Thank you for choosing the Decorah Pizza Ranch for your fundraiser.  There are a couple of different ways we can help you raise funds for your group.  We have a Round-Up card that you can sell.  They cost the consumer $10.00 and you keep $8.00 from each card.  If you have 10 people sell 10 cards each, that's $800 for your group!!  We also have a pizza certificate which we make for you.  It is good for one medium pizza.  The customer pays you $10.00 for each card and you keep $5.00 of it. A third and most popular is the Wednesday night School night where your group comes down to the ranch and works and for that you earn 10% of the sales for the day.  And lastly a new fundraiser that we have started is where your church would do a pancake supper, just change out the pancakes with Pizza Ranch Chicken and sides.  We cook potatoes, gravy, green beans, garlic toast, and cookies at your location and bring chicken in to sell.  This works great!  We hope that you are able to make enough money to continue your good works and to have enough time to inform the customers at Pizza Ranch about those great works.  We had almost 50 fundraisers in 2006 and 2007 was great year also.  We will try to limit the fundraisers to one per week so call early with your date.

In order to reach those goals we would like to set up these guidelines to help the process:

1.    Set up the fundraiser at least one month in advance.
2.    Make the decision as part of a meeting so it has been  

       talked about and will make it into the meeting minutes.
3.    Contact the newspapers.   Decorah, Cresco, Waukon,

       Ossian, and don't forget about the shoppers.   

       Remember  to do this at least two weeks in advance.
4.    We will give you 100 flyers, hand those out.
5.    Make a poster and contact local businesses to put up in

       entryway. (No restaurants and remember to take your posters 

       down when over.)
6.    Contact the radio stations.  KDEC, KVIK and others.  At

        least two weeks in advance.
7.    Contact Mediacom at least two weeks in advance.
8.    Line up workers to bus tables.  At least three people 

       per 90 minute shift starting at 5 p.m.
9.    Arrive fifteen minutes early to learn your duties.
10.  Have a purpose for the money and communicate that.  If

       your youth group is going on a mission trip and that is

       what the money is being used for, tell people.
11.  Have fun while here.  Most of the people here will be

       sympathetic to your cause and will gladly help by tipping

       you when you present great service, so don't forget to

       bring a tip jar and  really push it.

We hope that these ideas help.  We want you to succeed also.

Thank You,

John Dambek, Dave Wagner

Ps:  We will feed your workers for free.  That should get you some volunteers.