Getting to “Go” Through Fundraising
DONATIONS
A Donations Squared approach takes the total amount needed to cover the costs of your trip and uses the square root (a number that produces a specified quantity when multiplied by itself) to create your Donations Squared campaign. For example, if the cost of your travel, plus the cost of your History Encounters fees equaled $900, your campaign would entail reaching out to 30 people and asking them to give $30.00 to fund your trip. Likewise, if you needed $1600, you would try to get $40 from 40 people.
CROWDFUNDING
CrowdFunding can be a highly successful form of raising funds that has taken off in recent years. Fund raisers use any of the sites offered online as a means for donators to commit to a certain amount of monetary support. The sites usually have a transaction mechanism that can charge a credit card so that the donations are immediately added to your account.
CORPORATE BUSINESS SUPPORT
- Company Matching Fund
- Employee Matching Fund
- Scholarship Award
LOCAL BUSINESS SUPPORT
- Checkout charity
- Donation jar
- Coupon books
- Silent Auction donations
- Unbaked pizzas to sell
- Professional make-up before prom
- Cook book with recipes from local restaurants
SELL SOMETHING
- Food sales (i.e., Popcorn sale, pizza, baked goods)
- Product sales (i.e., American flags, Yankee Candles, magazines, used books), Rada Cutlery)
- Create Patriotic T-Shirts
- Coffee / tea / hot chocolate during holiday shopping
- Holiday items (poinsettias, wreathes, pine roping, candles, wrapping paper)
- Create Christmas decorations and sell
- Create a ringtone and sell on iTunes
- Create graphics for social media and sell
- Create a fun backdrop and sell selfie opportunities at a school function
- Plant herbs and flowers from seeds and sell after they’ve grown
- Participate in a local flea market
- Raise produce / plants from seeds and sell
- Principal for the day
SELL A SERVICE
- Car washes
- Snow shoveling
- Leaf raking
- Pool cleaning
- Curb painting
- Remove/recycle Christmas trees
- Wash windows
- Produce picking from local farms
- Tutoring
HOLD AN EVENT
- Rummage sale
- Potluck
- Rally night
- Dance-at-thon / Bike-a-thon / Walk-a-thon /
- 5K Run
- Talent Show
- Holiday Bazaar
- Gym Night / Family movie night at school (games, raffles, food)
- Raffles at school sporting events
- Battle of the Bands
- Tea party for elementary girls and their dolls
- Costume party