Why Should You Consider Discount Cards for Fundraising?

If you’ve got a fund-raising event looming, you may be considering having a bake sale to raise funds – or perhaps you are considering selling candy bars or magazines. These are noteworthy pursuits, but there may be an easier (and more profitable) way. Have you ever considered discount cards for fundraising?

Discount cards for fundraising offer several advantages over other activities and products commonly used for fundraising purposes, such as:

You can get them for just about anything

With these cards, the sky is really the limit when you decide what you want to do with them. You can use them to give discounts or buy-one-get-one-free offers on services and products offered by merchants in your own area. How about a free haircut at your local barber? Or, perhaps a local restaurant can offer a “buy one, get one free” meal deal. You can use any merchant who’s willing to participate, which means that you can customize your fundraising effort to your particular situation. That being said, the company you purchase the cards from will generally handle this task for you, and pit one merchant against another so that you get great deals your customers will love.

For example, if you know your local community is enthusiastic about fitness, you can offer a free visit to the local health club (with the health club’s permission, of course) with your discount cards for fundraising. Or, maybe you’d like to have a bake sale but you don’t want to go through the hassle of actually having participants make and bring goods to a central location to sell them. In that case, you can target your cards to your local baker, with the option to get a discount on baked goods purchased when the card is presented. Another option is that since most people like movies, you could make these cards good for a free video rental. The point is that you can make them useful for just about any good or service that you can think of, as long as you’ve got the cooperation of the merchant in question.

They don’t cost much and are easy to store

Popular methods of fundraising like selling candy bars or baked goods requires a certain amount of logistical expertise, in that you’ll have to find a place to store these items where they will keep and won’t go bad before you can sell them. You have to have enough room to store them, and you have to have enough money up front to buy the candy bars or other products, which you then resell for a profit.

Discount cards for fundraising have none of these drawbacks; they won’t spoil, you can store them very easily, and they don’t take up much room. You don’t need a lot of money up front to use them, since you will be working with a company who manufactures these cards to do the job for you. You don’t even have to coordinate working with the merchants who will be honoring these discount cards, since the company can do that for you.

They require very little time and effort

When you decide to use these cards, all you have to do is contact the company you are going to buy them from. The company will do most of the work for you; they will normally contact the local merchants you want to include on your discount cards for fundraising when you decide which products or services you want to promote.

All you need to do is to contract with a company who is going to produce the cards for you. Not only will the company contact the merchant or merchants in question to make sure they’re amenable to being included on the discount cards, and then they’ll print the cards up for you. This includes putting your organization name and/or logo on the front of the card, which makes it both appealing and professional. That’s all it takes.

Discount cards for fundraising are a quick, easy and inexpensive way to raise money for your organization; because you can make them unique to your particular community, they’re also a way to foster community cohesiveness and support your local economy.

Mark South
Easy Fundraising Cards