Fundraising Ideas

* School Pride Panthers (Companies make bean bag panthers and Stuff a Bear Panthers and you can get little PSU shirts put on them.) * Game Face tattoos (Special order PSU temporary tattoos and sell them) * Garage/Rummage Sales (Collect stuff from individuals in your organization and then have a big yard sale.) * Raffles (Sell raffle tickets and raffle off prizes.) * Community Bingo nights (See if a local community center would allow you to sponsor a bingo night) * College Care Packages (Sell care packages for students. Mail out order forms to the parents of those in your organization and friends of those in your organization.) – Get approval through the Student Activities Office first. * Picnic Basket Auctions (just the baskets and its contents) ( Have individuals in your organization make theme baskets with food in them and then auction off ONLY the baskets) * Sports Clinics (Hold a clinic for youths in baseball, basketball, etc…) * Benefit Concerts (Have concerts and raise money through ticket sales.) * Book Fairs (Collect books and then hold a book sale.) * Car washes (Hold car washes at local gas stations.) * Silent Auctions (Have a silent auction with items donated from local businesses.) * Haunted House (Have a haunted house during Halloween.) * Cookbook sales (recipes given by organization members) * University Discount Cards (Have local businesses agree to discounts when a university discount card is presented.) – Get approval through the Student Activities Office first. * Flower Sales for the holidays (Sell your organization flower or carnations at various holidays.) * Entertainment Books (Sell the Hampton Roads entertainment books.) * Karaoke Competitions (Have a Karaoke contest and have an entrance fee.) * Flag Football Competitions (Have a flag football tournament and have an entrance fee.) * Lip Sync Contests (Have a Lip Sync contest and have an entrance fee.) * Game Shows (Hold a game show and charge an entrance fee for participation.) * Jail-n-Bail (Charge students to have their friends "captured" by your organization members and put in a fake jail and then have those captured raise money to bail out. Please get university permission.) * Ultimate Frisbee Tournament (Have an ultimate Frisbee tournament and charge a participation fee.) * Greek Olympics (Hold an Olympics with all the teams being made up off individual fraternities and sororities and charge an entrance fee for participation.) * PSU Olympics (Hold an Olympics with any student team allowed to enter. Charge a participation fee.) * Double Dip Day (attendees pay for all they can eat ice-cream sundaes.) * T-shirt Sales (Sell T-shirts for events.) * Balloon Sales (Sell individual balloons for various holidays and birthdays.) * Button Sales (Sell PSU spirit pins.) * Bumper sticker sales (Sell PSU spirit bumper stickers.) * Carnivals (Have a carnival and have booths where people pay for various activities.) * Student/Faculty Talent Show (Host a student/faculty talent show and charge an admission fee.) * Art Show (Ask art students and local businesses to donate pieces of art and then sell the pieces of art.) * Birthday cake delivery program (Take orders for birthday cakes and deliver them.) * Tournaments (Charge entrance fees for participation.) * Singing Telegrams (Take orders for singing telegrams.) * Empty Soup Bowl Dinners (Go to a pottery painting store and paint a bunch of bowls and then sell them. After selling them you offer a dinner in which they can eat out of those bowls. Place a plastic bowl inside the pottery one so not to ruin it.) * Balloon Bouquets (Sell balloon bouquets for birthdays and various holidays.) * Recycling Drive (Hold a recycling drive.) * Work at Alumni/faculty/staff homes (Offer to rake leaves, wash cars, etc… for alumni of your organization or faculty and staff.) * Babysitting (Offer babysitting for big events taking place on campus.) * Ad Books (Sell ad blocks to local businesses and then compile a book of them all.) * Guessing Games (how much jelly beans in the jar?) * Engraved Bricks (These are available through companies online. You sell bricks with people’s names on them.) * Tutoring (Offer tutoring as an organization.) * Scratch off cards (These can be ordered offline. Ask local businesses to donate prizes such as a free drink and then have them made into scratch cards. Charge for the purchase of the cards.) * Car magnets (Sell PSU car magnets. These can be ordered online.) * Face Painting before events (Charge for face painting at booths before a sporting event.) * Asking businesses to match fundraising totals (Ask local businesses if they will match the amount of money raised in a fundraising event. Example: You earn $200.00. Ask is that business will donate $200.00 to match what you earned.) * Candle Light Evening out (Sell tickets to a night of romance with a candle light dinner and dance.) * A night at the races (virtual horse racing tournaments. This is