Hey guys I just wanted to share a few fundraising ideas 🙂
1.)You guys may have already done this but I didn’t have a great response from my first support letter so I sent out another one. I discovered that if I could get 14 people/ churches/ families to donate 100 a month for 11 months then I would be fully funded (this would need to start in the month of February in order to be fully funded 6 months into our trip.)
2.) I live in a town populated with old people so everyone loves to golf. One of my friends offered to through a golf tournament for me. The idea is to get 12 people who have found $500 of sponsors each. Which would be a total of $6000. He asked a golf course if they would donate the course for a day and they were really excited about helping out. It is usually good to get someone who is well known in the community to play because then everyone else wants to play too.
3.) Two different newspapers in my town heard about my trip and wanted to put my story in the paper. This was a great opportunity to let people know about the world race. They put my blog address in the article and I have received some donations from that; which is super cool.
4.) If you guys have any Rotary clubs or Sertoma clubs around your area they are really awesome connections to have and they usually make donations towards trips like this.
Anyways, I have learned these past couple months just to be honest and real about what my needs are and when I am God is faithful to fulfill them.
Praying for yall!!
