{"id":6603,"date":"2017-05-27T11:06:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T17:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/?p=6603"},"modified":"2017-05-27T11:06:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T17:06:18","slug":"wanted-fundraising-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2017\/05\/wanted-fundraising-advice.html","title":{"rendered":"Wanted: fundraising advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a request that\u2019s got nothing to do with politics, or Catholicism, or any of my usual topics: \u00a0fundraising.<\/p>\n<p>Our Cub Scout pack is looking at trying a different fundraiser than the usual popcorn; specifically, we\u2019re looking into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsfinestchocolate.com\/fundraising-expertise\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">World\u2019s Finest Chocolate<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 that is, rather than selling bags of popcorn for $10 \u2013 $25, they\u2019d be selling candy at $1 or $2, by taking cases of candy bars door-to-door or via site-sales (e.g., in front of the grocery store). \u00a0I\u2019m concerned that we\u2019d solve the problem of sheepishly asking people to pay way too much for popcorn, but end up selling too little product to raise significant amounts of money. \u00a0(And the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/worlds-finest-chocolate-chicago?start=20\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">yelp reviews<\/a> are pretty bad, though in some cases they simply can\u2019t grasp that inflation means a buck doesn\u2019t buy what it used to.)<\/p>\n<p>So I\u2019m asking anyone who has experience with this sort of fundraiser for their local group (and we\u2019re small \u2013 only 30 boys) to please share their stories. \u00a0Thank you!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Here\u2019s a request that\u2019s got nothing to do with politics, or Catholicism, or any of my usual topics: \u00a0fundraising. 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