Unique Fundraising Ideas
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009With these good fundrasing ideas you’re sure to get that badly needed money coming through the door in a jiffy.
Yard Sale
This is commonly overlooked but is rock-solid fundraiser.
In this scenario, the charity collects giveaway items and auctions them for making money for their cause. Because participants are donating the merchandise running the campaign is really cost effective. The sky is the limit for what you can sell, clothes, baby items, lawnmowers you name it.
Bake Sale
Another nonprofit fundraising idea is creating an event which can generate funds is the bake-off or bake sale. Everyone loves sweet stuff right? Don’t forget that because the event attendees themselves donate those goodies, profitabiltiy is sky-high and your risk is zero. That’s a good combination!
Benefit Dinner
Here, the organization can place an entrance fee as a mean for collecting funds.
Generally you use a noteworthy speaker or a well-known performance to draw money and people to the event.
Don’t forget that you can also use the event itself to sell products. Since you have all those people right in front of you an up-sell isn’t just a possibility it’s a real no-brainer. Event participants should be voluntary. This helps keep down your costs and usually ensures greater success with your fundraising ideas.
Tupperware
Tupperware sales are another possibility. Everyone has leftovers in their fridge don’t they?However one thing to keep in mind is that participants will be limited to mostly women.
Flap-Jack Breakfast
Flap Jacks, everyone loves them and they are a solid choice if you have kitchen facilities
for your use.
Bikini Clad Girls and a Carwash
You’d be surprised at how much money 4 bikini clad girls can brink in at $4 a pop. The great thing is all you need is girl-power, soap and water.
A Rock-Solid Classic: The Pizza Drive
Selling pizzas in your local neighborhood flat-out works. Everyone loves a slice of hot pizza? Because you deliver them frozen, there aren’t any spoilage problems and because the barrier to the sale ie. the price should be kept low and profits will be high.
Selling Services - A Hugely Overlooked Fundraising Idea
The bikini clad car wash mentioned earlier in this article is an example of selling a service instead of a product. This has to got to be the most overlooked fundraising idea ever. It’s often overlooked because, everyone focuses so heavily on product sales that this gem never even enters their minds.) If you have a fairly large and active community that you draw from to fuel your fundraising drive then a classic service up sell is a good idea. What you do is have fundraiser participants sell their services to people in the community. They can rake clean up lawns and trim lawns, clean gutters, clean up garages, clean-up and detail wash cars, or do any other household job that someone might need done. This is great especially if there are a lot of senior citizens in your community who cannot do these things on their own. This is really just the tip of the ice-berg for what you can do service selling wise. Seriously folks, these are just a few ideas.
Fundraising - Is Just Like an Iceberg
Just like an iceberg in which the majority of it’s mass remains hidden from view, so is the “hidden” talents in the community that surrounds your fundraising efforts. If you haven’t taken inventory of what talents your members have that can be marketed you’re selling your fundraising effort short and are leaving a lot of money on the table.
Everyone in your community or church group has some type of talent. In reality you are not surrounded by members or fundraising participants. You’re surrounded by small engine mechanics, landscapers, accountants, teachers, carpenters, sheetrock hangers, biologists and beauticians.