Holiday Carol-Gram Fundraisers

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Bring good tidings this season with a no-cost, low-cost fundraiser. Singing holiday songs can work for many non-profit groups that need to raise money and stand out from the crowd.

Neighborhood home-owners associations, church groups, even youth sports teams can benefit by singing Christmas Carols. All that's required is some festive attire, and the willingness to sing. The great thing is, you don't even have to be able to sing well to pull this off. In fact, imperfect performances can even seem more charming than the best choir presentation.

The best way to make sure your holiday fundraiser is a success is to advertise early and often. Place ads in your neighborhood newsletter, website, or email blasts. Posters in the hallways at church or school, bulletin boards, even signs at street corners work well. Many local newspapers and television stations offer free advertising to non-profit groups. Take advantage of the freebies.

You'll most likely need a few rehearsals, but you could just gather for an hour or so before you begin your singing rounds to practice. Print out words to popular songs for each singer in your group.

Depending on the weather in your area, holiday sweaters and scarves gives the appeal of a Norman Rockwell Christmas scene. Offer personalized Christmas Carol-grams. It is fairly simple to do: 'We wish Bob a Merry Christmas...'.

Keep your song selections simple. Feel free to ham it up, give out home-made cookies at the end of your performance, even take pictures of your group with the Carol-gram recipients to send to the paying customers.

I strongly recommend collecting your Carol-gram fee in advance. Depending on where your paying customers send your group to sing, there will be some small expenses involved. Carpool in vans and SUV's to your assigned locations. If children will be singing as a group, never allow them to approach someone's house without an adult chaperone in attendance. Safety first where children are concerned.

A Holiday Carol-gram fundraiser is a great way for your non-profit group to raise funds around the holidays, and also works as a team building, fun event. Don't stress over it and keep it fun for everyone!

Kimberly Reynolds writes for national publications about church fundraisers, organizing a Christmas Carol fundraiser and charity fundraiser events. Find more school fundraising ideas on her website, FundraiserHelp.com

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Holiday Photo Cards - Better Way To Share The Holiday Season

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Hanukkah, an eight day long Jewish festival, commemorates a Jewish rebellion against foreign rulers more than 2000 years ago. It usually comes any time from late November to late December while Christmas, the celebration of the birth of Christ, comes precisely on 25th December. With the close proximity of the holidays and with nearly half of all the American Jews marrying outside of the faith, sending holiday greeting cards to such couples without evoking the religious sentiments of either is a dilemma. Christmas greeting cards may not be suitable for one, and Hanukkah greeting cards may not be fit for the other. Instead of sending separate Hanukkah cards or Christmas cards, sending holiday cards with a general season's greeting theme is safe, but does not make a statement.

The gifted idea of interfaith and multicultural cards incorporating the theme of both Christmas and Hanukkah in one design offers a dignified, creative solution to the problem. By emphasizing the secular qualities and symbols of both holidays, in a respectful way we recognize each as valid. December holidays are usually a challenge to interfaith families. Issues of how to celebrate and how to include both families can be a difficult situation. Sending an appropriate greeting card, no longer needs to be an issue. Now, there are interfaith cards, interfaith holiday photo cards and holiday products which are specially designed to combine the holidays of Christmas and Hanukkah or the holiday also know as Chrismukkah.

The idea of interfaith cards stirred up a lot of controversy in the beginning. The idea of merging the holidays and introducing holiday cards with a common theme invited lots of criticism from religious leaders. There were allegations that these were meant to promote intermarriage. The boom in the online business of interfaith and multicultural products proved such allegations and skeptical remarks to be baseless.

No doubt, interfaith and multicultural cards offer a sense of diversity and tolerance among people of different faiths. There purpose is to unite rather than divide and to acknowledge our differences. What better way to share the holiday season than to celebrate with a little FALALALA Latkes!

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