Game Night Competition

Add a little competition and entertainment to your event by throwing a game night party.  Everyone who enters this cheap fundraising idea can play video games, board games, and other games to compete for prizes.  You can charge a small entry fee to get in, such as $5 per head, and even charge for sodas and snacks or other items, if you’d like.  Offering some interesting prizes and fun entertainment can bring in a ton of donations.  Create a simple flyer or newspaper ad to promote your event locally.

Bake Sale

A wonderful way to raise money and involve your local community is to put on a bake sale.  Find volunteers and friends who will donate cookies, cakes, brownies, and other goodies and charge a dollar to participate in a cake walk and/or other activities where people can win baked goods.  As these events occur, also have tables open for people to purchase baked goods.

Car Wash

All you need for a car wash cheap fundraising idea are some sponges, buckets, soap, water, and a bit of gusto and enthusiasm.  A sign helps, too.  Before you get started, though, settle on a price.  What you charge should depend on how much work you do.  If you’re only giving cars a quick exterior wash, you’d charge less than if you were willing to also vacuum and wipe down the interiors.  If you offer more than one service, have different prices for those services. 

Yard sale

Go through your attic and closets, pull out those things you don’t use anymore, and have a yard sale.  If you want to go even further, get friends, family, and neighbors to donate items, too.  Let people know that you’re trying to raise money for a good cause.  If you want to take it a step further, have a mobile rummage sale or trunk sale.  Travel through your community offering your items for sale. 

Dinner for a Week

Get local restaurants to donate dinners or be willing to prepare and deliver meals to a lucky winner.  Raffle off free dinners for a week and charge people to enter the raffle.  The winner receives free dinners for a week and you raise money for your non profit.

Clean Up

Offer clean up services to local businesses for a fee.  Some businesses might need to have parking lot trash removed and swept, need their signs washed, or have leaves blown or raked.  Businesses can write off your services for tax purposes.  You can also go door to door and offer these types of services to residents.  A small crew of people can do these jobs quickly while raising plenty of money for your charity.

Pajama Day

Several variations to this work wonderfully, such as having “crazy hat day” or “ugliest tie” day, and so forth.  This is a great way to raise money at schools, work places, and so forth.  Charge fifty cents or a dollar on a designated day where everyone who pays gets to wear their pajamas (or whatever you’ve decided to make it all about) to school, work, etc.  Then, have a few contests for “cutest pjs” or “strangest hat” to keep it fun and get people excited.

These cheap fundraising ideas are common, proven methods for getting the donations rolling in.  You can also them to raise money to put on a more extensive fundraising activity.  Don’t give up hope.  Even with a low budget or no budget at all, there are plenty of unique ways to start a fundraiser and achieve great results. 

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