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Share your thoughts, ideas and successes (and photo!) about your fundraiser in the form below and you could win Fifty Bucks!
Each month, we’ll choose the best submission and award the winner (or your group) with a $50.00 gift certificate* from Amazon.com (or cash, if you prefer).
Tell us about your fundraiser.
- What did you do to raise money?
- What worthy cause were you raising money for?
- What creative things did you do that made it a smashing success?
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- How much did you raise?
What Other Visitors Have Shared
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The Fund Raising Brains
Me and my friends wanted to raise some money for the underprivileged kids of the society who used to live just outside our college. We asked students ...
Pie in the face Day.
My name is Tammy, I have a daughter named Italy and she was in a contest at her school when she was in first grade. She was going to a very small school ...
Funny video to make asking for money less awkward
I work for a Buddhist church and we wanted to build a new shrine room. So instead of just asking for money we made an entertaining video featuring some ...
Fundraiser to Help Baby Sara & Tara
This is a true story and a true tearjerker. I'm a mom of 2 children, my two twin daughters where born with a rare medical condition called syringomyelia....
School Fundraiser gets Bruise for Cruise
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Well I was a student in high school about 3 years ago and we had this school fundraiser to be able to go on a senior cruise, it was about $300 ...
Pizza Fundraiser
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Hello, I have an idea for your fundraiser. This can be done for numerous things (money, food,etc.) Schools are a great place to go. Kids are usually willing ...
Cross Your Heart and Hope to Pie
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A while ago, a friend of mine has a heart condition and couldn't afford to pay for her treatment and medical bills. We organized a fundraiser that involved ...
Here's Your Pizza Fundraiser!
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As a small town youth pastor I was looking for a fundraiser for money and pay the groups way to a denominational volleyball tournament. As we explored ...
Money Raising
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Every Year my children's school has various fund raisers. Our Favorite is their spring festival. Throughout the year the school raises money through cookie ...
Raising money at work
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Our office raises money every year for Toys for Tots. One of the easiest ways we have found to accomplish this task is to incorporate everyone's desire ...
The way my life has changed.
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Hi my name is Chris and I am 14 years old.
I started raising money for the American Cancer Society because I have realized how many people have been ...
50/50 Raffle Fundraiser
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You have students purchase raffle tickets for however much you want to charge (starting with lower prices is a good idea) the money that you get from them ...
Fundraising for Kids Less Fortunate
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we are a group of friends that are part of a choir in our school.starting the month of September to December for us to raise money to give out presents ...
Our Garage Sale Fundraiser
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My two daughters and I wanted to do something helpful during the summer this year. So we decided to have a huge garage sale and then donate the money ...
College Football Team Uses Community Service for Fundraiser
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I have used this particular fundraiser at three different colleges that I have been involved with. Our football teams at the lower levels of college sports ...
Final Exam Fundraiser
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For the past three years I have been the Treasurer for the Resident Hall Association (RHA) at the University of South Florida. Probably the largest fundraiser ...
Books For Rent/Sale Fundraising Activity
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In our university, students (especially those who don't have younger siblings)feel awkward to buy books (which they will just use for a semester)required ...
How I put the "fun" in fundraiser!
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Being about 10 years old, and needing money desperately for summer church camp, I developed a plan to get money. I loved to cook, especially baked goods....
Scholastic Book Fairs-Great Way to Make Money and Get Books!
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As a busy schoolteacher who works with children who don't have access to books, our school was looking for a great way to earn money and get books into ...
Fun Day Fundraiser for New Firetruck
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We hosted a fun day at a local state park. There was baked goods, a fishing tournament, win a date with a fireman, pony rides, raffle tickets for a 3 day ...
Athletic Boosters Fundraising
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We raise funds to provide uniforms and other equipment for all the high school and middle school teams in our area. There are many different fundraisers ...
How I Raised $27,000 for Parkinson Disease Caregivers Support Group
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As the Director of Support Services at a large Florida hospital, one of my duties was to establish a support group for Parkinson Disease patients. However,...
