Need good fundraiser ideas for small chapter!
 

Our chapter has 10 members and we need to raise money, but with 10 members things you can do are limited. Ideas????

can you guys do bake sales on your campus? i have seen different clubs and organizations post outside a building early in the morning and sell bagels and donuts to people who forgot breakfast in the morning. We also have the option of having a small fundraiser at our college's open house day. CSUS used to open up to the community and future and perspective students, even kids on field trips, organizations could sell baked goods, strawberry shortcake (mmmm...) candy bars, bbq, soda, you name it they had it, right at their booth/table. And you draw attention from other organizations as well because people get hungry.
This one latina organization was selling tacos and fajitas with baked tortillas... to die for and a lot better than a BK broiler from the student center.

fundraiser for local
 

i'm from a small local sorority. 14 members and we do study packs for fundraising in the fall and spring before finals. we send letters to the students parents ahead of time and they send checks or money orders to us we then put together the packs. like gum, soup, pencils, pens stress balls, ect. and pick a day to hand them out to the students in the student center. we mail the student a slip so they know to come pick them up. we make about $500 each time

fundraisers
 

It seems like all we are doing this semester is fundraising...

the big one is a 50/50 raffle-- there are about 25 of us and we made $700 profit from this one. Ever girl sold 50 raffle tickets and half of the money went to the winner. It is so easy to sell because each ticket is only $1.

Raise dues $10, that's $100 more per month:D

We auctioned off the pledge class and a few top-shelf actives raising $1,700 dollars in less then an hour. The great thing about auctions is that there is very little time commitment and zero capital investment. Even if your 10 members go for the minimum bid of five dollars that’s fifty you didn’t have.

My Chapter only has 8 sisters as of right now but we recently pinned 9 new girls. Some fundraisers we have done is Miss AST where guys around campus- fraternites, dorm floors, or clubs sponser guys to be in our beauty pagent but they dress up as girls participating in the formal wear, swimwear, and talent. It's really funny. There is usually a registration fee of $10 for the first guy and $5 for each additional guy. Then you also charge and addmission fee of $3 to come and watch the pagent.

We also just finished up our thanksgiving fundraiser of selling pumpkin rolls. We made about $600 off of that. We sold about 200 pumpkin rolls, $6 for one or $10 for 2. We had order forms and 3 different delivery dates which made it easier when we were making them.

We also do a car show in the spring. This one takes the most amount of work. It's not that hard though if you find a local car club in the area.


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You could have a service auction. . .get either your members to auction themselves for 2 hr work periods(within reason). Invite all of the Greeks.

easy fundraiser
 

we organized a fundraiser to sell iron on greek letters. they were really nice to work with and it was an easy sell. the letters work with a regular iron so applying it was no problem. good luck!

Re: fundraiser for local
 

I really like this idea. How do you get the parent addresses? Does the school release that to you?

Check with KMart and see if they are coming to your area to do "Kids Race Against Drugs" We volunteered to help and with just 10 people helping each of 2 days on the weekend registering the kids, showing them the way around the"race track" and getting in and out of the cars, they gave us $1700.

I go to small college, 1,100 students and we also do a final pack, or Finalgrams as we call them. Like tiramasu suggested it has great returns for minimal output (minus the organizer.) We get a set of school mailing labels from the registrar. (So they come on those little avery labels.) We get a bus load of envelopes and start stuffing our letter to parents in there, then label and then bulk mail them out. (We can use the school's bulk mail permit.) Parent's send us all the relevant info on their student, along with their check and we put together the final grams and have sisters deliver them. We are residential so we have pretty easy time cause almost everyone is in the dorms. We average a little more than tiramasu, we have been pulling in 2,000+.
We have smaller chapter, 25 women and it really is a managable fundraiser and we have done it with closer to 10 women (we had a ton go abroad) Good luck! let me know if you want more info :)
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This can be an AWESOME fundraiser... if your school allows it. Our school's cafeteria system considers it "competition" and therefore no bake sales are allowed.

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We need some new ideas!

Having a car wash is a great idea. My sisters hold one every semester and we raise money for a breast cancer organization in Long Island.

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A really great idea that was successful on this campus was a chilli cook-off. Every organization was invited and put $5 entry fee and students paid $2 to eat and vote. The winner for the best chilli won at least $100 or up to $500 of the profit. It is a great PR event and fundraiser.

