03 May 2012 1 Comment

10 “around-the-house” fundraising ideas

 

Today’s post highlights ways you can transform menial home maintenance tasks into fundraising opportunities.

Fundraising comes in all shapes and sizes. From one-time donations to marathons, our involvement in a given cause can fall anywhere on the dedication spectrum. If you’re looking to take your fundraising to another level, consider doing a “two-for-one” fundraiser. What do we mean by this? Simple, couple fundraising with a service event. This way you are not only fundraising on behalf of a nonprofit, you’re also giving back to your community, beyond the dollars you raise.

10 “around-the-house” fundraising ideas:

  1. Car Wash – This is your standard car wash folks. Promote the event by creating your own online fundraising page in order to accept  donations. Consider incentivizing them with a discounted wash if they donate to your page beforehand. For those who don’t get around to donating online, add any donations you get at the event, whether it be cash or check, as offline donations . A car wash can be hosted at any local community center, high school, fire department, or your local church.
  2. Auctioned Spring Cleaning – Accept spring cleaning bids as donations. Previously decide on an appropriate suggested donation amount and number of houses to clean. The winning donations will get an old fashioned spring cleaning. With a large team or even classroom, you could tackle the entire neighborhood.
  3. Auctioned House Cleaning – This idea is essentially the same concept as above but applied to your standard house cleaning. Get those mops, dusters, and gloves ready!
  4. Auctioned House Painting – Who said a good idea can only be used once? Apply the previously mentioned strategies to a paint job. Need a fresh coat for the living room?
  5. Daycare/Auctioned Babysitting – Here’s a fun one. Grab a few of your responsible, adult friends and open up a temporary daycare for charity. Accept donations as a “fee” and take in a reasonable number of children for the afternoon/evening. With a good group of 12 young adults, you can give an entire street the night off! As for the auctioned babysitting, accept donations as auction bids, the top winners will receive a voucher for a babysitting night.
  6. Auctioned Manual Labor – This one is popular with men’s sporting teams. Auction off your strapping young men for a day’s worth of hard yard work. Top bids get the help and the proceeds go to charity. Accept bids on your online fundraising page.
  7. Pet Walking – Share your fundraising page with the neighborhood and ask for donations to your favorite nonprofit. Those who donate more than $25 per pet get to add their furry family member to your daily walking list. Make sure you have a friend who will be willing to help if your offer becomes popular though.
  8. Pet Wash – Think of this as a car wash but with pets. Easy enough right?
  9. Snow Shoveling – Create an online fundraising page and accept donations of $30. Those who donate to your favorite cause are put on your “snow shoveling watch list.” Next time there’s fresh powder, you’ll be the one running around the neighborhood with your trusty shovel. Hey it’s good cardio right?
  10. Leaf Raking Fundraiser - Alright, now we’re simply milking a good idea. Call us resourceful :) Use the same concept as above but this time with leaf raking. This one might be good to bring along a buddy though, dead leaves don’t make great conversation.

 

Now all you need now is a fundraising page. Create your’s today! 

 

Photo Courtesy knottyboy 2010

by Dan Fonseca in Fundraising Ideas Tags: , , , , , , , , ,