Fundraising for the NSPCC
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I helped organise a charity fundraiser for the NSPCC - National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty against Children.
Following the death of Baby ...
The Science Club's Epcot Fundraiser
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As most Americans know, Disney is not cheap. My daughter's eight-grade Science club decided to go to Disney's Epcot, and in order for parents to not have ...
Book Fair Fundraiser
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We're a local book club that maintains a community library and promotes reading by holding readings and other literary events. We took a table at a local ...
Selling cups?
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My favorite fund raiser was part of a student organization competition, where we organized a corporation and raised capital to purchase a good to sell....
fundraiser for toddler with lukiemia
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One of my neighbors has a neice. Well this shining 23 month old toddler has lukiemia,so, we drew up some signs with a lot of colors. We went door to ...
The Yellow Brick Road
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My children attend a very small, Catholic school. Money was very tight, but one of the older students wanted to start a "Performing Arts" Club. The first ...
Junior BackYard wrestling Organization
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we would use half of the money to go toward putting on our show for 2009 and than everything else would be donated to 3 local Charity here in Buffalo NY ...
Private School Auction Fundraiser
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When our private school's choir was invited to sing at the capital for a ceremony involving the newly-elected GW Bush, I decided to hold a silent auction ...
The Race to Buy Musical Equipment
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In 10th grade we had one of the best fundraisers I have ever participated in. In the part of Dallas I lived in, we were very in to music. However,...
Steak for Kentucky Fundraiser
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When I was in high school I was an officer for the FFA Chapter there. We were planning a trip to Nationals in Kentucky and needed to raise enough money ...
Parent Teacher Organization Bake Sale Fundraiser
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For Parent/Teacher conferences in the fall of 2008, my son's school decided to host a bake sale . The money was intended to fund field trips for Kindergartners ...
Music Program - fundraiser
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Actually i was in fund raising committee for the construction of my church.We actually organized a tremendous Light music program.We prepared tickets starting ...
Fund raised for a noble cause
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I am working in a private organization(Bank). We have done a lot of fund raising event for many such noble causes. This time it was for the orphange chidrens,...
Easiest Fund Raiser in the World!
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Having been involved in school fundraiser's for over 15 years, I can say without a doubt, there is a simple and effective way to raise funds. Our PTA ...
Fun Easter Egg Raffle Fundraiser
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Our Easter egg raffle is becoming an annual event, and is a big hit each time!
People get involved with a raffle is there is an idea associated with ...
Charity Fun Day Fundraiser
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A couple of years ago I did the Cycle the Nile 2005, I had 4 months to raise the amount £2,500 I did succeed with days to spare and raised a total of £2,...
Fundraiser for 6th Grade Trip
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We were trying to raise money for the 6th grade class to pay for their trip to Washington D.C. The group involved was the 6th graders and their parents....
Atoms Hockey Team sells WHL Tickets as Fundraiser for Year End Party
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This year we had a youth from our community make his 1st debut for a WHL team. Our Atoms hockey team decided to sell tickets to this game initially to ...
Raising Money with Christmas Ornaments
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Every year our school has a bazaar to raise money for the the general budget. Over the years interest had begun to dwindle. In an effort to increase ...
Liz Hurley Breast Cancer Ribbon Run
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I walk a 5k yearly to raise money for the Liz Hurley Breast Cancer Fund, the money goes right back in to our local hospitals to get new and updated equipment ...
Fun Run Fun Raiser
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While I was in Choir class in 7th grade we did a Fun Run. We went door to door in our neighborhood asking people to donate a desired amount of money for ...
Kiss the Llama Fundraiser
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We are fortunate to have a barn yard beside of our school for our agriculture education, so we put it to use! What we did was ask teachers who would not ...
Fund Raising Through Learning
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I am an active member of Naihati Institute of Science and Culture, an organization involved in people's science movement for last 25 years and more. Fund ...
Fund raising for spastic children
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In the organisation I work we have every month a small program organised by the whole unit. Usually it is organised end of every month. We usually we have ...
