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Team Fundraisers
Have a penny war! It can take places between departments at a business, different classes at your church, or even in a school. Raise the competition by making pennies positive, but silver coins and bills negative. That way competing teams can sabotage each other, all the while raising even more for your Relay For Life team.
Duct tape your boss or your principal to the wall. Contributors to this scheme can receive small strips of duct tape for a nominal donation to help render your administrator helpless.
Go casual for a cause! Arrange for your office or your school to allow people to dress causal in support of Relay For Life by giving a dollar or two.
Plant pink flamingos in the yards of people in your community in the middle of the night. Attach a note that asks for a donation to the American Cancer Society to help the flamingo fly away. Offer to let them double the donation to designate where the flamingo should travel next.
Include a PayDay candy bar in with paychecks at your work. Include a little note that says: It’s Pay-day! A sweet time to make a donation to the American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life. Kathy will accept your donation today!!! Thank you for your generosity!
Hold weekly challenges within a company that has two or more teams. Each member of the participating teams puts in one to two dollars in the kitty at the beginning of the week. The team that collects the most money during that week wins the kitty! You can also see if your company will come up with a prize for the team that raises the most money.
Have your team members offer to be handymen for a day. Accept donations of eight to ten dollars for services such as car repairs and/or maintenance, yard work, raking leaves, shoveling, mowing, etc. Better yet, offer your services to the highest bidders and build up a little donation competition.
Get your team to arrange a road block in your town. Get permission from the local police station or sheriff’s department ahead of time. Then stake out the best intersections and station your team members there with Relay For Life buckets. You can raise an average of seven hundred dollars per hour with very little effort.
Find a masseuse through health clubs, training schools or ask a chiropractor. Have them come to your business and provide 5 or 10 minute neck and shoulder massages for a gift of about $10. Have employees sign up beforehand and the masseuse will come right into their office.
Create quilt squares in honor or in memory of people with cancer or pictures from your Relay For Life event. Accept varying donations for different sizes: a 4” square for five dollars, an 8” square for fifteen dollars and a 12” square for twenty five dollars. Display the quilt at a public locations and possibly accept challenging donations at the event.
Give out ribbons. For a gift of one dollar, employees can take home a ribbon in honor of a friend of loved one who has/had cancer. Create your own wall to list the names of these people!
Get your boss to offer an extra vacation day to the team member that raises the most money. If your team is the highest fundraising team within the company, see if everyone on the team can have a day off!
Celebrate the upcoming Relay For Life while raising money at the same time by holding a neighborhood block party. Sell food and charge admission.
Kidnap items from your co-workers that they are fond of and hold it for ransom. Send letters, take pictures, etc. This can create a lot of money and be tons of fun!!!!
Have a potluck or a spaghetti dinner at which you charge admission. Try five dollars for an all-you-can eat home-cooked meal.
Rent videos (old classics are great and short) and have a movie (one day a week) during lunch hour. Accept donations during admission and employees eat lunch while they watch.
Encourage your Relay For Life team to bartend or waitress for one night. All tips that they make go towards the team. Those guest bartenders or waitresses will then encourage their friends and family to come that night to support their efforts.
Get a batch of extreme prizes donated to your Relay For Life team! Try free sky diving lessons or a gift certificate to the best restaurant in town, for example. Then auction them off to the highest bidder.
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