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Here is a list of fundraising ideas to help you get that badly needed cash coming in the door.

Garage Sale
This one is often overlooked but is a solid frundraising idea.
Here the organization  collects giveaway items and sell or auction them for generating funds for their cause. Because participants are donating the merchandise running the campaign is really cost effective. Literally there isn’t a limit for what you can sell, outdoor equipment, girls clothing, books you name it.

The Bake Sale
A bake-off or bake sale is another very profitable fundraising idea. Most everyone loves sweet stuff like cookies right? And because the participants donate those chocalty goodies, profitability is high and risk is zero. That’s a good combination!

The Benefit Dinner
With this type of event the charity charges an entrance fee to generate the profits.
Usually there is a noteworthy speaker or some type of performance that helps draw money and people through the door.

In addition, and often overlooked is the possibility of selling products at the event. Remember, you have all those eyes in front of you so you might as well make the most of it by trying an up-sell. Event participants should be voluntary. This helps keep down your costs and usually ensures greater success with your fundraising ideas.

Tupperware
Don’t forget about the always popular Tupperware sales event. Do you know anyone who doesn’t have at least a few leftovers in their fridge?  This one works well but you do limit the participants to mostly women.

Flap-Jack Breakfast
Flap Jacks, everyone loves them and they are a solid choice if you have kitchen facilities
for your use.

Bikini Clad Girls and a Carwash
In summer season, bikini clad pretty girls washing cars for $4 a car can bring in a surprising amount of money and all you need are chicks, soap and water.

Pizza Drive
Selling pizzas in your local neighborhood flat-out works. Everyone loves a slice of hot pizza? The pizza is delivered frozen so you don’t run into any spoilage issues and because the barrier to the sale ie. the price should be kept low and profits will be high.

Selling Services – A  Hugely Overlooked  Fundraising Idea

The bikini clad carwash mentioned earlier in this article is an example of selling a service instead of a product. This has to got to be the most overlooked fundraising idea ever.  It’s  often overlooked because, everyone focuses so heavily on product sales that this gem never even enters their minds.) If you have a fairly large and active  community that you draw from to fuel your fundraising drive then a classic service upsell is a good idea. What you do is have  fundraiser participants sell their services to people in the community.‭ ‬They can rake clean up lawns and trim lawns,‭ ‬clean gutters,‭ clean up‬ garages,‭ clean-up and detail wash‬ cars,‭ ‬or do any other household job that someone might need done.‭ This is great esecially if there are a lot of senior citizens in your community who cannot do these things on their own. This is really just the tip of the ice-berg for what you can do service selling‬ wise. Seriously folks, these are just a few ideas.

Fundraising – Is Just Like an Iceberg

Just like an iceberg in which the majority of it’s mass remains hidden from view, so is the “hidden” talents in the community that sorrounds your fundraising efforts. If you haven’t taken inventory of what talents  your members have that can be marketed you’re selling your fundraising effort short and are leaving a lot of money on the table.

Everyone in your community has some type of talent. In reality you are not sorrouned by members or fundraising participants. You’re sorrouned by small engine mechanics, landscapers, accountants, teachers, carpenters, sheetrock hangers, biologists and beauticians.

According to recent reports people in Britain have £510 million lying around in unwanted foreign coins.

Apparently we Britains have about £17 on average lying around in our piggy bags and sock draws that we will never get changed. So what can be done with unwanted coins? One idea is to give them to charities. Oxfam and Barnardos have recently starting taking in your unwanted coins.

The coins are being exchanged in currency converting companies by the charities, which is in turn supplying them which a much needed boost in funds. The current economic downturn has ensured charities get less donations as people worry about their favourite charity- their own family. Its one thing to donate when you have money to spare, and while to do so when were at a point where every penny counts is very decent of people, but how can we ask that they give what they themselves need? Those people themselves may end up needing charities themselves- while that point is hopefully slightly exaggerated, I think you understand what im driving at.

So donate your old foreign coins. You cant really exchange the smaller coins as you dont get much back from then, so its not really worth keeping them unless you have stacks and stacks of them.Most of the time the coins just end up sitting at the bottom of our draws and wallets unspent.

The post office in your local areas are collecting them on behalf of the charities, so hand them in there. Start looking out for collection bags on your flight back home, as they’ve now started putting them on planes.

If you want to go the extra mile over this, give the charities a call about what you can do to help out more. Some charities will send you collection packs so you can collect all the unwanted coins in your local area, and if you collect over a certain weight they will arrange for the money to be picked up so you dont have to send the coins off yourselves.