Fundraising

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A restaurant fundraiser is a fun and simple way to raise money for special projects at your nursing home. Moreover, it’s an excellent way for employees and volunteers to get together and socialize in an informal setting.

Besides helping your facility, this event also benefits restaurants:

• It brings diners to the restaurant during typically slower times.
• It allows the restaurant to give back to their community.
• It introduces new guests to the restaurant. This is especially true of new establishments that are looking for publicity.

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I’m glad to hear many of you are enjoying the fundraising ideas featured on my blog! Now that the cooler days of autumn are upon us, I’ll share how to host a Soup Day fundraiser.

Our nursing home doesn’t have a cafe where the staff can buy meals. So, a few times during the colder months of the year, we host a Soup Day.

This allows staff to purchase a bowl of hot, delicious soup as an alternative to bringing their bag lunches. In addition, the money we raise helps support some of our smaller projects at the nursing home.

It takes just a few simple steps to create a successful Soup Day:

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Do you volunteer at a nonprofit nursing home? Then you’ll want to read this post. We all face the challenge of creating enjoyable and meaningful activities for our residents while staying within a tight budget. An organization called NAEIR may be able to help.

The National Association for the Exchange of Industrial Resources is a group that collects surplus merchandise from businesses and distributes it to nonprofit organizations. They’ve been in business since 1977.

Some of the companies that support NAEIR are Office Depot, Crayola, 3M, Papermate, Rubbermaid, and Delta. Available products include crafts, books, toys, party supplies, office supplies, and toiletries.

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A few years ago we put together a talent show at our nursing home. It was so much fun, and the amount of hidden talent within our walls surprised everyone!

There was a huge variety of talent, too. Four nurses sang a quarter. One resident told jokes and another resident played the piano. A CNA twirled a baton, and an employee’s daughter performed a dance solo.

Although we held our talent show purely for fun, I believe it can also be an excellent fundraiser. Check out these tips to make your talent show a success:

• Recruit an enthusiastic MC to share a little blurb about each participant and keep the talent show running smoothly.

• Start and end with your best acts.

• Start on time and don’t let the program run too long. We found 60-90 minutes was about right.

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