Ok, I suck at organizing fundraisers and such so I need some help.
My fire department does only a couple fundraisers a year (thanks to the village clerk that won't let us do anything), but I'd like to try and start a chili cook off. From what I've tried to find, there are no chili cook offs in the area, so I figured it would be a great idea. We are not very experienced at doing larger fundraisers like this so I need some ideas on how it should go.
We would have it at our fireman's field (since it would be free). Initially I was thinking of keeping the competition between fire departments for now, with a panel of 3 judges deciding the winner. One of my fellow firefighters says he knows someone in the Buffalo Bills organization that may be able to get some players/coaches to judge, which would be awesome. If that didn't work we were also going to reach out to the Buffalo Sabres to see if we can get some of them to judge. It may be a long shot, but never hurts to try. We would also have the public try the chili as well (maybe $10 to sample the chili) and they can vote for people's choice winner. I figured we limit the amount of teams to 15 max, with a $50 entry fee (was thinking about $100 but didn't want to make it too much). Winner would get maybe $400, second $200, and third $100. Obviously we would try to get a live band, and a bounce house for the kids. Have a 50/50 raffle, maybe some baskets as well to raffle off. Beer is obviously a must.
Any suggestions? Be brutal. Let me know what else we should add, get rid off, change, etc. We haven't discussed any plans yet, these are just some ideas i thought of, but I just like to get some other ideas to bring up to the others.
My fire department does only a couple fundraisers a year (thanks to the village clerk that won't let us do anything), but I'd like to try and start a chili cook off. From what I've tried to find, there are no chili cook offs in the area, so I figured it would be a great idea. We are not very experienced at doing larger fundraisers like this so I need some ideas on how it should go.
We would have it at our fireman's field (since it would be free). Initially I was thinking of keeping the competition between fire departments for now, with a panel of 3 judges deciding the winner. One of my fellow firefighters says he knows someone in the Buffalo Bills organization that may be able to get some players/coaches to judge, which would be awesome. If that didn't work we were also going to reach out to the Buffalo Sabres to see if we can get some of them to judge. It may be a long shot, but never hurts to try. We would also have the public try the chili as well (maybe $10 to sample the chili) and they can vote for people's choice winner. I figured we limit the amount of teams to 15 max, with a $50 entry fee (was thinking about $100 but didn't want to make it too much). Winner would get maybe $400, second $200, and third $100. Obviously we would try to get a live band, and a bounce house for the kids. Have a 50/50 raffle, maybe some baskets as well to raffle off. Beer is obviously a must.
Any suggestions? Be brutal. Let me know what else we should add, get rid off, change, etc. We haven't discussed any plans yet, these are just some ideas i thought of, but I just like to get some other ideas to bring up to the others.
