I am involved in many aspects of the community including chairing the Kenai Peninsula Realtor Association’s Annual Hospice and Habitat for Humanity fundraiser, member of the Kenai Chamber, supporting local sports teams, charities, organizations, and even being the ambassador for our state in the 1999 Mrs.

@Andy Luick was the fundraiser on this project, GC, and contractor.  

The bad are the companies that come into communities and do fundraising calls for groups like Firefighters or Police and they come in, call around, and are gone in less than a year.

Need Heart Strings For REI....Go down to your local Boys - Girls club.See the director.Tell them you are a local RE investment company and are trying to raise money for the Boys- Girls Club.You are giving 10% of GROSS PROFITS to the club as a fund raising program.Now get a picture in front of the Boys Club - Get the logo in the picture.And get a letter from the director thanking you.Take that letter and picture and go to all the pizza delivery shops, try to get them to GLUE a flyer "WE BUY OR LEASE HOUSES" 8 1/2 by 11.Tell them every person that calls and sells their house to you, you will donate $500 to the boys club FROM BOTH YOU AND THEM.

Would rather go to potential investors with a solid investment opportunity on par with generally accepted capital raise exit/cash flow splits.I've read everything from 10% splits with waterfalls from very large institutional type fund raisers to 50/50 pari passu splits from localized individual investors. 

When there is a raffle or a fundraiser they see that I am participating in it.

The parents would band together and fundraise $450,000 to hire a teacher’s assistant in every classroom.

Foreclosures could be another good one.There are also ways such as buying homes in friends and family and pre-sale stages.These strategies are used in Mexico by developers to fundraise money and finance the development's construction from potential buyers offering properties at a discount before they are built.

I was wondering if crowdfuding would be a good alternative to hard money lenders from the fund raising side.

Flipping without getting REI education typically leads to mistakes which can cost 10x or more what you would invest to get educated FIRST.My advice would be to focus on fund raising - and learning how to do it - while (re)building your personal credit and building business credit.