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Alcohol at a fundraiser - sells better than candy

April 3rd, 2009 at 08:27 pm

I bought 2 bottles of wine at a fundraser for an Ethiopian orphanage run by western volunteers.

This fundraiser was pretty well run - a bunch of organizations just donated things (like cases of wine, ethnic crafts, etc) so all things sold were 100% profit to the cause.

And individual people cooked special (often ethnic) dishes and sold them at specially set-up tables at luch time.

This is a kind of a grass-roots fudnraiser I like - there is no pressure to buy, stuff is quite cheap (because it is all donated) and you get odd things that regular stores don't carry. I got a bottle of luxemburg dry white wine (never heard of it, but I am into trying new things) and a bottle of italian sparkling wine.

Everybody feels they are getting a good deal and something special, as opposed to buying candy you could buy at any store for 6 times the price(that kind of fundraizing feels like another form of begging to me).

3 Responses to “Alcohol at a fundraiser - sells better than candy”

  1. creditcardfree Says:
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    Just read about a local fundraiser here that auctioned off bottles of wine....they didn't check local law that prohibts without a liquor license. Opps! I'm glad yours worked out.

  2. whitestripe Says:
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    i too like fundraisers like that. at the moment the only kind of donations i do are those that you can pay extra when you loan to kiva.

  3. M E 2 Says:
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    I am not that surprised that (the) alcohol sold so well at a fundraiser. Let's face it, people drink when they're happy . . . . people drink when they're sad. It's a win/win proposition. ;-)

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