Thanks for the ideas, everyone! Let's keep them coming! :)

I actually have a good one to share. Last year, on Valentine's Day, we set up a "kissing booth" in the music building(we're a music sorority). We charged 50 cents for a hug, or a dollar for a kiss(on the cheek, or a few Hershey's Kisses). We made almost 200 dollars! Guess it helps that our chapter has some real hotties. ;)

Really? Sac State is so strict now.........but I know what you mean I did see them before but now.........

i couldn't say now... the last time that happened was when i was active. i have been an alum for 2 years now.

See if you can pick up ballot boxes on election night. You get posted at certain polling areas and you load ballots into the "counting trucks." Don't know the details but your chapter will get paid bank for every member you have there for like 4 hours.

Yankee Candle has a great fundraiser for organizations. I think you make 45% profit from the orders -- everyone loves candles!
Also, we have a bowling ally that lets local groups have fundraising nights. Bowling costs $6 per person, and he gives us about $4 each! Talk to local college hangouts and see if they'd be up for it.
There's always car washes too if you want to freeze your butt off! Maybe people would feel bad for you, and give you more money... :)

OOOOh! Forgot one... Try Partylite candles too!

Water Balloon fight
 

a cute fundraiser idea is to have people donate money for X-number amount of balloons and ya'll can have a water balloon fight.... another idea is to 'rent out' or 'sell' waterguns. The SGA and RHA of my school plan on doing this sometime in the future.

My sorority is in Chicago, so we sell 50/50 raffle tickets for the CharitaBulls at the Bulls games. If you are located in or near a large city, you could see if you could do anything for one of the sports teams like that, some other orgs sell tickets at the White Sox games, also.

fundraising ideas
 

My sorority was only 11 members 2 semesters ago (now we're up to 28!!) and we're local so I know where you're coming from. I recommend staying clear of magazine sales, we had a horrible time with those. We weren't too sucessful with candles, but it was better then magazines. What has worked the best for us is getting a local bar to have an open bar party sponsered and advertised by us. They charge ten at the door for a few hours and we get $3 per person. We have to pay some up front, but we always make a lot, especially since the bar we do it at is usually packed on weekends and open bar for $10 will attract a crowd with very little adverstising, we usually just do word of mouth. Plus, all the sisters go too, which is a lot of fun! Also this semester we're doing a rummage sale. It's basically a collective garage sale, mostly books, clothes, knick knacks and because a few of our graduating seniors have apartments we have furniture and other stuff like that to sell. This is the first semester we're doing this, so I'm not completely sure how it'll turn out, but it's coming together really well and I think it'll work well. Good Luck and I hope this helps!

Oh, yard sales are great fundraisers! Everyone has stuff to get rid of, plus it's all profit.

We (SAE's) were able to team up with the kappa sigs on campus and throw a Halloween party together at a local club that had shut down. We charged $10 at the door with all you can drink. We had to buy all the kegs beforehand, but you make more than twice you're money back. Us SAE's alone made over $1000 in one night, finished off 23 kegs in three hours, and got a great reputation from it. Not bad for 25 actives.

PS: we had all our pledges dress in camouflage pants and black shirts and work security and the bar, that way you can sit in the VIP room emptying your own keg or two. Also, it's not exactly legal to have pledges who don't officially work for the bar to serve alcohol, especially when the bar does not have a current liquor license. :)

Re: fundraisers
 

the big one is a 50/50 raffle-- there are about 25 of us and we made $700 profit from this one. Ever girl sold 50 raffle tickets and half of the money went to the winner. It is so easy to sell because each ticket is only $1. [/B][/QUOTE]

I love the 50/50 raffle. I think this is a must do this semester.

Try national pizza franchises like Pizza Hut, Pizza Inn, etc that have servers. Those two have a program where your organization comes in one night and gets the profits from buffet, and you get the tips from the buffett tables. We made 200 in one evening for very little actual work and it was fun. That's 140 from tips and 60 from buffett proceeds. The more you advertise this the more likely people will show up.

I am trying to get involved with this for another charity, but what about wrapping gifts at Christmas. This may only work if you have a Non-Profit license, otherwise malls may not let you park outside and wrap gifts for people. But if you have that advantage, get some paper at a dollar store, some groovy ribbon and get crafty with it.

is that legal?? I thought its a "no-no" to do alcohol things especially to sell without a license. arent you worried of getting caught and shut down?

