Here's what I've been looking at - it would not only be a fundraiser for our shelter, but encourage the community and businesses to be involved.
Duration: 2 weeks. People who register would have 2 full weeks to solve riddles and take photos & submit them.
Participation fee: I'm back to the debating this in my head. I had decided not to do teams because that would be difficult for prizes. It could be run that the first person who gets their photos in wins, but I would have a drawing for prizes in each category for people who finish. My original idea has been $5 if want to do only 10 photos - the drawing would be for a smaller prize. $10 if do 20 photos - bigger prizes, and $20 if do 30 photos and a drawing for a real good prize. But 30 photos is a lot for people to send me and for me to organize! So I'm not sure on this.
Prizes: I haven't pursued this yet. I would make a wish list of prizes - try to get a bigger prize and maybe focus on outdoor stuff, so a grill, nice outdoor chair or other furniture, etc, and then smaller prizes. Because we have adopters from several states, I want to have gift cards as prizes, too.
I would have them register and then I would send them the instructions/guidelines which would include how to submit photos, what qualifies as a valid entry, safety guidelines, statement of no liable for any injury, expenses, etc. Would encourage kids to be involved with permission of a supervising adult. I would email their lists out the day before the hunt.
Photos: These would try to focus on 4th of July - animals - community. Photo lists would vary a little bit for each person. I'd most likely use AI to help generate riddles. Some ideas are photo of a road sign for their town, sign of "Main Street", inside of a community library, courthouse, dog being walked, landmark, sign with animal picture on it or with animal name, birds, flag, red/white/blue decoration other than flag, cat, goldfish, storefront of a business that sells products for animals, barn, mailbox shaped as an animal or has an animal figure on it, etc.
The registration part and submission of photos are the areas I really need to think about more on how to make work. Someone suggested some resources that sound like could be helpful.
It's a work in progress, and I need the higher-ups to say OK to my idea before I totally have it worked up!
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Karen Olson
Volunteer Caregiver & apparently Fundraiser Coordinator
Thompson River Animal Care Shelter (TRACS)
Thompson Falls, MT
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-18-2024 07:00 AM
From: Karen Kirsch
Subject: How to submit photos in a digital scavenger hunt?
What types of items will people be looking for in the scavenger hunt? What is the cost structure you are looking at? What type of prize will you be offering? Please tell me more. I want to do this. It sounds like so much fun. Please share :-)
I just looked up digital scavenger hunt on Google and see what this is. (I had no idea -- LOL - guess that shows my age.)
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Karen Kirsch
Founder
Spayed and Aid
KY
Original Message:
Sent: 04-17-2024 07:46 PM
From: Karen Olson
Subject: How to submit photos in a digital scavenger hunt?
I'm looking at having a 4th of July photo scavenger hunt for a fundraiser. Participants would have 2 weeks to take photos, using a given list. My initial idea was to have from 10-30 things on lists (amount depends on the participation fee they pay). But I'm not sure how they would submit the photos. Does anyone have ideas on how these could be safely submitted, without much hassle for them (or me!)?
Thank you for any ideas!
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Karen Olson
Volunteer Caregiver & apparently Fundraiser Coordinator
Thompson River Animal Care Shelter (TRACS)
Thompson Falls, MT
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