NAR $5000 Grant Clarification- Learn how your local association can get their $5,000 grant!  We want to help you put "FUN" back into FUNDRAISING!

There seems to be some confusion on how to use the $5,000 NAR/RAF Grant money. The NAR/RAF grant money can be used to provide either educational seminars on the importance of investing in RAF or to host a fundraising activity.  When conducting a fundraising activity, the dollars provided through the NAR/RAF grant are to be used for expenses incurred (i.e. food, decorations, venue costs, flyers, advertisement, educational materials in any form, etc.) while completing an approved fundraising activity.

These activity expenses in no way obligate the association to raise a specified dollar amount. Please note that grant monies used for prizes that are awarded to attendees through drawings or auctions require associations to raise 3 times the actual cost of the item or items being given away (i.e. cost for the prizes awarded = $100; the association must raise $300 to account for that item).

For an example of how this program really works below is a real world scenario that will better serve to guide associations through this program. 

For example: An association wants to host a fundraising luncheon and in order to encourage participation, chooses to have a drawing where attendees could win a laptop. The cost to attend this luncheon could be set by the association at any level, but for this scenario, let’s set it at $50. The catering cost would be covered by the NAR/RAF grant, and the entirety of the $50 entry fee would go into RAF’s CREPAC/Federal account.

Let’s go one step further, if the association decided purchase a laptop for their drawing that cost $1,000, the fundraiser would need to net 3 times the value of the prize ($3,000) in order to satisfy the NAR/RAF grant criteria. The minimum attendance that the association would need to meet this obligation would be 60 people.

Disclosures:
All funds collected must be for CREPAC/Federal and no corporate checks and/or credit cards are allowed only PERSONAL checks and/or credit cards are accepted.

How to Submit for NAR Grant:
Please click on $5,000 to learn how your local association can get their grant funds!  We want to help you put "FUN" back into FUNDRAISING!

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact
Lisa Edwards

RPAC Grant Coordinator
(916) 492-5211
email:  lisae@car.org

To learn more about how to use the $5000 and the do's and don'ts, please click on the links to review the powerpoint presentation by Jane Saunders NAR Special Fundraising Events Consultant.

California Special Event Fundraising PowerPoint
Guide to Special Event Fundraising