How to Plan a Food and Wine Tasting Fundraiser

Many cities have food and wine tasting fundraiser to support local charities and businesses. If the event goes right you can give people a great time and raise a significant amount of money for a good cause. However, you’ll probably need a lot of time and resources in order to plan a food and wine tasting fundraiser.

• Get a group of individuals together to help you about six months before the food and wine tasting fundraiser will be taking place. You can assign each person a task to complete. Someone might get local restaurants to participate while another person books the venue and plans out the décor. You will also have to have someone that can supply all of the wines. You can talk to local breweries and wineries about bringing out some samples for people.


• Come up with a specific time and date to hold the event. Make sure that there are no other big area events taking place on the same day as the fundraiser. If there are other happenings going on it can significantly decrease the amount of traffic your event receives.


• Find out what cause you will be supporting at the food and wine tasting event. You can do this by contacting an area non-profit organization and asking them to participate. You can offer this organization all of the profits or a portion of them. Many people may want to join the cause if it means earning a significant amount of money for their charity.


• Decide how much you will charge people to enter the fundraiser. You can do this to cover the costs of the event and help ensure that the organization taking part in the event receives a significant amount of money.