PA Collegiate Summit Fundraising Breakout Best Practices 2008
PA Collegiate Summit Fundraising Breakout Best Practices 2008
Individual-Group #1
• Candles Sale
• Letters to professors
• Pretzel sale
• Letter writing/emails to family/friends
• Facebook/myspace
• Chalk classroom boards
• Handmade thank-you notes
• Fill buckets over breaks with coins
• Interest sessions during lunch
• Put collection cans in parents business “spare change bucket”
• Approach local churches and church groups
On-Site
• Ice cream sundae station
• Popcorn during movie
• Baked goods
• Pizza
• Blankets
• Coffee
• Different colored ribbons representing different kinds of cancer
• Talent show with entry fee
• 3-legged race with entry face
• Corn hole tournament
• Guitar hero/rock band tournament
• Jello snarffle
• Mr. Relay
• Globotron-pay to play Madden
• Mini golf
• Eating contest
• Face painting
• Cupcake decorating
• Flag football with entry fee
• Root beer pong
• Hair braiding
• VIP rooms (have a separate room that has good food, games, music, etc. and you have to pay money to get into it at Relay)
• Make cotton candy
• Calendar-make athletes wear pink bras
• Professor in jail
Group #1-Online
• Send personal emails
• Send e-mails to Alumni with online address/staff
• Make videos to send in e-mail attachments to give more information about where money goes
• Online pledges
• Facebook!
• You Tube!
• Blog/Forums
• Emails to participants
• Email upcoming fundraisers from other teams
• E-cards
• Include your own pictures in e-mail
• Keep website updated
• Facebook: has information on how to add an application for Facebook
Team
• Sell boob cookies to promote breast cancer awareness
• Race (ie: 5K’s)
• Valentine’s Day flower sale
• T-shirts
• Car washes
• Penny wars
• Bike-a-thon-Person bikes (in place stationary) and you bet on how long they can go
• Bachelor’s Auction
• Every floor in dorms have competition. Winner gets Pizza Party-“Dorm Wars”
• Dinners (pay to eat)
• Restaurants/Bars
• Sales (Bake,book, candy)
• Garage Sale
Pre-event
• Relay Bingo
• Date Auction
• Qdoba Relay (have participants eat a sandwich and whoever wins first gets a prize)
• Fashion Show
• Ice Skating
• Tshirts and Wristbands
• Penny Wars
• Taco Dinner
• Bar Night
• Talent Show
• Pancake Breakfast
• Dunking Booth
• Bobbing for apples
• Wreath making
• battle of the bands
• Dreidle competition
• sponsor sport event
• Raffle tickets
• Apple Cider Pong
• Pool Party
• Kissing Booths
• Dodgeball
• Donate Meal credits
Post-event
• Thank you cards/emails
• Emails “we didn’t make our goal, please send money”
• Email Reminders about date to turn in $
• Phone calls to big businesses
• Reminders about team fundraising clubs
• Wrap up meetings/$ collections
• “There’s always next year”
• Sell pictures of event (postcards), asking for more money
• Send info on a survivor in town they helped and remind them they can still donate
• Updates on upcoming events
• Party for team that raised most money
Group #2
On-site
• Sell t-shirts, luminary bags, relay stuff
• Bake sale/other food sales
• Massage table-all funds go to relay
• businesses to donate proceeds for a day
• Drunk BBQ
• Face Painting, Caricatures
• Relay Jail-pay to put someone in jail ($2, $3, use cops!) Pay to get them out ($5-$10)
• Tailgating Games
• Moon bounce pay to get on
• sell stuff according to theme
• sell all color ribbons
• Provide donation table to get more money
• Mary Kay representative
• Sell fruit punch-“Knocking out cancer one punch at a time”
• Create your own livestrong bracelets
• Miss Relay (guys dress as girls and walk around with Relay cans
• Candy-grams (sell and send candy in dorms, etc.)
• Bachelor Auction
Post-Event
• BBQ over the summer
• Graduation-event/fundraiser there
• “After Party”-pay to go to a dance
• Continue the on-line sites
• Save spare change over summer
• Keep visiting sponsor’s work places
• Send thank you letters
• end of year party
• something at graduation
• Bid on highest fundraiser for a date/team recruitment
• Highest team fundraiser gets dinner (made by committee)
• Coldstone/Maggie Moo’s/Dunk to Donate
Pre-event
• Sell stuff dealing with Relay stuff
• Bake Sales
• Sell t-shirts
• Pre-event to get into gear” kick off
• Purple 101
• Penny Wars
• Car Wash
• Spaghetti Dinner
• Alumni from school for donations
• Quarterback(have people donate per yard
• Professor bail-out (have a professor go into “jail” and people have to pay to get them out)
• Sell ribbons to hang on doorknob
• Think pink game
• Canning
• Boobie Bingo/balls bingo
• Bar Nights-cover $2
• “Breastival”-pin the nipple on the boobs
• Sell sun/moon logo
• Bid on professor-get out of jail
• Costume contest (put money in cans)
• dinner
• arnival/dunk professors
• bowling for boobs
• movie nights
• save your balls dodgeball
• concert
Online
• Sending letters
• Website that sends free cards (add photo-make it personal)
• ask for donations through facebook
• Computers in student union to directly donate
• Facebook ads & gifts
• myspace
Team
• t-shirt sales
• Rubber bracelet sales
• Bake Sales (boob cupcakes)
• garage sale
• Spaghetti dinner
• Dance
• Car Wash
• Real Men Wear Pink-Talent Show
• Toilet w/ professors –pay to get it removed (put a toilet seat on professors desks and they have to pay a certain about to put it on someone else’s desk, have it removed or to never come back) “flush away cancer”
• Booby bingo
• Dorm Storm/Penny War (go door to door asking for change)
• Fundraising with Dorney Park/Six Flags (work for a shirt and get paid)
• Hockey team went around in bras too raise money
• Flamingo someone’s lawn/dorm door (ugly flamingo, same as toilet on a professors desk)
• Poker Tournament
Individual
• Phone calls
• e-mails
• letters
• sell crafts (like scarves)
• Guest Bartending
• Door to door/Relay Buckets
• Parents pay for good grades
• Save your change in empty coke bottle (fill with dimes-$10)
• Have people give donations in your name instead of birthday/Christmas presents)
• Having people give up habit for time then donate what they would have bought to relay (like buying shoes, smoking cigarettes, etc)
• Door to door in your neighborhood
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