Fundraising Ideas

  • Use the concept of placing 50 flamingos on someone’s lawn.  Charge $25 to have them removed and placed on someone else’s lawn. Box and Bowl – use a toilet painted red and purple
  • Using Kohl’s Cares for Kids
  • Talent show
  • Sell ice cream or root beer floats after concerts
  • Throw a Pie for DI – Spring Carnival – or have other carnival games
  • Sell Preferred Savings books in the fall  – we make $8 a book, they take back what we don’t sell.
  • Hosting a breakfast at Applebees
  • Garage Sale/Silent Auction
  • Pizza Ranch Fundraiser – need to be 14
  • Work the street fair for clean up
  • NDSU auction items – 6 week notice
  • Macy’s shop for a cause
  • Herberger’s Community Day
  • Camy Couture Night – or other boutique in your town.  10% of sales goes to DI
  • It’s a Wonderful Night tickets – West Acres
  • Crazy tie contest – Kids design what they think is the ugliest tie, Principal wears the winning tie.  $1 a vote
  • Barnes and Noble Bookfair
  • Cass Clay Ice cream run off buckets – Sue or Patty, $12 a buckets – serves 100 scoops
  • Car wash –
  • Work concessions at a grocery store or sporting events at school
  • Sam’s Club – 30 day notice
  • Sell geraniums or flower bulbs
  • Cashwise – go in and fill out donation request form
  • Jungle Bean coffee beans
  • Donation letter to businesses
  • Back to School Night Fundraiser – sell t-shirts, root beer floats, first aid kits?  Locker supplies
  • Pizza Corner pizzas – make pizzas??? – sell pizzas – to make pizzas you must be 14
  • Schwan’s Truckload event sales – make 20% of sales
  • TNT fireworks sales – summer – age requirement???
  • Texas Roadhouse
  • Have a vendor fair – 10% goes to DI
  • Bake Sale at Garage Sale in the spring – kids sell baked goods, pop and juice Bake sale/Used book sale at Holiday Night in December at Centennial.
  • Scratch cards
  • 50/50 raffles
  • Bingo Night
  • Selling Class of 20__ T-shirts to the 5th grade classes  – designed with school colors
  • Lollipop Fundraiser
  • Hosting a school dance – selling concessions
  • Selling raffle tickets for a chance to win a Wii or other gaming system – we would need to see what requirements we would have to make for having a raffle
  • Raking lawns
  • Shoveling driveways
  • Spring cleanup
  • Making apple pies and selling
  • Making t-shirt scarves and selling
  • Making headbands and selling
  • Use the concept of placing 50 flamingos on someone’s lawn.  Charge $25 to have them removed and placed on someone else’s lawn. Box and Bowl
  • Using Kohl’s Cares for Kids
  • Linebenders show
  • Sell Culver’s at extra-curricular concerts – Dec and April
  • Throw a Pie for DI – Spring Carnival
  • Sell Preferred Savings books in the fall  – we make $8 a book, they take back what we don’t sell.
  • Hosting a breakfast at Applebees
  • Garage Sale/Silent Auction
  • Pizza Ranch Fundraiser – need to be 14
  • Shriner’s – cotton candy and popcorn??? – Tim O’Keefe
  • Work the street fair for clean up
  • NDSU auction items – 6 week notice
  • Macy’s shop for a cause
  • Herberger’s Community Day
  • Camy Couture Night
  • It’s a Wonderful Night tickets
  • Crazy tie contest
  • Barnes and Noble Bookfair
  • Call Tutti Fruitti about fundraising
  • Hornbachers ad – 4 week notice?  Maybe 2
  • Hornbachers advertising and selling of tickets  ???  how much notice?
  • Once Non –profit – find a gaming site
  • Grant requests
  • Cass Clay Ice cream run off buckets – Sue or Patty, $12 a buckets – serves 100 scoops
  • Car wash – Cenex in Moorhead?
  • Sunmart – work their concessions stand – call early to get a spot for the summer
  • Sam’s Club – 30 day notice
  • Geraniums – get contact from Lisa Anderson from Casselton for contact
  • Cashwise – go in and fill out donation request form
  • FSA – contact – Kevin Winkler
  • Jungle Bean coffee beans
  • Dippin’ Dots
  •  Donation letter to businesses
  • Call Forum for press
  • Use Forum’s communitee Calendar for advertising – Deadline for Sunday submission is Tues at Noon – email: calendar@forumcomm.com
  • Back to School Night Fundraiser
  • Pizza Corner pizzas – make pizzas??? – sell pizzas – to make pizzas you must be 14
  • Schwan’s Truckload event sales – make 20% of sales
  • TNT fireworks sales – summer – age requirement???
  • Texas Roadhouse
  • Tastefully Simple – Lori Salmon
  • Bake Sale at Garage Sale in the spring – kids sell baked goods, pop and juice and will receive spending money for their trip to Globals – in the past it has amounted to about $20 per child.  Remainder of the money will go into the DI general fund.
  • Bake sale/Used book sale at Holiday Night in December at Centennial.
  • Scratch cards
  • 50/50 raffles
  • Bingo Night
  • Selling Class of 20 – T-shirts to the 5th grade classes  – designed with school colors
  • Lollipop Fundraiser
  • Hosting a school dance – selling concessions
  • Selling raffle tickets for a chance to win a Wii or other gaming system – we would need to see what requirements we would have to make for having a raffle.
  • Work Concessions at the FargoDome – age requirement???