25 Ways To Raise Funds
- Love/Friendship notes hand-delivered at retreats, etc. @ $0.20 each.
- Sell "Sweets for Someone Sweet" (candy) with notes attached. Hand deliver or have a pick-up table "post office."
- Sales: Box lunches after church; chili cook-off; refreshments at church socials; submarine (hoagie sandwiches); bake sales in church on Sunday morning/ in town on Saturday - w/ coffee!
- Festival of Gifts and Talents: Vote with money for best performance...or get every act off the stage ONLY by raising enough money!
- Egg Begs (go to one member's house to beg an egg--to next member's house to sell it!)
- Sell personal wake-up calls during retreats...different choices for different prices.
- Penny Wars - put silver and paper money in jars of other youth groups & pennies in your own group's jar. Silver & paper money count positively. Pennies are negative. The Youth group with the LEAST score wins.
- Romantic Dinner - for couples, with babysitting, a candlelight dinner and mood music.
- Sell back-rubs at back-rub stations at conferences, retreats, etc.
- "-THON's" (with prepaid pledges): Walk-a-thon, bike-a-thon, starve-a-thon (mesh with study on hunger), rock-a-thon, talk-a-thon, move-along-a-thon, rake-a-thon (great in the Autumn!).
- Donations for: Babysitting, lawn mowing, parents' night out, Rent-a-Youth Day.
- Dances: Valentine's Day, Barn/Square Dance, Eighties Dance, Fifties Dance, Twenties Dance…
- Weekly bagel/donut sale at church.
- Singing telegrams (e.g., for Valentine's).
- Zany Dinner Theatre/Variety Show/Family Night G Movie/Saturday Matinee for kids with popcorn and "the works".
- Giant district-wide pillow fight ($2/participant; rules, referees, nurse; YSF skit; newspaper coverage; food; everyone brings own pillow).
- Community lock-in, with Christian music group.
- Challenge another youth group or district to see who raises the most. The one raising the least does something special...or crazy...that's agreed upon in advance.
- Auction off stuff: Memorabilia like photographs, belongings of a favorite counselor, handmade things, or treasures from a neat event--or have a Mystery Auction. Everyone donates "unknown" wrapped items (valid &/or crazy) and auction them off.
- Cutest baby picture contest (vote with money).
- YSF fishbowl for loose change (for whole congregation).
- Athletic/social nights (e.g., volleyball - dance - board game night) and charge to participate.
- Find a space in your church building and adopt a Recycling project.
- Designate a special offering for YSF at your annual Youth Sunday worship service.
- TITHE all your group's fundraisers to Youth Service Fund. This is serious giving!
...and don't forget to check out the "official" YSF Fundraisers!
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