food lion fundraiser

[jmuphigam]

my chapter is just now starting a new fundraiser--doesnt raise a huge amount of money, but its easy. If any of you all have food lion MVP cards, you can go to foodlion.com and register your fraternity/sorority for this fundraiser. Basically, it rolls a portion of hte money you save on their discounts to any non-profit organization, up to $350 a quarter.
like i said, not a huge amount of cash, but for not having to do any work, its nice

[HollisterDXiChi]

thanx

[AXO_MOM_3]

I think Lowes and Harris Teeter do the same thing...and I know Target does something similar for schools, but I don't know if they do it for other organizations or not.

[LIL3L3PHANT]

Originally posted by jmuphigam
my chapter is just now starting a new fundraiser--doesnt raise a huge amount of money, but its easy. If any of you all have food lion MVP cards, you can go to foodlion.com and register your fraternity/sorority for this fundraiser. Basically, it rolls a portion of hte money you save on their discounts to any non-profit organization, up to $350 a quarter.
like i said, not a huge amount of cash, but for not having to do any work, its nice

is it something that you can do for the whole year? or does it only go for a certian period of time?

[ncstatetke]

it's for the whole year

if you sign up enough people, it should be very easy to make $1400 a year

[NCSUTractorChic]

While the LionShare (the Food Lion program) is an easy fundraiser, it is very hard to raise a significant amount of money utilizing it. I do professional fundraising for a not-for-profit organization, and we tried to use this program. Over 500 people registered their MVP cards through the Food Lion website, and we average about $12 a quarter. And, you have to remember to resign up all the cards utilizing the program annually.

So- good luck with the program! Not to burst your bubble, I just thought I'd share our experience with LionShare.

[chideltjen]

Most grocery stores seem to have a program like that. However, as a local, it's hard to do a program like this because places like Albertsons and Safeway require a tax ID number for their program. The 501c.3 status costs about $350, or at least that's what it was when we looked into it. Though FoodLion may be different.

But honestly, you'd have to give away a LOT of cards for it to make a decent amount of money. My brother's old choir is on the Albertson's program, but they still need to fundraise like crazy to get anywhere.

[LightBulb]

I think Kroger does this too.