Ask your volunteers to distribute flyers at laundry mats, supermarkets, day care centers, small businesses and like. To attract small businesses you can add their name to your flyer or pamphlet so they also receive some attention for sponsoring and/or participating in your fundraising event.

Utilize online methods to helps spread word of your upcoming fundraising event. Post on community message boards, if you have a website post it on there as well. You can also create business cards on your own computer to distribute just for this occasion. The more people you tell, more people will be involved in your fundraising event.

Most importantly, while you still have everyone excited about fundraising event that just ended, take this opportunity to pick their brains and find out what they thought of event. What did they like about fundraiser most? What would they do differently next time? What can be changed and why. This information is critical to success of your next fundraiser. Be sure to ask while information is still fresh in their minds. Who better to get feedback from then ones that were in trenches with you! You can create a simple questionnaire and mail them off or you can take time to phone and ask your questions, don’t miss this opportunity to get vital information for future fundraising events!