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Originally Posted by funalum
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!!
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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.
