Fundraising ideas for school fundraisers, church fund raising, and youth sports groups.
One of the best ways to raise funds to support local cancer charities is to schedule a Pink Heals fundraiser in your community.
The Pink Heals Tour visits selected cities across the country to help groups raise funds.
For more information, visit their website at http://www.pinkfiretrucks.org/
Here is a fun idea for a fundraising even – putting together a comedy show for your favorite cause. Read more about it here:
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/10/07/4888664/comedy-show-fundraiser-tonight.html
A breast cancer fundraiser is auctioning a $5 million dollar jewel-encrusted statue of a golden eagle containing 18 pounds of gold to raise $1 million for breast cancer research.
The solid gold, jewel-encrusted Golden Eagle is similar to the famous “Maltese Falcon” of movie fame. The statue recently arrived at San Francisco’s John’s Grill for a special showing as part of a breast cancer charity fundraiser. John’s Grill was mentioned as a setting in Dashiell Hammett’s 1930 novel, “The Maltese Falcon.” One of the older restaurants in San Francisco, the restaurant maintains a room of historic memorabilia, including the falcon statue.
The one-of-a-kind statue dubbed the “Maltese Eagle” will be sold with a target price of $5 million dollars will be displayed at John’s Grill as part of a “Birds Of A Feather” benefit for the Friends of Faith, a breast cancer charity. The statue’s owner, Canadian philanthropist Ron Shore, plans to sell it and donate $1 million from the sale to a breast cancer charity.
The Maltese Eagle was created in an effort to raise money for breast cancer after Ron Shores’ sister-in-law passed away from breast cancer just two days after giving birth to her daughter. Shore is selling the Maltese Eagle for $5 million dollars with $1 million of the sale price being donated to the breast cancer charity of the buyers choice.
Check out this impressive million dollar breast cancer fundraiser:
Here is a cute news story I ran across about a high school volleyball team doing a whipped cream pie throwing fundraiser. It sounds like fun, but I’m not sure I’d want to be on the receiving end of a pie in the face all day long…well 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. anyway.
For a small donation, $3 for one pie for $5 for two, folks can toss a pie in the face of their favorite volleyball player.
Read more: Norwood High Volleball “Pie” fundraiser at Norwood Day – Norwood, MA – Norwood Bulletin http://www.wickedlocal.com/norwood/news/x938530027/Norwood-High-Volleball-Pie-fundraiser-at-Norwood-Day
Car Wash Fundraiser With Coupons – A new twist on the traditional car wash fundraiser is to partner with a local car wash and just sell coupons for their service offerings.Your group negotiates a discounted cost basis for the various car wash offerings on the Coupons that you create. You want the coupon deal to have value for the business and the customer as well as your group.
For example, a $10 basic two-for-one car wash coupon would cost your group $5 and a $15 full-service deluxe two-for-one car wash coupon would cost your group $7.50. Your group then sells the numbered coupons at full price and keeps the profit. The customer gets the value of two car washes for the price of one and the business owner gets your group out there selling his services for him.
Another benefit of this approach is that your group doesn’t have to do all the manual labor involved with the traditional car wash fundraiser. That means this would work well for smaller groups as well as those not physically able to do the work.
Instead, its all about reaching out to the largest number of people you can find who would be willing to purchase your coupon. Selling large amounts of discount coupons or any type of fundraising product offering works best if you go where people are already shopping.
You want to set up a sales table outside a high-traffic retail location such as a grocery store, home improvement store, WalMart, etc. Peak times are best such as Saturday mornings. Your sales table should have good visibility as people approach the entrance and should also be available to people who are exiting the business.
You will want to place several large posterboard signs with easily readable wording that tells who you are, what you are offering, and explains why you are fundraising.
Example Sign:
BAND FUNDRAISER
FREE Car Wash Coupon (with purchase)
Please Help Because We Need New Uniforms!
Work your sales table with a two-hour shifts of a multi-person crew. Stay active and move about. Engage approaching customers with a wave, a friendly smile, and a warm welcome.
Pitch people with a short message like this: “Hey there! We’ve got a two-for-one car wash coupon that’s good for a year. Can you help us out because we’re raising funds to buy new band uniforms?”
You can also remind people that they can pick up a coupon on their way out.
And that’s how to do a car wash fundraiser with coupons.