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Personalize your team’s fundraising goals by participating “in honour” of someone.
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Be sure each team member collects individual contributions. Recommend to your teammates that contribution be collected up front to save time and effort.
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Remind team members that they are eligible for individual awards as well as team awards.
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Organize fundraisers like bake sales, raffles, car washes, pay for dress-down days, and BBQs to supplement individual fundraising efforts.
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Contact your company’s vendors and ask for a donation equal to one percent or the annual business your give them.
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Organize a brown bag day. Ask your teammates and coworkers to pack their lunces for a day and donate their usual cost for lunch to your team.
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Offer to do something unusual (example, shaving your head), If you team reaches or exceeds its fundraising goal.
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Create and sell your own team MS Cookbook with a collection of team members’ recipes.
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Ask your company about Marching Gifts programs. These programs can often double or triple your fundraising efforts.
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Organize an auction or raffle using donated prizes. Ask your boss to donate a day off with pay or perhaps giving up his parking spot for a month.
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Aim High, ask for $50 and settle for a $30 pledge.
- Provide team members with sample fundraising letters and encourage them to initiate a fundraising campaign.
