Ideas for Individual Fundraising
Text or send Payment Requests to your friends and family through Venmo, PayPal, or other cash-apps for just $5 or $10.
Sell a craft, baked goods, or even a service like cleaning or cooking to friends and family in exchange for donations to RFL.
Start a chainmail challenge with your friends or family. Each recipient is asked to donate and then they have to email two other people to ask for a donation.
Do a dare if your fundraising reaches a certain point. For example, get slimed, pied in the face, or eat a thai chili on Instagram Live.
Motivate yourself with national challenges like the Fall Fundraising Challenge or Giving Tuesday.
Go door-to-door in your neighborhood, apartment complex, sorority/fraternity, or dorm asking for donations. Every penny counts!
Share your story and post it to social media. Your connection to cancer is a powerful motivator for donors!
Remember and share the impact of your donation. Check out the Donation Impact graphics below.
Ask your employer if you can collect tips or set out a coin can to fundraise for the fight against cancer.
Post to social media and utilize platforms like Facebook Fundraisers. Even if you don't have FB, your older friends and family likely do. Make sure to share the link to your personal fundraising page!
Team Fundraising Ideas
Host a profit sharing night with a local restaurant or entertainment venue. Most businesses will give back 20%-30%!
Ask event leadership if your team can host an event or activity at Relay. You could sell food or drinks or a craft, or you could do an activity like friendship bracelet making or a spikeball tournament.
Host your own event like a Euchre tournament, BINGO, trivia, cup-pong, or Powder-Puff game.
Set up your own team challenge to motivate members. For example, all teammates who fundraise $X will win something like swag or a gift card.
Everybody likes food. Host a spaghetti dinner, taco bar, or chili cook-off!
Get out into the community as team to do an event like tabling, canvassing at a grocery store, or hosting a dog wash at local park!
Sponsorships
Work with local businesses, particularly those with whom you and/or teammates have a connection, and ask for a monetary sponsorship.
These businesses may want their logo on your team shirts or at your team tent/area, and it's always a good idea to give them shout-outs on your team social media and website.
How to ask for a Team Sponsorship:
1) Identify companies that teammates have a family member or close friend working at
2) Have that teammate develop their pitch (what is RFL and why should they donate to your team?)
3) Outline your deliverables: what will they get for sponsoring your team?
4) Make the ask! Make it reasonable and specific.
5) Facilitate payment (EFT to your website or check)
6) Deliver on benefits
Examples of Deliverables:
- adding the business to your team name
- adding the business logo to your team shirts and tent/area decorations
- adding the business logo to your website and social media posts (get permission to use their logo first!)
- selling/giving away co-branded swag
- tagging them in social media posts from the event
- offering an opportunity for them to present to your team
- offers of future business (ex. the team dinner at the end of the season)
Donation Impact
