Quick and Easy Ideas For Fundraisers

Topic: Additional Education

The best ideas for fundraisers are cost effective, easy to set up and fun. The local dollar store can be a great resource for balloons and other decorations. Using dollar store items creatively can make your event or cause a big hit.

Kids of all ages will enjoy tossing darts at a few dollar store balloons tacked to a board as a makeshift game of skill. For a younger crowd, put a bunch of dollar store items in a brown paper lunch bag with a question mark. The suspense will keep the kids interested and you can raise some funds.

Everyone needs money and one way to generate it is to hand out applications for debit cards. Parents can give their children money without worrying about cash being stolen and your fundraiser will receive a commission for each completed application. You can also ask for donations for your event. Restaurants, movie theaters and retail stores will usually give away a few gift certificates for your cause if you ask.

If you have a service you can offer, or know someone who does, that service can be sold for your fundraiser. Computer literate individuals may offer computer tutoring and those who excel in a given subject could offer their academic tutoring as well. Fund raisers traditionally made use of around the house items of value offered for purchase. Selling skills is a modern interpretation of this, akin to baking a pie to be sold.

The easiest of our ideas for fundraisers is using an online partnership to raise funds. Many large retail websites will help you set up a webpage with items you specify, that others can purchase for your cause or event. You also can leave the purchasing open ended, allowing people to purchase what they want.

Google lists many websites that will act as an intermediary between you and multiple online retailers. Services like this allow for an online partnership that is stress free because not only do you not have to set up an actual event but you have minimal outlay of cash as well. Besides the cost of paper to make fliers for people to find your site, you only have to send emails to help raise funds. There's also the bonus of people tending to buy online because of the instant gratification aspect combined with the justification of buying for a good cause, allowing you to collect more revenue.

For more information about online fund raising partnerships, please see my ideas for fundraisers blog. You may also find my ideas for fundraisers site useful. My name is Jim McClinsey and writing helpful articles is my passion.

by James McClinsey

03/31/2010

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