99 FUNdraising Ideas for Team Challenge!

1. Letters to friends, family and business associates
2. Letters to area businesses and clubs
3. Business solicitation for corporate sponsorship
4. Trick or treat for Team Challenge (TC)
5. Bake sales (at church, office, Sam’s, car show, etc.)
6. Chili cook off at work
7. Set up canisters in local stores; ask managers first
8. Canister drives at grocery stores, Jewel Osco etc. Check with staff first to see if the date is
available and get guidelines.
9. Sell Golf coupons
10. Wine Tasting Party
11. Garage Sale
12. Poker Run (in cars, on motorcycles or bicycles)
13. Murder Mystery Party
14. Raffles
15. Collect loose change from your neighborhood.
16. Get a “bar” to schedule a charity event
17. “Celebrity” bartenders with tips going to TC
18. Scavenger Hunt
19. Beg your employer for a donation
20. Ask friends if their company has a matching gift
21. Contact organizations at schools to see if they are interested in some type of community
work involving fundraising. Perhaps a class could raise money for you. You could provide a
pizza for the class who raises the most funds.
22. Have booths at local fairs
23. Sell candy at work (if that is okay.) You can get them cheap at Sam’s or from local
fundraising company, sell for $1.00. Use CCFA candy wrappers with your website to drive
more donations.
24. Co-sponsor a dance, proceeds go to TC
25. Contact Bowling Alleys and set up a bowl-a-thon or Scotch Doubles Bowling Tournament.
Most are willing to work with you to set up a night for you and your friends.
26. Have a hat day at a local school and charge $2.00 for kids to wear a hat.
27. Pampered Chef Party; be
sure your friends are aware that it is NOT a tax deductible
donation since they are receiving a product and all their money does not benefit CCFA.
28. Avon, Partylite, Longaberger Baskets, Creative Memories (ask salesperson for details)
29. Fun Run
30. Car Wash (have your church group, student council, coworkers help out)
31. Holiday craft sale
32. Jeans day at work – workers pay $5 to dress down.
33. Local media publicity in local newspaper
34. Roadblocks or stop light donations (be sure to check if you need a permit).
35. Trivia night
36. Volleyball tournament
37. Softball tournament
38. Basketball tournament
39. Poker tournament
40. Bunko party
41. Kentucky Derby Party with Silent Auction
42. Golf tournament
43. Happy hour party
44. Chili Supper
45. Pancake Breakfast
46. Ask local businesses to donate a percentage of profits in one day to CCFA
47. Super bowl party
48. Halloween party
49. NCAA basketball 50/50 pool
50. World Series Party
51. Silent Auction at work
52. Swimming Party
53. Early or late movie screening (some theatres do this for charitable causes).
54. Pie bake-off (Sell tickets for votes and samples)
55. Miniature golf tournament
56. Sell parts of your body to co-workers (e.g. For $10 donation you will write their name on your leg for the race.)
57. Neighborhood block party -$10 per family and bring a dish
58. Send a follow-up flyer to your mailing list 60 days after original letter.
Remind them of target
goal, how much money you have raised, how training is going, etc.
59. Sell “Shop for a Cause” coupons for local retailers.
60. Have a 50/50 Cash drawing
61. Ask the pastor at your church if you could speak during the announcement part of mass and request a second collection for the CCFA.
62. Wrap presents for tips at local store around the holidays.
63. Contact your high school/college and see if they will write a story about you in their alumni
newsletter. Include address for donations
64. See if your employer will allow you to do a Cardinals/Blues (or other sports team) Day and
allow them to wear team apparel for the day for a minimal fee
65. Host an auction/dinner party
66. Dog walk your neighborhood dogs for a fee to raise money. “Incorporate it” into your
training. If it’s a big dog, it may increase your speed.
67. Start a pool with your office and have them predict the time in which you will finish the
marathon. Require a fee for entry and bring home a special souvenir for the winner from the
marathon
68. Forward your Web link in as many ways possible. Have a page that logs fundraising
activities or weekly miles that you ran of walked.
69. Host a casino night. Sell chips for money that you keep and offer prizes to the high winners
70. Collect aluminum cans at work and turn them in for money
71. Sell advertising space on your body during the marathon
72. Sucker pull. Participants (at a fair) pay for a chance to pull suckers from a board.
If the end of the sucker is colored, the person wins a prize.
73. Attach a Post-It note to your letters and ask your friends and family to pass the letter on to
friends (enclose additional letters)
74. Wear your patient bracelet and charge $1.00 to anybody who asks you why you are wearing it.
75. Wear a button with the TC logo and charge when people ask you about TC.
76. Provide valet trash service to your neighbors for a fee/bag/week
77. Bring your cute, well-behaved children to canister drives to help solicit donations.
78. Ask your neighbors to collect aluminum cans and collect them weekly
79. Mow yards for donations.
80. House sit, dog sit or baby sit for donations.
81. Search the internet for “fundraising ideas”
82. House clean for donations
83. Ping Pong Tournament at work.
84. Ask a service person to donate tips for a day
85. Leave a canister at your hairdressers
86. Wingo (Wine tasting and Bingo together)
87. Pet wash/Dog wash
88. Student/Faculty Basketball Tourney
89. Beg your boss for a donation
90. Open house party for new home
91. Charge your spouse $20 for 30 minute back rubs… hey; it’s cheaper than a masseuse!
92. Plant Sale. Buy cheap plants or grow your own if you have a green thumb
93. Ask your friends and co-workers to share a recipe and create a cookbook on your PC.
Sell it back to them for $10.00. (You might include the fee with recipe donations to insure a set
number of “sales”)
94. Create a Holiday Gift Basket and have a raffle for it.
95. Road Rally
96. If you are crafty, make items and sell them
97. Bingo Party
98. Have a local celebrity make an answering machine tape and auction it off.
99. Host a “Breakfast with Santa” or “Brunch with the Easter Bunny.”

If you have questions about an idea, ask your mentor for suggestions or contact jcross@ccfa.org.

Use your creativity and ingenuity when planning events. Don’t be afraid to ask for donations
from local businesses or receiving an item “at cost”. Many businesses are happy for the
opportunity to help especially if you have a sign that states who gave the donated items.