Fundraising/Philanthropy Ideas
 

I just got appointed as the new fundraising chair and I need some help coming up with some ideas. My chapter only has 10 members so we find it quite hard to do big fundraisers. Plus most of the sisters have classes all day so it is difficult to do tables and things like that during the day. We are planning to do a Rock a Thon and a Jail or Bail but we still need some more ideas. If anyone can think of anything that we can do in the next 2 months before school ends I would really appreciate it. I could also use any philanthropy ideas you have.

Hi Killer! I am fundraising chair also! Maybe you should try a raffle of some sort. A 50/50 will probably bring in the most money, and it's easy! Or you can try the infamous car wash idea!!!!!!! Anyway, I wish you the best of luck and feel free to email me if you need anymore ideas!

LITP,
Jadey
ZX-Villa Julie College

Jadey28@yahoo.com

hey-
we do rock a thons for our philanthropy. we also have an all greek male review its like a pagent with a member of each frat. its like a miss america pagent. we also have car washes that makes us lots of money.

We do Kareoke Night and Breakfast in Bed. Kareoke Night we get prizes donated and then people give $ to enter. Breakfast in bed we get donatations and then deliver people breakfast.

Try getting in contact w/the athletic dept. @ your school and see if they'll let you sell 50/50 raffle tickets during mens basketball games. Tell them that you'll give them a cut of the money. (We usually give a 1/4). We've worked out a deal where we sell programs and concessions and 50/50 tickets @ mens and women's bball games and we made over $3,000 this year!!!

hope this helps!!
litp,
Renata
Loyola University Chicago

I just got elected fundraising chair of my chapter and I have tons of ideas. Jadey from Villa Julie had an awesome idea of a crab raffle...I guess that would just be an east coast thing! We are planning a car wash for this summer. We are also going to try and get a contract at the Ravens stadium to work the concession stand with possibly a frat on campus. You have to committ a certain number of people to each game and we don't have that large of a chapter. My mother sells home interiors and they do an awesome candle jar fundraiser, also our advisor is getting us involved in selling pampered chef cookbooks. At division conference, someone from another chapter mentioned washing an airplane. apperantly they pay like $600 or something. That would be awesome! I am trying to contact the airport about that. Kepp me updated with ideas and I will be sure to post some more when I get them!

LITP
Jamie

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Fundraising Ideas
 

Hello! I need some help with successful FUNDRAISING ideas/stories that anyone might have. THANKS!!! :)

we have...
sold candles, magazines, and the usual pizzas...however this spring we are having a car wash and we are planning a BINGO event for next fall. our advisor did it at her chapter and said that they made A TON of $$$...

litp, meghan

yeah, our chapter does the usual too..selling chocolate, tea etc. this year we had a "kissing " booth for valentines (selling candygrams with hershey kisses) it was a good idea but poorly planned so it kinda flopped. we also help a pasta night..a lot of planning but we made some money (but we had earmarked it for philanthropic purposes). the other sorority also did a steak dinner which went really well for them (and the food was pretty good for $10). Just make sure you plan extensively!! so many of my chapter's fundraisers flop because they are poorly planned or are thrown together at the last minute. Also, incentives are really good.

Good Luck

Fundraising
 

I love the idea of a male beauty pageant. Most of the fraternity boys at our school would have fun with the idea so I will hopefully get one started soon. Thanks for the great idea!

I am doing a fundraising thing with a Hawiian theme. I found like 100 lays for only $5. Set up a table the week of rush (it'll also help get your name out.) Sell each Lay for $1.

Get laid by a Phi Sig...Where else can you get laid for only $1.

It's really cute, and even though it's sexual it doesn't hurt the Phi Sig name at all. It just helpd people remember you (especially girls getting ready to rush...hint. hint)

Good Idea! Good luck with your fundraiser!

LITP~Beth

That is such a cute idea and I will tell our fundraising chair. It will go over well at my school.

We did a few fundraisers this year. We did a candle jar sale that we made some money off of. I can send you info if you are interested. We did a magazine sale through campusfundraisers.com and that didn't go over all that well. We also tried to do the concession stand thing at Ravens stadium...it was HELL!!! :o 10 hour day and in the end it averaged out to less than minimum wage per person. We made a lot of money off of our 50/50 raffle though. Each sister was required to turn in a minimum of 40 tickets. That way when you were selling them, you could say that there was a guaranteed prize of $650 or so. Most sisters sold more than 40 so we made quite a bit of money. Our highest seller got free formal tickets. This cost our chapter nothing. I printed up the tickets 10 to a sheet and one of our sisters works in an office and made free copies. We ran it for 3 weeks and everyone really got into it. It was easy and cheap! :D
Some of the philanthropy things we do are rock-a-thon. We did it in the fall and spring this year. We have smaller jars that sisters walk around with asking for donations. We raised over $1000 for the foundation with rock-a-thon this year. We do a build-a-bear philanthropy twice a year. If you have a Build-a-bear store around you, they really hook you up with discounts and free bears. We then schedule a trip to a local childrens ward at a hospital and spend the evening with the children and give them the bears.
Some great philanthropy ideas that boost your chapter image are to get in contact with your school's studen life offices. We have a cooridinator of student service and tag along on their projects. Throw on some letters and make connections with your school. Trust me, it does not go un-noticed.

