Fund-Raising Nightmares (www.fundraisingstinks.com)
For weeks, we have been planning a fundraiser hoping to raise enough money to send our group to Chicago for a conference. We worked out the details. We got the location, the hoses, buckets, towels and the man power all in order. Planning this thing was a nightmare. It’s unbelievable how hard it was to get enough volunteers together on the same day to do this event. We got our posters and gear and are ready to go wash some cars!
Saturday morning the day of the car wash. It was raining so hard, you could say it was cats and dogs. Needless to say we had to cancel the car wash. We eventually organized another day to do the car wash and raised part of the money required for our trip. Thankfully we were still able to go because of a generous person helping us with the remaining balance.
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Fundraising stinks. Let’s end bad fundraisers!
How about planning a big bike ride for Walk/Bike Nashville? The ride was in May and the route uses many of the greenways around town. Well, on May 3, much of the city was under water from a 500 year flood. With $15,000 invested, we had to cancel the ride. Greenways were closed, impassable, bridges wiped out. We might have been able to reroute, but logistics and having thousands of homeless around town didn’t lend for a celebration of bicycling.