If you’re looking for easy fundraising ideas for your school event or club event you’ve come to the right spot. I have had to do a ton of fundraisers for events I volunteer to run. I’ve had some that have absolutely not worked and some that have been very successful.
Below our my 3 favourite fundraising ideas I’ve used.
Wine Raffle Fundraiser
The wine raffle fundraiser is great if your audience would be okay with alcohol. I’ve found the best success is with sports teams.
The rules are simple:
Each person can buy a ticket for $30, $15 goes to the event and the other $15 goes towards a purchase of wine. I’ve seen some of these fundraisers accept a bottle of wine and the ticket is $15. I found that causes more work as you have to collect all the wine. I’ve also seen it where instead of wine it’s gift certificates to the liquor store.
You provide an option that for an extra $10 (this goes to the event) they can purchase immunity. Immunity allows you up to two times to be put back into the draw if you’re pulled for elimination.
You decided on how often draws for elimination will be. Honestly I recommend doing it daily. If you do it once a week it draws the process out and people loose interest.
Each time you do an elimination you pick a specific amount of names randomly out of a jar and those people will be eliminated from winning the prizes. Unless they have immunity.
The last 3 names drawn are the winners. 3rd place gets 20% of the wine, 2nd place gets 30% of the wine, and 1st place gets 50% of the wine.
Best ways to do this:
The best way to do this event is on Facebook. Create a group that people can join and when you do the draw do a live video showing you picking the names out of the jar and showing the names. This ensures no one thinks there’s dishonesty.
Selling Squares
Selling squares is very simple but requires you to have a large audience.
The rules are simple:
You have 100 squares (number them 1-100) and sell each square for $10. People buy a numbered square and you write their name on the correlated square (you can’t sell the same numbered square twice).
Once all of the squares are sold you pull a number from 1-100 out of a jar. The person who bought the numbered square you pulled out of the jar wins 50% of the money. So your event will get $500 and the winner will get $500.
Best ways to do this:
A Facebook post that can be shareable. Encourage your family and friends to share the post so you get a bigger audience.
Online Auction
Online auctions can bring in the most amount of money, but they take a ton of effort and time.
The rules are simple:
You get local businesses to donate prizes for you to auction off in a Facebook group. When the auction opens you post pictures (each item gets its own post) where you have a photo of the prize, a brief description, value of prize, the minimum starting bid, and tag the company who donated it.
In the comment section people can bid and out bid other people for the prize.
When the auction ends whoever bid the highest for each prize wins the prize.
Best ways to do this:
I did a ton of advertising in local groups to get the attention of local businesses and get people to join my auction. I also contacted local companies through their Facebook pages. Honestly, I was surprised how many businesses donated. I had gift cards for hair salons, nail technicians, massages, restaurants, Epicure, Monet, pilates, and tons of other things.
What your recommendations for fundraising ideas. I would love to hear about them in the comment section.
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