101 Fundraising ideas

Aug 20, 2009 3:53 PM by SheKnows Awareness Experts

Posted in SheKnows Cares / Breast Cancer Awareness / Breast Cancer Awareness & Support

Fun Ways To Raise Money

The fundraising ideas library at www.The3Day.org is your best source for real-life fundraising ideas from other Breast Cancer 3-Day participants. Here are some additional ideas.

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FUNDRAISE AT WORK OR SCHOOL

74. "Loose Change Day": Ask your child's school to have a "Loose Change Day." Make a flyer

encouraging each child to bring in loose change from their house to be donated. Encourage the

math classes to assist with counting, predicting and rolling the change. This is a great way to

involve the entire school. You can hold this event multiple times; every week or every month.

75. Personal vending machine at work: Have you ever wondered how much money the vending

machine at work clears in a single week? Find out! Purchase some of the office favorites in bulk

(or better yet have them donated!), mark them up, and sell them from your desk for $1 or $2. If

you have a way to keep them cold, do the same with bottled water and sodas.

76. Lunch Room: Put up a display in the lunch room at work (a sign with your picture and a note

about what you are doing); be sure to include a jar for donations and a stack of your donation

slips.

77. Dress Down Friday: Ask your boss if you can host a "Dress Down Friday." Employees buy a

button and get to dress down on an assigned day.

SPREAD THE WORD

78. Your HQ: Send emails from your HQ. Customize your HQ with a picture and your personal

story. Email your fundraising letter to friends, family, co-workers, and ask them to support you.

Your email will have a direct link right back to your website and when they donate online, they

will automatically receive a receipt for tax purposes. Ask everyone to forward on your email to 10

more people!

79. Say It With Color: Color your hair pink or shave your head for donations. Become a human

conversation starter and see how much attention you can draw to your dedication to the cause.

80. Start a Facebook campaign: Facebook is a great way to reach out to all your friends. Post a picture that relates to the cause so that your friends can share it with other people. Caption it with a link to the Susan G. Komen website and explain that you are raising money. Update your status daily to remind your friends to donate.

81. Start a fundraising blog: People will be more likely to donate if they know where their money is going and what is being done with their money. Make weekly posts that update people of the cause. You post about breast cancer facts, links to The 3 Day walk (or other breast cancer fundraising websites) and personal posts about why you're rasing money. Blogspot and Tumblr are great platforms to start a blog and allow you to share your posts on other social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

82. Labels/Business Cards: Create (or order) return address labels and/or business cards that

state, "I'm participating in the Breast Cancer 3-Day. Will you sponsor me?" Don't forget about the

Breast Cancer 3-Day business cards we have on our website (go to www.The3Day.org, Login to

your participant center > Fundraising > Downloads).

83. Twitter: If you have a large following on Twitter, it is a great way to engage your friends and potential donors to the cause. Micro-blogging is a great way to remind people of what you're doing and to bring more eyes to the cause. Unlike Facebook, Twitter can reach a larger amount of people, so create a post plan, update frequently and let the donations come in!

84. Meet the Press: Contact the editor of your local paper, or your company newsletter -- or both!

Ask them to interview you about what you've undertaken and why, and include a request for

support. Be sure they include instructions in the story for how readers can make donations to

you.

85. Speak at a place of worship: Ask your local place of worship if you can speak to their

congregation about the 3-Day and your commitment after a service and set up a table to collect

donations afterwards.

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Comments on "101 Fundraising ideas"

It is NOT in any way rude to ask a bartender for one nights tip as donations. You would ask a bartender at the local watering hole you go to-chances are you have tipped them generously every time you have gone(AS YOU SHOULD) and they are your friend. Having been a bartender for years, you make a decent living-if you don't, you aren't a very good bartender or you should be working in a better bar! Giving up one nights tips for the better of someone is good Karma!

i want some ideas that willhelp both me and my ( the ) community .

It is completely unacceptable and outrageously rude to ask a waiter or bartender for a day's tips. Their salary is HALF minimum wage, and to ask them to give up a day's pay is insane. Ask for a donation, yes, like you are from everyone else, but not most of their earnings for a day. If you wouldn't ask your doctor for a day's pay, why would you ask someone who can barely make ends meet?

I am not sure if anyone else has made this comment, but Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts are not permitted to raise money for any other organization. I think it's because they are a non-profit organization.

how can I raise money for my church youth choir?

My relay for life team sells Tori's (Aluminum-Free & Paraben-Free) Deodorant. They give groups donating to a cause a wholesale price on products and let them sell it for retail price. We have made a couple hundred dollars already for our team! They also give a % of their profits to breast cancer research. Win-Win!

Ida - e-mail me at iwalk360@ymail. I have a bunch of those pink rubber bracelets. =) Let's talk!

okay, im doing my senior project on breast cancer. My product would be raising money for the cancer foundation. The only problem would be where to get the bracelts from without paying for them. Because im young and cant just front the money till im done selling and then ill donate it all. if so can anyone give me good links? much appreciated! thanks

THIS IS GREAT!

My son's school has been trying to come up with some different fundraising ideas . I think that the school, and me as well, were sick of working with the fundraising order forms for cookies and other such things. Regrettably, the debate is still out there, and they are still trying to decide what they should do about the different things that they need to do to raise money for the school. These are some great ideas though, I will totally have to pass them on to my sons teacher!

that is a delicious fund raising ideas,I like it,so yummy.I'm sure it gain much money.

thanks

just came in from my daily 5.5 miles for this year's Dallas/ Fort Worth walk which I keep on twitter for some friends who follow my training. I enjoyed reading your experiences of the Denver walk and seeing the pictures. We have less that 60 days until DFW this year and reading about a walk really brings back the great memories. Thanks