Successful Fundraising
Step by Step Guide to Fundraising
Step 1: Examine your organizations finances
A) Why do you want or need to have a fund-raiser?
B) How much money do you already have in your account?
C) How much money do you need to raise?
D) What is your fund-raising goal, i.e., amount of money in certain amount of time?
Step 2: Program Planning
A) When is the program, event, or project for which you need funds?
B) By what date must you have the money to ensure that your program, event, or project can occur?
C) Utilize the backwards planning method to successfully plan your event.
Step 3: Develop a Fundraiser
A) What type of fundraiser do you want to have? When making this decision consider the following
1) The interests and talents of your members.
2) The time of the year i.e., December is not the best month for a car wash
3) Legality of the event
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B) How can you promote your fund-raiser?
C) Are your members enthusiastic about the fund-raiser?
D) What are the hidden costs of your fund-raiser?
Fund Raising Ideas
Sales or Retails:
Exam support basket
Welcome to school kits
Pompoms
T-Shirts
Coffee mugs
Holiday flowers
Hats
Balloons
Holiday cards/stationary
Candy
Calendars
Food i.e., cookies, pizza
Plants
Books
Merchandise
Garage sale
Avertising
Singing telegrams
Koozies
Car shades
Cook books
Contests
Sport events
Bake-a-thon
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
Dunk booth
Karoke contest |
Services:
Jewelry cleaning
Car wash
Gardening
Lawn mowing
Pet wash
Wrap presents
Leaf raking
House keeping
Window washing
Typing or data entry
Mother’s day out program
Walking dogs
Baby sitting
Working at football games
Shovel snow
Tutor
Face painting |
Other Ideas
Silent auctions
Poetry night
Fish fry
Casino night
Digital photo shoot
Community yard sale
Aluminum can drive
Hunger banquet
Jail and bail
Mardi Gras night
International food night
Rodent races
Newspaper delivery
Jog-a-thon
Costume dance
Starving artist festival
Spaghetti dinner
Haunted house
Picnics
Workshops
Bowl-a-thon
Evening dinner and entertainment |
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.
