Great ideas from your fellow members

Caps for Cops - You can go to either a local school or the school system and pitch the idea. The idea is each student can pay $1 OR $2 to wear a hat or cap to school for a day. The school I work at has 1900 students, if each participated I would be at my goal in one day. They can also try a dress down day, still uniform they can choose a football/baseball team of their choice and wear the team jersey for the same amount of money. Just to give you an idea what money there is to make, when our department did it for the injured officers from the tragic events there was $32000.00 raised Parish wide. When the school board did a dress down day for Haiti they raised 85000.00 in one day Parish wide (Cost was $5 to dress down) - Submitted by Jeff Mayo - babypeytonblues@yahoo.com

Chiefs AD Day Fundraiser – Our Police Chief has been raising funds for the Unity Tour the last three years by allowing employees to donate to the Unity Tour and in return get an Administrative Day (Paid Vacation Day). We raise between two thousand and three thousand dollars each year in this fundraiser. The donations are $5.00 for every hour, for example:

                 12 Hour Employees = $60.00 donation
                 10 Hour Employees = $50.00 donation
                   8 Hour Employees = $40.00 donation

Submitted by Gary Sault - SaultG@DBPD.US

Poker Tournament – Daytona Beach Kennel & Poker Room conducts a Poker Tournament for the Police Unity Tour where they donate $10.00 for every person that enters the tournament. This year we even talked to one of our local radio personalities and he did the same on a tournament that he holds at that location. We usually make about $1,400.00 on our tournament and we made $840.00 on the HOG radio Tournament. This fundraiser takes very little work on our part. We just show up to start the tournament up and we usually give two or three t-shirts as prizes. Submitted by Gary Sault - SaultG@DBPD.US

Poker Run - Our local Harley Owners Group conducts a poker run and gives the proceeds to the Unity Tour. They organize the event and we just show up to help register and provide police motor escorts. Last year the held the event on the same day as another poker run by mistake so we only made $1000.00. The year before we had the Blue Knights and the Gold Wing Club involved. We made over $3,000.00. Submitted by Gary Sault - SaultG@DBPD.US

Weight Loss/ Fitness Challenge  - We ran a weight loss/ fitness challenge for a 60-day period. We collected $20.00 for each participant plus $5.00 cash for a cash prize to winner. We raised over $600.00 and there was very little work on our part. The city nurse weighed the participants in and out. One of our riders actually won the cash prize and donated it back to the tour. Submitted by Gary Sault - SaultG@DBPD.US

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