Posted by Aaron Jeschke on December 4, 2009
Are you a Christian Sports team or organization looking for a product that will help you raise money quickly and easily? Many sports teams have a difficult time raising the money they need because it is usually pretty difficult to communicate the mission and purpose of a sports team to those who are not directly involved. It’s imperative for Christian sports teams to have quality church fundraising products that donors actually want to buy otherwise you might have a pretty difficult time raising money.
The Game Saver Card is the perfect product for Christian Sports fundraising. The Game Saver Card works like the Samaritan Card, but offers sports-themed discounts to golf, automobile, dining, and recreational venues. Save up to 50% at more than 1,700 golf courses nationwide, plus savings on golf instruction, gear, apparel and more. Also save at restaurants, on automobile expenses like oil changes, plus recreation including theme parks and tickets to professional sporting events! The best part is that the Game Saver Card is designed specifically for Christian Sports groups and is amazingly simple to sell! Have any friends that play golf? Who wouldn’t want up to 50% at over 1,700 golf courses nationwide?
It you are having trouble raising money for your Christian sports group than I would highly recommend the Game Saver Card. Its the card that sports fans want to buy! Raising money for your Christian Sports team has never been easier!
Posted by Aaron Jeschke on August 12, 2009
in my younger days I was involved with a MOPS group taking care of their kids while they had bi-weekly meetings. During my time there they utilized the yard sale as a primary fundraising technique. It makes a good deal of sense why moms would put together a yard sale. First moms get to rid themselves of unused, unwanted, or unneeded materials that might be clogging up space in their house and garage. Yard sales also allow the kids to be involved in some capacity which means moms don’t need to find a babysitter. The major downside is that yard sales (barring the rare exception of those professional yard sale people) do not usually make very profitable fundraisers. Moms really do need a Christian fundraising idea that is fast and profitable (moms have very tough constraints on their time. Trust me, I grew up in a family of nine).I am not saying yard sales are a worthless fundraiser. In fact, they can be quite good but I think there are better Christian fundraising options.
A product that is fast, easy, and highly profitable is the Samaritan Card. Moms can yield a profit margin of up to 70% on each card they sell. A two minute presentation can result in a $20 donation. Best of all, moms don’t need to spend time planning events and gathering materials to raise the money they need. I really believe that the Samaritan Card can make fundraising easier and better for MOPS groups everywhere.
Posted by Aaron Jeschke on August 7, 2009
I was involved in youth ministry for a number of years and during that time one of the youth group fundraisers we used most often were car washes. We would go out early on a Saturday morning, set up shop at a local gas station and commence the beckoning to passing cars. After a long, wet afternoon we would gather the days earnings. We had earned less than $400. Ten kids washing cars for four hours means approximately ten dollars per hour per child. Not the best youth group fundraiser when you need $300 dollars per person to send them to youth camp later that summer.
In today’s world of youth group fundraisers we really need something faster, easier, and that would genuinely benefit our donors which is why I love the Samaritan Card. It can be sold in minutes rather than facing the $10 per hour grind of the car wash. It helps to raise money quickly and easily while providing donors with the savings they need in tough economic times. I don’t believe there to be an easier Christian fundraiser than selling the Samaritan Card. For me, car washes are a thing of the past.
Posted by Thomas Freiling on July 25, 2009
When Nancy, a mom of 4 and VBS leader, used her Samaritan Card to buy craft supplies and t-shirts for an upcoming VBS, she used her Samaritan Card to save $28.38! “I saved more money in a single day with my Samaritan Card than I paid for it! I love saving money!” Nancy shopped at Michael’s, which is one of 100,000 merchants who accept the Samaritan Card.
It always thrills me to hear reports like this. The Samaritan Card is unlike other fundraising products because our donors get to save money. This is why selling the Samaritan Card makes fundraising fast and easy. Donors love it! The next time you need to fundraise, we hope you let us help you.
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Posted by Thomas Freiling on July 13, 2009
I’ve raised lots of money for churches, schools, and similar organizations. I’ve sold candy, cookie dough, popcorn, magazines, even washed cards for fundraising. The problem with all of these fundraisers was that it took so long. I had to fill out forms, order the product, wait for the product, then go back and find everyone who placed an order. Then I had to collect all the money and somehow keep track of everything. Or in the event of a car wash, well it took an entire Saturday and we raised a paltry $200. It was enough to make me want to pull my hair out! That’s why I’m so excited about the Samaritan Card. When you sell the Samaritan Card to raise money, it’s fast and easy. There are no forms or return visits, and my donors receive their gift immediately. Fundraising with the Samaritan Card is the easiest and fastest way to raise money. That’s why so many churches and other groups are asking for our help! We’d love to help you raise money too, so you can keep your hair!
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Posted by Fundraising Pro on June 12, 2009
Schools may be out for summer and church activities may slow down as families go away on vacation. But this a vital time for school fundraising groups and Christian fundraising groups to plan their key fundraisers for fall.
Never has there been a better time to sell the Samaritan Card as your group’s major fundraising activity. Newly released data for 2008 reveals that charitable giving by Americans fell by 2 percent last year.
The Giving USA Foundation, which has conducted the survey since 1956, expressed relief that 2008’s decrease was not steeper, considering that many Americans lost more than 2 percent of their wealth during the year.
However, the report highlights the challenging circumstances facing America’s nonprofits, many of which have been forced to lay off staff and cut programs because of declining revenue.
Particularly hard hit were social services charities which suffered a 12 percent drop in donations at a time when most of them were experiencing increased demand for their services.
The last similar overall drop in giving was n 1987, the year of the Black Monday stock market collapse.
