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A fvorite topic- I'm always trying to figure out how to raise money for one thing or another!
The best event our AA had for RMH was a scrapbook event. We had a 12-hour crop at a local scrapbook store. The registration fees all went to the RMH (I think it was $20-30 a person- can't really remember now). Plus we had raffles in the store all month and during the crop. Some families from the House came to make scrapbooks of their children (scrapbook store donated all the supplies) and that made it newsworthy. We had coverage in the newspaper and TV, which helped generate publicity for the store. Our first year doing it we raised over $2000 which we were happy with.
I have heard of AAs who have fundraisers during their meetings- like if you want to say "Violets" to someone, you pay a dollar, and then you can talk. Or if your name was in the paper for some reason (wedding, birth, just a story, etc.) you have to pay a dollar. It would generate a small amount of cash but it can get to be fun and it is ongoing and does not take too much coordination.
You can also raffle off an item (Bath & Body Works Violet basket???) during an AA meeting.
Often restaurants have programs where if you get a number of people to eat at their restaurant on a certain night, they'll donate a percentage of the bill to the RMH. You make flyers and pass them out for the restaurant advertising the special date.
Another idea that my AA did (because we didn't know if people would show up for a real 5K in the association) was to have a "fake 5K" and people donated money for how far they would like to "run"- I don't know if that makes sense the way I explained it. It's along the lines of a garage-less garage sale- in other words, people donate $25 just to get out of th trouble of having a garage sale. The Denver Alumnae Panhellenic does something similar in having a phantom tea party.
If you want to get specific items for the RMH, you could hold a shower for them- make invitations, register for the items, and invite people to a party & ask them to bring a gift- have light food, maybe a tour of the RMH, etc.
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