My name is Casey and I'm one of the Event Chairs for my highschool's Relay. Last year we raised $89,909 and were named one of the top highschools in the country! This year we want to keep up our success, so I could really use your help :-)
First of all, we've never really done any fundraising for our event as a whole, only individual team fundraisers. What are some easy ideas to kick-off our event fundraising?
Second, this year I won't be on a team, but I still want to beat my donation of $575 from last year. One of my ideas is to go to local craft sales and sell homemade things...but I need some ideas here. Actually, any ideas for personal fundraising would be great!!
Thank you so much for all you do for ACS!
Casey
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November 1, 2009 - 6:46pm
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HighSchool Help
If you're truly looking to do this as a "major" activity or school-wide fundraiser, start with your advisors to get their take on these easy ways to fundraise, but give it a whirl! Our local school district raises money for our Relay, and a good majority of their fundraisers are done to try and promote awareness as well, so they put little slogans with them (as stated below) and sometimes even do them as competitions between the schools in the district... there's no "gift" that the winner gets, but touting their school pride and bragging rights are worth LOTS! And they are recognized in the district newletter for their accomplishments, so the public is aware of the activities and will get pumped up about them as well.
Crazy shoe day - for $1 wear crazy shoes and stomp on the ACS logos placed sporadically on the hallway floors - theme "Stomping Out Cancer"
Crazy hat day - for $1 you can wear a crazy that you tip to anyone else wearing one too - theme: "Our hats Off to Cancer Fighters"
Pajama day - for $1 wear your pj's - theme: "Cancer never sleeps, and Neither will We"
There are so many fun others our kids do, but this should at least give you a great start! And just for your info, our school administration is 100% behind the activities our youth do in the schools to promote cancer awareness - it's great that our Superintendent is on our Relay committee, but there are a LOT of teachers in the district as well that have either been touched by cancer themselves, or who have been closely affected, so go to them for support - you'll be amazed what our educators are happy to help with when they have a personal tie to the cause!
energetic teens
one of the best fundraisers our high school students ever did was taking advantage of the neverending energy of the teens. they collected rocking chairs from family and friends prior to relay weekend. while the relay was going on, they had all the chairs set up in the endzone (we do ours in the football stadium). what they would do was to have a sign hanging from each available person "walker available for hire". a lot of people feel the need to be constantly walking but are not physically able to do that. so we could hire the person to walk for us. they would carry whatever kind of sign or token we had to signify that they they were currently walking for whichever team had "hired" them. so for $5 an hour, our walking was done for us and we could "rock" the relay while they walked. i have a small team and like to take advantage of onsite fundraising so having someone to go walking for us was great.
if you have a 24 hour event with 3 hours of nonwalking ceremonies that leaves 21 hours * $5 = $105 per walker potential. i would suggest that you get permission to bring the chairs the day before to set them up and perhaps tarp them for the night. if you have a lot of them, it could take some time to deliver them and set them up.
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