In order to be successful with any money raising project, you need a good fund raising plan in place.
Far too often most people are pressed into running a fundraising project for their school or church organization and they have no idea how to put together a good plan in order to be successful.
This article will look at a couple of tips you can use to make your next fundraising project a huge success.
The first thing that you want to do if you've been placed in charge is to make sure that you know who the people are that you're going to be using for volunteers.
You want to find out what their strengths and weaknesses are; by possibly doing a quick little personality test to find out what their leadership qualities might be.
The biggest problem with churches and school fundraising projects is that one person takes charge of a project or certain area of the fundraiser and they really have no idea how to lead and would be a much better follower.
By doing a quick assessment test, you will avoid putting people in charge of areas that they simply are not suited for.
Of course one of the biggest problems that you often run into is a lack of volunteers.
If this is the case, then you need to downsize how many different individual things you have and put one person in charge of more areas.
Again by assessing that a person is capable of handling leadership roles, they can often lead several different groups.
It should go without saying, but another great tip for having a successful fundraising plan is to keep it simple.
Unless you're trying to raise several thousands of dollars - there's really no need to come up with some elaborate full-blown plan.