- Make it easy for members and make them aware
- Do a separate mailing to each member explaining ENF and ask for donations
- Create space on your dues notice for donation (ask your lodge secretary)
- Indoctrination-tell your new members and ask for a small donation to get them started
- Share what ENF is for and what it does in your community every chance you get
- Recognition
- List names of new donors in Lodge Newsletter each month
- Recognition plaque in your Lodge for various levels of donations (i.e., $100, $250, $1000)
- Put a red heart on their membership card
- They can track their donations online
- ENF Hearts - any monetary donation (no expense to your Lodge)
- Raffles - specific to time of year
- 50/50 at any function you are sponsoring
- Gun raffle - could be 1 or 30 guns for 30 days
- Have a 50/50 at the door of the Lodge room on your meeting night
- Basket raffles (could be wine, food, liquor, etc)
- Gas grill
- Gas cards
- Tickets to a concert or sporting event
- Sporting
- Golf rournament (proceeds to ENF)
- Dart tournament (proceeds to ENF)
- Horseshoe (proceeds to ENF)
- No-Tap bowling tournament (one day event, easy money)
- Triple Crown races-hold a social event for each (Belmont Stakes, Kentucky Derby, Preakness)
- NASCAR 50/50's
- Host a tailgate party during a sporting event (tent, food, game on TV)
- Specific Fundraising Events
- Casino nights
- Poker Run
- Officers night-Officers run the kitchen for a dinner (proceeds to ENF)
- Harvest dinner
- Lodge donate proceeds from 1 Bingo night or bake sale at Bingo
- Chili cook-off (get some new members involved)
- Donate proceeds from one Belljar box
- Host a theme party on an upcoming holiday (St. Patrick's
Day, Octoberfest, Mardi Gras)
- Host a meal (breakfast, lunch or dinner)
- Have a bake sale
- Hold an auction - silent or not (solicit items from local craftspeople, cooks and stores)
- Comedy Night - hire professional comedians for dinner and a show or show only
- Other
- Collect $5.00 for each time a cell phone goes off during Lodge meeting
- Curse word jug on bar ($.50 for each violation
- "One more jug" ($.50 for each time someone says I'll have just one more)
5/22/12
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