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Idea: Big Truck Fundraiser
Premise: In a town near where I live, the public library raised allot of money with this simple idea. They asked town workers and private citizens--everyone and anyone in town who drove or owned a large truck, tractor, earth mover etc. to park their vehicles in the library parking lot on a Sunday afternoon. They roped the lot off and charged admission. They posted flyers and signboards around their town and neighboring towns and sent out news releases. Hundreds of families came with their young children to see fire trucks, ambulances, dump trucks, backhoes. Some proud owners polished up their vehicles for the occasion and stood bye to answer the kids questions or even let them climb in or on the vehicle.
Needed: Fire Trucks, Ambulances, Dump Trucks, Backhoes.
Source: Mona C., FundraisingDeals.com member
Idea: Teeter-Totter Fundraising
Premise: Although this may be hard for preschool children to do it would be hilarious if you could get their parents to participate. you have the children or parents get sponsors and see who can teeter-totter (or you can do rocking chairs) the longest. this can make for some great laughs and money. you could perhaps have parents and children trade off. (one group that did this had a break policy but you had to get someone to take your place and hope they can continue while you use the restroom, etc.) you could also give food to the people rocking (perhaps charge for this) and provide entertainment.
Source: Elizabeth F., FundraisingDeals.com member
Idea: Clock Face Fundraising
Premise: Have your kids sell clocks in which you have taken out the original paper, traced the shape onto another paper. Have each child put their art onto it. Next insert it back into the clock. Photos would work too.
Source: Ruth B., FundraisingDeals.com member
Idea: Vacation Donation Fundraising
Premise: Toni Schiavo was mulling a trip to Las Vegas to see her parents. Suzi Moczygemba planned to use hertime off for an extended Thanksgiving visit with her daughter in Boston.Instead, both women will be back at their desks in coming weeks and donate their accrued vacation time, reflecting newefforts to direct money to charities aiding victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The pair's employer, Health Net Inc., is one of a growing number of firms that have launched vacation-donation programs in recent weeks in what some say is a direct response to requests from charity-minded, but cash-strapped, workers.
At Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine, employee donations of vacation time in late September translated intochecks for a total of $76,047 to the Red Cross and United Way attack relief funds. Employees of Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente donated vacation time worth about $400,000 in a program thatran from Sept. 24 to Oct. 5. The money is headed for relief funds set up by the Red Cross and the AFL-CIO.“I haven't been here very long and I don't have a lot of time accrued and usually I guard mine very closely,'' said Gail Florian, a payroll department employee at the health maintenance organization's Portland, Ore. office who estimates her two-day donation will be worth $322. ``But this seemed like a good reason to give it out.'
Source: InsuranceJournal.com
Idea: Happy Hour
Premise: Host a Happy Hour at a local Bar/Restaurant at the end of the month where 10% of all the money raised between the nours of 6 and 9pm go to your group. I'm going to have balloons to let people know a little about the organization
Needed: Bar/Restaurant
Source: Kristie S., FundraisingDeals.com member
Idea: Yard Sale Items Left at Colleges
Premise: At the end of the school year there are often many items left in the lost and found. Contact your locals schools and ask them what they do with these items. Mention you are having a fundraising yard sale and see if they will donate the items. Most of the time they end up just throwing out anything left behind.
Needed: Local schools
Idea: Climb Stairs
Premise: An Alberta Wilderness Association annual fund-raising event held at the Calgary Tower.
People pay a registration fee and collect sponsorship money which allows them the unique opportunity to climb the stairs inside the Calgary Tower.
This event is a great opportunity to get some exercise, to learn about environmental work in Alberta, and to have a lot of fun!
Needed: Building with a lot of stairs
Source: cfw.albertawilderness.ca
Idea: Tuck-Ins
Premise: For a dollar or two, a person can "hire" members of your group will go to a person's dormitory room, sing them a lullaby or tell them a bed-time story, and tuck them into bed with a small stuffed animal. Sorry guys, no good-night kisses! Sounds corny, but it makes money. The same type of delivery service could be provided with roses or carnations on St. Valentine's Day or with mistletoe at Christmas-time, or with a singing telegram for birthdays.
Source: LeaderU.com
Idea: Fashion Boutique Fundraising
Premise: What started as a miniature building project to teach the books of the Bible to Sunday School children at Vestavia Hills Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., turned into an event that raised $5,400 to build real homes in Mexico. The children decorated 66 miniature houses, one for each book of the Bible. The class got enthused about the project and included other buildings, parks, lakes and streets in the town. We were teaching the kids to arrange the houses in the order that the books are organized in the Bible.
The church has worked with missionaries in Los Mochis, Mexico, for several years, and the children decided to raise money specifically to build houses for the homeless in the area. The children advertised in the church newsletter and displayed the Bible town on tables for everyone to see over a two-week period. Bodenhamer said the children hoped to make more than $100 by selling their houses.when the kids explained how the money could specifically help families in Mexico, the donations for the Bible town houses began pouring in.
Source: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) 10/17/03
Idea: Best Seat in the House Fundraising
Premise: A monthly raffle for “best seat in the house” for school events like graduation or local events such as a hot play or concert in town.
Source: http://www.afrds.org/FundraisingBurnout.html
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