How To Raise Money Indoor And Outdoor

Thinking on how to Raise Money for your Organization.

Starting off with athletic ideas: golf for good tournaments. So get the companies involved, have people come out to the course. Next up running for a cause. 5ks, marathons, there's easy ways of organizing this: start small. So you can build a base together...same thing for bike for a cause, you know.5 mile loop, map it out, get people year over year involved, you're challenging them.

Outdoor Sports.

This is just a funny way of getting a bunch of people maybe sponsor teams to take part winner-take-all championship and like acorn hole game.

Relays and challenges are fantastic. Look, you do walk-a-thons, dance-a-thons, pledge per mile if you're walking around a track and definitely again engaging that community, building a list of people that you can then go back out to again the next year so you're really hopefully getting local champions involved.

Any sort of challenges that you're doing you can always add a little extra so let's say if one team wins you can "embarrass the boss" or principal with like a dunk tank, or tape them to the wall, or you can have donate to vote for the type of "punishment" -- colorfully -- that you're giving the person, or boss, or leader.

You can do any sort of cause marketing with these campaigns with a company pulling in the campaign aligning with their cause and passion.

You can partner with a local restaurant and do sort of pay for water donation or a percent tip on top of tip for a local cause they care about: works particularly well, I'd say, with local causes aligned with that. Okay, next topic, drives.

These are things where we're raising in a cluster, in a group.

Workplace giving is a big one, where you're in the workplace you can work with charities.org to do this in order to get part of people's donations out of their paychecks to be given to you and agree to a drive.

You can do a penny drive -- classic -- toss in a penny, collect a lot of them then you have a lot of money.

General Mills actually donates based on the number of box tops raised so this is particularly good for public-leaning schools who are doing this.

And use funds2orgsdotcom in order to turn those shoes into dollars -- same thing with e-waste!

There's ways of also finding sites where once you've collected a bunch you can then go about turning that into a donation to your organization. Next, events!

This is classically what we think of you know, what we jokingly call the classic rubber chicken, right?

So these are pieces where you can come in, obviously not for winner-take-all money but you can have other awards.

You can have a young professionals bar event or a Sunday Fun day where it's an excuse to get dressed up and drink Mimosas.

Wine taste test fundraising, so a "guess the wine" challenge and you can do any sort of things.

You wouldn't believe how people would love to be behind the bar.

Trivia events a bar or event space, charge per team, create a fun reward system, get your local bar involved, boom.

Food tasting event -- so sell tickets include voting challenges to spice it up, like a taste of the Lower East Side type of thing, and local vendors kind of come in and it's a win-win ideally for both the cause and the local companies.

A dog show or cat show... come on get everybody's cute cats and puppies together, march them down the avenue, and see who's support it.

Art show by famous both internal or external artists demonstrate art on the walls so, obviously, profits go for the cause. Grow for good!

So obviously mustaches we can grow in Movember but there's other things you can grow -- your hair out, or your nails out -- this is a weird one, but there's

Auctions: so you can do a "guess the amount" of a seasonal relevant thing in a jug.

Silent auction, classic. So you can do any sort of silent auction event in conjunction with an event so people writing in there.

50/50 raffle: you buy a chance to win the overall money, and half of it goes to the cause.

That works for a lower tier prize packages, if no single person can necessarily afford to bid, you know, a thousand dollars, but they can buy a hundred dollars of tickets.

Live auction, catered dinners, or a bachelor/bachelorette: dates, cars, all those thing scan be auctioned.

You can also do online auctions with high value celebrity on ebaydotcom or Charity buzz are fantastic at managing all of those pieces, we love those guys.

A duck or a floaty thing race, so, pick a small body of water, label all the ducks -- so I have duck number 101 --dump it in with a thousand ducks, see which duck wins in the end, and obviously money goes to charity.

Karaoke night: book the venue, and then charge for songs or spotlight moments, obviously for drinks, and partner in with that -- people love their karaoke.

Polar Bear Plunge into a cold body of water!

Write on people, bring towels, sponsor teams -- have fun with it!

Have judges. Make the public judge, or charge tickets for votes for the best cupcake and see who wins.

Have a dog or car wash -- maybe not at the same time. Online.

You can actually have supporters use tools like goodsearchdotorg, and they send a portion of proceeds to your organization: these are very very small margins.

Register your organization with Amazon and then when people shop, you get a very small percent of their action to your cause. Online sponsored real estate: a page, like, so that "million dollar website", you can have people pay for messages on your site, sort of a donor wall.

You can have a sponsored brick or wall, and real estate in your physical location, sell that online, saying, "Hey, we're making our new office, sponsor a brick or stamp on our site." Grocery or gift wrapping at a local store for open donations, right?

You're sitting there, "Hey, would you mind if I gift wrap your eggs for a cause?

Probably works better with presents. You can do the Combined Federal Campaign for large nonprofits to get into federal donation systems: check out charities.org for that.

You can do peer-to-peer fundraising. So you can source a recipe book with a theme, and sell the sponsorship, and sell, then, the book.

So all the people that also did it as well.

You can do odd sort of challenges with a fundraiser, peer-to-peer.

If any amount of dollars is raised, someone will volunteer to do something odd and post it.

You can do a birthday, a wedding, or a shower gift for good.

There's tons of sites that allow people to ask, instead of gifts, send donations to a certain organization.

We can do a haunted house or a trick-or-treat give, so the Unicef style of giving people boxes to run around and Fundraise on your behalf during those events – that correspond obviously with the holiday, cuz Halloween in December doesn't make much sense. You can sell a thing!

Certainly the Girl Scout model works very well, getting those cookies out there and sold.

Coffee, bake sale, coffee and bake sale on high traffic days around, for example, the election is very very common.

You can sell branded materials: so obviously you can put your logo on just about anything or any sort of game, and then compare that with a game night fundraiser.

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