If you are considering a car wash fundraiser for your nonprofit soccer team, baseball team, cheerleading squad, high school band or church youth group then you need to plan ahead and consider the possibility that you will be rained out. Everyone wants to do a car wash fundraiser on a sunny Saturday and when you have perfect weather you can make quite a bit of money as everyone also wants to get their car washed.
It is important to give rain checks or have a rain date especially if you sell presale tickets in advance, because once the customers purchase the tickets if it rains they will be upset. But if there is a rain date on the ticket they will not ask for their money back and they will be quite happy to know they can come at a later time. If it rains twice they will call it a wash.
Additionally, nonprofit groups and the committees that set up car wash fundraisers often have a very hard time picking a date in the first place and if he gets rained out you may not be able to make your budget for the year. This causes quite a bit of controversy in the organization.
By having a rain date in advance everything is already set up and everything moves ahead as scheduled without any delays. Your rain date should be two weeks from the rained out car wash fundraiser original.
If the first date scheduled turns out to be good weather and perhaps you did not make enough money then you might consider the rain date as an alternate and second car wash fundraiser, thus another reason for a rain date in advance. Please consider all this in 2006.
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