Online Fundraising Ideas For Your Volunteer Company
Public Safety departments including EMS and Fire Departments have been raising money for years using traditional routes including coin drops, bingos, spaghetti dinners and even outdoor carnivals. Did you ever consider using your department’s website to supplement your fundraising?
Since 9/11, there has been this movement of increased respect towards public safety personnel including EMS, Fire and Police Officers. Just look around and you will see lots of people wearing NYPD and Boston Fire department T-shirts. Using this example, your department could sell T-shirts and other types of clothing that have your fire company logo on it. Accomplishing this is not all really hard because in addition to your website, you just need to do your homework to find a good merchant credit processing company that you can use on your website.
Selling tee-shirts online is not going to be the total solution to your fund raising, but it can provide a nice supplement to your income.