if you are a non-profit or an individual that is looking to support your local
cause you might need new and engaging ways to raise funds for your nonprofit
organization. Hi, I'm Kristy with Funds2Orgs and I'm Eric a random stranger. And if you're
like us there are many causes that you love to support and you probably need
some new ideas so today we're gonna break down our top five favorite unique
fundraising ideas. So especially in this day and age nonprofit fundraising ideas
need to be fresh creative and fun because people don't just get money very
out of their wallets for no reason people wanna have fun while they're
donating towards a cause they care about. Like for me every time I buy dog food or
cat food or go to the ASPCA I always donate money because I care
about animals. I personally love to support our local women shelter the
World Wildlife Fund and the Trevor Noah Foundation saying people care about
those things but in order to get people to donate for causes they care about you
need to stay fresh and engaging especially in the digital era. So we have
five ideas like that might change your world. Number five is a sip and paint class you may be
seeing these things popping up everywhere because they're becoming
super huge everybody likes to be creative everybody likes to drink their
beverage of choice whether it be coffee or juice out of a giant bottle but what
you want to do is ask a local artist to donate their time to teach a sip and
paint class and ask your supporters to need to bring their beverage of choice
or provided for them. This is one of my favorite ideas because I love painting
and art therapy and I think this is a great way to engage a lot of different
types of supporters and basically what you do is you ask your supporters to
donate for the sip and paint class and a cool thing about this is to after they're
done doing the paintings you can ask them to donate their painting as the
supporters to be sold in an auction or to be sold for your charity. So not only
do you make money from the sip and paint class but you can make fundraising
money from the paintings as well. Number four, you guys have all probably heard of
this before 5k races. Now
A lot of major organizations use 5k races to support their causes that
are health-related such as cancer or ALS however a lot of smaller nonprofits can
help generate some fundraising dollars with a 5k as well. There's multiple
avenues of revenue stream here first you can have the runners pay small
registration fee. Two, you can have businesses support your runners and
sponsor the race. Three, you can also collect shoes for a shoe drive
fundraiser at the race and four you can sell related t-shirt items and any
other merchandise that you might be selling for your causes. Number three a
videogame tournament a lot of people don't realize that most of millenials
and generation Z people play video games, not just videos and this is actually a
really easy thing to get set up all you need is a couple of new consoles like
Xbox one or Playstation 4 and even a bunch of computers you get a current
game like Super Smash Brothers or overwatch or even Mario Kart and you set
up the tournament you have people pay a registration fee, you have a couple
prizes and you have them donate their money towards your cause. A lot of people
that might not do a 5k would definitely do a video game competition so you can
get new supporters for your cause and generate a lot of revenue also another
idea is you could stream your competition and make money that way off
the Twitch or YouTube together conception time. Number two matching gifts, so many
nonprofits out there miss this opportunity to make some effortless
fundraising dollars corporations provides social good opportunities for
their employees which can mean significant money for your nonprofit. Now
if you're ready to get started on a matching gift double the donation has
one of the most comprehensive databases out there and can help you find matching
gift programs and then all you have to do is promote on your website social
media that there's a matching contribution opportunity that will
double or sometimes triple your donations. That's three times or
twice and then one fun idea for raising funds for your
nonprofit is a shoe drive fundraiser with Funds2Orgs. A shoe drive fundraiser is an awesome
event that doesn't require you to buy or sell anything to raise money. You don't
have to ask anyone to open their wallets you just have to ask them to clean out
their closets. Give em the shoes. This can be started as a standalone event or it can coincide
with other events you have throughout the year of your fundraising calendar do
a 5k give me your shoes spill paint on your shoes, give me your shoes as long as it's cleanable paint. Don't say
give me your shoes, say give me your shoes please. Be nice. Be nice. What's great about a shoe drive
fundraiser is that it's a win-win for all the shoes that you provide, Funds2Orgs
will pay you by the pound for the shoes and then those shoes go on to
micro-enterprises in developing nations like these where they promote commerce
in these small communities as well as job opportunities.
Yes so you're helping you local community and you're helping the world in large. If
you're interested in doing a shoe Drive fundraiser make sure you click those
links down below we will provide you with all of your marketing materials and
everything you need to get started free of charge we want to help you just as
much as you want to help your cause and as much as you want help the world so
click those buttons. We hope you enjoyed those top five nonprofit fundraising
ideas my name is Kristy and my name is Eric and we'll see you guys next time
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