Evening of Delights School Fundraiser
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My son's high school was finding it more and more difficult to fund all of the different school clubs, activities and sports. The administration did not ...
Cajun Softball Girls Fundraiser
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This past Saturday, The Petal High School Girls Fast Pitch Softball team raised over $6000.00 by selling plate lunches that included Jambalaya (which was ...
Bid with your heart and soul
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A few collegues and I came with the idea of a fundraiser inside the company where we work, a multi national company of marketing and publicity. We named ...
Fund Raiser for Helping out Nepal
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First, let me tell you a little about the fund raiser. My family, friends, and I raised money/clothes etc. for the children and adults in Nepal.
We ...
Frat Car Wash Fund Raiser
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In college we needed to raise money to pay for a fraternity field trip. We were visiting the Jack Daniels Distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee on a legitimate ...
Teacher Appreciation Fundraiser
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When I was president of an honor and service society in college, we had a fund raiser to raise funds so that members could attend the state and national ...
Orange and Grapefruit Fundraiser
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When I was in High School I was the Vice President of the band program. As vice president, one of my jobs was the yearly orange and grapefruit sale.
The ...
Sun Protection Products for Swim Team Fund Raiser
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When I was in high school our school rarely extended funds to support the sports teams. I was the varsity captain of our swim team, and was really distraught ...
Golf Events Fundraiser
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Each year we hold a golf outing for the local boy scout / cub scout organization. In our case it is the local Keystone council. It is held at a local country ...
Teacher Aid
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Check out The X-treme ECO Fundraising Company. They sell the X-treme All Purpose Cloth which really does it all! They employ special needs to package their ...
Chocolate in school
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Growing up in a small town with a large chocolate and candy manufacturer located in the heart of our town, it was customary for kids of all ages to be ...
Candy Fundraising The Firemen's Way.
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When i was young i helped my uncle's fire station raise money for UNICEF in a really fun way. My family was visiting my uncle one year around the time ...
Raising Money for Battered Women
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I had just started volunteering at an organization that helped battered women and their children. The organization is amazing they offer a lot of help ...
Relay For Life Fundraising
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A few friends and I were involved in raising money for Relay for Life, an organization that raises money to fight cancer.
We didn't really do anything ...
Fund Raising Cards
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I found an easy fundraiser for my kids a few years ago. We sold fund raising cards through Pizza Hut for $20.00 a piece. The cards practically sold themselves ...
Muffin Sale Fundraiser
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As a child I used to attend a small school that was in constant need of funding. One thing we did was set up a stand outside the entrance of the school ...
Pie in the Face Fundraiser
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We as an Army unit, are always looking for new ideas for our FRG(family readiness group). It is basically a group of Army spouses that that keep all the ...
Fundraising for Breast Cancer Walks
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I had to raise a minimum amount to participate in the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. The problem is that if you do this every year, you can only hit up ...
Simple yet effective
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We were taking a bus trip to Ohio for a local church restoration mission trip. Some of the kids who wanted to participate were not able to front the deposit ...
Doggy Dip Fundraiser
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In my position as President of the High School Band Boosters, I was charged with coordinating fundraising for a trip sponsored by the City of Roswell to ...
Fundraiser with Honey and Preserves! Yum!
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Our school had a local organic grower sell the school organic honey and organic preserves (jams and jellies) at their cost to produce them. Getting the ...
Successful T-shirt Fundraiser for Alumni in Need
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Stephen J. Kunitsky, an alumni from my high school, was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer in November 2006. He battled with this rare and aggressive ...
A Few Ideas
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Ideas: -have a carnival and give away a scratch card on every ticket and person with lucky no. get prizes.
Have a charity drive to collect scrap stainless ...
Ethnic Dinners
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My wife and I were raising money to sponsor a short term trip to North Africa, so having been there before, my wife invited all of our friends to a dinner ...
PTO Bake Sale
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The Parent-Teacher Organization at my son's elementary school is trying to raise funds for class parties, fairs, and for some teacher's supplies.
