We undertook a fund raising activity for Bihar Relief Fund.
We are five members in the team. We decided to go Railway Station so that we get a lot of individual people to donate. We spend for three hours and we were able to collect around 800 rupees. We observed that lot of individual contributed but the amount was in one, two, five & maximum ten rupees.
Then we decided to go with trader’s shops hoping that money contributed will be relatively large. We were disappointed since large number of traders refused to give money but we were able to collect 200 rupees with four to five traders contributing.
Once it was made as a performance based activity & not as a learning activity we decided to think our strategies seriously. We broke out into two teams and each team concentrated in two different areas.
One team on big Institutions such as banks, Insurance, brokers, Reality developers & commercial establishments. We got a good response & were able to collect 1000 rupees within three hours. Some of the institutions asked time of one to two days. The other team concentrated on Industrial area. 2000 rupees was collected with four to five contributors although most of them refused to contribute.
We came to know that we should concentrate both on places like Railway Station & also big institutions. Railway station provided a guaranteed source of contribution & big institutions does not provide a guaranteed source but had a high value of contribution.
