What are the best fundraisers you've used?
Here you go Kate! We do find how creative we can be when funds are low - boundries are freeing!
Putting the Fun in Fundraising
• include patrons and sponsors for $5 & $10 in your program
• have a refreshment booth in your lobby to coordinate with your show
• sell raffle tickets for an artwork by a local artisan
• celebrate your production with show shirts and show buttons designed by students
• launch a bake sale in your lobby using the theme of your production
• all cast members can donate particular theme items for Chinese auction baskets
• schedule a car wash run by students and parents
• host a spaghetti supper, chicken BBQ or pizza night prior to show in school cafeteria
• include everyone in a soda can drive, you will be shocked at the return!
• pass out empty, cleaned yogurt cups labeled with your show info to family and friends
and ask if they would deposit their coins and return them full for a loose change drive.
Don’t forget collection jars in your school office and local business places
• sponsor a cast garage sale
• parents can arrange with their colleagues an office fundraiser challenge. Winner
receives reserved opening night seats and a pre-show dinner
• stage a fundraising dinner at a local restaurant. Your evening can include other
fundraising activities
• create memories by selling photos with a “show character cutout” in your lobby
• celebrate your production with a show theme dinner party for 10 (or more). Donation
$50 per person, spend no more than $20 per person on the food and you will have $300
or more to donate!
• ask your local movie theater to donate several movie tickets or have a movie
night where you collect percentage of the proceeds as a movie ticket donation
• auction off local community theater tickets
• auction off a travel voucher from a local travel agency
• call your favorite radio station and ask to make an announcement about your
upcoming production on the air. An interview with a cast member would be great!
• ask a local hairdresser or barber to donate $2 for every cut they complete over one
weekend
• have a mow-a thon, check ahead with neighbors and ask if you can mow their lawn
• ask parents if their workplace has inter-office email and take advantage of this ideal
way to get the word out for fundraising sales and donations
• remember babysitting and pet sitting
• organize a neighborhood chore team – watering gardens, snow shoveling, sweeping
driveways
• celebrate your cast voices with a karaoke night for profit! Plan an evening with a
home karaoke machine and your cast as the back up singers
• Have parents sell items your cast has collected on ebay.com - profits are large!
• plan a fun bowling night at your local lanes and ask the owner to waive cost and turn
it into a donation
• ask your school librarian to assist with a used book sale
• charge for dress down (or up!) day at school- wear a hat, sports apparel, mismatch,
pajamas, silly socks etc.
• showcase local musicians who would be willing to perform a local benefit concert for
your show
• keep the connection with the generations in your community and ask Lions, Rotary, VFW, American Legion and Moose clubs to support your production with a donation – it is in their bylaws to support groups in their community
• throw a pizza party!
• compile and sell a cast cookbook - -www.morriscookbooks.com
• holiday time is perfect for cookie dough fundraising – www.classiccookie.com
• you can raise $100 for each Direct TV customer your school signs up