Below are suggestions for events during JWV Veteran’s Week. Your Post is not limited to these events, and we encourage you to come up with your own ideas. Please send any suggestions to Nikki Salzman at .
Funds Split 50-50 between your Post and National
1. Create an ad journal for your Post
2. Solicit in your community – you’ve contributed to friends’ activities in the past; solicit them for a contribution to JWV.
3. Birthday celebration with donations going to JWV
4. Collect money at street/shopping centers
5. Raffle – print tickets and solicit donations; example: car, vacation, or a 50-50 raffle where the winner takes ½ of all proceeds
6. Hold a fundraising dinner
7. Hold a dinner with a silent auction
8. Poppy sale
9. Wine and cheese and/or movie night
10. Wine or beer tasting event
11. Send letter to Post members and friends soliciting funds in honor of fallen heroes
12. Speak with organizations and those who make large donations and/or give grants and solicit funds
13. Sell a commemorative coin
14. Movable feast – people pay a ticket price and are assigned three homes: one for cocktails, one for dinner, and one for dessert
15. Bus trip to a function or sight – Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Museum, USS Iowa, etc
16. Bake sale
17. Bridge tournament/Golf tournament/bowling tournament/mah jong tournament
18. Theatre party
19. Rummage sale or flea market
20. Host a class or special workshop and charge a participation fee
21. Dinner cruise
22. Have a special guest speaker
23. Host a Casino night, have people make a donation to enter the event, have prizes for the night’s top gamblers
24. Host a cook-off event – for example: Kugel cook-off and tasting.
Funds Sent to National
1. Solicit names for the Museum’s Honorial Wall (In Memory Of or In Honor Of) - $1000
2. Solicit for placement in the Museum’s Yahrzeit program - $100
3. Solicit for Museum pavers - $200-$500 each – every Post should purchase one
4. Solicit for Museum Tree of Honor - $100-$5000
5. Become a major donor for an exhibit
6. Solicit for general donations to the Museum or JWV
7. Give to the Museum Endowment Fund
8. Solicit for the Museum’s Major Benefactor’s Wall - $50,000 and up
9. Add codicil in will for JWV or the museum, send a copy of the codicil to National
10. Get members for the Museum and /or JWV
11. Participate in the bulk certificate program – starting at $40
12. Participate in the Museum’s Memorial candle program – no fixed amount for donation
13. Purchase a room in the National Building
