Easter Seals Volleyball Fundraiser Ideas Idea Happy Hours/Celebrity Bartending Event

Description Get “special guest” or executives/leaders in your company to bartend and rival for tips or you can ask the local bars/restaurants what they can do for you.

Comments Each restaurant is open for interpretation. Get an executive to help advertise and push the event. -Kelly’s Logan House in Wilmington, DE (302)-652-9493 -Iron Hill Brewery in Wilmington, DE (302)-658-8200 -Green Turtle in Newark, DE (302)-454-1592 -Famous Taverns (www.famoustaverns.com) , email Paul at [email protected]

Silent or Live Auction

Items are donated and used in a silent or live auction. Examples: Gift Baskets, Venue Tickets, Movie tickets, Gift Certificates, vacation homes, etc.

Silent or Live auction, items must be tangible. No direct solicitation allowed. Be sure to have a placard stating where the money is being donated to. 100% must go to the charity.

Flower Days / Valentine Flower Sales

Selling flowers to be delivered to an associate. Contact a local florist and get a low-cost or donation of carnations. Associates in each department could purchase a slip of paper for $1 or $2 and in turn could use that paper as a “to / from” card that could be attached to a flower. The flowers could then be ordered and delivered on a set date. Jar is placed in a prominent location and clearly labeled for fundraising. People donate their loose change.

Get approval from your work place to do this inside the building. No direct solicitation allowed. Be sure to have a placard stating where the money is being donated to. 100% must go to the charity.

Change Jar

Get approval from your work to do this inside the building. No direct solicitation allowed. Be sure to have a placard stating where the money is being donated to. 100% must go to the charity.

Easter Seals Volleyball Fundraiser Ideas Guess Who/Baby photos

Employees bring in their own baby pictures and place on a display board and people donate a certain amount to guess who each person is on that display. Usually very fun teambuilding.

Get approval from your work to do this inside the building. No direct solicitation allowed. Be sure to have a placard stating where the money is being donated to. 100% must go to the charity.

Candy Grams

Send a candy gram to a fellow teammate. Can go to BJ’s or Costco and purchase items or make a bag of items that can be sold to employees who want to send another person a candy gram. For a donation, team members can participate in an afternoon of bowling. Great camaraderie!

Get approval from your work to do this inside the building. No direct solicitation allowed. Be sure to have a placard stating where the money is being donated to. 100% must go to the charity.

Bowling

Restaurant Night

Wine Tasting

Various restaurants will donate a specific amount per person or a percentage of their sales for advertising on a specific night.

Various businesses will sponsor wine tasting event with proceeds being donated back.

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Prices Lanes, 3215 Kirkwood Highway, Wilmington DE (302)-9988806 Bowlerama, 3031 New Castle Ave, Wilmington DE (302)-654-0264 Middletown Bowling, 875 N Broad St, Middletown DE (302)-387-0677 Call your local bowling facility to see what they will offer you. Friendly’s Restaurants – all give a portion of the night’s total McDonald’s – call a local location Timothy’s in Newark, 100 Creek View Road, Newark DE (302)-7389915 Red Robin – call a local location Grottos – call a local location Buffalo Wild Wings - Contact Alison MacKenzie (302)-227-3567 Chick-fil-A –call your local location Texas Roadhouse in Bear, DE, (302)-322-3443 Deerfield Fine Wines, 205 Louviers Drive, Newark DE. Dean (302)266-8061 Premier Wine & Spirits, Limestone location (302)-996-9463 or Newport location (302)-999-1500

Easter Seals Volleyball Fundraiser Ideas ‘Pie in the Face’

Associates sell the opportunity to apply a ‘pie’ on their manager. Great team-building event! Get managers to be the willing victim. 50-50 Raffles For an entire month, have an individual/team sell raffle tickets where 50% of the proceeds go to the winner. Incentive can be in your creating increments such a 1 ticket for $1, 5 tickets for $3, or arm’s length for #? Hot dog eating contest Have 5-10 people in your organization agree to participate in the contest. Those people will sell raffle tickets in which people vote on who they think will win. Those that purchased tickets for the winner will be in a prize drawing. Another method is to just ask people to put out jars with each contestant’s name on it and ask for employees to put a dollar or 5 dollar bill in which jar of the person they think will win.

No direct solicitation allowed; be sure to have a placard stating where the money is being donated to. 100% must go to the charity.

Super Bowl Football Grid Candy sale at your desk

Check with your company and legal if this can be done in your company.

10x10 grid, $20 per cell, 50% of proceeds go to the winner. Go to BJ’s or Costco and buy bulk candy bars and set at your desk or snack room and charge $1 per item or $2. Based on honor system.

Make sure your company allows this. Place a placard out and make sure that you state where the money is being donated to.

Make sure your company is open to this. Be sure to have a placard stating where the money is being donated to. 100% must go to the charity.

Check with company to make sure it can be done. Make sure you place a placard stating where the money is being donated to.

Easter Seals Volleyball Fundraiser Ideas Bake Sales

Fitness “Fun”raiser

Used DVD or book sale

Jewelry/other party

Hold a Wii sports event

Have a team hold a bake sale in a common area in your building. Either each member of the team bakes something or gets items donated from bakeries. Can be done for breakfast or lunch. Find a person who teaches dance or a fitness class and ask them to donate time to lead a fundraiser. Charge a fee for each person to participate. Get donations from your team and advertise a sale and list all of the items. Price items so that they are affordable. Find a local representative who would be willing to do a party at a location of your choice and a portion of the proceeds of the party would be donated to your team. Either hold at work (get permission) or at your house and advertise as a tournament. To get into the tournament they have to pay an amount and winner gets half and your team gets the other half.

Check with your company to make sure it can be done. Make sure you place a placard stating where the money is being donated to.

Check with company to make sure it can be done and if so can it be done on site. Make sure you state where the money is being donated to.

Make sure you state where the money is being donated to.

Make sure you state where the money is being donated to. -Thirty-One gifts -Avon -Silpada -Origami Owl -many others Determine how you want the tournament to be run. Set rules. Determine how many players you want. Find a person with a Wii. Get permission to hold at work. Make sure you state where the money is being donated to.

Easter Seals Volleyball Fundraiser Ideas Hole in One or Closest to the pin

Wing Eating contest

March Madness Pong Tournament

Hold a Hole in One putting contest or Closest to the Pin contest at your work. Get permission from management. Set an amount and rules. Winner gets half the pot and the other half goes to your team. People vie against each other to eat the most wings. Employees pay $10 to attend, eat and drink and they can also pay extra to wager who will win. Can be company –wide beer pong tournament – early rounds throughout the work day (with water in cups in early rounds) with a sweet sixteen at night (with beer and pizza).

Determine rules, set location. Get permission to hold at work. Make sure you state where the money is being donated to.

Need management approval to hold. Expenses could be paid for by the company. Expenses are: Wings, refreshments and food. Additional money could be made if you have raffles.

Need management approval to hold. Location needed. Expenses – company could fund the beer and pizza and prizes. Pairs buy into the tournament for $30; spectators attend for $10; option to buy raffle tickets.

Other ideas welcome, these ideas are to get you started!