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How To: Plan an Animal Shelter Fundraiser
Holding a fundraiser or a drive for a local shelter is a great way to help out! You can collect donations such as toys, food, and collars or even money. Here are some recommended steps.
- Contact a shelter. Find out exactly what your local shelter needs – even ask about the brands they prefer. Find shelters in your area.
- Recruit help. Talk to your friends to help you organize the event, collect donations and deliver them to the shelter. Assign concrete tasks to everyone who wants to help, like being the contact for the shelter, or designing and hanging all of the posters.
- Decide on a location and a date. Choose a date that makes sense in your community. You could do this at your school, your house of worship, the local shelter or even your backyard.
- What’s it all about? Come up with what your event will be and think about how to make it as big and fun as possible. Will you be selling homemade dog biscuits? Doing a dog wash? Running a donation drive? Whatever it is, make sure you have all of the supplies and equipment you need to see it through.
- Publicize the event. Make sure you advertise as much as you can for your event. Get your friends involved through Facebook, get permission to hang posters in stores around town, even see if a local newspaper will put out a bulletin.
- Make it happen. Arrive early to the location to make sure everything is set up in time and you haven’t forgotten anything important. Don’t forget to get a list of donors’ names, addresses and emails so you can send thank-you notes.
- Wrap it up. Make sure everything is in order, whether that means sorting and packaging items or counting the donated money. Contact the shelter and agree upon a delivery date and write a generic thank you note to all of the donors and write a brief description of the shelters receiving the donations.
Make sure to take lots of pictures and upload your event as a Do Something Project.
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Me and my friends are going to start dog walking and donate ALL of it to a shelter. :) We are making posters, and we are going to hand some out tomorrow. :D
I have an idea; do a dog-palooza day, washing, walking, training classes. See if a local trainer will give free lessons or tips. You could also take up donations of money, blankets, litter boxes, pet toys, and encourage people to adopt and spay/neuter. Make homemade dog treats and give them out as prizes for dog-walking races and sell them! All proceedings should go to a local shelter.
I'm going to try and get my friends to help me get in contact with the local animal shelter and find out what we can donate. We will also try and walk the dogs in our neighborhood (and trust me there are a TON of them!!!) lol I'm excited, because animals are awesome! :)
LOL i gotta figure out what im going to do because i want to do this thing for "Four Paws Foundation" and thats for cats. you know people dont always think about the kitties!!!
oh my god i cant wait to do this
I'm going to call the local shelter and ask them if they need anything, such as toys or food. I can't wait to help :)
This is a really great idea! I like it a lot! i am sure going for this! :0 )
I'm going to try to get my friends/family to help me do different fun fundraisers over the summer and I will donate 100% of the profits to my local animal shelters. Wish me luck! and good luck to everyone else!! :D
I want to go to my local ben and jerry's and set up a stand where people can buy some sort of treat for humans or dogs and all the money goes to my local shelter! Also whenever someone donates a dollar they get a free bottle cap pin with a dog face on it!
my doing a fundraiser!
i will be washing dogs and everything!
I do this every month in school!
we are haveing a silent auction and all the money goes to buying stuff for the shelter
The church that I go to started a club and I am leader and planer of the animal donations and we have done a ton of dog washes and dog day cares and we get more money each time cause I am really good friends with the cop incharge of the shelter and he pays for the newspaper adds and he gets the radio and I get to give a speech about how you should nuder your dogs and to come and help us rais a total of $900 by the end of the summer (its a small town) we are almoast there
EVERYONE WHO HAS SEEN THIS AND STILL DOESN'T DO THIS HAS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THEM!
PLEASE EVERYONE DO THIS! THIS WORLD NEEDS US GUYS!
Our Girl Scout troop is looking for volunteer ideas that they would love to do to help out others. I believe they would be great at helping our local animal shelter in some way and gathering donations for them. There are so many unwanted animals out there, it is our duty as a Girl Scout to help in any way possible. Let's go girls!!!
I wish I could do this, but I don't want to do this alone. I don't make friends very easily, okay!
I'm already planning it all out. I'm making my best friend Carmen help me, and we're going to make jewelery and sell dog treats.
I can't wait :D
I love Animals i can't wait to help. i haven't start yet but i definitly want to do it
I love this idea hopefully my friends would help me do it!!!!
This is a really good idea! Another thing you can do is hand out small flyers that talk about spaying and neutering your pet to cut down the number of homeless pets.
My friends, family and I are going to put together a dog wash, dog walk and animal sitting fundraiser together and are going to set up posters this coming saturday.
i emailed all my teachers to help me start this project if i get thier approval im taking action and risks. i love animals and im also showing poeple they can make a difference! even if its small it still counts!
This idea is such a good idea!
yeah i want to do this but most of my freinds really care less about animals so it sucks
This is a great idea for someone who wants to make a difference.
There's a big farmer's market comming to my city, and i live very close to it. I'm having a big fundraiser for my city's local shelter. Wish me luck that it's a total sucess!
Dude.!Thaaaaank you Clean & Clear.! I've been trying to figure out how to start a donation drive & Do Something has lead me to persue this(: I'm ready to raise money & toys.!
doing a car wash or dog wash.....
My brother and I made a box with lists of what our local shelter needs. Then we talked to the people at our church and asked for donations. The box has been there for a week now, we get to go check it on Sunday =) I hope there's lots of stuff in it. My mom posted about the box on her facebook account so lots of people know it's there.
my sister and i are going to do a bakesale.we will be selling cookies,brownies,fudge,cakes,some little snacks for kids, and of coure we will be making dog bisuits. :)
this is such a good idea! i am DEFINETLY going to do this w/ my friends. this is my first day on dosomething.org and i cant wait to get my club started and i cant wait to support my cause! this is such a great idea! im probably going to do a dog wash. <3
this is such a good idea! i am DEFINETLY going to do this w/ my friends. this is my first day on dosomething.org and i cant wait to get my club started and i cant wait to support my cause! this is such a great idea! im probably going to do a dog wash. <3
Where I live, there are no animal shelters. the locals simply hit and run animals on the street. I am sick and tired of this. I want the citizens to take more responsibility on their pets. I want the strays to have a home and not have to be put down and illegally dumped in the ocean. I wish someone with great authority would just stop this.
rocdima08, that is so wrong. you should definitely do something about it. where i live, we have a free to live shelter where animals are never turned away or put down. thats where im going to donate to. they need more supplies than other shelters becuase they run only on donations, and adoptions.
rocdima08, that is so wrong. you should definitely do something about it. where i live, we have a free to live shelter where animals are never turned away or put down. thats where im going to donate to. they need more supplies than other shelters becuase they run only on donations, and adoptions.
This is a great idea! I'm planning on doing a fundraiser over spring break (if i can get all the supplies for it in time, if not then i'll do it this summer). I'm going to sell dog treats, animal food cookbooks, trail mixes, maybe have some booths for crafts....it's basically going to be a fundraiser carnival if i can manage it!
My mom, me and a couple of my cousins are going to be selling homeade dog treats at my local farmers market and donating 100% of the profits to the nearest ASPCA here in Orlando, Florida. We're still planning it, though:)
i love this idea! :) now only if i could get my friends in...
I totally want to do this! I'm going to ask my church leader if I can put a donation jar at my church :)
I am going to do this hope to do it with a lot of my friends :) <3
Im going to try to make a dog wash and dog biscuts with my friends in Simsbury ct if anyone would like to help please contact me?
beautiforeva@gmail.com
THANKS
Me and my friends are trying to get a flow artist group going so we can get donations and give them to our local animal shelters. We're putting on our first show tomorrow actually hopefully we'll get some donations.
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