Hey guys!

Bunner, I "borrowed" your idea to give to my boss! She's raising money to go to a marathon in Florida for the Diabetes Association, and she's going to do the "Get Laid" thing! Thanks!

Jess

That is awesome! I hope it works out for her!

Any Ideas?
 

Hi anyone have some fundraising ideas? What has been successful for your chapter? :) Amanda

Joe Corbis pizzas work well for us, we set a limit everyone has to sell or else pay what the profit would have been.

For Panhel, I coordinated a Mr. CU pageant (Clarion University). Orgs could sponsor a guy to compete for the title of Mr. CU and a cash prize, as well as donated prizes. We made $270, not bad for charging $2 and shelling out $50. I'm hoping next year will be better.

If you need anymore help, let me know!

fundraising ideas

home interior candles always do well

service auctions bring in money if you publicize it

service auctions would be great I would love to buy one of the beautiful ladies of Phi Sig you all rule, the chapter at my school did one a while back and I couldnt go but I would love to see another one....:)

Our chapter actually fundraised a lot from our own members. I wouldn't suggest that being your only option, but we ended up with enough money to buy a pool table. What we did was have a raffle every week at chapter. I think tickets were like $1 a piece, and if you got an A on something the tickets were only $0.50 and a B was $0.75. And I don't excatly remember, but there was something for if you went to all of your classes that week. This next part could be good and bad: even if you didn't have any money, you could still enter the raffle. The fundraising chair kept tabs on who owed what, and then when they owed more than $5, she hounded them until they paid (as in even threatening J-Board if it got bad). Prizes for the raffle were cute little things like stationary or candles. Everyone that bought tickets all semster, their names stayed in the jar until the end, when there was the drawing for the grand prize, which was something like free tickets to formal. You could change it around to fit your own chapter, but it worked pretty well.

It depends where you live but...
 

Last summer my chapter ran a Fireworks booth for 4th of July. It was a lot of fun and hard work. (we had to rent a trailer to transport the fireworks,schedule shifts,and sell,sell,sell) All week our chapter sat out in a Tacobell parking lot in the hot sun. (I know most chapters won't be able to do something like this, because you can't sell fireworks in most places. but almost every greek org. on my campus does a booth). We actually ending up buying11 badges with the money. (Long story, bascially UPS lost them :( but we couldn't track it, but good news is it was my initiation group--which is Fall 2000! so it was great to finally receive our badges this fall!!!-two years later) The rest of the money we donated to the Phi Sig foundation. (or going to, I think)

So, if you can do it in your area, it does make a lot of money and I say go for it.

oh yea cookie dough is always a good one too. people love that stuff. :p

dash for cash
 

hey! our chapter is planning a dash for cash..its worked well for other chapters in our area so we're hoping it will go over good for us as well. Here's how it works..you sell tix at a game..like volleyball or basketball...during half time you draw 5 tix. You spread half the money from tix sales on the floor and the 5 ppl get 10 seconds to grab as much cash as possible, you keep the other half, and any cash that is left. It works b/c the only start up cost is the price of the tix and if your're really strapped for cash you can always print tix off the pc.

fundraising
 

i am part of the fundraising comittee at my chapter and i was wondering if any body had really good ideas for fundraisers. we do some but they get old fast (such as pizza nights,etc..) so if there are any suggestions i would really appreciated it!!

Hi There,

Follow this link to an older portion of the thread about fundraising - looks like theres some good ideas for us too.

http://forums.greekchat.com/gcforums...&threadid=7237

also, check out the fundraising forum in the general forums.

LITP,
Carolyn

I'm fundraising in my chapter too...Garage sales work great and so do carwashes, but they are so out played...

I heard from a sister that another Phi Sig chapter (I think it was the chapter from FIU) did something called "Princess for a Day"...I would love to try it out for my chapter but I'm afraid because we don't have a house and we're only 15 sisters...but basically you make flyers and pass them around town or in preschool and/or elementary schools. The girls say from age 4-7 will get a make-over (makeup, hair, and nails) the parents can bring a cute outfit for their child to wear. At the end of the day, the children put on a fashion show to show their cute look off...Each child can cost $15 or $20 to get the makeover and participate in a show. Have someone take pictures of each child as they are on stage and you can get or make cute little picture frames and send the picture with a note saying "Thank you for allowing your daughter to take part in our fundraiser". Blah Blah Blah lol...I think it's adorable. :-P If you try this out let me know!

Ok, let's bring this thread back to life...

What is your chapter's biggest fundraiser?

At our school, we're not allowed to do 50/50 raffles (largely because the athletics department does it at most of the events). Something we did instead was a "ribbon drive". We chose a campus org. that needed money (which was the library, whose funding was severely cut this year), then made awareness ribbons to support the library, sold them for $1 each, and split the profits with the library. It was easy, cheap, and something everyone on campus wanted to support.