Car wash fundraisers are great ways to raise money for non-profit groups. If you are careful in your strategies during the organizing of your car wash fundraiser you stand to make considerable amounts of money. The main goal in a wash-a-thon style car wash fundraiser is to collect the most pre-sale sponsors for the number of cars washed and to wash as many cars as possible.
If you don’t want to subject your group to selling tickets because they have been selling tickets to other events and selling candy all year, there is another way to make a lot of money at your car wash fundraiser. Wash all the cars for free. You say, “Hey, wait a minute, we want to make money.” That’s right. Have your group go around and ask people to get pledges for each car washed. While getting pledges give out free car wash coupons to your pledgers. You may also want to give coupons to those people who refuse to pledge. This will make them feel cheap or guilty. If they come to your car wash they will more than likely donate to your organization anyway.
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Car wash fundraisers are great money-makers indeed. Well why not enhance this years car wash fundraiser with a couple of extra revenue makers? After all you have a captured audience and you are a business minded individual right? You do care about your kids and you want them to succeed and do well at all their activities, you also know that the more money the fund raiser events make the less money dear old dad and mom have to kick into the program. Let’s face it kids are getting to be quite expensive and anytime you can off set some of these costs it makes sense right? Here are some additional revenue enhancement ideas for your annual Car Wash Fundraiser.
HOT DOGS
To have a successful car wash fundraiser you need a strong committee and a great location. Since I have been involved in running so many car wash fundraisers in the past let me discuss this with you for a minute. Remember what they say in successful retail businesses? It is all about Location, Location, Location. Below you will find a suggestion for your first committee meeting and a thought on an agenda for the meetings. Also find my best advice for locations. Please take this information seriously it has hundreds of mistakes in hundreds of car wash fundraisers built out of this advice.
AGENDAS FOR MEETINGS
So, your group has decided to set up a car wash fundraiser right? Well you have picked out a date, but what hours will you run your fundraiser? Here are some thoughts and ideas, which will help you determine the best hours of operation.
We recommend that you keep the hours of the fundraiser to a minimum. Pick a Saturday from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. If you have twenty or more volunteers who will be washing cars, split them into a morning shift and an afternoon shift, ten in each shift. It might be better to have twelve people in the morning and eight in the afternoon. Usually mornings have higher traffic count because people are on their way to somewhere. They will usually be on their way back after 3:00 pm. Don’t start your car wash fundraiser before 8:00 am unless you expect your temperature that day to be over 105 °F in the middle of the day because no one will be out at that time.
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Safety is a big concern when kids are having car wash fundraisers on busy corners with the traffic buzzing by in 6000 Lb. SUVs. You need to think safety and there of course other factors too. When people think about car wash fundraisers, they think of fun, water fights, etc. A few water fights are ok but remember you are there to make money. I’m not saying ‘Absolutely no water fights.’ If you take away all the fun you won’t get hard work out of anyone. If you run your car wash like a drill sergeant you will:
Break momentum
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Many times car wash fundraisers appear to be organized but since the volunteers running them have little if any experience they are chaotic at best. Organizational nightmares from the get go. It does not have to be this way if you properly plan your layout, signage and traffic flows to prevent unorganized disasters resulting in lost business and unhappy customers. Follow along with me as I discuss how to properly set up and run a car wash fundraising event and explain the preferred Car Wash Fundraiser Layout, Traffic Flow and Signage to insure the greatest success at your event.
SET UP
We realize that often our customers wish to call on their home pressure washer to do a car wash fundraiser. If you do not have a pressure washer we recommend an Ex-Cell pressure washer to do more than just clean. These pressure washers come in many models and you can buy them at the local Home Depot. We know that there is much need in non-profit groups to raise funds for worthy and important activities.
Done right, a car wash fundraiser can be one of the most profitable fundraising methods you can choose - one that will not only provide a valuable service to supporters, but help your organization clean up in proceeds. A car wash fundraiser might seem like a simple thing to organize. What do you need besides a hose, a couple of buckets, soap, water, some rags and volunteers?
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