Alternative Gift Fair Essentials
Be sure to promote your event and get volunteers to help out by posting information in the New Dream Community Events directory.
Start by downloading a free e-copy of our guide to organizing alternative gift fairs
In addition, you might use the following documents, created for alternative gift fairs gone by, as templates for helping you organize your own fair. Feel free to download and modify any of the following documents for your own use
- Organization application template - rtf
- Sample funds letter - rtf
- Shopping list template with receipt column and feedback form on back - excel (use this if your fair will have a cashier to ring up the "purchases" on behalf of all organizations)
- Shopping list template 2 - html (use this if customers will be paying the organizations directly; this list will be their menu upon entering the fair)
- Simplify the Holidays brochures for you to display and give out at your Simplify the Holidays table
- Gift of Time certificates: At a Holidays table, you can provide art supplies for people to make their own Gift of Time Certificates. These are personal and creative, non-commercial gifts for family and friends!
- Non-material gift ideas - html - Great ideas you can display at your Holidays table
We're happy to provide Alternative Gift Fair organizers with "tips for getting more of what matters at the holidays" print-outs, gift of time certificates, and other gift fair materials for free! Just send us an email with the organizer's name and contact info, as well as a brief description of the gift fair and/or other events where you will distribute the materials. Or, get a premium Organizers' Kit complete with holiday cards and Simplify the Holidays booklets for $25.
Also, be sure to promote your event and get volunteers to help out by posting information in the New Dream Community Events directory.