My Church Needs Money.

[Clodfobble]

Typically fundraising for larger organizations is done through a benefit or event: basically you plan a big party, with food, entertainment of some sort, etc., and you charge more for the tickets than you spent throwing the party. You can go more family-friendly and make it a kids' festival/carnival type thing, or you can go more adult-oriented and do an evening cocktail/dinner thing with a silent auction (the items are donated by individuals and local businesses, and you get whatever people bid to pay for them.)

I have never actually done any of this myself, but a friend of mine is the local fundraising chair of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, and she plans events like this every year.