As a friendly suggestion, dont post stuff like this on here. I would bet my next paycheck that numerous things you mentioned in your post violate your local liquor control laws, but also your fraternity's rick management policy and insurance policy.

Being an alumni advisor I can gurantee you that almost any fraternity headquarters wouldnt hesitate to come down HARD on a chapter/colony that clearly violated the laws and then posted about it on a greek message board. (I guarantee that staff from most all our headquarters know about GC and lurk around here to see whats going on).

Again, as an advisor I would urge you to follow your organizations risk management policies. It really is for your own protection. (Someone gets hurt at an illegal function, they sue you and your parents (they can if they insure you in pretty much any capacity) and if found negligable, your parents loose their house and savings. I am not BS'ing this. It happens monthly in the greek community).

I also live in the land of reality and know that undergrads arent going to follow the letter of the law. If your going to violate your risk management policies, keep it to yourself. Having been greek going on 12 years now, I'd bet that your brothers would deliver you a pretty good ass-kicking if your chapter/colony got in trouble becasue of a post you made on a bulliten board.

Final piece of advice: Delete your post and dont post again about breaking the law or policy.

our sorority sells sister scents candles. we also have an alum( i think) that sells avon. we sold that and got a % of what we sold. in the past they have done the hershey kiss thing and i was told that for whatever amount you got a hershey kiss.

Our chapter has around 15 members!

I am an alum now, but one event that always made up tons of money was to have a "Throw a Pie" event. We typically have this at half-time at homecoming but any time will work as well. People buy pies ( throw away pie pans with a little jello and whip cream in them) at the active members for $1.00 or $2.00 a pie.

Students, staff, faculty, and other GLO love to slam us with the messy pies!! We make anywhere between $300-$500 profit and we have tons of fun with it too! Now that we have been doing it for so long some of people pay up to $40 to throw pies in the alums faces!!

Hope these ideas help!!

Can I call Mary Beth and tell her to stop spamming????!!!!!?????

Your post is against the rules of the site and your shirts are a TOTALLY inappropriate fundraiser for greek organizations.

We did this in the dorms at my school. It was actually "Pie Your RA" and the pies were auctioned but it was the same concept. The benefit to auctioning the pies rather than selling them for a flat fee is one year, the pie for one RA went for $150 (because she was really well liked, contrary to popular belief).

Meanwhile, I was glad to see, even though it was four years ago, that a couple of people mentioned a service auction. I have always heard it called a slave auction but service sounds a lot better. This is an idea I have considered tossing to my chapter but was afraid of having it shot down because we are pretty paranoid about hazing issues (not that that's bad, it just gets in the way of carrying out some really great ideas). And auctions, of any kind, are great ways to bring in lots of money. Especially if the person being auctioned can convince a friend or significant other to run up the price. :D

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I don't know where you are from. But if you have snowy winters get the girls togethor, dress up in your letters & mitts and go snow shoveling! It is fast if you stick to smaller to medium sized drive ways. You can take in alot of money in a small amount of time if there is all 10 of you shoveling.

Hope that helps :p

I asked my stepdad about some of his more successful fundraisers and he told me about his Boot Drive. He and his fellow firemen got a permit from the county that allowed them to stand in the street to ask for donations for their firehouse from passerby and cars. (They're volunteer firemen). They did it one day from 8am to 4pm and raised $6000. They only covered 2 busy intersections. I hope to try this fundraiser myself with my group.

Some fun ideas to make a few bucks
 

There are a couple fun ways to raise money for sororities and fraternities called bail outs or shantytowns. these are just extra ways to make more money but wouldn't make enough for an entire fundraiser.

Bail out:
you create a makeshift jail cell and have a member of your group sit in it for a day (you can switch off) and collect money for the "bail out fund". Placing the jail cell in a crowded area on campus or in the yard surrounded by the different houses allows more people to walk by and donate small amounts.

Shantytown:
you can do this within your group or get another group involved (like another sorority). Two people make a house or "fort" out of whatever they can, a person from each group needs to sit in the fort for 24 hours (again, you can switch off). People will walk by and give money to the fort they like the best. it makes for a fun competition, and if both forts contain someone from your group then you get to keep all the profits!