Group Travel Fundraising

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Group Travel Fundraising is a fun and innovative way to raise funds for your organization, while strengthening your support in the community.  In a weak economy, donations may be down.  Yet, people still want to go on vacation, and often times find a way to go a vacation.  Travel creates a win-win situation for both your organization and your supporters.

Some of the benefits of Group Travel Fundraising include:
  • It raises money
  • Increases awareness and generates interest in your organization
  • Increases your outreach program
  • There is a possible tax benefit for participants
  • It requires no upfront money from the organization
  • Most importantly, it is minimal work for you and your organization as WE do most of the work!

HOW DOES IN WORK
When your organization and supporters travel as a group it enables you to get a reduced price versus individual travel.  Funds will be raised by marking up the cost of travel.  Our top travel supplier for fundraisers is Carnival Cruise Line (Carnival).  Carnival has been offering support to non-profit organizations for years.  As an extension of their support, they have developed a fundraising program that provides donated funds for a specific group departure of eight

cabins or more.  Our travel consultants have used this program numerous times over the years to help local non-profit organizations with much success. 

Pineapple Dream Vacations will help your organization select a cruise and block off an agreed upon number of cabins that will be sold to members of the organization, family, friends and any other supporters.  The way the Carnival Fundraising Program works is, Carnival will donate $5 per day, per guest, up to two guests per stateroom, for every day of the cruise.  So on a 7-day cruise that would be $35 per person or $70 per cabin.  If you sell fifty cabins, that would be $3,500!

You can also mark up the cost of the cruise to increase your fundraising monies.  We recommend marking the cost up by $20 per person.  Using the above example, that would be an additional $2,000 (50 cabins X 2 passengers=100 passengers X $20=$2,000).  That's $5,500 and there is still opportunity to increase your fundraising monies, which we will share with you when you contact one of our travel professionals at (312) 344-3656.
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