DONOR OPPORTUNITIES
In-kind donations are needed, such as:
- Food and beverages for volunteer crews (lunch and snacks)
- Building/repair supplies, tools and materials
- Disposable items (cups, paper towels, trash bags, handy wipes, etc.)
- Dumpsters
- First-aid kits
- Photographers
- Portable toilets
- Scaffolding
- Signage
- T-shirts
- Water igloos
- Work gloves
In-kind donor benefits:
- Company name listed on www.RealtorsCareDay.com
- Recognition in ongoing association promotions such as e-Headlines, as well as targeted email communications sent to the entire association/Canopy MLS membership (approximate distribution of 13,000)
- Acknowledgement in Realtor® Reflections blog (online)
- Additional benefit opportunities may arise with the project
- Donations will be acknowledged by a thank you letter that can be used for tax purposes
- Your donation may be tax deductible under IRS guidelines
For more information, contact foundation@canopyrealtors.com or call 704-940-3148.
FUNDRAISING TIPS
Ten easy ways to help raise money for the cause:
- Have your office put together a $5 lunch day (either weekly or monthly). Everyone sign up to bring a dish and pay $5 to eat (with all the money going back to RCD). You can even get a ham or turkey from Honey Baked Hams and ask your BIC or firm owner to pick up the cost for the meat!
- Have your office host a garage sale with all proceeds going to RCD. Pick a location (parking lot at work, someone’s home, etc.) and have colleagues bring things from home that they no longer want.
3. Have the office host a Saturday car wash and charge to wash cars with proceeds going to RCD.
4. Hold a bake sale! Have Realtors® in your office make baked goods and sell them to colleagues, clients, friends and family. You can make a friendly competition out of this!
5. Have a Pampered Chef party at the office. Pampered Chef will give a percentage of all sales to your cause (which you can designate as RCD).
6. Have a bucket for donations to RCD at all office functions between now and the project (i.e., sales meetings, Realtor® luncheons or any other company event).
7. Hold an office raffle. You can ask a local restaurant to donate a gift certificate to be raffled off, with proceeds going to RCD. You could do this weekly or monthly.
8. Have your office put together a chili cook-off and charge $10 to eat, with proceeds going to RCD.
9. Have your office organize a pie cook-off and charge $10 to eat, with proceeds going to RCD.
10. Host a wine and cheese or dessert party! You can solicit donations from the local deli, wine store or dessert shop. Charge $10 a head and then hold a raffle for the extra wine bottles, food, etc. Costco and Trader Joes are both known to donate food.
Fundraising suggestions offered by Cathy Speizman, Realtor® with Dickens-Mitchener & Associates.
For more information about donating to Realtors® Care Day, contact the Canopy Housing Foundation at 704-940-3148 or e-mail foundation@canopyrealtors.com.
