New Fundraising Chair: I Need Help!

[ZkDeltaZee]

My sorority does a few things to raise money for both or philanthropy and our own chapter. For our philanthropy, we do Buy-A-WOO and Turtle Tug. For Buy-A-Woo, we auction off sisters to the highest bidder to cook, do laundry etc. for one hour. I go to a relatively small school and we raised around 800 dollars in about 2 hours. Turtle Tug is a campus wide event we hold each year in our mud volleyball pits, except we fill them with green jello. It's your standard tug-o-war contest with teams signing up with an entry fee.

Our biggest fundraiser for our chapter is working at Cedar Point, which you have probably heard of. If not, its a large amusement park in northern ohio. Anyways, we raise about 2000-4000 dollars each time we do it. This idea would work for almost any chapter who lives within a few hours of an amusement park of some sort. Towards the end of the summer, and into the fall, the amusement parks loses all of their summer help because they go back to school, so they hire area groups to work a weekend or two. In our case, each sister is paid minimum wage for the hours they work, but it is all pooled together and given straight to our chapter.

hope this helps

[xoheatherxo]

congrats on your new position!! a restaurant i used to work at used to hold fundraisers all the time. the group would advertise that they were having a fundraiser and the customers would bring in a piece of paper that was distributed by the group. this paper said that the restaurant would donate x% of the check total back to the group. there were also extra papers there in case people walking in that didnt know what was going on wanted to help out too. it was a great way for the restaurant to get more business and made the group a lot of money! the customers could also make a donation themselves in addition if they wanted. if this sounds confusing pm me and ill try to explain better!

and congrats on the house!! what school are you at? and since this thread started awhile ago, did you get the house yet? if so go to the chi o thread and post a pic--im sure wed all love to see a new house pic!!

[mkrcolo]

Hi,

I've heard that others have had good luck raising funds through www.buginarug.com. The site allows you to list your group and then every time someone comes to the site to shop (they have tons of shops that people shop at anyway), they just select your group, shop and then a donation is made to your group. It's an easy way to raise money, since everyone shops anyway and it costs nothing extra.

Just my two cents.

Good luck and have fun in your new role!!