Collect favorite recipes from as many group members and friends in the community as possible.

The Recipe Collection Phase Leader should recruit the help of every member. This phase requires recipes from as many people as possible. The Phase Leader will need 2 or 3 workers to help sort and check recipes after they are collected.

Helpful Hints:

Solicit Recipes:

Hand out several recipe collection forms to each member and ask them to help distribute them to their friends and neighbors. Give a date you want the recipes returned. (No longer than 7- 8 days or the forms will get misplaced and interest lost.)

Keep a list of everyone you gave recipe forms to by printing and using the Recipe Donor Tracking Form.

Try to reach the recipe goal set by the Planning Committee, but remember, the names under the recipes sell the books - not the number of recipes! Try to limit the number of recipes from each person to 3 or 4 and try to have everyone's name printed in the book. If possible, try to stay within the Fundcraft Sales Guarantee on the number of books to order for the number of names you have in your book.

Use the telephone to solicit if people forget to turn recipes in on time.

Recipe Format:

Recipes do not have to be on Fundcraft Recipe Collection Forms; however, all recipes should be on the same size paper, with only one recipe per page and in the same format as our sample cookbook.

Recipes do not have to be typed; however, typed copy ensures far fewer mistakes in name spelling and wording in the recipes.

Be sure that all recipes have titles and donors' names. If you are a statewide organization, chapter name can be placed under the recipe along with the donors' names.

Fundcraft does not eliminate recipes, so double check that the ingredients and method are correct. Any questions about the recipe should be answered by the donor.

If more than one person submits the same recipe, place both names under the recipe. (Only submit one copy of the recipe.)

Sort Recipes:

Start a file folder on every recipe section so that when a recipe is submitted, you can place it in its proper section.

After the recipes are collected, check for content and correctness.

After the recipes have been reviewed and checked, attach the Proper Recipe Section Count Sheets and mark the number of recipes in the section and your organization name.

If you have personalized your own section dividers, use plain paper to divide your recipes and print the section title, number of recipes in the section and name of your organization.