Tips for Success
Here are a number of fundraising ideas for your organization.
Sales or Retails:
- Welcome to school kits
- Exam care packages
- Pompoms
- T-Shirts
- Coffee mugs
- Holiday flowers
- Hats
- Balloons
- Holiday cards/stationary
- Candy
- Craft Sale
- Buttons/bumper stickers
- Calendars
- Food i.e., cookies, pizza
- Plants
- New/Used Books
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- Organization merchandise
- Garage" sale
- Advertising
- Birthday Cakes
- Candles
- Singing telegrams
- Koozies
- Art/Poster Sale
- Car shades
- Cook books
- Discount Coupons Book
- Contests
- Halloween Pumpkins
- Sport events
- Bake-a-thon
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Services:
- Jewelry cleaning
- Car wash
- Pet wash
- Wrap presents
- Leaf raking
- House keeping
- Massages
- Window washing
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- Typing or data entry
- Mother's day out program
- Walking dogs
- Plant/pet sitting
- Tutor
- Service Auctions
- Face painting
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Other Ideas:
- Auctions
- Poetry night
- Fish fry
- Casino night
- Digital photo shoot
- Pumpkin carving contest
- Pie-the-face
- Swing dance
- Homecoming run
- Target shooting
- Step show
- Penny war
- Scholarship pageant
- 3 on 3 basketball tournament
- Art contest
- Faculty/student talent show
- Fashion show
- Dunk booth
- Karaoke contest
- Community yard sale
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- Aluminum can drive
- Sports tourney
- Hunger banquet
- Jail and bail
- Mardi Gras night
- Carnival night
- International food night
- Area business discount card
- Newspaper delivery
- Raffle
- Jog-a-thon
- Costume dance
- Starving artist festival
- Spaghetti dinner
- Haunted house
- Picnics
- Workshops
- Bowl-a-thon
- Evening dinner and entertainment
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Even More Ideas:
- Halloween Insurance: Sell Halloween Insurance for $1 or $2, and guarantee to clean up any soaped windows, cars, etc the day after Halloween.
- Cow Dung Contest: Grid off a large field. Sell the squares at $5 a piece. Day of the contest, have one or more cows run free. If the cow(s) does his business on the grid, the person who owns the grid gets a prize
- Seed Guessing Contest: Pass out grapefruit, apples, and pears, and ask people for donations based on the number of seeds in the fruit. The suggested donation was 10-20 cents a seed. (One group made over $1000 with this) Try to get the fruit donated.
- Trampoline-a-thon: Have your group members agree to jump on a trampoline for a certain amount of time and get donations for as many minutes as the group jumps. Each member could sign up for a time to jump. You can do this with jump rope, seesaws…practically anything.
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