through a company online.) * Fundraising dinners at local restaurants * Flower grams (Sell flowers with messages attached and deliver them.) * Golf Tournaments (Have a golf tournament and charge a participant fee.) * Putt-Putt golf tournaments (Have a putt-putt tournament and charge an entrance fee for participants.) * Dunk Booths (Charge to have people try and dunk someone. Ask professors!) * Pool Tournament (Charge to have people enter in a pool tournament.) * Bowling tournaments (Have a bowling tournament and charge a fee for entering.) * 5-K races (Hold a 5-K and have an entrance fee as well as donations.) * Sponsor a midnight bowling night (Have a midnight bowling event and charge to participate.) * Go-kart races (Have go-kart races and charge to participate.) * Lasertag Competitions (Have a laser tag competition and charge an entrance fee.) * Track and Field events (Have a track and field vent and charge teams to participate.) * Beach Volleyball tournaments (Have a beach volleyball tournament and charge for each participating team.) * Kickball tournaments (Have a kickball tournament and charge an entrance fee for the teams.) * Penny Wars (Have jars throughout campus and have different coins equal different amounts of points both positive and negative and then the organization with the most points wins. You can charge a small entrance fee as well so that you know what cans to have. Example: each penny is worth 1 point and each dime is worth 10 points. Each nickel is worth minus five points and each quarter is worth minus 25 points. Each dollar is worth 100 positive points.) * Capture the Flag Tournaments (Have a capture the flag tournament and charge an entrance fee.) * Water Olympics (Have an Olympics with all water events and charge an entrance fee.) * Innertube Water polo Tournaments (Have an innertube water polo tournament and charge an entrance fee for participating teams.) * Cow Patty Bingo (Have a huge bingo board and have people buy spots. Wherever the cow goes to the bathroom that team wins. You charge an entrance fee.) * Watermelon Fest (Have a whole bunch of fun events using watermelons such as a watermelon eating contest and getting the greased watermelon out of the pool. Charge an entrance fee for participating teams.) * Plant Sales (Sell plants to raise money.) * Banner Competitions (Have teams make a banner either focusing on an overall theme or just whatever they would like and then charge the teams for participating. You can ask advisors or professors to be the judge to determine who wins.) * Spaghetti Dinners (Charge people for eating spaghetti.) * Dance-a-Thon’s (Have a dance-a-thon and charge a participant fee as well as having teams raise money to see who raises the most for your organizations philanthropy.) * Norfolk Scope Concessions Sales (Contact Norfolk Scope to ask what dates are available to work at their concessions stands.) * Human Chess Tournaments (Have participating organizations pay an entrance fee and then have a chess game using people of that organization as the various chess pieces.) * Lincoln Exchange (exchange a penny for a five dollar bill.) * Sell flowers during Parent’s Weekend (Sell your organization flower or carnations during parent’s weekend.) * Root Beer Floats (Sell root beer floats) * Candle Sales – for gifts only. Not allowed in Residence Halls for fire safety reasons. Get approval through the Student Activities Office first. * Chili Cook off (Have participants pay an entrance fee to enter the event.) * A quarter-mile quarter exchange (Have participants place quarters on a piece of tape that they estimate to be a quarter mile long.) * Car Bash (people pay to hit a beat up an old car to relieve exam stress.) * Jump Rope-a-thon (Have participants pay an entrance fee and raise money to participate in a jump-roping contest.) * Caramel Apple Sales (Sell candy apples) * Stadium Clean-ups (Call local stadiums and offer to clean up after games. Often times the stadium offers a donation to your organization for doing so.) * Hole-in-One Contest (Participants pay to take a shot for a hole-in-one.) * Ice-cream social (Decorate like an old-fashion ice cream pallor and sell ice cream sundaes and splits.) * Off-campus bake sale (have a bake sale off campus.) * Brown Bag Challenge (Ask people to donate the money they would spend on lunch to your organization and bring a brown bag lunch instead for one day.) * Car Shows (Organize a car show and charge an entrance fee.) * Insurance Sales (During times such as Halloween, sell "insurance" covering certain tasks such as cleaning up a yard if the house is tee-peed.) * Yard Clean-ups (Charge a fee to rake leaves and clean up peoples’ yards.) * Birthday Baskets (Sell baskets for people’s birthdays and then deliver them.) * Birthday Grams (Sell singing telegrams for people’s birthdays.) * Mary Kay Makeovers (Have a Mary Kay Representative hold a Mary Kay party and donate part of the sales to your organization.)