Although experts agree that this past year’s drop could have been worse, it still means that nonprofits will have to do more with less.
The Samaritan Card, a wallet-sized discount shopping card, offers people a way to be charitable in difficult times and a way for organizations to easily raise the money they need for their causes.
Posted by Fundraising Pro on June 10, 2009
The Internal Revenue Service is working to help “protect the trust and confidence” in nonprofit organizations during the current economic crisis and will be watching for possible abuses, said Lois G. Lerner, who oversees the IRS office that monitors charities and foundations.
“During hard times, there is often a rise in questionable or fraudulent activity, in overly aggressive or inappropriate fundraising, and in tax-avoidance accommodation schemes of less than sterling character,” Lerner told a conference of tax-exempt organizations in Washington held by Georgetown University’s Law Center, according to media reports.
“We are trying to stay ahead of the curve to curtail predatory abuse of tax-exempt organizations,” she said. “Consequently, we are looking very closely at applications from new organizations, and at activity being conducted by established organizations.
Lerner emphasized how important it is for the nonprofit sector to maintain the trust of the general public. “The IRS can help instill and maintain this trust by promoting compliance and transparency. Organizations can build and maintain this trust by doing the right thing – operating consistently with their long-held beliefs and missions, promoting transparency and accountability to the public, and resisting the temptation to sacrifice principles for short-lived and perhaps ill-gotten gains.”
It sounds like she was talking about Christian fundraising groups. Christian fundraising groups are committed to their long-held beliefs. These beliefs guide them to resist temptation and never sacrifice principles.
Christian fundraising groups that sell the Samaritan Card will find that the success of this easy fundraiser will further help them meet their obligations to their mission, their boards, the Lord – and the IRS.
Posted by Fundraising Pro on June 3, 2009
Christian fundraising and school fundraising groups can take heart. President Obama and his wife Michelle, last year donated 6.5 percent of their income to charity, according to figures the White House recently released.
Vice President Biden and his wife, Jill, donated less than 1 percent of their income to charitable causes, reported the Chronicle of Philanthropy in a summary of the White House data.
The figures come from the release of tax returns filed by the President and Vice President. The Obamas reported giving a total of $172,050 to charitable organizations. Their adjusted gross income last year was nearly $2.66 million.
The Obamas donated to 37 organizations. Their largest contributions were $25,000 to CARE and $25,00 to the United Negro College Fund.
The Bidens took a charitable deduction of $1,885. Their adjusted gross income last year was $269,256.
However, the Vice President’s office said that the Bidens also donated to their church, and that they contributed to their favorite charity causes “with their time, as well as their checkbooks.”
The tax return filed by the Bidens shows they made cash gifts of $1,335 to organizations whose names they did not disclose and $550 in clothing to Goodwill Industries.
Clearly, the President and Vice President are setting a good example for all Americans with their donations to charities and nonprofits. Now if only someone would approach them about purchasing a Samaritan Card, we’re certain they’d be happy to add the purchase price to their list of donations. Donors love the Samaritan Card, a wallet-sized discount card, because after only a few uses, it’s all ready paid for itself.
Posted by Fundraising Pro on May 20, 2009
Nonprofit organizations could use donations of time from all kinds of folks with know-how in marketing, strategic planning, finance, website design, and many other areas of knowledge, a new study reports. But neither charities nor corporations are taking the right steps to encourage more people to donate their skills to good causes, according to a summary of the report in The Chronicle of Philanthropy.
Nearly 40 percent of nonprofit leaders who responded to the survey say that will spend $50,000 or more on outside consultants this year but nearly a quarter of the charity officials have no plans this year to use skilled volunteers.
The study was commissioned by Deloitte LLP and is based on online interviews with 300 corporate executives and 360 nonprofit executives. The charity leaders had previously applied for donations from the Taproot Foundation, which helps connect nonprofits with pro bono services from professionals.
It is clear that charities need to become more assertive at seeking pro bono assistance and that corporations should develop better systems for offering skilled services from their employees in lieu of cash during these cash-strapped times. More information about the study is available on Deloitte’s website.
In the meantime, another way to cope with the extremely tight cash donation scenario today is to sell the Samaritan Card. It’s a wallet-sized shopping discount card that more than pays for itself with up to 50% off at 0ver 100,000 locations.
Posted by Fundraising Pro on May 8, 2009
Budgets are important to every organization and especially important for non-profit fundraising groups. Non-profit groups are in existence to raise money and to distribute that money outright or in services as described in their mission. Your board, donors and the public all expect that you are using the money wisely. It is essential that you can provide the facts and figures they need to verify the integrity of your non-profit organization. So here are four more tips for creating a budget for your non-profit.
- Provide an Excel form to each manager that they can use to document their budgets by filling in amounts. Make sure there’s a row for each account in the chart of accounts and that there are no rows that don’t appear in the chart. And as the process evolves, make sure no one adds rows of their own invention! Help everyone fit their items into existing accounts – or determine that there is, indeed, a need for a new account .
- Make sure everyone understands who is budgeting revenue. How do departments work together to ensure that budgeted revenue is neither incomplete nor overstated?
- Meet with each manager at least once during the process to ensure they are not confused and to provide any help they might need in fitting their department’s plans to your budget format.
- Be clear in your instructions about how you will handle income and expenses that occur in peaks and valleys throughout the year. Design your budget worksheet form so that it is easy for everyone to tell you when those fluctuations will occur.
Budgeting can be a tough process. I hope that it goes smoothly in your organization. If your group needs to pursue new ways to raise money, choose the fundraising SAMARITAN CARD. Unlike the bulky coupon books of yesterday, the SAMARITAN CARD fits in your donors’ wallets so they can receive discounts whenever they shop.