The ...
Donkey Basketball Fundraiser
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In High School I was in FFA (Future Farmers of America) and we did more than a handful of fundraisers every year so we could go to different conferences ...
Halloween Photos and Unicef
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I'm so glad that there's a forum to share this!!
I have to explain first that the reason why I came across this idea for fundraising for Unicef was because ...
Cake Auction
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Our youth group held a yearly cake auction to raise money to offset the cost of activities, materials and to provide scholarships for those who needed ...
Fundraiser for the blind
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When I was in my school we had this fundraising for the blind. It was actually a fund raiser for a cause and the amount genuinely went to the blind people....
Unique Penny Drive Fundraiser
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Every year we have a penny drive. What makes this drive different is that we are a Middle School. Our homeroom collects pennies. Because we switch periods ...
Active Fundraisers!
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My sons school does an annual walk-a-thon. It is the schools biggest fundraiser of the year. I am unsure of the exact amount they raised last year but ...
Fairytale/Story Book Fundraiser
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Every kid has their favourite fairytale or story book that they love reading over and over again (or read to). Allow the kids one day to come to school ...
Raising Funds for Wyatt
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Several years ago a friend of mine was told the heartbreaking news that his only child, his baby son Wyatt had cancer of the eye. My friend was just your ...
Summer Office Picnic Raffle
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This past June, my department at work decided they were going to have an office picnic. My boss and I thought it would be a good idea if we used this ...
Teeter-Totter Fundraiser
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I was involved in a fraternity in College and one of the best fundraisers we did was called "teeter-totter-thon", where we teamed with a sorority and would ...
Send Christmas to Africa
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A friend of mine was leaving for Africa for four months and still needed to raise over $3,000 to be able to go. After a while of thinking how to help ...
Fun Fundraising Idea
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Hey my friends and I needed some money for a horse we wanted to buy so we decided to have a multiple family neighborhood rummage sale. It is really easy ...
Walk-a-thon for School Improvements
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My kids attend private school, and for the past five years, we have held an annual walk-a-thon to raise money for the school. The money goes to whatever ...
Beat the pants off 'em fundraiser
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This was for the New Mexico Billiards Associations first fund raiser. We designed a fun silent auction
, with a chance to play a game of 8-ball with ...
A Secret Crush
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As my dorm president, I was in charge of fundraising for our annual gift to the residence hall. My hall government wanted to raise enough money to replace ...
Artanable
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Hello, my name is john The local magazine that was created here was called "ARTANABLE". I'd like to begin my story by fisrt saying thank you so much for ...
Variety of Fundraisers
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I am the Secretary Of Rotaract club and adopted following ideas to raise funds for the handicapped children.
We Set up a sale of baked goods and holiday ...
50/50 Raffle
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I was part of a team raising funds for Relay for Life to benefit the American Cancer Society.
One very successfull fundraiser for me was the sale of Belgian ...
MS Fundraiser
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Every year we raise money for the MS society. In the past we had bake sales, or sold small items, but this year we decided to have a square dance. We held ...
The Big Bang
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I was coordinating an event to raise money to build a children's playroom at a major Boston Hospital. Sounds easy right? Think again.
First you need ...
Social Welfare Fundraisers
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I am a member of ROTARACT CLUB and Here are some interesting fund raising ideas which i adopted to increase the funds of my esteemed organization whose ...
Working at the carwash!
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What we did to raise money for our local school was a carwash. The money went to school events like homecoming and field trips. Because school funds do ...
Karaoke as a Fundraiser!
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We are a small organization that rescues horses and puts them to work for mentally and physically disabled children. Being a non profit organization, we ...
Fund Raiser For A Cafe In The College
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I study in CCET, Panjab University, India and I'm doing a graduation course. Since the very first day of the college I have noticing that the canteen was ...
Pizza for Dollars
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Our fundraiser was a pizza cookoff! We had a pizza pie making contest. The contestants had to pay a small fee with the reward being a prize donated by ...
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