- 1). Ask permission from local businesses and busy shopping centers to hold a charity sale at their location.
- 2). Print fliers with the date, time and purpose of your charity sale and pass them out to locals. Consider running a newspaper advertisement, and ask local churches to tell their congregations about the event.
- 3). Prepare for your event by asking people to donate their time to selling baked goods or crafts. Get a good inventory of items to sell to the public and purchase fold-out tables to display them.
- 4). Push for sales at the event, and make it clear that the animal shelter is an important part of the community -- one that is worth saving to keep thousands of animals safe and off the streets.
- 5). Inform people at the sale that they can help the shelter in other ways, such as taking time to purchase a city license for their pet, donating old towels or a bag of dog food to the shelter every week.
- 6). Give your profits to the animal shelter and repeat the process as much as you can until the shelter has enough money to keep its doors open.