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Fundrai$ing
How does my team fundraise?
There are 2 ways to do this.
First, you can fundraise money before the event. Your team can think of any way it likes, be creative! If you need some ideas, maybe do a car wash, bake sale, or even sell hot chocolate. Once people know your cause, they will be more than willing to help.
Second, your dancers can solicit donations. When you sign up your dancers they will receive a pledge book. With this, you can go around and ask people to donate a certain amount for every hour that you dance and then collect your donations later! If they don’t want to do that, they most certainly can give you a flat donation as well. They can either give you the flat donation up front or fill out a pledge card.
Checks should be made out to USCA or USC Aiken with "for MCG fundraiser" in the note section of the check.
Fundraising Ideas:
Used Book Sale
Student/Faculty Talent
Show
Auction
Singing Telegrams
Birthday Cake Delivery
Finals Care Packages
Kidnaps for
Ransom/Jail & Bail
Donut and Cider Sale
Funds from Former
Members
Plant Sale
Car Wash/Pet Wash
Balloon Bouquet
Deliver
Pretzel Sale
T-shirt/Sweatshirt
Sale
Discount Coupon Book
Sale
Merchant Donations
Alumni Donations
Casino Party
Benefit Dances
Popcorn/Popcorn Balls
Guess # of Beans in a
Jar
Candy Grams
Garage Sale
“Rent” Party
Valentine’s Day Roses
Craft Sale
Sell “homemade” items
Raffles
Carnation Sale
Holiday Bazaar
Sell Buttons/Bumper
Stickers
Service Auctions
Celebrity Auctions
Tournaments
Fashion Show/Luncheon
Bake Sale
Flower Sale
Massages
Caramel Apple Sale
Dunk Tank
Spaghetti Feed
Walk-A-Thon
Ice Cream Social
Pancake Breakfast
Membership Dues
Carnival
Run concessions at professional sports
games
Laundry
service
Massages
Doing
hair for formals
Doing
a compatibility test in hall
Coupon
book with local restaurants
Asking
high schools to have a non-uniform day where pay a buck to not wear it
Sell
taffy apples in Greek areas before games and during tailgates
Get
A Capella groups to sing during pledge weeks and for valentines day
Bake
sale
Attend
class for someone to take notes
Clean
stadium after a game
Be
guinea pigs for case study and for grad school research
Errand running service- either for students or Aiken residents
Be a personal chef
Tutoring
Hold
a lip-synch/ karaoke contest
Knit
DM scarves to sell
Hot
chocolate sales in the dorms
Car
wash
Hold
a rummage/ garage sale
Wheelchair
basketball
Organize “unofficial” betting pools during playoffs
Textbook sales
Multicultural cuisine fair—have people buy tickets for the food. Great way to
get other student groups involved
Super Bowl swear jar – put a quarter in the jar every time you swear during the
game. Enforce it like hell
Sell links of a paper chain weeks before weekend of. Buyer writes inspirational
quote or a dancer’s name. Chain then decorates
Convocation Center Gym
Krispy Kreme sales
Pancake breakfast
Creativity fair – get some ceramics or spin art materials, have people pay to
use the facilities
Organize a Jell-O wrestling match and charge admission
Take orders for bagels each weekend in dorm and charge 50 cent/ delivery
Sell homemade greeting cards
Ask family and friends to save all of their change for a month and donate it
Find yourself a DM sugar-mama/daddy
Create your own hedge fund
Learn to play professional paintball on ESPN2
Spy on and accordingly blackmail celebrities, politicians, famous athletes
Sell massages to the people that live in your dorms
Host a celebrity golf tournament
Sell your material possessions and become a Buddhist monk
Paint paintings and fake your own death to increase their value
Offer to clean dorm rooms of your friends for money
Get a job
Holiday gift wrapping service
Musical telegram for Valentine’s Day
Clothing exchange/ auction
Throw a party with a cover charge – profits for DM
Host a dorm date auction
Host a cookie contest with an entry fee
Rent out your large movie collection to your dorm
Rent out a roller rink/ bowling alley and provide busing
Set up a photo booth at the SAC with Polaroids
Canning in costumes to attract more attention
Tie-dye party and then sell the t-shirts
Have an all-night can-a-thon
Sell custom kimonos
Network a group of computers together and host a Snood tournament
Collect soda cans from dorm residents and turn them in for cash
Hold a contest where people dress up in their own hand-crafted, non-cotton,
non-nylon, non-spandex, non-wool outfit (ex: use duct tape, bubble wrap, etc.)
Sell homemade stress balls during midterms and finals
Sell tarot card reading services
Start a DM taxi service during Thanksgiving and Winter break
Sponsor an event to get people to run naked into the Savannah River in January
DM calendar featuring dancers, committee members, and exec
Chipotle burrito or Buffalo Joe’s eating contest
Charge for attendance at yoga/ pilates classes taught by DM committee member
Give haircuts to friends
Giving manicures for formals, in sororities, etc.
Make & sell birthday cakes
Ice cream sale
Auction dance partner
Penny War (collect as much change as you can, pennies count for your team, dimes
and nickels count against another team). Between hall floors, DM committees,
Greek houses, etc.
Food fair in Aiken restaurants- they donate food, we pay, we eat
“Rent a senior” – have a senior at your beckon call for a day
Talent show, charge admission
Auction off being President of USCA for a day
Juggle on a street corner for cash
CD/ Book sale- USCA students donate a thing & buy other people’s stuff
Sell snacks during exam week
Sell slices of pizza late night in dorms, especially after parties
Burger King delivery service
Rake leaves
How many pieces of candy are in that jar? You guess
Get people to pay you to dress as Teenage mutant ninja turtles
Dancing telegram
Solicit professor donations
Dating service
Can at parties
Pitch to early morning TV shows
Cookies and milk delivery
Turn down service- wash your sheets, make your bed, turn it down & leave
chocolate on pillow
Host a snowball fight, charge fee, have soup, hot cocoa
Inter-fraternity basketball tournaments
Charge cover for leading Tae-Bo in dorm TV rooms
Sell pirated goods from China
Towels & bandanas with the DM logo
Have a dance-off
Telethon before the Marathon
Throw whipped cream pies at professors
50/50 raffle
Shovel driveways or walk dogs
Card games, winner donates 20% of winnings to DM
Give language lessons
Be a street performer
last modified
03/25/2008
maintained by Angel Lee (angell@usca.edu)