A Free Fundraising Thermometer Can Help You Raise A Lot Of Money

A Free Fundraising Thermometer Can Help You Raise A Lot Of Money

by

Alan Coleman

When you’re raising money for a worthy cause, a fundraising thermometer can help you meet your goal. In the vein of a picture’s worth a thousand words, the thermometer provides that important graphic reminder of where you’re at, where you’re heading, and how long until you arrive.

Most of us have seen them. Alongside the road in a community wanting to save up to fund the annual 4th of July fireworks show. Or at a high school showing how close the football team is to getting new uniforms. Some people create them to measure an individual goal. How much more until I have enough money to pay for my senior trip? … To buy Grandma’s Christmas present? … For my annual donation to the charity I care about?

Their power arises from those same savings lessons we were taught when we were young. We’d come running home to ask our parents for something new. Mom, I wish a new shirt. Dad, can you get me a car? But our parents were smart and told us to put away our allowance – to save! The process of saving that money helped motivate us, and pushed us to save more money.

Well, that motivation our parents taught us also works for our adult individual or group goals. By looking up and seeing our steps toward achieving a goal, we see that our efforts get us nearer to to our goal. And making advancement toward that goal pushes us – we need to finish, to achieve, and to raise the money.

Well, that determination our parents taught us also works well with our adult individual or group goals. By looking up and seeing our steps toward achieving a goal, we see our efforts get us nearer to to our goal. And making advancement to that goal pushes us – we want to finish, to achieve, and raise the money.

It’s actually pretty simple to create one. It’s a fairly easy arts and crafts project that will require some very low-level drawing skills. Using A large poster paper (or that nice paper butchers use), you draw a rectangular shape with one of the small ends rounded off. The opposite small end is a large bulb. The rectangular part in the middle just gets numerous equally spaced hash marks to delineate progress on the way to your goal. Now that you have the basic template, you simply use a colored marker (red is best) to color in your progress as you bring in money. If you reach your goal, the whole thermometer will be red (and maybe spurting out the top if you’ve raised more cash than you planned).

There are even companies offering pre-made fundraising thermometers making it that much easier to get started. Whether on your own hand-drawn poster, or coloring in one that’s professionally made, you’ll quickly be on your way to raising money for your important cause.

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A Free Fundraising Thermometer Can Help You Raise A Lot Of Money