Hello fundraising family. Hi. Oh we got a chipmunk. Hey you got to do stuff sometimes. What is that voice? We hope you're having a
great week. This week we are bringing you specific shoe drive fundraising ideas to
help maximize your success. Specifically. I talk with my hands leave me
alone. Success. My name is Kristy and I'm Eric. And let's get started. She forgot what she was going to say.
Let's do this. Let's do it.
So everybody has something different that's important to them whether it's
school, or art, or animals but how do you draw that into your fundraising? Well, we
have some ideas for you. First up on our list, this is meant for schools. We're
talking about classroom competitions. Yeah you can do everything from
classroom competitions, you can have competitions between each class which is
also classroom competition. You can have stuff like fill the bus, or have each
class get as many shoes they can. Make it into something where they can either
have dinner or lunch with the principal, or with their teacher. They can do a pie
a teacher in the face. Anything that makes the kids want to donate shoes is a
great idea and making it competitive is even better. But some people into arts
and crafts so how do you get them to help out with donating shoes? Well. The
way to do this is with a giveaway. So you can utilize homemade baked goods,
bracelets, artwork anything that's donated from the community and utilize
that for giveaway. So have people bring in shoes and the most people that donate
shoes get entered in for a chance to win your homemade good whether it's a piece
of art, a homemade baked good, or. A bag, or hat, or a painting, or drawing. Yeah. Or drawing
if your name is Simon. All of that. Next up for a fundraising idea, we have a special idea
that's made just for churches or religious organizations. Barefoot Sunday.
I had barefoot every day. Basically Barefoot Sunday is you encourage your
congregation to donate their shoes during service. It's a show of solidarity
for the world, and for your church, and for giving, and for love, and for
everything that they stand for. If you can get people to donate shoes during
service, during Barefoot Sunday, they go home barefoot and you go home a winner.
We actually have put together a very nice guide for this, we'll link it below. Oh below. Not up. Below. We could put it both places. I'll put link down below up here. So it makes sense when I'm pointing. Okay.
Down below, up top. The guide is called Barefoot Sunday and
it's actually a full sermon series so that your preacher pastor can you
utilize it to talk about why they should donate their shoes. Barefoot Sunday. So
we've covered school, we've covered art and we've covered churches, but what
about college students because higher learning is super important. But, how do
you get them involved? Well, she's gonna tell you.
The great thing about college students and any student for that matter is that
they come home for the holidays and for the summer. These are all great times to
hit them up and get them to donate their shoes while they're doing their
back-to-school shopping or they're getting new presents and new shoes for
the holidays. Yeah if something is out of season you want them to donate they can
donate it and make it into something that's great for somebody that's in need.
And lastly, we have a fundraising idea that's specifically meant for animal
rescues. So if you're actually an animal adoption, or an animal rescue, or an
animal shelter you can offer a discount to people that donate shoes towards your
charity. You can also do stuff where like a raffle where people donate X amount of
shoes they're entered into the raffle and they get to name one of the pets
that's being adopted. Anything that helps out your animals and helps out the world
would be great and it helps out the animal lovers too. A shoe drive fundraiser is a
great way to engage your community and it has a very easy buy-in. You're not
asking anyone to open their wallets, you're just asking them to clean out
their closets. Just like that song. What song? cleaning out the closet. It's Eminem. Nope.
That's what he's talking about, a shoe drive fundraiser. Eminem's donated so many shoes. He doesn't sound like that. He knows.
Eminem love you buddy. Oh my god. Now as a bonus one this is kind of an oldie but a goodie if
you remember the flamingo prank where what you basically do is that people
donate X amount of shoes towards your charity you will put flamingos of
whatever amount you want in whatever yard they choose. You just basically
sneak in there you put a bunch of flamingos on the person's yard and you say
this is from blah. It's a prank. And the people wake up in the morning it's a prank they wake up
in the morning they see flamingos all over the yard. It's really funny, they're
really cheap you can get them online, on Amazon. A lot of colleges do this for
donations but it's a great way to get them to donate because it's a prank on
their friends and they don't have to open up their wallets to do the prank
they just clean out their closets. Eminem.
Cleanin out your closet. See that's gonna be stuck in your head all day now. I don't remember the rest of the words to the song.
That's all you get. We hope that these fundraising ideas help maximize
your shoe drive fundraiser and help you guys raise additional incremental
dollars. And no matter what you do to get people to donate towards your charity
make sure you're creative and make sure you find ways to reach them on a
personal level because if you do that they will donate to you and it helps
them as well. My name is Kristy. And my name is Eric. And we'll see you guys next
time. bye. saying that fun whywhy do I ensure yourself go
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