10 Fundraising Activities for your Fundraising Events
Have a fundraising event coming up soon and feel like you may need to bounce your ideas off somewhere?
We’ve compiled 10 fundraising ideas/ categories of activities that you can potentially utilize. The best part is that you can mix and match many of these ideas to get the best of both worlds!
1. World Record Fundraising
Now, setting the World Record in anything sounds scary but that really depends on what you’re trying to set a record in. A mother attempted to raise funds for her daughter’s surgery through breaking the number of fairies gathering (wearing a tutu, wand and wings!).
What makes this the perfect fundraising activity is that setting a world record becomes an attractive goal which can bring in many people to the event. The large amount of people is also likely to attract extensive publicity.
While one can choose to break a silly record, the record could be directly related to your fundraising aim. For example, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (FYI: Bill Gates is the founder of Microsoft) enlisted the help of pharmaceutical companies to deliver the largest amount of medication in 24 hours. As such, this event can simultaneously raise money for your cause, raise awareness and also be meaningful!
2. Share Their Story
People often don’t feel compelled to donate because it seems like they are not making a difference. Bridge that gap by sharing stories from your project and allow people to understand your project at a more personal level.
3. Services
Donations don’t always have to be exchanged for products but in this case, services.
For fundraising events undertaken by students, services offered could be car washing or dog walking.
But that’s not all, skill-based services could be exchanged for donations. Find participants who are willing to put in the time and volunteer their skill for a good cause. It could be website creation, marketing or even tutoring!
4. Selling Event Promotional Products
This classic fundraising tactic generates funds from selling the product, whose design indicate the events’ cause.
Think of the famed Pink Ribbon project, which has produced many projects and products.
But that’s not all, skill-based services could be exchanged for donations. Find participants who are willing to put in the time and volunteer their skill for a good cause. It could be website creation, marketing or even tutoring!
Or the shirt Famine Camp, where participants fast for the 30 hours camp to empathize and raise awareness for scarcity and poverty.
5. Gaming
We’ve all had our arcade days and if you’re at least a 90s kid, you know what I’m talking about.
In the days before internet or computers, we all ran here after school because how else are we going to get that thrill?
Now, with Wii games or even Virtual Reality, games have kicked up a notch. It’s also even more fun when it’s the entire group playing (where are the Rock Band and Guitar Hero fans??).
Tap into the inner kids in all of us by setting up a gaming station and simply charge by the hour – people are sure to flock to it!
6. Take Advantage of Festivities
We’ve all been in a situation where we forgot to get a gift on a special occasion.
Somehow, we can always rely on those booths along our school corridors to be selling flowers, balloons or cards to raise funds for their project.
7. Food
There must be a reason why there are memes and entire Facebook or Instagram pages simply dedicated to food. The reason is that food is good for the soul. Nursing a heartbreak? Eat some chocolates (I’m not lying, this is scientifically proven to boost happiness levels!). Need to destress in front of the television? Reach for that tub of ice cream. So if you need to fundraise? Sell those food!
8. Betting
While your first thought may be gambling, it isn’t exactly so. Fundraising through betting is basically Fear Factor but on a smaller scale. Dare your friend or your colleague to do something – be it being dunked or going vegetarian for the week and pay up when the challenge is completed!
9. Move That Body!
The fitspo dream is something we all innately harbour.
Tapping on that, having classes like crossfit, yoga or pilates are likely to draw a crowd.
10. Activity Workshops
In exchange for donation, people often want to feel involved or see a product. As such, getting people involved are a great ways to attract donations.
A current trendy activity is art jamming. TLDR: art jamming is basically art therapy through painting, which we all need with our hectic schedules. Further, there’s no judging if you can’t paint because … well, everyone around you probably can’t either. Simply set up an art jamming session and raise funds through the ticket sales!
If you want to combine art therapy with producing a product people can use – well, we’ve got it here! We offer print machine rentals in a package with shirts or other products provided (we can work this out, just shoot us an email!). Instead of painting on a canvas, participants could be learning how to screen print or do heat transfer printing on a shirt.
Contact Us
Feeling inspired now and ready to take action?
We aren’t about to leave you in a lurch – drop us an email at admin@thenoteway.com if you need our help with the below:
- if there are some promotional merchandises (think shirts, hoodies, mugs) you need us to print for your fundraising event
- if you are thinking of offering screen print workshops for fundraising (our studio space, equipments and coach are all available!)
- if you want to rent our portable DTG, heat printing or silk screen printing machines for your event