For young people.....

Recycle your stuff
Ask your teacher if you could hold a bring-and-buy sale for your class, or even the whole school! Bring in your stuff you don't use anymore: toys, games, electronics, books, whatever you think someone else might want - and donate the proceeds to the WICWC.

Dress for the WICWC Day
Wear a white shirt and jeans...wear your clothes inside out...wear your pyjamas...Ask your teacher if your class can have a 'Dress for the WICWC Day' day and ask everyone pays a loonie to participate.

Get moving or get healthy for a GREAT reason!
Choose something challenging and healthy, maybe walking 5 kilometres, give up junk food for a month, commit to exercising everyday for a period of time, promise to eat vegetables at dinner every night for month—and get sponsored to do it.

Recycle Bottles And Cans To Raise Funds
Get “green”! Organize a bottle and can collection drive (maybe paint your faces green when you're collecting!). Collect them yourselves, or have a day when people in your community bring them to your school. Bottle and can collection drives are simple and profitable, and do lots to help the earth & clean up our communities for a great cause.

Make a Video!
Make your own mini-film & hold a premiere, charge people to watch.

Stop Talking!
Hold a sponsored silence. Ask your parents and neighbours to sponsor you to keep quiet! You could ask them to sponsor you for the whole day or per hour.

Get Cleaning!
Get together with your friends to wash cars in your neighbourhood for a fee. Or, wash the cars in the school car park during lunch hour.

Get Baking!
Ask your mum to help you and your friends bake some cakes. Then ask your teacher if you can have a bake sale at school during a break !

Dance!
Hold a dance at your school or home and charge to attend, with proceeds going to the WICWC.

Movie Marathon
Invite your best friends to your home, or ask to use the gym at school! Rent some amazing movies a great movie and do an all-nighter where movie-goers bring their sleeping bags and blankets and have a movie marathon. Charge for admittance and munchies!


For 'grown ups'.....

Brown Bag Brigade
Encourage everyone in your office to bring a healthy brown bag lunch to work every day for a week or a month ... then donate the money they would have spent eating out!

Yard Sales
Organize a multi-home yard sale in your neighbourhood and donate the proceeds to WICWC.

Bake Sales
Coordinate a bake sale at your company, church, synagogue or community center...have one mega-dessert that people bid on!

Business Partnerships
Ask a popular local restaurant to donate a portion of their sales for every meal sold during a day, a week, or a month. Belong to a local gym? Ask if they’ll donate a percentage of every membership sold during a day, a week, or a month. You may also want to ask a popular local store or salon/spa to donate a percentage of one day’s revenue.

Dog Walk Fundraising
Call it what you will – Strut Your Mutt, Jog Your Dog, Canines Care, Paws in the Park, Wag and Walk. A pet walk where the walkers (and their pets) solicit donations for how far they walk. Or, fundraising participants pay a set fee to enter and walk their dog. You can also get sponsors for this community event! Very funny with puppies, who have their own agenda. Or, sponsor a dog who wants to walk his person? You could do a cute turn-around, with advertising that promotes "walking your person" and that explains that this is good for your "person's" health.

Soup Sale
Hold a soup sale at your church, company, or organization. Ask volunteers to cook a big pot of their favourite soup and then put in into two-serving sized freezer-safe containers that you supply. Ask that they label the container with the type of soup an ingredients (easy to do with computer/printer/stickers). Pick a sales date & sell each container for $5.00 - you'll be surprised how many people love to stock up on soup for a fast, easy meal!

Movie Night Fundraising
Great for an organization, or a group of friends in your own home! Rent a great movie and charge a single price for the movie and refreshments; provide the movie free but sell refreshments; or charge nothing and just ask for donations. Make sure you select a movie that will be of special interest to your group. Allow plenty of time for socialization before and after the movie. Some groups have held all-nighters where movie-goers bring their sleeping bags and blankets and have a movie marathon.

Reverse Raffle Fundraising
In a reverse raffle, you don't want to win! Give a free ticket to everyone attending a regular organization meeting or special event. Tell them they are automatically included in the drawing for a special prize. If they don't want to be eligible for the prize, they can "sell" their ticket for $1 to $10 - depending on your attendees.

Why would they want to get rid of their ticket? Consider prize options/activities that can be completed during the event itself such as .... singing a song standing on a table; wearing a silly hat or mask; having their face painted; wearing a funny costume; or ????? Be creative!

You will find very few spoil-sports who won't go along. If nothing else, they will "sell" their ticket to keep from looking foolish. Your only expense is the raffle tickets (a double ticket roll, a single ticket roll that you tear in half or a board with the numbers for sale). All ticket stubs (or duplicate tickets or numbers, depending on your style of raffle tickets) are placed in a hat or other container from which one "lucky" number is drawn. The drawing is normally held early in the event to make sure that the "lucky" holder is present.

Fundraising Alternate 1: Offer a prize such as a goat, pig, donkey, etc. You can be magnanimous and offer to purchase the prize back from the lucky winner for $10.

Fundraising Alternate 2: Another alternative is to have a raffle with a "real" prize but rather than let the first number drawn win, you keep drawing until only one number is left. The winner is the last number drawn.

Hold a "Don't Attend" Event
A Don't Attend fundraising event is a novel and humorous way to raise funds and have fun at the same time. Your only costs are the printing of the invitations, thank you notes and postage. If you can get some of this donated, that's even better. Why would anyone buy a ticket to a non-existent fundraising event? Because there are a lot of very busy people who are willing to support a good cause but don't have the time, energy, and/or interest to go to one more rubber-chicken dinner! Purchasing a ticket to a Don't Attend event lets them support a worthy cause without effort. Plus, they'll love your ingenuity.

First things first! Brainstorm your spectacular (or very boring) event . The sky's the limit since it won't actually happen (except on paper). Let your imagination run wild! Send the invitations to as many people as you want (overcrowding won't be a problem!). Include local political leaders, businessmen, and media. You should also send press releases to the media outlets in your area. They are always looking for humorous current event items. Make sure you include information on how someone can purchase a ticket.

Make your invitations classy - printed on good quality paper. After all, the invitation is all they will get for the their ticket purchase. Make it just like an invitation to any formal affair. You can use a standard good quality thank you card. Make sure that the invitations and thank you cards are hand addressed to make them more personal. Oh ... and since the recipient gets nothing for their ticket purchase, make sure you include a notice with their thank you card that their donation is fully tax deductible.

Variations: Have a Don't Attend fundraising sporting event where members of your group 'don't play' the Harlem Globetrotters, Green Bay Packers, etc. Have fun. Make money!

Toonie Guessing Game Fundraising
So simple, many groups never think of it! Fill a large transparent container with something small and countable (Jelly beans, navy beans, M&M's, popcorn kernels, etc.) Charge a Toonie per guess at how many X's are in the jar.... winner get the contents and 50% of the money raised. You can make this a monthly or seasonal event!

If you have more ideas for clever fundraisers we could add to our list, email: info@wicwc.org

We can also assist you with larger fundraisers for the WICWC:


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