. Consider including the name of your local area in the search...
Promoting Your Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser:
The bottom line is you need to get as many people to your dinner to maximize your fundraising profits!
You have to fill your seats or come close to filling them! And how do you do that?...
By promoting your event effectively!
Start with word of mouth and make sure that you and your team tell everyone that you see about the dinner fundraiser and that you encourage them to spread the word further.
Posting about it on your Facebook page and starting a Facebook event page for it.
Tweeting about it.
Using whatever other social media you use to build some buzz.
Announcing it on your e-newsletters.
Releasing press releases to online press release websites.
And just like with word of mouth encouraging everyone you know to spread the word further.
Finally remember to constantly update everywhere online about the spaghetti dinner fundraiser, how the bookings are going, how people can help out, and how well the organizing of the event is going!
And at the same time Promote Offline...
Post up posters around your organization and on local news boards.
Send out press releases to local newspapers and advertise for free in local newsgroups.
Ask local businesses to hand out flyers to their customers and employees, and to post up posters!
Promote the spaghetti dinner fundraiser in all your fundraising letters, and correspondences!
Bottom line is promote, promote, promote until you have every seat booked and filled at your event.
Extra Fundraising Ideas:
Like with every fundraising event you will want to use some add-on fundraisers that will contribute to your bottom line of funds raised!
Obviously you will raise your initial funds through ticket sales but there is just so much more to be made through the event.
Here are some ideas that you should use and that you could use...
Cash Bar - A no brainer addition.
Sponsorships & Advertising - Get businesses to sponsor the evening, advertise on the menus and on the placemats etc.
Follow the above link and also read
Raffle Secrets
to get the most out of your raffle fundraising.
Donations - Have donation boxes in clever places, in places where supporters will already have their wallets out, like at the bar, at the raffle desk or next to the raffle boxes, and at the entrance if they are buying tickets at the door.
And of course you should have a donations box on each table!
And if it becomes recurring year after year, it will become easier and easier to promote. Especially if people thoroughly enjoyed themselves at the previous dinner!
