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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